{"id":75891,"date":"2026-07-09T02:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/world-cup-2026-france-v-morocco-quarter-final-buildup-collina-defends-refereeing-live\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T02:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:56:04","slug":"world-cup-2026-france-v-morocco-quarter-final-buildup-collina-defends-refereeing-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/world-cup-2026-france-v-morocco-quarter-final-buildup-collina-defends-refereeing-live\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: France v Morocco quarter-final buildup, Collina defends refereeing \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd All the latest as we look ahead to the quarter-finals<br \/>\u26bd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/world-cup-2026-complete-player-guide\">Player guide<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/bracketology-predict-a-path-to-world-cup-victory\">Bracketology<\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/golden-boot-world-cup-2026-top-goalscorers-winner\">Golden Boot<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:matchday.live@theguardian.com\">Email us<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>England defender John Stones was proud of his injury prank that caught out boss Thomas Tuchel during the celebrations of Sunday\u2019s historic win over Mexico.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stones teamed up with midfielder Declan Rice to dupe Tuchel into thinking he had injured his shoulder in the dressing room. The German, who had just seen Jordan Henderson go to hospital with a wrist injury suffered after the match, shot a worried glance only for the centre-half to break out into a dance.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/jul\/09\/world-cup-2026-france-v-morocco-quarter-final-news-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd All the latest as we look ahead to the quarter-finals\u26bd Player guide | Bracketology| Golden Boot | Email us England defender John Stones was proud of his injury prank that caught out boss Thomas Tuchel during the celebrations of Sunday\u2019s historic win over Mexico. Stones teamed up with midfielder Declan Rice to dupe Tuchel &#8230; <a title=\"World Cup 2026: France v Morocco quarter-final buildup, Collina defends refereeing \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/world-cup-2026-france-v-morocco-quarter-final-buildup-collina-defends-refereeing-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about World Cup 2026: France v Morocco quarter-final buildup, Collina defends refereeing \u2013 live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}