Morocco’s own-goal gifts Iran with 0-1 win in 2018 FIFA World Cup group match

The national football team of Iran defeated Morocco 1-0 in their Group B opening match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, held on Friday in Russia’s second largest city of St. Petersburg, TASS reports.

The game went scoreless both in the first and the second halves, but it was luck for the Iranian team to clinch the victory in the added time with the help of their opponents.

Morocco’s Aziz Bouhaddouz scored a ball past his own goalkeeper in the added time of the match as he tried to defend the net of his team from a free-kick delivered by Iran’s Nordin Amrabat.