Ronaldo under spotlight as Portugal take on Morocco

Cristiano Ronaldo would be under spotlight as Portugal gearing up to face Morocco in the group B clash of the FIFA World Cup 2018 on Wednesday at Luzhniki Stadium.

Despite Ronaldo’s heroics, Portugal only managed to secure a point against Spain. They have much work for them to do still to make it out of Group B.

Morocco, on the other hand, will be crestfallen after a late Aziz Bouhaddouz own goal saw them fall to a 1-0 defeat to IR Iran in their first FIFA World Cup game for two decades.

Victory today is a must and would knock Morocco out of the tournament.

Meanwhile, the African side will be hoping for a repeat of history. The Atlas Lions have won just twice in 14 World Cup games, across five tournaments (including Russia 2018 so far), and the first of those victories was against the Portuguese at Mexico 1986.

Portugal have lost only one of their last 10 World Cup group games (0-4 v Germany in 2014), winning five and drawing the other four.

Possible line-ups:

Portugal: Rui Patricio; Cedric, Pepe, Jose Fonte, Raphael Guerreiro; William, Joao Moutinho, Bernardo Silva, Joao Mario; Andre Silva, Cristiano Ronaldo

Morocco: Monir El Kajoui; Achraf Hakimi, Ghanem Saiss, Mehdi Benatia, Hamza Mendyl; Karim El Ahmadi, Hakim Ziyach, Mbark Boussoufa, Younes Belhanda, Noureddine Amrabat; Khalid Boutaib