{"id":3055,"date":"2023-08-23T05:21:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T04:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/08\/23\/read_news-phpnid48556\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T05:21:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T04:21:25","slug":"read_news-phpnid48556","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/08\/23\/read_news-phpnid48556\/","title":{"rendered":"EFL Trophy: Uwakwe scores against Arsenal, exciting prospect Nwaneri on target in shootout:: All Nigeria Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsbody\">\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/..\/football_pics\/30013Nwaneri.jpg\" height=\"240\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"EFL Trophy: Uwakwe scores against Arsenal, exciting prospect Nwaneri on target in shootout\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Chelsea wingback of Nigeria descent Tariq Uwakwe was on target for Swindon Town in their loss on penalties to Arsenal U21s in an English Football League Trophy tie played on Tuesday night at The County Ground.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200bWhile the match ended in a 2-2 draw after regulation time, Arsenal would go on to win 5-4 on penalties.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200bSwindon Town broke the deadlock through an own goal from Reuell Walters in the sixth minute.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200bThe young Gunners restored parity through Lino Sousa who was assisted by exciting prospect Ethan Nwaneri.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nUwakwe restored the home side&#8217;s lead in the 34th minute after a defensive mix-up from the away side.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200bJimi Gower drew level for Mehmet Ali&#8217;s side eight minutes before the end of the normal regulation and that took the game to penalties<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200bUwakwe could not participate in the penalty shootout as he had been substituted for Tyrese Shade in the 67th minute, while Nwaneri converted his spot kick.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Gunners picked up an additional bonus point after winning the penalty shootout.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200b<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abdulkareem Abdulhamid<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<strong>Copyright ANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAll rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from allnigeriasoccer.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allnigeriasoccer.com\/read_news.php?nid=48556\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chelsea wingback of Nigeria descent Tariq Uwakwe was on target for Swindon Town in their loss on penalties to Arsenal U21s in an English Football League Trophy tie played on Tuesday night at The County Ground.&#13; \u200b&#13; \u200b&#13; \u200bWhile the match ended in a 2-2 draw after regulation time, Arsenal would go on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}