{"id":3500,"date":"2023-09-21T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T19:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/09\/21\/read_news-phpnid48892\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T20:27:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T19:27:31","slug":"read_news-phpnid48892","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/09\/21\/read_news-phpnid48892\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You can compare him with Romelu Lukaku&#8217; &#8211;\u00a0Marc Wilmots likens Boniface to Chelsea-owned striker\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\/89708VB.png\" height=\"240\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"'You can compare him with Romelu Lukaku' -\u00a0Marc Wilmots likens Boniface to Chelsea-owned striker\u00a0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Retired Belgium international\u00a0Marc Wilmots\u00a0has likened Bayer Leverkusen\u00a0star Victor Boniface to Chelsea-owned striker Romelu Lukaku\u00a0as he spoke about the strengths and potential of the young Nigeria international.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bayer Leverkusen\u00a0bolstered their squad with the signing of Boniface from\u00a0Royale Union Saint-Gilloise\u00a0in the summer for a fee in the region of 20 million euros.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old has been in red-hot form since his move to Germany, scoring 5 goals and providing two assists in five appearances across all competitions ahead of Bayer Leverkusen&#8217;s Europa League opener against\u00a0BK H\u00e4cken\u00a0on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Boniface beat Bayern Munich superstar Harry Kane to the Bundesliga Player of the Month for August and his performances last month also saw him win the Rookie of the Month award.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the international stage, he provided an assist twenty minutes into his Super Eagles debut in a 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against\u00a0S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe on September 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Belgium coach Wilmots\u00a0knows all about the qualities of Boniface having watched him ten times last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked the center forward he would compare Boniface to in terms of type, Wilmots said to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kicker.de\/boniface-einer-wie-lewandowski-sein-profil-ist-das-eines-top-torjaegers-969677\/artikel\" rel=\"noopener\">Kicker<\/a>\u00a0: &#8220;Victor Boniface is Victor Boniface. In terms of type, you can perhaps compare him somewhat with Romelu Lukaku.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Lukaku has even more power. If he starts from midfield, you can&#8217;t hold him. And Romelu is more dangerous, a real goalscorer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Boniface still has to prove this class. But he is only 22 years old. He can still get a lot better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wilmots concluded by saying that Boniface can become a world-class striker within three years and added that Robert Lewandowski had a difficult first year at Borussia Dortmund before he became one of the best strikers in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ifeanyi Emmanuel\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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=48892\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Belgium international\u00a0Marc Wilmots\u00a0has likened Bayer Leverkusen\u00a0star Victor Boniface to Chelsea-owned striker Romelu Lukaku\u00a0as he spoke about the strengths and potential of the young Nigeria international. \u00a0 Bayer Leverkusen\u00a0bolstered their squad with the signing of Boniface from\u00a0Royale Union Saint-Gilloise\u00a0in the summer for a fee in the region of 20 million euros.\u00a0 \u00a0 The 22-year-old has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3500","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\/3500","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=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}