{"id":9491,"date":"2024-09-07T19:14:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T19:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=9491"},"modified":"2024-09-07T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T19:14:16","slug":"lookman-osimhen-on-target-as-nigeria-thrash-benin-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2024\/09\/07\/lookman-osimhen-on-target-as-nigeria-thrash-benin-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Lookman, Osimhen on target as Nigeria thrash Benin 3-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Ademola Lookman and Victor Osimhen were on target for the Super Eagles of Nigeria during the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers match against the Cheetahs of Benin Republic at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ademola Lookman broke the deadlock in the first half, while Osimhen extended the lead for the Super Eagles with a sumptuous goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lookman\u2019s third goal sealed the victory for Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lookman, recently nominated for the FIFA Balon d\u2019Or award, was one of the Super Eagles\u2019 best performers at AFCON 2023 earlier in the year, where his goals led Nigeria to a runners-up place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Osimhen, who also endured a failed transfer on deadline day, culminating in the 25-year-old joining Galatasaray on loan, joined his teammates on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">More to follow\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ademola Lookman and Victor Osimhen were on target for the Super Eagles of Nigeria during the 2025 Africa Cup of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9493,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions\/9493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}