Morocco coach Walid Regragui couldn't criticise the effort of his players after their World Cup semifinal defeat to France.

Theo Hernandez and Randal Kolo Muani scored the goals for France.

Regragui said: "We gave the maximum, that's the most important.

"We had some injuries, we lost Aguerd in the warm-up, Saiss, Mazraoui... but there are no excuses.

"We paid for the slightest mistake. We didn't get into the game well, we had too much technical waste in the first half, and the second goal kills us, but that doesn't take away everything we did before."