{"id":32363,"date":"2018-06-16T00:41:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T07:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32363"},"modified":"2018-06-16T00:41:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T07:41:32","slug":"queiroz-credits-players-attitude-for-morocco-win-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/06\/16\/queiroz-credits-players-attitude-for-morocco-win-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Queiroz credits players&#8217; attitude for Morocco win [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ST. PETERSBURG, <strong>Islamic Republic of Iran coach Carlos Queiroz is pleased with his players\u2019 attitude in the 1-0 win over Morocco in their opening 2018 FIFA World Cup game on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese coach, leading Team Melli in the FIFA World Cup for the second time running, credited the players for a hard-fought win. IR Iran were made to wait until the final minute of added time to find a winner through an own goal from Moroccan defender Aziz Bouhaddouz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis win was the result of hard work, intelligent cohesion and a great attitude from the players,\u201d said Queiroz, following the team\u2019s first FIFA World Cup win since 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco dominated for extended spells at Kretsovsky Stadium, but resilient defending from the Iranians helped keep a clean sheet, before delivering the killer blow in the dying seconds after Ehsan Hajsafi curled in a free-kick from the left flank that Bouhaddouz headed past his own goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>Despite keeping as little as 32 per cent of possession, IR Iran got the all-important three points, and Queiroz was full of praise for his men for overcoming a talented opponent in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMorocco are a great team with a great group of players, but the boys were fantastic; they deserve this win and I am honoured and pleased to be their coach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli turn their attention to facing Spain on Matchday Two on Wednesday as they look to book a place in the Round of 16 for the first time in their history.<\/p>\n<p>Spain played to a thrilling 3-3 draw with Portugal in their opening match, with Cristiano Ronaldo scoring a hat-trick<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FIFA World Cup\u2122 2018: Morocco v. IR Iran - Post Match PC\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VGIAurbKIbY?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>AFC &#8211; ST. PETERSBURG, Islamic Republic of Iran coach Carlos Queiroz is pleased with his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1685,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32363","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=32363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32365,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32363\/revisions\/32365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}