{"id":58900,"date":"2017-05-25T08:10:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T07:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=58900"},"modified":"2024-02-17T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T09:30:39","slug":"manchester-united-wins-europa-league-days-after-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/manchester-united-wins-europa-league-days-after-terror-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United Wins Europa League Days After Terror Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Manchester United have won the UEFA Europa League after beating Ajax Amsterdam 2-0 in Stockholm Friends Arena on Wednesday evening.<\/h2>\n<p>French midfielder Paul Pogba&#8217;s deflected shot opened the scoring for the &#8216;Red Devils&#8217; in the 18th minute, with the first half ending 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>The second half started swimmingly for the English side, as Henrikh Mkhitaryan lifted the ball over the shoulder and into the roof of the net in 48&#8242;, sending his teammates and fans into a frenzy.<\/p>\n<p>Ajax&#8217;s efforts to close the gap went down the drain against a strong defensive effort by Manchester United, who won their first UEFA Europa League in their history.<\/p>\n<p>With Wednesday&#8217;s victory, United manager Jose Mourinho has become the first manager to win UEFA Europa League and Champions League twice.<\/p>\n<p>Before the kick-off, a minute&#8217;s silence was observed at the Friends Arena in memory of the victims of the Manchester attack on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The victory meant a UEFA Champions League ticket for the English club, despite finishing Premier League sixth and failing to book a place in the tournament.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United have won the UEFA Europa League after beating Ajax Amsterdam 2-0 in Stockholm Friends Arena on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,80,118,127],"tags":[2779,2225,1722],"class_list":["post-58900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-sport","tag-europa-league","tag-manchester-united","tag-uefa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78865,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58900\/revisions\/78865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}