Morocco v Spain team news: Asensio starts, Morata benched

FPL GW33 Scout Picks - Final Selection

Darlow

O’Reilly
Senesi
Struijk

Semenyo
Bruno Fernandes
Tavernier
Palmer

João Pedro
Welbeck
Haaland

Dubravka
van Hecke
Hill
Okafor

GW34 Transfers Poll

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Gibbs-White	NFO	7.4m	106.1%	Very Likely
Thiago	BRE	7.3m	98.6%	Likely
Mateta	CRY	7.5m	103.6%	Very Likely
Darlow	LEE	3.9m	95.3%	Maybe
Aaronson	LEE	5.4m	94.3%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	90.8%	Unlikely
Struijk	LEE	4.3m	91.7%	Unlikely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	81.0%	Unlikely
Justin	LEE	3.9m	83.2%	Unlikely
Beto	EVE	5.0m	66.8%	Unlikely
Mavropanos	WHU	4.4m	73.4%	Unlikely
Alderete	SUN	4.1m	73.5%	Unlikely
Leno	FUL	4.9m	72.9%	Unlikely
Tavernier	BOU	5.4m	74.4%	Unlikely
Aït-Nouri	MCI	5.7m	74.2%	Unlikely
Wan-Bissaka	WHU	4.1m	73.7%	Unlikely
Semenyo	MCI	8.2m	87.1%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	70.9%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.5m	72.0%	Unlikely
Gomez	BHA	4.9m	71.7%	Unlikely
Frimpong	LIV	5.7m	67.4%	Unlikely
Groß	BHA	5.5m	64.9%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.7m	61.9%	Unlikely
Bijol	LEE	3.9m	61.8%	Unlikely
Gakpo	LIV	7.3m	60.1%	Unlikely
Ngumoha	LIV	4.3m	59.1%	Unlikely
Richards	CRY	4.4m	59.4%	Unlikely
Mukiele	SUN	4.5m	49.6%	Unlikely
Sarr	CRY	6.3m	55.3%	Unlikely
Shaw	MUN	4.5m	54.7%	Unlikely
Minteh	BHA	5.5m	52.7%	Unlikely
Aina	NFO	4.7m	51.5%	Unlikely
Kelleher	BRE	4.8m	47.1%	Unlikely
Ndiaye	EVE	6.2m	43.4%	Unlikely
Damsgaard	BRE	5.6m	47.2%	Unlikely
Cunha	MUN	8.0m	35.6%	Unlikely
Bassey	FUL	4.4m	45.3%	Unlikely
F.Kadıoğlu	BHA	4.4m	44.1%	Unlikely
M.Fernandes	WHU	5.5m	42.6%	Unlikely
Ødegaard	ARS	7.8m	42.0%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Mbeumo	MUN	8.5m	103.9%	Very Likely
J.Timber	ARS	6.2m	90.7%	Likely
Merino	ARS	5.4m	100.5%	Very Likely
McAidoo	MCI	4.5m	99.5%	Maybe
Mac Allister	LIV	6.3m	90.7%	Maybe
Piroe	LEE	4.9m	96.9%	Maybe
Tchaouna	BUR	4.8m	96.3%	Maybe
Emenalo	CHE	4.5m	96.1%	Maybe
Longstaff	LEE	4.8m	95.5%	Maybe
Mayenda	SUN	5.2m	94.3%	Unlikely
Dalot	MUN	4.6m	97.4%	Unlikely
Slonina	CHE	3.9m	91.4%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	4.9m	91.2%	Unlikely
Grealish	EVE	6.3m	90.7%	Unlikely
Johnson	CRY	6.5m	89.5%	Unlikely
Salmon	ARS	4.0m	89.7%	Unlikely
Reijnders	MCI	5.0m	89.1%	Unlikely
Garner	EVE	5.3m	91.3%	Unlikely
Trafford	MCI	4.5m	86.5%	Unlikely
Gyökeres	ARS	8.8m	87.5%	Unlikely
Szoboszlai	LIV	7.1m	86.5%	Unlikely
Saliba	ARS	6.1m	86.5%	Unlikely
Van den Berg	BRE	4.6m	82.9%	Unlikely
John	NFO	4.0m	80.8%	Unlikely
Andrey Santos	CHE	4.5m	78.9%	Unlikely
Mee	MUN	3.9m	78.9%	Unlikely
Angel	WOL	4.7m	64.9%	Unlikely
Ebere	EVE	4.4m	73.3%	Unlikely
Cairns	LEE	3.9m	75.4%	Unlikely
Steele	BHA	4.2m	74.8%	Unlikely
Dorgu	MUN	4.1m	72.0%	Unlikely
Mané	WOL	4.3m	72.6%	Unlikely
Schade	BRE	7.0m	70.8%	Unlikely
Martinez	AVL	5.1m	76.6%	Unlikely
Mainoo	MUN	4.7m	71.1%	Unlikely
Estève	BUR	3.9m	70.3%	Unlikely
Webster	BHA	4.4m	68.8%	Unlikely
Kilman	WHU	4.1m	67.8%	Unlikely
Amissah	FUL	3.8m	67.1%	Unlikely
Xhaka	SUN	5.1m	66.0%	Unlikely

