{"id":774130,"date":"2026-07-01T21:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774130\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:50:20","slug":"canada-will-have-its-hands-full-vs-morocco-in-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774130\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada will have its hands full vs. Morocco in round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a class=\"gh-article-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tfcrepublic.ca\/tag\/canmnt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CanMNT<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a team with no weaknesses really, which presents a big challenge in terms of our preparation,&#8221; Jesse Marsch said.<\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tfcrepublic.ca\/author\/john-molinaro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FvUog8Oe_400x400.jpg\" alt=\"John Molinaro\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HL8BKrQWAAA4YM0-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Canada will have its hands full vs. Morocco in round of 16\"\/><br \/>\n            (Photo courtesy of Canada Soccer)<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Marsch didn\u2019t let the grass grow under his feet following Canada\u2019s historic win over South Africa in Los Angeles last Sunday at the FIFA World Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian men\u2019s team\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tfcrepublic.ca\/june-28-canada-world-cup-south-africa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-0 decision over South Africa<\/a>, secured via an injury time goal from co-captain Stephen Eust\u00e1quio, was its first ever win in a World Cup knockout match, and sent them through to Saturday\u2019s round of 16 match in Houston.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after dispatching South Africa, Marsch boarded a plane for Mexico so he could attend the next day\u2019s round of 32 match between the Netherlands and Morocco in Monterrey to scout Canada\u2019s next opponent. Morocco scored in injury time to level the score at 1-1 and force extra time before prevailing in a penalty shootout setting up a return match from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar where the Africans defeated Canada in the group stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What Marsch saw from Morocco was a team with \u201cno weaknesses\u201d who dealt with the stifling heat much better than the Netherlands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                This post is for paying subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#b00707\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CanMNT &#8220;It&#8217;s a team with no weaknesses really, which presents a big challenge in terms of our preparation,&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-774130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}