What can happen once in a while is when a group of people are united, can create super stories and super things." Morocco should at least take heart from a blistering first half an hour, during which their zip and zest made them virtually unplayable. "If the game against Morocco was the World Cup final for us, the game against Spain will be the Universe Cup final," Queiroz said. Morocco's fans, at a World Cup for the first time in 20 years, belted out their own national anthem and then applauded Iran's, the 67,000-seater arena buzzing with the hum of vuvuzelas in a throwback to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Queiroz and Renard were involved in a touchline scuffle, quickly resolved, before the real drama arrived in the 95th minute.

Source: The Nation Bangkok June 15, 2018 19:18 UTC