{"id":26085,"date":"2016-09-16T09:51:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T16:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26085"},"modified":"2016-09-16T09:51:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T16:51:52","slug":"fifa-futsal-world-cup-2016-iran-defeats-morocco-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/09\/16\/fifa-futsal-world-cup-2016-iran-defeats-morocco-video\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Futsal World Cup 2016 &#8211; Iran defeats Morocco [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; MEDELLIN, <strong>Iran put their FIFA Futsal World Cup campaign back on track with a 5-3 Group F victory over Morocco in Medellin on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Asian champions, who suffered a surprisingly hefty 5-1 opening defeat against Spain on the opening matchday, belatedly found form.<\/p>\n<p>After a slow start from both teams, Iran moved to a three-goal lead and they held a handy 4-2 margin at the break.<\/p>\n<p>The match found its intensity and as the fouls mounted Morocco\u2019s Mohamed Jaoud who, having scored the north Africans\u2019 first goal, was sent for a stint on the sidelines allowing Iran to add two goals in quick succession.<\/p>\n<p>The second half was a more controlled affair and Morocco, fighting for their Futsal World Cup lives, pushed Iran hard in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Iran scored soon after the interval but for much of the remainder of the half it was Morocco in the ascendency, leaving their opponents happy to counter-attack.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco again drew within two goals of their rivals as captain Adil Habil netted his second of the night but it was to prove a bridge too far, FIFA.com reported. .<\/p>\n<p>Iran will look to lock up passage to the Round of 16 on Sunday when they tackle enigmatic debutants Azerbaijan, while Morocco face a massive challenge against two-time world champions Spain.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iran v Morocco | FIFA Futsal World Cup 2016 | Match Highlights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KTMjgTT3j-g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; MEDELLIN, Iran put their FIFA Futsal World Cup campaign back on track&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,88,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":3102,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}