{"id":40559,"date":"2020-10-01T18:38:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T01:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40559"},"modified":"2020-10-01T18:38:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T01:38:52","slug":"ansarifards-injury-time-winner-takes-aek-athens-to-europa-league-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/10\/01\/ansarifards-injury-time-winner-takes-aek-athens-to-europa-league-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansarifard&#8217;s injury time winner takes AEK Athens to Europa League [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ekathimerini.com &#8211;  ATHENS, <strong>AEK upset German side Wolfsburg to make the Europa League group stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supersub Karim Ansarifard gave AEK the ticket to the group stage of the Europa League with his late winner as the Yellows came from behind to eliminate Wolfsburg with a 2-1 score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the game barely 20 minutes old at the Olympic Stadium of Athens, Petros Mantalos had a penalty kick saved by Wolfsburg keeper Pavao Pervan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As if that were not bad enough for AEK, Admir Mehmedi opened&nbsp; the score for the Germans with the last kick of the first half through a long diagonal shot from the edge of the area, after a triangular move by the visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However AEK\u2019s fortune changed after the interval: Less than 20 minutes into the second half Andre Simoes tried a powerful shot from outside the box and the ball tossed the Wolfsburg net for 1-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then in the fourth minute of time added on Ansarifard pulled a great trick out of his hat, as he ran across the edge of the box and tried an off-balance right shot that caught Pervan wrong-footed and triggered wild celebrations among the AEK squad on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AEK will therefore join PAOK in Friday\u2019s group stage draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AEK Athens 2-1 VfL Wolfsburg 90+4 Karim Ansarifard\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MC5qm1dPpJI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ekathimerini.com &#8211; ATHENS, AEK upset German side Wolfsburg to make the Europa League group stage&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1419,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40561,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40559\/revisions\/40561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}