{"id":861644,"date":"2018-11-27T15:59:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T20:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=861644"},"modified":"2018-11-27T22:49:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T03:49:53","slug":"watch-aek-fans-throw-molotov-cocktails-flares-at-ajax-supporters-at-champions-league-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/watch-aek-fans-throw-molotov-cocktails-flares-at-ajax-supporters-at-champions-league-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: AEK fans throw molotov cocktails, flares at Ajax supporters at Champions League match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s great to see UEFA Champions League matches being played in smaller countries that don&#8217;t get much notoriety, so fans can get in on the action, and feel a part of it.<\/p>\n<p>What isn&#8217;t, though, is when fans bring explosives to matches, which has been happening in recent years for games played in more raucous environments.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s Champions League match between Ajax and AEK Athens at\u00a0Athens Olympic Stadium got a bit nuts. Apparently, the home fans wanted to make things difficult on the visitors, and they did that by launching molotov cocktails and flares at them before the match began.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fan footage of an AEK fan launching a molotov cocktail at the Ajax fans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>MENTAL! \ud83d\ude33\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>(\ud83d\udcfd\ufe0f credit: @WSCsupporters) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H51PbNgNY0\">pic.twitter.com\/H51PbNgNY0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Oddschanger (@Oddschanger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Oddschanger\/status\/1067496731447828481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AEK Athens fans throwing flares and molotov cocktails at Ajax fans before the game. What is the police doing? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NzNmz52ps9\">pic.twitter.com\/NzNmz52ps9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mootaz Chehade (@MHChehade) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MHChehade\/status\/1067491341599334400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Frightening scenes as an AEK fan threw a flare into the rival fans&#39; section before their Champions League clash. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GEaAc7rKPR\">pic.twitter.com\/GEaAc7rKPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1067491053748584449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Somehow, the match kicked off at its scheduled time, despite all these shenanigans.<\/p>\n[<a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2018\/11\/aek-ajax-uefa-champions-league-riot-flares-molotov-cocktails-fans-video-explosion-soccer-football\">For The Win<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s great to see UEFA Champions League matches being played in smaller countries that don&#8217;t get much notoriety, so fans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":861646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1693,605048752],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - 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