{"id":77488,"date":"2025-10-26T07:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77488"},"modified":"2025-10-26T07:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:14:01","slug":"okoye-helps-udinese-return-to-winning-ways-after-defeating-lecce-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/26\/okoye-helps-udinese-return-to-winning-ways-after-defeating-lecce-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Okoye Helps Udinese Return To Winning Ways After Defeating Lecce 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maduka Okoye was in action as Udinese defeated Lecce 3-2 in the Serie A on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It was Okoye\u2019s second game for Udinese since returning to action following a ban over an accusation of betting.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the clash against Lecce, Udinese had failed to win their last three matches, losing one and drawing two.<\/p>\n<p>The victory means Udinese move up to eighth place on 12 points in the league table.<\/p>\n<p>Jesper Kalstrom opened the scoring for Udinese on 16 minutes before Keinan Davis made it 2-0 on 37 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Lecce pulled a goal back in the 59th minute thanks to Medon Berisha, and with one minute left to play, Adam Buksa made it 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>In the 96th minute, Konan N\u2019Dri scored a goal for Lecce, which was not enough as Udinese held on to claim the\u00a0three\u00a0points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa &nbsp; Maduka Okoye was in action as Udinese defeated Lecce 3-2 in the Serie A on Saturday. It was Okoye\u2019s second game for Udinese since returning to action following a ban over an accusation of betting. Heading into the clash against Lecce, Udinese had failed to win their last three matches, losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77488","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=77488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77490,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77488\/revisions\/77490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}