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Morocco reached the World Cup Round of 16 on Tuesday after beating Netherlands 3-2 on penalties, completing a dramatic comeback after a 1-1 draw in Monterrey.<\/p>\n
The Atlas Lions trailed until the 90th minute before forcing extra time, then held their nerve in the shootout to eliminate Oranje and extend another major World Cup run.<\/p>\n
Morocco will face Canada in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n
Netherlands entered the tie as Group F winners after drawing with Japan, then beating Sweden and Tunisia to finish top. Morocco reached the knockouts as Group C runners-up behind Brazil on goal difference after drawing with the Selecao and beating Scotland and Haiti.<\/p>\n
Morocco\u2019s campaign had kept alive memories of 2022, when the Atlas Lions became the first African team to reach a World Cup semifinal. Their return to Monterrey also carried history from the 1986 World Cup, when Morocco topped their group in Mexico.<\/p>\n
The fixture was also a rematch of a 1994 World Cup meeting, when Netherlands beat Morocco 2-1 in Orlando.<\/p>\n
Netherlands took the lead and looked set to manage the final minutes, but Morocco refused to fade. The equalizer arrived in the 90th minute, turning a controlled Dutch finish into a knockout battle, shifting momentum toward Morocco and forcing Netherlands into extra time after Oranje had been minutes from advancing.<\/p>\n
Neither side found a winner in the additional 30 minutes, sending the tie to penalties.<\/p>\n
Morocco then won the shootout 3-2, completing the comeback and sending their supporters into celebration after another tense knockout night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-06-30T04:54:57+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Monterrey Morocco reached the World Cup Round of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[122488,16993,4,450,451,316021,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-734276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-morocco-outlast-netherlands-to-reach-world-cup-r16","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}