{"id":56532,"date":"2024-11-20T14:01:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T14:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=56532"},"modified":"2024-11-20T14:01:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T14:01:06","slug":"buruk-ranks-osimhen-above-haaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/20\/buruk-ranks-osimhen-above-haaland\/","title":{"rendered":"Buruk Ranks Osimhen Above Haaland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Galatasaray manager, Okan Buruk, has stirred debate by declaring Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen as better than Manchester City\u2019s Erling Haaland, citing their current form.<\/p>\n<p>Haaland, widely regarded as one of the world\u2019s best forwards, has already scored 15 goals in 16 appearances across all competitions this season for Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen, who is currently on loan at Galatasaray from Napoli, has also been in impressive form, netting eight goals in just nine matches across all competitions for the Turkish Super Lig champions.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent statement, Buruk highlighted Osimhen\u2019s impact and consistency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are not many elite strikers in Europe. Haaland may come to mind first, but since Manchester City have struggled in recent weeks, I would say Osimhen is the best right now,\u201d Buruk remarked.<\/p>\n<p>The comment comes amid ongoing discussions about the performances of top strikers in European football, with both players continuing to deliver standout performances for their respective clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galatasaray manager, Okan Buruk, has stirred debate by declaring Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen as better than Manchester City\u2019s Erling Haaland, citing their current form. Haaland, widely regarded as one of the world\u2019s best forwards, has already scored 15 goals in 16 appearances across all competitions this season for Manchester City. Osimhen, who is currently on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":56533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56532","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56534,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56532\/revisions\/56534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}