{"id":70403,"date":"2025-07-12T09:33:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T09:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70403"},"modified":"2025-07-12T09:33:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T09:33:34","slug":"arokodare-bags-brace-in-genks-4-2-friendly-win-over-hannover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/12\/arokodare-bags-brace-in-genks-4-2-friendly-win-over-hannover\/","title":{"rendered":"Arokodare Bags Brace in Genk\u2019s 4-2 Friendly Win Over Hannover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian striker Tolu Arokodare scored a brace to help KRC Genk seal a 4\u20132 victory over Hannover 96 in a pre-season friendly match.<\/p>\n<p>Genk took the lead through Oh Hyeon-gyu, with Mujaid Sadick adding a second before halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Arokodare, who came off the bench in the second half, made an instant impact, netting Genk\u2019s third goal in the 95th minute and adding a fourth in the 112th to cap off a dominant display.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old was the top scorer in the Belgian Pro League last season, registering 21 goals and 5 assists in 40 league appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Following his stellar performance, Arokodare has attracted transfer interest from several top European clubs, including Manchester United, Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich, and AC Milan.<\/p>\n<p>With the summer transfer window open, speculation continues to grow over a potential move away from Genk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Fakande Oluwamayowa Nigerian striker Tolu Arokodare scored a brace to help KRC Genk seal a 4\u20132 victory over Hannover 96 in a pre-season friendly match. Genk took the lead through Oh Hyeon-gyu, with Mujaid Sadick adding a second before halftime. Arokodare, who came off the bench in the second half, made an instant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":70404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70403","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=70403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70405,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70403\/revisions\/70405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}