{"id":41577,"date":"2021-02-03T14:39:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=41577"},"modified":"2021-02-03T14:39:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:39:57","slug":"dfb-pokal-davari-steals-the-show-as-rw-essen-knockout-bayer-leverkusen-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/02\/03\/dfb-pokal-davari-steals-the-show-as-rw-essen-knockout-bayer-leverkusen-video\/","title":{"rendered":"DFB Pokal: Davari steals the show as RW Essen knockout Bayer Leverkusen [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; ESSEN, <strong>Iranian goalkeeper Daniel Davari, who currently plays at Rot-Weiss Essen, helped his team beat German giant Bayer Leverkusen at the German Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourth-division club Rot-Weiss Essen continued its giant-killing run in the German Cup on Tuesday by defeating Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 after extra time to reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jamaica international Leon Bailey put the Bundesliga team ahead in the 105th minute of the last-16 tie, but Essen levelled soon after with a goal from Oguzhan Kefkir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simon Engelmann scored the winner for Essen on 117 minutes as the lowest-ranked team left in the competition claimed another scalp following wins over Arminia Bielefeld and second-tier Fortuna Dusseldorf in previous rounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat we have produced as a team is really unbelievable,\u201d said Essen&#8217;s joyous goalkeeper Davari at full time. \u201cWhen you trail 1-0 and then come back like that, I can&#8217;t put it into words. I&#8217;m so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Davari was called into Iran&#8217;s 2014 FIFA World Cup squad by Carlos Queiroz. He was an unused substitute with Alireza Haghighi starting all three matches for Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highlights: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WcQvAKVgSvg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WcQvAKVgSvg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ESSEN, Iranian goalkeeper Daniel Davari, who currently plays at Rot-Weiss Essen, helped his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":41578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":794,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41579,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41577\/revisions\/41579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}