{"id":8818,"date":"2021-07-09T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avondalefc.com.au\/?p=8818"},"modified":"2022-02-09T09:59:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T22:59:18","slug":"avondale-reach-national-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avondalefc.com.au\/avondale-reach-national-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Avondale reach national stage!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Avondale&nbsp;have advance to the FFA Cup Round of 32 with an impressive 4-1 win over Pascoe Vale at ABD Stadium on Tuesday night.<br>Two goals from Yusuf Ahmed and one each from Liam Boland and Stefan Valentini powered the Avengers past their NPL 2 opponents and into the national stages for the second time in club history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahmed opened the scoring 18 minutes into the first half, cooly slotting the ball past the goalkeeper after a superb through ball from Joey Katebian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boland then doubled&nbsp;Avondale\u2018s advantage 15 minutes later, turning neatly before blasting a shot from the edge of the box into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pascoe Vale managed only one shot in the first half, but soon after the break they were back in the game when Scott Lochhead fired home to make it 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Highlights | FFA Cup Round 7 | Avondale FC vs Pascoe Vale\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dmis0biLsCk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it didn\u2019t take long for&nbsp;Avondale&nbsp;to regain control of the game. Nine minutes after conceding, Valentini restored the Avengers\u2019 two-goal lead when he curled a shot home from outside the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the result all but confirmed, Ahmed capped off a great night with his second goal, getting past the keeper before faking out a defender and rolling the ball home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Avondale&nbsp;also qualified for the national stages of the FFA Cup in 2018, advancing all the way to the quarter finals before falling to A-League side Sydney FC 4-2 after extra time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The win also sees&nbsp;Avondale&nbsp;advance to the semi finals of the Dockerty Cup where they will face the Port Melbourne Sharks. The result also extends&nbsp;Avondale\u2018s unbeaten streak to 17 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avondale&nbsp;have advance to the FFA Cup Round of 32 with an impressive 4-1 win over Pascoe Vale at ABD Stadium on Tuesday night.Two goals from Yusuf Ahmed and one each from Liam Boland and Stefan Valentini powered the Avengers past their NPL 2 opponents and into the national stages for the second time in club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avondalefc.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avondalefc.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avondalefc.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avondalefc.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avondalefc.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/avondalefc.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8824,"href":"https:\/\/avondalefc.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions\/8824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avondalefc.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avondalefc.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avondalefc.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avondalefc.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}