Morocco Hold Brazil at MetLife: Ismael Saibari Chips Alisson, Vinicius Junior Equalises, and the Atlas Lions Earn a 1-1 World Cup Opener That the African Champi... (opens in new tab)

Brazil and Morocco drew their World Cup 2026 Group C opener 1-1 at the seventy-one-thousand-capacity MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Saturday afternoon. Ismael Saibari chipped Brazil goalkeeper Alisson Becker in the twenty-first minute after a Brahim Diaz throughball; Vinicius Junior equalised in the thirty-second minute on his fiftieth Brazil appearance. The Atlas Lions led Brazil five shots to one in the first ten minutes; Alisson's late-stoppage-time double save preserve...