DHAKA, June 26, 2018 (BSS) -Spain were lucky to move to last 16 stage as they somehow managed to share points with Morocco as their Group B crucial match of the FIFA World Cup ended in a 2-2 in the early hour on Tuesday at Kaliningrad Stadium in Kaliningrad in Russia.
In the 14th minute Boutaib made 1-0 for Morroco. Spain fought back to equalized in 19th minutes through Isco (1-1). En Nesyri again gave Morocco 2-1 lead in the 83rd minutes of the proceedings.
Iago Aspas stoppage time equalizer saw Spain came back from brink of being eliminated to level 2-2.
Spain so far has secured five points from three matches while Morocco failed to collect any point from the same number of matches.
Earlier, Spain played out to a 3-3 goal draw with Portugal in their group opening match and beat Iran by 1-0 goal in their second match.
Spain having better goal average then Portugal topped the group while Portugal finished as runners-up.
Morocco, which made exit from the World Cup championship race, lost to Iran by 0-1 goal in their group opening match and suffered a 0-1 goal defeat to Portugal in their second group match.
The result, combined with Spain’s late equalise in their 2-2 draw with Morocco – means Portugal will play Uruguay in the next round and Spain will meet Russia in the next round.