Steaua Bucharest kicked Ajax Amsterdam out of Europa League after penalty shootout (VIDEO)
Romanian football team Steaua Bucuresti qualified to the next stage of the Europa League 2013 after defeating Ajax Amsterdam in the second leg match on Thursday evening at National Arena Stadium in the Romanian capital. Qualification was decided on penalty shootout after Reghecampf squad managed to overturn their 0-2 deficit from Amsterdam a week ago. Therefore FC Steaua Bucuresti 2-0 AFC Ajax Amsterdam (aggregate 2-2, Steaua won 4-2 on penalties) and the Romanians are gonna meet Chelsea (scroll down for video).
Steaua beat Ajax Amsterdam and qualified to Europa League eighth finals
And indeed Laurentiu Reghecampf and his boys overturned all predictions and calculations and progressed to the 8th finals, a level they have not reached since 2006, when they stopped just in UEFA Cup semifinals.
Steaua began the match more aggressive and tried to find the way to the goal, while Ajax preferred to defend and preserve the first leg 2-0 advantage. However Iasmin Latovlevici paved the way to the victory and gave his team a 1-0 lead in the 38th minute when he was served perfectly by Chiriches before successfully lobbing the ball over Dutch keeper Vermeer. “Steaua” managed to keep the advantage till halftime and returned from lockers with even a greater determination which appeared to take the Dutch by surprise.
Iasmin Latovlevici (Steaua), the hero from National Arena Stadium in Bucharest (gsp.ro)
As 1-0 wasn’t enough, Reghecampf threw Nikolic in the battle, thus wishing to strengthen the attack, but the second goal came in the 76th minute from central defender Chiriches, who scored with a fabulous shot from 25 meters straight under the cross bar.
Ajax tried to retaliate putting serious pressure on Tătăruşanu and had good chances of scoring by Van Rhijn and Eriksen.
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After 120 minutes the teams were tied in aggregate therefore the penalty kicks were the last option to decide the winning team.
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The penalty shootout lottery was begun by Ajax, who scored by Eriksen but Rusescu leveled the score. On the second round of penalty kicks Schone could not defeat Tătăruşanu who deflected brilliantly the ball, giving Steaua a chance to move ahead. Nikolic did not fail and the shootout score was 2-1 for Romanians. De Jong (Ajax) and Filip (Steaua) netted both, but Moisander sent over Tatarusanu’s goal. The situation gave Latovlevici the opportunity for the final blow, and indeed Steaua’s player defeated Vermeer for the second time tonight before sparking frenzy and joy in Bucharest and across Romania.
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