{"id":29033,"date":"2025-02-21T20:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T11:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=29033"},"modified":"2025-02-21T20:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T11:16:23","slug":"diks-inspirational-as-copenhagen-set-up-potential-chelsea-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2025\/02\/21\/diks-inspirational-as-copenhagen-set-up-potential-chelsea-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Diks Inspirational as Copenhagen Set Up Potential Chelsea Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kevin Diks was the hero for FC Copenhagen, as his penalty and assist powered the Danish side to a crucial 3-1 victory over German club Heidenheim in Thursday\u2019s 2024\/25 UEFA Conference League knockout playoffs. The win secured Copenhagen\u2019s place in the Round of 16, potentially setting up a showdown with English powerhouse Chelsea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Indonesia national team defender played a pivotal role in overturning Copenhagen\u2019s 1-2 first-leg defeat at home. Needing a win by at least two goals to advance, Diks\u2014who missed the first leg due to yellow card suspension\u2014returned to the starting lineup as the team\u2019s right-back and played the full match.<\/p>\n<p>Diks displayed his composure from the penalty spot, confidently converting a precise strike into the bottom right corner in the 53rd minute to keep Copenhagen\u2019s hopes alive.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, he had also provided the assist for Amin Chiakha\u2019s 37th-minute opener, setting the stage for the comeback. Rodrigo Huescas then secured the victory with a crucial goal in the 113th minute, sealing a hard-fought 3-1 win after extra time.<\/p>\n<p>With a 4-3 aggregate triumph, Copenhagen booked their place in the Round of 16, where they will face either Portugal\u2019s Vitoria de Guimaraes or Chelsea in the next stage of the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Diks was the hero for FC Copenhagen, as his penalty and assist powered the Danish side to a crucial 3-1 victory over German club Heidenheim in Thursday\u2019s 2024\/25 UEFA Conference League knockout playoffs. The win secured Copenhagen\u2019s place in the Round of 16, potentially setting up a showdown with English powerhouse Chelsea. The Indonesia national team defender played a pivotal role in overturning Copenhagen\u2019s 1-2 first-leg defeat at home. Needing a win by at least two goals to advance, Diks\u2014who missed the first leg due to yellow card suspension\u2014returned to the starting lineup as the team\u2019s right-back and played the full match. Diks displayed his composure from the penalty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2025\/02\/21\/diks-inspirational-as-copenhagen-set-up-potential-chelsea-meeting\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Diks Inspirational as Copenhagen Set Up Potential Chelsea Meeting&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":28983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,1639],"tags":[1296,931,1998,2915,408,2916,91,2910,95,315,2914],"class_list":["post-29033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-players-in-europe","category-europe","tag-asian-players-in-europe","tag-denmark","tag-europe","tag-fc-copenhagen","tag-germany","tag-heidenheim","tag-indonesia","tag-kevin-diks","tag-slider","tag-southeast-asia","tag-uefa-conference-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29034,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29033\/revisions\/29034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}