{"id":54264,"date":"2025-12-09T19:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54264"},"modified":"2025-12-09T19:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:07:10","slug":"cl-taremi-assists-as-olympiacos-keep-qualifying-hopes-alive-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/12\/09\/cl-taremi-assists-as-olympiacos-keep-qualifying-hopes-alive-video\/","title":{"rendered":"CL: Taremi assists as Olympiacos keep qualifying hopes alive [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC.com &#8211; ASTANA, <strong>Olympiacos beat Kairat Almaty to record their first win in this season&#8217;s Champions League and keep alive their hopes of progress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After two draws and three losses from their opening five games, the Greek champions took the three points in Kazakhstan thanks to a powerful low strike from Gelson Martins.<\/p>\n<p>But the margin of victory should have been far greater, with the visitors repeatedly frustrated in Astana by an inspired performance from home goalkeeper Temirlan Anarbekov.<\/p>\n<p>He made three superb saves to deny Ayoub El Kaabi and also kept out a powerful strike from Francisco Chiquinho, before he was finally beaten in the 73rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Anarbekov then pushed Mehdi Taremi&#8217;s effort on to the post and El Kaabi&#8217;s attempt against the crossbar, with the Moroccan forward, 32, also hitting the woodwork with a separate effort.<\/p>\n<p>The success ended a run of 12 successive away defeats in the competition for Olympiacos, who have five points in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Club Brugge earned 11 points to finish 24th in the league phase and take the last play-off spot for the next round.<\/p>\n<p>Olympiacos would need to win their final two games &#8211; at home to Bayer Leverkusen on 20 January and away to Ajax on 28 January &#8211; to reach the 11-point mark.<\/p>\n<p>Kairat had to play eight qualifying matches to get into the league phase, including a penalty shootout win over Celtic in the play-off round, but have only one point from their six games.<\/p>\n<p>They also became the first side in the competition &#8211; since Slovakian side FC VSS Kosice in 1997-98 &#8211; not to score in their first three home matches as they were shut out on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kairat&#8217;s last two games are at home to Club Brugge on 20 January, before a visit to Arsenal on 28 January.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kairat vs Olympiacos | UEFA Champions League Highlights | Matchday 6 | 2025-2026\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4r5v5zLkU0Q?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC.com &#8211; ASTANA, Olympiacos beat Kairat Almaty to record their first win in this season&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iranian-legionnaires"],"views":1382,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54264","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=54264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54266,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54264\/revisions\/54266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}