{"id":8981,"date":"2026-02-11T05:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/8981\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:29:07","slug":"freiburg-beats-hertha-berlin-on-penalties-to-advance-to-german-cup-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/8981\/","title":{"rendered":"Freiburg beats Hertha Berlin on penalties to advance to German Cup semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, Germany (AP) \u2014 Freiburg advanced to the semifinals of the German Cup after a 5-4 penalty shootout win at Hertha Berlin on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Freiburg goalkeeper Florian Muller saved Pascal Klemens&#8217; sudden death spot kick in the Olympiastadion in Berlin to secure his team&#8217;s place in the last four of the competition. Yuito Suzuki&#8217;s strike had put the visitors 5-4 in front, meaning Klemens had to score to keep the shootout going.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>After the game ended goalless in regulation time, Yuito Suzuki fired Freiburg ahead in the 96th minute. Eight minutes later the game was level again when Fabian Reese struck with a shot into the top corner.<\/p>\n<p>Muller denied Michael Cuisance earlier in the shootout, but Freiburg&#8217;s Johan Manzambi then saw his spot kick saved by Hertha keeper Tjark Ernst.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN, Germany (AP) \u2014 Freiburg advanced to the semifinals of the German Cup after a 5-4 penalty shootout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,4020,7271,5664,190,7270,6189,7275,7274,4017,7273,7276,7272],"class_list":{"0":"post-8981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-fabian-reese","10":"tag-florian-muller","11":"tag-freiburg","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-hertha-berlin","14":"tag-johan-manzambi","15":"tag-michael-cuisance","16":"tag-olympiastadion-in-berlin","17":"tag-pascal-klemens","18":"tag-semifinals","19":"tag-tjark-ernst","20":"tag-yuito-suzuki"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}