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Olympiacos have now been crowned champions of the 2023/2024 UEFA Europa Conference League. This comes after defeating Italian based outfit ACF Fiorentina in the tourney’s final game.
64 years and 259 days since participating in their first ever game in any of UEFA’s continental competitions, the club have now clinched their first ever title.
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History makers Olympiakos have now become the first Greek club to win an European trophy and quite remarkably they did it on home soil.
La Viola came into the game on a 13-game unbeaten run and still managed to take the first 90 minute affair of this tie to a stalemate.
Fiorentina stood up to expectations and commandeered proceedings for much of the encounter. All 17 times of asking Konstantinos Tzolakis, none yielded good fortune for the Florence based outfit.
Olympiakos have much thanks to forward Ayoub El Kaabi for their victory at this stage.
The Moroccan international connected with midfielder Santiago Hezze’s unlikely cross at the death to gift the Greek side a 116th winner.
This strike comes as the forward’s 11th knockout goal of the campaign with his six goals against Unai Emery’s Aston Villa in the semi-finals sending the Red-Whites to this stage.
By so doing, El Kaabi now holds the record for the Most goals scored in a single UEFA club competition knockout stage since the group stages were introduced. Eclipsing Cristiano Ronaldo, Radamel Falcao and Karim Benzema to sit himself in outright company.
Fiorentina’s bid to continue in the footprints of local rivals Atalanta BC just under a week ago has now come to a futile ending.
Olympiakos have become just the third side to claim this prized trophy in addition to As Roma and West Ham United.
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