{"id":55298,"date":"2025-10-06T01:49:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T22:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=55298"},"modified":"2025-10-06T01:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T22:49:22","slug":"el-khannouss-fires-stuttgart-into-bundesliga-top-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/06\/el-khannouss-fires-stuttgart-into-bundesliga-top-four\/","title":{"rendered":"El Khannouss Fires Stuttgart Into Bundesliga Top Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent solo effort from Bilal El Khannouss took Stuttgart to a 1-0 home victory over Heidenheim and into fourth place in the Bundesliga on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Smarting after a disappointing Europa League loss to Basel on Thursday, Stuttgart struggled to create chances against a Heidenheim side languishing second-bottom in the table.<\/p>\n<p>In teeming rain, Leicester City loanee El Khannouss collected the ball just outside the area in the 65th minute, cut inside two Heidenheim defenders and curled a perfectly placed low shot in off the far post.<\/p>\n<p>Stuttgart striker Ermedin Demirovic looked to have added a second in stoppage time with a clever chip, but the goal was ruled out for a foul in the build-up.<\/p>\n<p>After their third straight league win, Stuttgart are now six points behind league leaders Bayern Munich and two points back from second-placed Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n<p>Later on Sunday, Hamburg host Mainz while Freiburg travel to bottom club Borussia Moenchengladbach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent solo effort from Bilal El Khannouss took Stuttgart to a 1-0 home victory over Heidenheim and into fourth place in the Bundesliga on Sunday. Smarting after a disappointing Europa League loss to Basel on Thursday, Stuttgart struggled to create chances against a Heidenheim side languishing second-bottom in the table. In teeming rain, Leicester &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55301,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55298\/revisions\/55301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}