{"id":1260628,"date":"2022-12-01T18:26:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T18:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/01\/morocco-beat-canada-to-finish-as-group-winners\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T18:26:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T18:26:13","slug":"morocco-beat-canada-to-finish-as-group-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/01\/morocco-beat-canada-to-finish-as-group-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco beat Canada to finish as group winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/skysports-morocco-world-cup_5983815-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Morocco's Hakim Ziyech is mobbed after scoring the opening goal\" title=\"Morocco's Hakim Ziyech is mobbed after scoring the opening goal\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morocco&#8217;s Hakim Ziyech is mobbed after scoring the opening goal<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Morocco qualified as Group F winners after beating Canada 2-1 to reach the last 16 of the World Cup for the first time since 1986.<\/p>\n<p>The African side were gifted their opener, as Canada\u2019s goalkeeper Milan Borjan made a horror mistake by giving the ball to Hakim Ziyech, who chipped it into an empty net within the first five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Things got worse for John Herdman\u2019s side when Youssef En-Nesyri latched onto a long ball and finished brilliantly as the Atlas Lions made the most of their dominance.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Canada had some fortune and pulled one back just before half-time when Nayef Aguerd deflected a cross into his own goal.<\/p>\n<p>They were much improved after the break and hit the bar when Atiba Hutchinson climbed highest and headed at goal, however, Morocco defended resiliently to hold on.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco top the group with Croatia joining them in the knockout rounds after their tense goalless draw with Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"LXKZ30_WvYI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I gave him money for his business when I was pregnant - Obra on Adom TV\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LXKZ30_WvYI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco&#8217;s Hakim Ziyech is mobbed after scoring the opening goal Morocco qualified as Group F winners after beating Canada 2-1 to reach the last 16 of the World Cup for the first time since 1986. The African side were gifted their opener, as Canada\u2019s goalkeeper Milan Borjan made a horror mistake by giving the ball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1260629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[193,6021,3149,516,1010,505],"class_list":["post-1260628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-beat","tag-canada","tag-finish","tag-group","tag-morocco","tag-winners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}