2026 World Cup: Vieira names team to cause surprise as Round of 32 looms

Former France midfielder, Patrick Vieira, has predicted that Morocco tin “cause a surprise” and scope the second stages of this World Cup.

At the 2022 edition, the Atlas Lions became the archetypal state from Africa to scope the semi-final.

They mislaid to France, who themselves finished arsenic runners-up.

Morocco has qualified for the Round of 32 astatine the ongoing tourney and volition look Group F winners, the Netherlands.

“I deliberation Morocco tin beryllium the squad that tin origin a astonishment and I deliberation they person capable idiosyncratic prime to beryllium successful the past eight,” Vieira told The Rest Is Football podcast.

“But extracurricular of Morocco, I deliberation it volition beryllium hard for each the different (smaller) nations to spell done and get to the past four.”

2026 World Cup: Vieira names squad to origin astonishment arsenic Round of 32 looms