{"id":929445,"date":"2026-10-15T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929445\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:22:10","slug":"torreense-1-2-sunderland-black-cats-snatch-europa-league-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929445\/","title":{"rendered":"Torreense 1-2 Sunderland: Black Cats snatch Europa League win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sunderland were playing their first away match in a European campaign in 53 years, having beaten AZ Alkmaar 1-0 at home in their Europa League opener last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With visits to AC Milan and Aderlecht to come, this was supposed to be Sunderland&#8217;s easiest fixture on the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Torreense have not competed in the top tier of Portuguese football since 1991-92 and qualified for this season&#8217;s Europa League by shocking Sporting Lisbon in the Portuguese Cup final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thursday&#8217;s match was being played 47 miles from Torreense&#8217;s home ground which does not pass Uefa&#8217;s stadium criteria, while manager Luis Tralhao was not able to do post-match media duties as he does not hold a Uefa Pro license.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, rather than cruising to victory as many would have predicted, Sunderland, who made eight changes, had a nervy night &#8211; unable to break their opponents down despite their hatful of chances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They had an opener ruled out for a push by Omar Alderete just before Tutierov turned the ball into the net following a long throw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Home keeper Lucas Paes also had a fantastic game making fine reflex saves to keep out Nilson Angulo and Ahoka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sadiki&#8217;s winner means Sunderland, who are just a point above the Premier League relegation zone after a stuttering start, recorded their first away victory of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunderland were playing their first away match in a European campaign in 53 years, having beaten AZ Alkmaar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-929445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}