{"id":66494,"date":"2025-05-25T09:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66494"},"modified":"2025-05-25T09:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:13:27","slug":"granat-regrets-osimhen-snub-as-nigeria-face-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/25\/granat-regrets-osimhen-snub-as-nigeria-face-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Granat Regrets Osimhen Snub as Nigeria Face Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Russia international Vladimir Granat has voiced his disappointment over the absence of Nigeria\u2019s star forward Victor Osimhen in the upcoming friendly between the Super Eagles and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen, fresh off a triumphant season with Galatasaray where he powered the club to both the Turkish Cup and Super Lig titles, will miss the anticipated clash.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with Sports Express, Granat admitted he was eager to see the Napoli-linked striker in action, alongside other top Nigerian talents.<\/p>\n<p>He praised Nigeria as one of the strongest sides in recent times and anticipated a thrilling contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a pity,\u201d Granat said, reacting to Osimhen\u2019s absence. \u201cTop players like him bring something extra. With Osimhen, it would have been a true test at world football level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the striker\u2019s absence, Granat believes Nigeria will still deliver an impressive performance, as both nations aim to gain tactical edge and build momentum ahead of future tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke Former Russia international Vladimir Granat has voiced his disappointment over the absence of Nigeria\u2019s star forward Victor Osimhen in the upcoming friendly between the Super Eagles and Russia. Osimhen, fresh off a triumphant season with Galatasaray where he powered the club to both the Turkish Cup and Super Lig titles, will miss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66494","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66495,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66494\/revisions\/66495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}