Julen Lopetegui offers no excuses after nine-man Qatar collapse against Canada

Qatar coach Julen Lopetegui offered no excuses after his side were thrashed 6-0 by co-hosts Canada and had two men sent off in their World Cup Group B match on Thursday.

After picking up their first World Cup point in a 1-1 draw with Switzerland in their opener, the Qataris were two goals down inside the opening half-hour in Vancouver.

Aggression and carelessness then saw Qatar hit with two red cards, one for a foul by Homam Ahmed and the second for a tackle by Assim Madibo that left Canada midfielder Ismael Kone with a suspected broken leg.

"I have two options," Lopetegui told a news conference.

"One is to start talking here about the referee or the things that happened, or I can put the focus on the only thing that is under my control, (which) is to recover my players, to tell them that they made a big effort, despite all the circumstances, and to be able to face in the best way possible the last group match."

The 59-year-old Spaniard said that there was no ill intent behind Madibo's tackle on Kone and that he wished the Canada midfielder all the best for his recovery, adding that he had to focus on their final group game against Bosnia and Herzegovina.

"When we drew against Switzerland, I was not in the sky, I was balanced.

And today, too, I have to analyse the match to take the right decisions for the next match, to be able to recover the players as soon as possible," Lopetegui said.

There were confrontations between the coaches, staff and players of the two sides after Kone's injury, and again at the final whistle, but Lopetegui declined to go into the details of what sparked them.

"I have my point of view about this, but I am not going to talk about this, because each one has to be responsible about his facts," he said.

"It is not good to finish in this way for all the football players, for all the staff, and I think that we have to avoid this moment.

"We are here today, a tough day, suffering a lot, but we are here. The day before against Switzerland (we were) making history, and now we have one final in front of us that, despite the day today, we won the right to play this match."

Qatar face Bosnia in Seattle on June 24.

(Reporting by Philip O'Connor; Editing by Peter Rutherford )