{"id":76122,"date":"2025-10-06T08:40:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T08:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76122"},"modified":"2025-10-06T08:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T08:40:29","slug":"la-liga-adams-scores-ejuke-assists-as-sevilla-humiliate-barcelona-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/06\/la-liga-adams-scores-ejuke-assists-as-sevilla-humiliate-barcelona-4-1\/","title":{"rendered":"La Liga: Adams Scores, Ejuke Assists as Sevilla Humiliate Barcelona 4-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian forward Akor Adams scored, while compatriot Chidera Ejuke provided an assist as Sevilla thrashed Barcelona 4-1 in their La Liga encounter on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Adams, recently invited by Super Eagles head coach Eric Chelle for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho and Benin, sealed the emphatic win with Sevilla\u2019s fourth goal in the 98th minute, finishing off a fine assist from Ejuke.<\/p>\n<p>The goal was Adams\u2019 second of the season in six appearances, while Ejuke\u2019s assist was his first in four games for the Andalusian club.<\/p>\n<p>Sevilla dominated from the onset, racing to a 2-0 lead in the first half. A brief spark from Pedri and Marcus Rashford saw Barcelona pull one back, but the champions struggled to regain control.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski\u2019s missed penalty in the second half compounded Barca\u2019s woes, as Sevilla struck twice more to complete a resounding victory and hand the Catalans one of their heaviest defeats of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa &nbsp; Nigerian forward Akor Adams scored, while compatriot Chidera Ejuke provided an assist as Sevilla thrashed Barcelona 4-1 in their La Liga encounter on Sunday. Adams, recently invited by Super Eagles head coach Eric Chelle for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho and Benin, sealed the emphatic win with Sevilla\u2019s fourth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76122","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76124,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76122\/revisions\/76124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}