{"id":3997,"date":"2023-10-26T05:49:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T04:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/10\/26\/nigerian-players-in-the-ucl-alhassan-yusuf-scores-ejuke-in-action-for-antwerp-chukwueze-misses-milan-loss\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T05:49:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T04:49:15","slug":"nigerian-players-in-the-ucl-alhassan-yusuf-scores-ejuke-in-action-for-antwerp-chukwueze-misses-milan-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/10\/26\/nigerian-players-in-the-ucl-alhassan-yusuf-scores-ejuke-in-action-for-antwerp-chukwueze-misses-milan-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Players In the UCL: Alhassan Yusuf Scores, Ejuke In Action for Antwerp, Chukwueze misses Milan loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Nigerian players, Alhassan Yusuf and Chidera Ejuke were in action as Royal Antwerp in the UEFA Champions League while Samuel Chukwueze missed AC Milan\u2019s 3-0 loss at PSG with Injury.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, October 25, 2023, Alhassan Yusuf scored as Royal Antwerp suffered a 1-4 home defeat to Porto in Group H of the 2023\/2024 UEFA Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf played for 90 minutes while former CSKA Moscow winger, Chidera Ejuke was subbed on in the 77th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Antwerp broke the deadlock thanks to Yusuf, who scored in the 37th minute.<\/p>\n<p>That was his first ever UEFA Champions League goal, and his first goal in all competitions for the Belgian club this season.<\/p>\n<p>Visiting FC Porto did come from behind to take all three points thanks to a hat-trick from Evanilson and a solitary strike from Stephen Eustaquio.<\/p>\n<p>With the result, Antwerp are bottom of the group with no point after three matchday\u2019s while Porto occupy second spot on six points.<\/p>\n<p>In Group F AC Milan, without the injured Samuel Chukwueze lost 3-0 away to Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc Des Prince.<\/p>\n<p>Kyllian Mbappe, Kolo Muani and Lee Yong scored the goals to hand Luiz Enrique\u2019s men a well deserved win over struggling, AC Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Chukwueze\u2019s Italian club are yet to a win in the UEFA Champions League this season after three games and are bottom in the group with just two points.<\/p>\n<p>PSG go to top in the group on six points from three games played after Newcastle United FC suffered a 0-1 home loss to Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n<p>In the other UEFA Champions League results for Wednesday, October 25, Manchester City beat Young Boys 1-3 away, Barcelona edged Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>In Germany, Red Star Belgrade lost 3-1 to Liepzig, Scottish giants, Celtic and Atletico Madrid played a 2-2 draw while Feyenoord defeated Lazio 3-1.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsration.com\/nigerian-players-in-the-ucl-alhassan-yusuf-scores-ejuke-in-action-for-antwerp-chukwueze-misses-milan-loss\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian players, Alhassan Yusuf and Chidera Ejuke were in action as Royal Antwerp in the UEFA Champions League while Samuel Chukwueze missed AC Milan\u2019s 3-0 loss at PSG with Injury. On Wednesday, October 25, 2023, Alhassan Yusuf scored as Royal Antwerp suffered a 1-4 home defeat to Porto in Group H of the 2023\/2024 UEFA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3997","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\/3997","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=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}