{"id":1182906,"date":"2022-08-18T15:34:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/uefa-champions-league-qualifiers-team-of-the-week-after-the-first-final-round-of-fixtures\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T15:34:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:34:02","slug":"uefa-champions-league-qualifiers-team-of-the-week-after-the-first-final-round-of-fixtures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/uefa-champions-league-qualifiers-team-of-the-week-after-the-first-final-round-of-fixtures\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA Champions League Qualifiers Team of the Week After the First Final Round of Fixtures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<h3><strong>The first final round of the UEFA Champions League (UCL) qualifiers concluded on Wednesday &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><strong style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">and the quest for the team of the week based on players&#8217; performances, here is it according to sofascore statistics.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fe5057a784224a0aa534300b0099745f\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeeper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jindrich Stanek<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heroic saves from the 26-year-old Czech Republican saved his side [Viktoria Plzen] from losing on their trip to Azerbaijan against Qarabag FK, hence making it to this week&#8217;s goal post ahead of 11 shot-shoppers. Stanek made 7 saves, kept clean and was the highest-rated player.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Involved in team goals &#8211; Rangers captain <strong>James Tavernier<\/strong> pairs SL Benfica star <strong>Gilberto<\/strong> on the lethral lines whiles Bodo\/Glimt duo <strong>Isak Helstad Amundsen<\/strong> and <strong>Marius<\/strong> <strong>Hoibraten<\/strong>, in the heart of the defence.<\/p>\n<p>Tavenier assisted in his side&#8217;s 2-2 draw against PSV, likewise, Gilberto a magnificent strike to second teammate Goncalo Ramos against Dynamo Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Amundsen and Hoibraten provide stability in defence and a great cover as they maintained their 1-0 win against Dinamo Zagreb at home.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/0239f50c610b4a0a8f4b16fcd8884724\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emerged as the best midfielders &#8211; <strong>Ibrahim<\/strong> <strong>Sangare<\/strong>, <strong>Anastasios Bakasetas<\/strong> and <strong>Tjaronn<\/strong> <strong>Chery<\/strong> made it to the team.<\/p>\n<p>Each player contributed handsomely to their irrespective team, Bakasetas with Trabzonspor consolidated goal against Copenhagen, Sangare powering PSV with the lead in a 2-2 draw against Rangers and Chery with the strike to place Maccabi Haifa an edge over Crvena zvezda, on a 3-2 victory.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fd346f107c184f6ea80b710049a92af9\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Forwards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hopped on a brace for Maccabi Haifa &#8211; <strong>Frantzdy<\/strong> <strong>Pierrot<\/strong> pairs SL Benfica star <strong>Joao<\/strong> <strong>Mario<\/strong> who assisted against Dynamo Kyiv and Bodo\/Glimt lone scorer, Amahl Pellegrino, as main forwards.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3875aec1abbb4d85b5904c2f831fb335\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Manager: SL Benfica &#8211; Roger Schmidt<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: BerBea-nt (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAzerbaijan<br \/>\nCzech Republican<br \/>\nJindrich Stanek<br \/>\nUEFA Champions League<br \/>\nViktoria Plzen<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first final round of the UEFA Champions League (UCL) qualifiers concluded on Wednesday &#8211;\u00a0and the quest for the team of the week based on players&#8217; performances, here is it according to sofascore statistics. Goalkeeper Jindrich Stanek Heroic saves from the 26-year-old Czech Republican saved his side [Viktoria Plzen] from losing on their trip to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1182908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[774,1450,105,674,3034,97,5340,602],"class_list":["post-1182906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-champions","tag-final","tag-fixtures","tag-league","tag-qualifiers","tag-team","tag-uefa","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}