{"id":460158,"date":"2023-09-22T01:33:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T21:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=460158"},"modified":"2023-09-22T01:33:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T21:33:33","slug":"aek-shock-brighton-at-their-europa-league-debut","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/aek-shock-brighton-at-their-europa-league-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"AEK shock Brighton at their Europa League debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AEK Athens FC defeated Brighton 3-2 at Amex Stadium, and despite being the big favorite to win the match, the Seagulls lost their European competition debut at their stadium.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Brighton&#8217;s first European adventure ends in defeat at the hands of AEK Athens.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BHAFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BHAFC<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UEL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UEL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lpNRJvUtse\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lpNRJvUtse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic | Football (@TheAthleticFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC\/status\/1704964650234683403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Djibril Sidibe scored the 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the 11<sup>th<\/sup> minute as the Greek team took the lead, but Joao Pedro equalized in the 30<sup>th<\/sup> minute after converting a penalty. However, AEK had the lead after the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half after Mijat Gacinovic netted in the 40<sup>th<\/sup> minute for 2-1.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Brighton (2.73) 2-3 (1.11) AEK Athens<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The xG Philosophy \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa (@xGPhilosophyEU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xGPhilosophyEU\/status\/1704964821139984885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly or not, Brighton tied the match again after a penalty in the 67<sup>th<\/sup> minute as again Joao Pedro was the one who took it and converted it.<\/p>\n<p>When everyone expected that the Premier League club would try to win the 3 points until the end, the opposite happened, and Ezequiel Ponce scored the winning goal in the 84<sup>th<\/sup> minute. The referee gave 13 additional minutes, but the Seagulls failed to score and tie the game for a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> time and lost their debut in the European tournament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u25c9 Brighton are the first English side to lose their debut European game since Blackburn Rovers in 1994-95.<\/p>\n<p>\u25c9 AEK Athens have beaten English opposition for the first time since 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Not the welcome to European football the Seagulls were hoping for. \ud83d\ude29 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iqQJAWG0iW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iqQJAWG0iW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Squawka (@Squawka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka\/status\/1704964828173844581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AEK Athens FC defeated Brighton 3-2 at Amex Stadium, and despite being the big favorite to win the match, the Seagulls lost their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":460159,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21478,18821,17343],"news_category":[143,14235],"gn_keywords":[21479,18822,17561],"acf":{"announce":"The Greek side beat them 3-2 in England.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/460158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/460158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460161,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/460158\/revisions\/460161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460158"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=460158"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=460158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}