{"id":77186,"date":"2025-10-23T09:23:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77186"},"modified":"2025-10-23T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:23:57","slug":"osimhen-sets-two-records-in-galatasarays-ucl-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/23\/osimhen-sets-two-records-in-galatasarays-ucl-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Osimhen Sets Two Records in Galatasaray\u2019s UCL Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Victor Osimhen shone brightly as Galatasaray defeated Bodo\/Glimt 3-1 in their UEFA Champions League clash at RAMS Park on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen scored twice, becoming the first Galatasaray player to score in seven consecutive European matches.<\/p>\n<p>His opening goal also entered the record books as the earliest Champions League goal in the club\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The striker, who was named Man of the Match, credited his teammates and fans for the achievement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t score or break records alone. A huge thank you to my teammates and our supporters,\u201d Osimhen said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been winning together, and I\u2019d love to see my teammates also win the Man of the Match award.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that his focus remains on helping the team succeed through goals, assists, and hard work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe important thing is to contribute to the team\u2019s fight, whether through scoring or assisting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Galatasaray\u2019s victory further strengthens their position in the group as they continue their push for a place in the knockout stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa &nbsp; Nigeria\u2019s Victor Osimhen shone brightly as Galatasaray defeated Bodo\/Glimt 3-1 in their UEFA Champions League clash at RAMS Park on Wednesday night. Osimhen scored twice, becoming the first Galatasaray player to score in seven consecutive European matches. His opening goal also entered the record books as the earliest Champions League goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77186","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\/77186","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=77186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77188,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77186\/revisions\/77188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}