Brighton beats AEK 1-0 advances to Europa.

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Brighton secured their place in the Europa League after defeating AEK Athens 1-0 from a Joao Pedro penalty on Thursday.

An important game in Group B of the Europa League group stage. Brighton, coach Roberto de Zerbi is missing many injured players. But the offensive line still has Kaoru Mitoma, Joao Pedro and Evan Ferguson playing together. While the home team AEK Athens is led by Mijat Gazinovic and Steven Zuber. 

In the first half, AEK Athens had several chances. But they were unable to break into the first goal. Especially at the end of the first half when Steven Zubar broke through and shot with his left and hit the post hard. The ball bounced and hit the head of Miyat Kachinovic, who was trying to head it into the box. But the ball went over the crossbar, unfortunately ทางเข้า UFABET

As for the second half.

AEK had another chance in the 51st minute. When Petros Mantalos cut the ball from the right into the middle for Miyat Gacinovic to run in and shoot. Had to use force to smash it, not daring to accept it.

But 4 minutes later, it was Brighton who received a penalty. When the referee checked VAR before deciding that Damian Szymanski had committed a foul behind Joao Pedro. And Pedro rose up to kill himself 1-0

The home team’s situation worsened in the 65th minute. When Miyat Gazinovic received a second yellow card after stomping on Brighton defender Joel Feltman. Resulting in him being sent off the field. AEK Athens was left with 10 men during the last 25 minutes.

During the rest of the time, AEK Athens was unable to equalize. Resulting in the game ending with Brighton winning 1-0, successfully winning a ticket to the next round with 10 points. Definitely guaranteeing the top two places in the group. While AEK has 4 points, only a chance to finish 3rd in order to play in the Europa Conference League small cup.