{"id":324552,"date":"2025-03-31T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T07:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/?p=324552"},"modified":"2025-03-31T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:53:12","slug":"zakaria-el-ouahdi-was-decisive-in-genks-convincing-victory-over-gent-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/zakaria-el-ouahdi-was-decisive-in-genks-convincing-victory-over-gent-4-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Zakaria El Ouahdi was decisive in Genk&#8217;s convincing victory over Gent (4-0)."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Genk kicked off the Champions&#8217; Playoffs in ideal fashion with a resounding victory over Gent (4-0) on Sunday. Despite a frustrating start marked by two missed penalties and a disallowed goal, the Limburg team found the net thanks to a stunning curled left-footed strike from Konstantinos Karetsas (38th minute), who was perfectly assisted by Zakaria El Ouahdi. The Moroccan U23 international recorded his first assist in these playoffs and now boasts a tally of five goals and two assists across all competitions this season. Positioned as a right-back, he delivered a solid performance before being substituted in the 86th minute for Ken Nkuba Tshiend.<\/p>\n\n<p>In the second half, Tolu Arokodare extended the lead (50th), and Hyeon-Gyu Ho sealed the victory with a brace late in the match (89th, 90+1). Thanks to this win, Genk maintains a four-point lead over Club Brugge, who earlier defeated Anderlecht (2-0). Union Saint-Gilloise, who thrashed Antwerp (5-1) on Saturday, remains third, six points behind the leader. Meanwhile, Gent remains stagnant in sixth place with 23 points, trailing Anderlecht (26) and Antwerp (23).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genk kicked off the Champions&#8217; Playoffs in ideal fashion with a resounding victory over Gent (4-0) on Sunday. Despite a frustrating start marked by two missed penalties and a disallowed goal, the Limburg team found the net thanks to a stunning curled left-footed strike from Konstantinos Karetsas (38th minute), who was perfectly assisted by Zakaria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-324552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324552","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=324552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324553,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324552\/revisions\/324553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}