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	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	C
No Change	Verbruggen	BHA	B, Vs
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	B
No Change	Darlow	LEE	B, Vs, £
No Change	Petrovic	BOU	B
No Change	Henderson	CRY	C

Last updated: 16 Apr, 2026 10:18pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	A
No Change	Gabriel Magalhães	ARS	A
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	B, Vs
No Change	Hill	BOU	B, £
No Change	Struijk	LEE	B, Vs, £
No Change	Lacroix	CRY	A, Inj
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	C
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	C
No Change	Cash	AVL	C

Last updated: 17 Apr, 2026 12:20pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A
No Change	Semenyo	MCI	B
No Change	Palmer	CHE	B
No Change	Tavernier	BOU	C, £
No Change	Ismaila Sarr	CRY	A
No Change	Gordon	NEW	A
No Change	Rice	ARS	C
No Change	Rogers	AVL	C
No Change	Anderson	NFO	B, £
No Change	Szoboszlai	LIV	A
No Change	Wilson	FUL	B
No Change	Hinshelwood	BHA	C, Vs, £

Last updated: 17 Apr, 2026 8:11pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	C
No Change	João Pedro	CHE	A
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	B, Vs
No Change	Calvert-Lewin	LEE	C, Vs
No Change	Bowen	WHU	A
No Change	Thiago	BRE	A

Last updated: 17 Apr, 2026 8:13pm

Dugout Discussion

6 December 2022 274 comments

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The penultimate World Cup 2022 last-16 clash takes place at the Education City Stadium on Tuesday, as surprise package Morocco meet Spain.

Only an own goal has breached Morocco’s defence so far, while La Roja endured a mixed group stage, thrashing Costa Rica 7-0 but losing to Japan in Matchday 3.

Kick-off is at 15:00 GMT.

Luis Enrique rotated his line-up last time out but has unsurprisingly chosen to recall the likes of Jordi Alba and Aymeric Laporte against Morocco.

Dani Olmo, who missed training after the defeat to Japan, is fit to start and joins Ferran Torres and Marco Asensio in attack. That means Alvaro Morata drops to the bench, despite scoring in each of Spain’s three group-stage games.

Elsewhere, Marco Llorente starts at right-back in place of Cesar Azpilicueta.

As for Morocco, they make one change, bringing in midfielder Selim Amallah to replace Abdelhamid Sabiri.

