{"id":43298,"date":"2024-08-14T08:53:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T08:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=43298"},"modified":"2024-08-14T08:53:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T08:53:49","slug":"mourinho-hails-osayi-samuel-fenerbahce-teammates-after-ucl-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/14\/mourinho-hails-osayi-samuel-fenerbahce-teammates-after-ucl-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourinho Hails Osayi-Samuel, Fenerbahce Teammates After UCL Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bright Osayi-Samuel and his Fenerbahce teammates received praise from head coach Jose Mourinho despite being eliminated from this year\u2019s UEFA Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>In Tuesday\u2019s Champions League qualifiers, Fenerbahce were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Lille and were knocked out with a 3-2 aggregate scoreline. The Turkish giants lost the first leg 2-1 in France.<\/p>\n<p>Fenerbahce are still in Europe as they will now head to the Europa League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s better if I don\u2019t talk about the penalty,\u201d said Kontraspor. \u201cBecause looking at other things that have happened to me recently, only the referee knows why it was a penalty, and the VAR knows. I\u2019m proud of my team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am an honest person. I told my players that I was proud of them, they did everything to win. We adapted to many conditions during the match, two balls hit the post, and we had many opportunities. One team deserved to win but the other team advanced.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bright Osayi-Samuel and his Fenerbahce teammates received praise from head coach Jose Mourinho despite being eliminated from this year\u2019s UEFA Champions League. In Tuesday\u2019s Champions League qualifiers, Fenerbahce were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Lille and were knocked out with a 3-2 aggregate scoreline. The Turkish giants lost the first leg 2-1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":43302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1279,1280],"class_list":["post-43298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-jose-mourinho","tag-osayi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43298","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=43298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43303,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43298\/revisions\/43303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}