Spain’s midfield maestro, Sergio Busquets, expressed his satisfaction in the narrow 1-0 victory over Iran, revealing that winning a World Cup match is getting tougher with each passing day.
Busquets, despite not being at his best, put up a respectable show for his country, controlling the tempo in the middle of the park.
Diego Costa scored the decisive goal for Spain in the 54th minute and Busquets emphasised the importance of grinding out the results using Morocco as an example.
“We know what a World Cup is and we also know that each day it becomes harder to win. For me, Morocco has played two matches much better than its rivals and is now going home,” Busquets explained in the Kazan Arena on Wednesday, as quoted by The Statesman.
“The most important thing, especially in the group stage, is to win.”
“Hopefully, we can win against Morocco, but it will be much harder because it is a team that plays a lot better … it has played much better than its rivals in these first two days. I wish we can have a good match and win”
“The priority is to qualify as first in the group. If we can make more goals, even better.”
Spain are currently tied with Portugal on four points at the top of group B. La Roja will need at least a draw to survive the group, but anything less than a convincing win against Morocco will be considered an upset.