{"id":17506,"date":"2024-01-31T09:15:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=17506"},"modified":"2024-01-31T09:15:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:15:57","slug":"awoniyi-returns-from-injury-to-score-against-arsenal-again-in-forests-home-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/31\/awoniyi-returns-from-injury-to-score-against-arsenal-again-in-forests-home-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Awoniyi Returns From Injury To Score Against Arsenal Again In Forest\u2019s Home Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria Taiwo Awoniyi returned from injury by getting Nottingham Forest\u2019s goal in their 2-1 home loss to Arsenal in the Premier League on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Awoniyi had been out injured since November 2023 which he picked up in Super Eagles\u2019 1-1 home draw against Lesotho in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier in Uyo.<\/p>\n<p>He was on target for Forest when they lost 2-1 to Arsenal in their first game of the season at the Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Also, he scored the winner as Forest beat Arsenal 1-0 to secure their place in the Premier League last season.<\/p>\n<p>In Tuesday\u2019s clash, the striker was brought on before the start of the second half and pulled a goal back for his side to make it 2-1 in the 89th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Jesus had given Arsenal the lead in the 65th minute before Bukayo Saka added the second goal on 72 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The win took Arsenal to 46 points, just two points behind leaders Liverpool in the league table.<\/p>\n<p>In another Premier League game Elijah Adebayo bagged a hat-trick and Chiedozie Ogbene also scored as Luton Town thrashed Brighton 4-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria Taiwo Awoniyi returned from injury by getting Nottingham Forest\u2019s goal in their 2-1 home loss to Arsenal in the Premier League on Tuesday. Awoniyi had been out injured since November 2023 which he picked up in Super Eagles\u2019 1-1 home draw against Lesotho in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier in Uyo. He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[616],"class_list":["post-17506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-awoniyi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17510,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17506\/revisions\/17510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}