MATCHDAY 4/ROUND-OF-16 LINE-UPS

Morocco XI: Bounou, Hakimi, Aguerd, Saiss, Mazraoui, Amrabat, Ounahi, Amallah, Ziyech, Boufal, En-Nesyri

Spain XI: Simon, Llorente, Rodri, Laporte, Alba, Busquets, Gavi, Pedri, Torres, Olmo, Asensio

bso
3 years, 4 months ago
Thankfully have only on Spanish player and 1 Moroccan.
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1. bso
  3 years, 4 months ago
  one
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nerd_is_the_werd
3 years, 4 months ago
Easy side of a draw opening up now?
Morocco v Portugal / Switzerland
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Louis_Sans_Balls
3 years, 4 months ago
Spain played better, had more chances and deserved the win more no doubt but such is football and they only have themselves to blame for the lineup and the style they chose to play today
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Gizzachance
3 years, 4 months ago
So people are making transfers before Portugal game finishes?
Could be a bit dodgy if 0-0 for example with 5 minutes to go !
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1. Louis_Sans_Balls
  3 years, 4 months ago
  have no choice mate, fantasy game is equally as dodgy lol
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  1. Gizzachance
    3 years, 4 months ago
    Truly is mate
    Dunno if trans are before 90 minutes 0r not, or if you chance it as game is literally finishing
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2. Baps Hunter
  3 years, 4 months ago
  Naturally. Olmo and Alba out with two free transfers. Absolutely zero reason to keep them and waste free transfers.
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  1. Gizzachance
    3 years, 4 months ago
    Same two for me also
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3. RogDog_jimmy
  3 years, 4 months ago
  yeah i have 1 more to use - will roll the other.
  unfortunately i've got zero players knocked out so far.
  
  will probably do Otamendi > Hakimi
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  1. Baps Hunter
    3 years, 4 months ago
    You really trust you can roll? My rolling after md1 to md3 (wc md2) failed. The game showed me 3/3 transfers during md2, but only 2/2 when md3 started.
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Pariße
3 years, 4 months ago
Dalot or Olmo’s 3 points?
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1. RogDog_jimmy
  3 years, 4 months ago
  Dalot for me.
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2. Baps Hunter
  3 years, 4 months ago
  3 pts imo
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The Tinkerman
3 years, 4 months ago
Worth a free transfer to do Cancelo > Dalot/Guerreiro?

I have 4 to use and only Olmo and Alba knocked out in my side.
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Saka Punch
3 years, 4 months ago
What's the deal with transfers? Do we have to use 3 out of the 4 otherwise we loose them? Only 1 carries right?
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1. The Tinkerman
  3 years, 4 months ago
  Oh good point… I forgot about that. Can anyone confirm?
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2. Baps Hunter
  3 years, 4 months ago
  Not certain that 1 carries. Rules are unclear. There has been discussion about this here earlier.
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3. PompeyUpNorth!
  3 years, 4 months ago
  I don’t think any carry in Knock outs
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Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo
3 years, 4 months ago
Another team that couldn't score a penalty if their life depended on it. Do they not practice pens?
With the ones that Soler and Busquets took, look at it from a different angle. If you are a professional goalkeeper, how could you NOT save that?
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1. The Mentaculus
  3 years, 4 months ago
  Didn't Enrique say before the game that they'd been practicing thousands of penalties?
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  1. PompeyUpNorth!
    3 years, 4 months ago
    Yep. 1000! Ha ha!
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Jack Frost
3 years, 4 months ago
Who to bring in if anyone from Morocco? Maybe a hurt Saiss who could last 60 min with a clean sheet Too cute.? Probably Hakimi instead
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1. Baps Hunter
  3 years, 4 months ago
  I don't think I am going to pick anyone.
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2. Saka Punch
  3 years, 4 months ago
  I think Hakimi is a shout. If they play like that again they could easily take it to pens or even nick a goal on the counter
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RSe
3 years, 4 months ago
Can I switch Alba to a portugal/swiss player during their game or will they be locked?
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1. Baps Hunter
  3 years, 4 months ago
  Locked
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SpaceCadet
3 years, 4 months ago
Cap switch Messi > Bruno?
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1. Jenas
  3 years, 4 months ago
  I wouldn't personally.
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The Mentaculus
3 years, 4 months ago
Cancelo benched. Gonçalo Ramos in for Ronaldo
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The Polymath
3 years, 4 months ago
Use this match day free transfer left to take out Olmo or Alba or will it be carried over?
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1. putana
  3 years, 4 months ago
  no one knows. Im going to use this weeks transfers
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2. PompeyUpNorth!
  3 years, 4 months ago
  Won’t be carried over. Use it asap but by end of match tonight is how I understand it
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Jenas
3 years, 4 months ago
Spain thought they got the easy draw with Morocco, turns out the draw was not so easy afterall.
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Piggs Boson
3 years, 4 months ago
Southgate > Enrique
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Drexl Spivey
3 years, 4 months ago
Messi (c) to Bruno (c)...

