{"id":77491,"date":"2025-10-26T07:15:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77491"},"modified":"2025-10-26T07:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:15:48","slug":"iwobi-bassey-feature-as-newcastle-extend-fulhams-losing-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/26\/iwobi-bassey-feature-as-newcastle-extend-fulhams-losing-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Iwobi, Bassey Feature As Newcastle Extend Fulham\u2019s Losing Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Super Eagles stars Alex Iwobi and Calvin Bassey were on the losing side once again as struggling Fulham suffered a 2-1 defeat at Newcastle United in the Premier League at St. james\u2019 Park on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A Bruno Guimaraes late strike subjected Fulham to their fourth consecutive defeat.<\/p>\n<p>While Bassey was on for 90 minutes, Iwobi was taken off in the 90th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the encounter Fulham was hoping to halt their run of three straight League defeats.<br \/>\nBut 18 minutes into the contest the London club found themselves behind following a Jacob Murphy goal.<\/p>\n<p>Fulham came back into the second half with much purpose and got their reward on 56 minutes thanks to Lukic.<\/p>\n<p>When it seems Fulham had done enough to secure a point Guimaraes struck in the 90th minute to hand the Magpies all the three points.<\/p>\n<p>Fulham are now in 16th place on eight points, just three points away from the relegation spot while Newcastle, they move up to 11th and now\u00a0have\u00a012\u00a0points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa &nbsp; Super Eagles stars Alex Iwobi and Calvin Bassey were on the losing side once again as struggling Fulham suffered a 2-1 defeat at Newcastle United in the Premier League at St. james\u2019 Park on Saturday. A Bruno Guimaraes late strike subjected Fulham to their fourth consecutive defeat. While Bassey was on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77491","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\/77491","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=77491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77493,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77491\/revisions\/77493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}