{"id":320053,"date":"2025-01-25T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/?p=320053"},"modified":"2025-01-25T19:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T18:27:49","slug":"souffian-el-karouani-saves-the-day-as-utrecht-stays-on-the-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/souffian-el-karouani-saves-the-day-as-utrecht-stays-on-the-podium\/","title":{"rendered":"Souffian El Karouani saves the day as Utrecht stays on the podium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Matchday 20 of the Eredivisie, FC Utrecht was held to a draw by Heracles, currently 14th in the standings. Despite the disappointing result, Souffian El Karouani stood out by narrowing the gap in the dying moments of the game, scoring a stunning goal in the 90+1 minute. This performance further highlights the growing importance of the Moroccan left-back this season.<\/p>\n\n

Souffian El Karouani found the top corner with a perfectly placed free kick, marking his first goal of the season and bringing his tally to seven decisive contributions (1 goal and 6 assists) in the league. This statistic underscores his consistency and influence in crucial moments. His late free kick salvaged some pride for Utrecht in a match where the team had hoped for a better outcome against a lower-ranked opponent.<\/p>\n\n

Despite this setback, FC Utrecht remains third in the standings with 41 points, still four points behind Ajax in second place and five points adrift of league leaders PSV with 46 points. This position provisionally secures the club a spot in the Champions League qualification rounds, a major objective for the season.<\/p>\n\n

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On Matchday 20 of the Eredivisie, FC Utrecht was held to a draw by Heracles, currently 14th in the standings. Despite the disappointing result, Souffian El Karouani stood out by narrowing the gap in the dying moments of the game, scoring a stunning goal in the 90+1 minute. This performance further highlights the growing importance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1044],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-320053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-netherlands"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320054,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320053\/revisions\/320054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}