LASK picked up their first Champions League victory with a brilliant comeback win that ended Sporting’s perfect start. <\/p>\n
The hosts, who won their opening two games, took a fifth-minute lead through Luis Suarez’s penalty after Scottish referee Nick Walsh adjudged that Nestory Irankunda had been tripped. <\/p>\n
However, LASK equalised 10 minutes later through a superb Christoph Lang finish. He was found on the edge of the area, took a touch and then drilled across the goalkeeper and into the far corner. <\/p>\n
The rest of the first half was pretty even, but the visitors, who had lost their past eight away games in major European competition, were clinical in the second half.<\/p>\n
Sasa Kalajdzic gave them the lead in the 63rd minute when he was found on the right during a counter-attack and he picked out the far corner with a precise finish. <\/p>\n
The Austrian champions extended their lead on the break, with Krystof Danek forcing home via the near post. <\/p>\n
Sporting gave themselves late hope through Suarez, but LASK held on for their first-ever away win in Europe’s top competition. <\/p>\n
Sporting visit Shakhtar Donetsk, who are playing at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge, in their next match on 3 November, while LASK host Slovan Bratislava on the same evening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LASK picked up their first Champions League victory with a brilliant comeback win that ended Sporting’s perfect start.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-661714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}