{"id":3484,"date":"2023-09-21T09:46:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T08:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/09\/21\/read_news-phpnid48838\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T09:46:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T08:46:40","slug":"read_news-phpnid48838","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/09\/21\/read_news-phpnid48838\/","title":{"rendered":"Musa scores 91st minute penalty to seal comeback win for Manchester United youth team\u00a0:: 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\/6044Musa.png\" height=\"226\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Musa scores 91st minute penalty to seal comeback win for Manchester United youth team\u00a0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flying Eagles-eligible striker Victor Musa opened his goalscoring account for the season as Manchester United came from behind to secure a 2-1 victory over Nottingham Forest in an U18 Premier League clash at\u00a0Trafford Training Centre on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish born player fired blanks in his first three games of the new season &#8211; against Middlesbrough and Stoke City in the U18 Premier League, and Reading in the U18 Premier League Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A minute to the end of the first half, Conor Brown converted from the spot to give Nottingham Forest the lead after\u00a0Danny Anisjko\u00a0was brought down in the box by United goalkeeper Tom Myles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite being reduced to ten men, the young Red Devils equalized through\u00a0Jack Kingdon, who poked the ball home at the far post after a lovely weighted pass from\u00a0Finley McAllister.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just as it seemed both teams would share the spoils, the referee awarded a penalty in stoppage time when substitute\u00a0Jim Thwaites\u00a0was bundled over in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musa kept his nerve and with a left-footed effort slotted the ball past the goalkeeper to give United a 2-1 lead in the 91st minute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old has now scored seven goals in twenty four appearances for Manchester United U18 team since making his debut against Nottingham Forest on August 20, 2022 in his final season as a schoolboy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Igho Kingsley\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit : manutd.com<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><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=48838\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying Eagles-eligible striker Victor Musa opened his goalscoring account for the season as Manchester United came from behind to secure a 2-1 victory over Nottingham Forest in an U18 Premier League clash at\u00a0Trafford Training Centre on Saturday afternoon. \u00a0 The Spanish born player fired blanks in his first three games of the new season &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3484","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\/3484","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=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}