Spain v Morocco, 25 June 2018

Kick-off: 8.00pm Spain v Morocco was Match 36 of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Refereeing team: Referee: Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan) Assistant Referee 1: Abduxamidullo Rasulov (Uzbekistan) Assistant Referee 2: Jakhongir Saidov (Uzbekistan) Fourth Official: Mohammed Abdulla (United Arab Emirates) Reserve AR: Mohammed Al-Hammadi (United Arab Emirates) VAR: Felix Zwayer (Germany) Due to Portugal being held by Iran in the other final group game, Spain finished top of Group B. Spain were now unbeaten in their last 23 games; the longest current such run in international football. Spain had now conceded 12 goals in their last six World Cup finals games; as many as in their previous 18 games combined. In this game, Sergio Ramos made his 16th appearance for Spain at the World Cup finals to break Xavi's record as their most capped outfielder in the competition's history. Morocco had now won one of their last ten games at the World Cup finals (lost seven). Morocco became the first nation to be shown four yellow cards in the first-half of a World Cup finals game since they were shown five against Netherlands in 1994.