Chaos As Morroco Beat Argentina In Olympics 2024

Play was stopped with the score level at 2-2 due to a fan invasion during Argentina’s and Morocco’s inaugural Olympic football match on Wednesday. Argentina was ultimately defeated 2-1 after a video assistant review. Cristian Medina of Argentina scored deep into extended time to save what appeared to be a 2-2 draw, but the goal was ruled out over two hours after play was halted and the game was played in front of an empty crowd.

The Olympics website also showed the match as “interrupted.” About an hour after the incident, organisers at the venue said the match was not officially over.

Players were being kept at the stadium to resume play. Video boards informed fans the match was suspended and they had to leave the stadium.

The boxscore on the Olympics’ media website said there would be a video review of Medina’s goal to check for possible offsides. Morocco had led the game 2-0 before Argentina’s fight back. Giuliano Simeone scored in the 68th minute and Medina leveled the game deep into stoppage time.

In stoppage time, Medina tied the score after Giuliano Simeone’s goal in the 68th minute.

Viewers jeered Argentina because of the issue surrounding Enzo Fernández’s video, which the French Football Federation described as “racist and discriminatory.” Even though they started with recent Copa América winners Julián Álvarez, Nicolás Otamendi, and Gerónimo Rulli, the gold medal winners in 2004 and 2008 did not play to their best ability.

In the dying moments of the first half, Soufiane Rahimi gave Morocco the lead after Achraf Hakimi set him up from the right with a brilliant passing move. In the 49th minute, Simeone gave Javier Mascherano’s team a one-point lead before Rahimi extended the lead and scored his second from the penalty spot in the 68th.

Medina then found the net 16 minutes into stoppage time before fans stormed the pitch and objects were thrown at players as chaos erupted in the French eastern city.Meanwhile, Spain, who struggled to find their pace in the opening stages of the game, took the lead in the 29th minute against Uzbekistan with a close-range finish from Marc Pubill off Abel Ruiz’s flicked ball.Uzbekistan, cheered by an ecstatic crowd, equalised just before halftime thanks to Eldor Shomurodov’s penalty following a VAR review for a Pau Cubarsí foul.

Spain wasted a golden chance to restore the lead after the break when Sergio Gómez’s penalty effort was saved by Abduvohid Nematov, but the Real Sociedad player redeemed himself and found the net in the 62nd minute to earn Spain their first three points in Group C.