Yes or No?
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1. putana
  3 years, 4 months ago
  go for it
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2. RogDog_jimmy
  3 years, 4 months ago
  yep - i just did it myself.
  fingers crossed!
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3. PompeyUpNorth!
  3 years, 4 months ago
  I asked this earlier n got a mixed response. I’m very tempted tbh but it’ll be a late decision with gut I think.. Not sure
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bso
3 years, 4 months ago
How late can we still make transfers?
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1. Drexl Spivey
  3 years, 4 months ago
  6:59pm GMT.
  
  Enough time to make a cuppa.
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  1. Saka Punch
    3 years, 4 months ago
    Isn't it when the game ends not starts?
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RogDog_jimmy
3 years, 4 months ago
ok - give me a captain masterpiece Bruno.
PLEASE
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Crystal Alice
3 years, 4 months ago
so we don’t know deadline for transfers? I want 2 Portuguese but need to know the result
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1. Baps Hunter
  3 years, 4 months ago
  Get at least one now imo. What you want might be impossible. Not certain though.
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putana
3 years, 4 months ago
wow why isnt cancelo starting?
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1. lilmessipran
  3 years, 4 months ago
  Hello from the other side?
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Saka Punch
3 years, 4 months ago
Hey guys, who are you looking at for Alba and Olmo?

Thinking Dumfries and Paqueta or Foden.
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1. CoracAld2831
  3 years, 4 months ago
  Dumfries
  Cancelo
  Marquinhos
  
  Not sure about the midfielder.
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2. Baps Hunter
  3 years, 4 months ago
  This is an issue. I have Dumfries, cannot take Paqueta because of 4 BRA players and not happy to have both Foden and Saka. If Sterling is back, are they both (or especially Foden) going to start?
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  1. Saka Punch
    3 years, 4 months ago
    I'm almost certain Southgate will stick with the same lineup regardless - they played so well. As good as Mbappe is I defo think France can be got at defensively
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  2. Ajaxeeding
    3 years, 4 months ago
    Sterling flew back to the UK to be with his family after a home break in. Seems to me that if he does fly back for the game on Saturday, that he would likely start in the bench.
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  3. CoracAld2831
    3 years, 4 months ago
    You can have 5 player from each nation in the quarters.
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3. I Member
  3 years, 4 months ago
  I've gone for Dumfries and Paqueta. May get an England mid for Perisic.
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4. dunas_dog
  3 years, 4 months ago
  Thinking Dumfries Paqueta myself
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They are eating the dogs
3 years, 4 months ago
Should I keep 3 points from Olmo or replace him?
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Karan_G14
3 years, 4 months ago
Olmo to Saka for QFs?
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Zimo
3 years, 4 months ago
Santos finally realises how shite ronaldo is
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lilmessipran
3 years, 4 months ago
Low key think Santos might have unlocked his best 11 by benching Ronaldo.
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Lucas8406
3 years, 4 months ago
Change captain from Messi to Bruno?
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MFC86
3 years, 4 months ago
Best cancelo replacement in this last game??

Dalot or someone else ?
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CoracAld2831
3 years, 4 months ago
Do we have until Tuesday to make our changes or until the last game starts or ends?
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The Tinkerman
3 years, 4 months ago
Danilo worth the risk? seems to be first choice but some injury risk?
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bso
3 years, 4 months ago
Messi to Neymar? Have Richarlison.
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