{"id":471475,"date":"2023-11-30T16:08:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T20:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=471475"},"modified":"2023-11-30T16:08:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T20:08:03","slug":"west-ham-seal-knockout-spot-with-narrow-1-0-win-over-backa-topola","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/west-ham-seal-knockout-spot-with-narrow-1-0-win-over-backa-topola\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham seal knockout spot with narrow 1-0 win over Backa Topola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham emerged victorious in their group stage game against Serbian side Backa Topola 1-0 to seal a knockout spot in Europa League on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Three points secured \u2705 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gn0hwiJ8QY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Gn0hwiJ8QY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; West Ham United (@WestHam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WestHam\/status\/1730310301013221673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Hammers were missing several key players due to injury and illness and their absence could be felt as the English team performed well underneath their standards. Despite that, a conservative, but sufficient display saw them emerged victorious.<\/p>\n<p>A late strike from Tomas Saucek was all the Hammers needed to secure the 3 points.<\/p>\n<p>Freiburg&#8217;s humiliating 5-0 defeat over Olympiacos has sent David Moyes&#8217; side down to second place, meaning they will need victory over the Bundesliga team if they want to emerged as winners from Group A.<\/p>\n<p>However, with the late winner West Ham go into next month&#8217;s tie knowing a draw will see them avoid an unwanted play-off round in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham emerged victorious in their group stage game against Serbian side Backa Topola 1-0 to seal a knockout spot in Europa League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":471476,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19203],"news_category":[143,14235],"gn_keywords":[19204],"acf":{"announce":"The Hammers are through after professional display","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\/471475"}],"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=471475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471477,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471475\/revisions\/471477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471475"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=471475"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=471475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}