{"id":3723,"date":"2023-10-06T06:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T05:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/10\/06\/read_news-phpnid49042\/"},"modified":"2023-10-06T06:27:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T05:27:34","slug":"read_news-phpnid49042","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/10\/06\/read_news-phpnid49042\/","title":{"rendered":"UEL:\u00a0 Tella scores his first goal in a Bayer Leverkusen uniform after summer transfer from Southampton\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\/78490NathanTella.png\" height=\"240\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"UEL:\u00a0 Tella scores his first goal in a Bayer Leverkusen uniform after summer transfer from Southampton\u00a0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Super Eagles eligible forward Nathan Tella\u00a0has opening his goalscoring account for German Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen after his summer transfer from Championship outfit Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tella\u00a0was on target for Bayer Leverkusen in their 2-1 win over Molde on matchday two of the UEFA Europa League played at the Aker Stadion on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nIn his second consecutive start in this season&#8217;s\u00a0Europa League, the Hale End Academy product was deployed as a left winger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nJeremie Frimpong put Bayer Leverkusen ahead in the 14th minute, striking the ball into the bottom right corner from Amine Adli&#8217;s pass.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Four minutes later, Tella doubled the German outfit&#8217;s lead as he collected a pass from Adam Hlo\u017eek before burying the ball inside the net.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emil Breivik pulled one back for Molde three minutes before stoppage time with a powerful shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before he was replaced in the 70th minute by Jonas Hofmann, Tella had 33 touches, two key passes, created one big chance and also contributed defensively winning two of his five ground duels and one of his two aerial duels\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nSuper Eagles forward Victor Boniface also made a second-half appearance in the encounter for the Alonso-led side.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abdulkareem Abdulhamid<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: bayer04.de<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyright ANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All 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=49042\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles eligible forward Nathan Tella\u00a0has opening his goalscoring account for German Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen after his summer transfer from Championship outfit Southampton. \u00a0 Tella\u00a0was on target for Bayer Leverkusen in their 2-1 win over Molde on matchday two of the UEFA Europa League played at the Aker Stadion on Thursday night. &#13; In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3723","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\/3723","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=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}