{"id":32525,"date":"2018-06-26T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T23:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32525"},"modified":"2018-06-26T16:20:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T23:20:03","slug":"fan-favourites-iran-and-morocco-top-the-popularity-charts-despite-being-knocked-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/06\/26\/fan-favourites-iran-and-morocco-top-the-popularity-charts-despite-being-knocked-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan favourites Iran and Morocco top the popularity charts despite being knocked out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Sports &#8211; SARANSK, <strong>While Portugal and Spain stuttered their way into the Round of 16, the World Cup said farewell to some fan favourites in Iran and Morocco.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plenty of goals in this round of fixtures, and even more VAR drama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group Stage Grade &#8211; IRAN: A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018An A?\u2019 you may ask.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, despite only managing a 1-1 draw with Portugal, Iran\u2019s players and fans may be disappointed &#8230; They could have won this game!<\/p>\n<p>That final chance late in the game could have sent Portugal out and Iran through to the Round of 16 &#8211; but it wasn\u2019t to be.<\/p>\n<p>Although the VAR gifted them a penalty to bring them level, they gave Portugal a great contest throughout.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve been a joy to watch &#8211; Great support, plenty of drama and some decent football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Sports &#8211; SARANSK, While Portugal and Spain stuttered their way into the Round of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32525","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":1966,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32525","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=32525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32527,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32525\/revisions\/32527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}