{"id":21363,"date":"2024-03-01T08:03:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T08:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=21363"},"modified":"2024-03-01T08:03:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T08:03:24","slug":"ejuke-and-yusuf-propel-royal-antwerp-to-belgian-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/01\/ejuke-and-yusuf-propel-royal-antwerp-to-belgian-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Ejuke and Yusuf Propel Royal Antwerp to Belgian Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-33\">\n<div class=\"px-4 py-2 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 text-base mx-auto gap-3 md:px-5 lg:px-1 xl:px-5 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem] group\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start gap-3 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"938209de-ab52-4a50-8957-f1ff27b03f9d\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\n<p>Alhassan Yusuf and Chidera Ejuke featured prominently as Royal Antwerp secured a 3-0 victory over Oostende, advancing to the final of the Belgian Cup with a 4-1 aggregate win in the semi-final second leg on Thursday. Ejuke played the full 90 minutes, while Yusuf was substituted in the 90th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old Nigerian forward, George Ilenikhena, shone in the match, scoring a brace for Royal Antwerp. Additionally, 19-year-old Victor Udoh made an impact, coming on in the 76th minute and providing the assist for Ilenikhena&#8217;s second goal.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Antwerp is set to face Union SG in the final scheduled for May 9, 2024. The team, having won the Belgian Cup four times in its history (1955, 1992, 2020, 2023), aims to defend their title against Union SG in the upcoming final.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alhassan Yusuf and Chidera Ejuke featured prominently as Royal Antwerp secured a 3-0 victory over Oostende, advancing to the final of the Belgian Cup with a 4-1 aggregate win in the semi-final second leg on Thursday. Ejuke played the full 90 minutes, while Yusuf was substituted in the 90th minute. The 17-year-old Nigerian forward, George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":21364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[712],"class_list":["post-21363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ejuke"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363","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=21363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21374,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363\/revisions\/21374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}