{"id":333026,"date":"2025-12-02T17:56:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/?p=333026"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:58:04","slug":"arab-cup-2025-morocco-comoros-tarik-sektioui-the-most-important-thing-was-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/arab-cup-2025-morocco-comoros-tarik-sektioui-the-most-important-thing-was-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab Cup 2025: Morocco\u2013Comoros: Tarik Sektioui: &#8220;The most important thing was to win&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the victory of the Atlas Lions against Comoros (3-1) in their opening match of the Arab Cup 2025, Tarik Sektioui expressed satisfaction with the result, but he particularly wanted to commend his team&#8217;s ability to stay focused despite very challenging preparation conditions. &#8220;We suffered a lot to reach the stadium. We were stuck on the bus for an hour and were also deprived of a player who was supposed to start. We couldn&#8217;t give the pre-match speech and arrived only a few minutes before the warm-up began,&#8221; revealed the coach.<\/p>\n<p>This unusual context, however, did not prevent Morocco from quickly taking the lead and winning with authority. Sektioui emphasized the essential point: &#8220;The most important thing was to win and avoid injuries.&#8221; The first half, which his team controlled, proved him right, even though the Comorians showed more aggression after the break.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Moroccan coach reflected on the change in the game&#8217;s dynamics in the second half: &#8220;The opponent took significant risks by fielding four attackers; we therefore only lined up four defenders to counter them.&#8221; This tactical adaptation was embraced, allowing them to secure the result and start the competition in the best possible way before the upcoming matches against Oman and then Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the victory of the Atlas Lions against Comoros (3-1) in their opening match of the Arab Cup 2025, Tarik Sektioui expressed satisfaction with the result, but he particularly wanted to commend his team&#8217;s ability to stay focused despite very challenging preparation conditions. &#8220;We suffered a lot to reach the stadium. We were stuck on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-333026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-non-classifiee"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333028,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333026\/revisions\/333028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}