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Morocco edge wild last-32 penalty shootout as Netherlands pay heavy price for misses

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Maybe Morocco are about to do it all again. They are into the last 16 after a match that lasted almost three hours, winning a strange and error-strewn shootout to tee up a meeting with Canada. Ismael Saibari converted the winning penalty after his team and the Netherlands had fluffed their lines repeatedly. Perhaps it was fitting that, after the teams had missed twice apiece, the goalkeeper Yassine Bounou made the save that allowed Saibari his moment. He stood tall to bat away Crysencio Summerville’s shot, recalling his two saves…

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