{"id":466003,"date":"2023-10-16T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466003"},"modified":"2023-10-16T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:43:09","slug":"sabitzers-penalty-secures-austria-spot-in-euro-2024","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sabitzers-penalty-secures-austria-spot-in-euro-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabitzer&#8217;s penalty secures Austria spot in Euro 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austria edged out Azerbaijan 1-0 to secure a spot in Euro 2024 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Austria qualify for their third consecutive Euros \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf9\u2714\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UJ89Z7gHaZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/UJ89Z7gHaZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 433 (@433) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/433\/status\/1713985148255957312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Substitute Marcel Sabitzer scored the only goal from the penalty spot to give his team victory.<\/p>\n<p>It was a much needed win as Austria succumbed to unpleasant 3-2 loss to Belgium in Vienna last week.<\/p>\n<p>Things were not looking much brighter today as the Austrians were missing several key players through injuries and as a consequence they struggled to create any meaningful chances.<\/p>\n<p>However, opportunity did present itself in the first minutes of the second half, when the visitors were awarded a penalty for handball. Up stepped Sabitzer and the Borussia Dortmund man was clinical from the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Austria finished with 10 men after striker Guido Burgstaller was sent off in stoppage time for a second yellow card.<\/p>\n<p>Already qualified Belgium played at home later Monday against third-place Sweden, and Netherlands and Greece go head-to-head in their bid to join already qualified France from Group B.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austria edged out Azerbaijan 1-0 to secure a spot in Euro 2024 on Monday night. Austria qualify for their third consecutive Euros \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf9\u2714\ufe0f [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":466004,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19336,18326],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[19337,21785,18335],"acf":{"announce":"The Austrians had to work hard, but in the end they prevailed","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\/466003"}],"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\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466005,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466003\/revisions\/466005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466003"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466003"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}