Mohamed Ouahbi: It was definitely handball!

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9 July 2026

Morocco were knocked out of the

World Cup

after losing to

France

in the quarter-finals, amid controversy over a possible handball in the play leading up to Kylian Mbappé’s goal.

In response, Mohamed Ouahbi, head coach of the Moroccan side, held nothing back when speaking to the press and said:

"Some players stopped because there was a handball. And there definitely was a handball! I don’t know whether it should have been called or not; I have no idea... in the end, it was an individual effort from

Kylian Mbappé

that led to the goal."

–

Thursday, 9 July 2026

According to refereeing analyst Juan Guzmán, the handball should not have been penalized for two reasons: it was incidental, there was no immediate connection to the goal, and possession changed hands, so the goal was correctly allowed to stand.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence.

You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.

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