{"id":4141,"date":"2023-11-05T14:24:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T13:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/11\/05\/read_news-phpnid49348\/"},"modified":"2023-11-05T14:24:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T13:24:19","slug":"read_news-phpnid49348","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/11\/05\/read_news-phpnid49348\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My feet is also working very well&#8217; &#8211; Southampton loanee Onuachu\u00a0plays down talk of being an aerial threat:: 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\/82249Onuachu.png\" height=\"240\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\" 'My feet is also working very well' - Southampton loanee Onuachu\u00a0plays down talk of being an aerial threat\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Super Eagles forward Paul Onuachu has admitted that his height gives him an edge over opposing defenders but also claimed he is better with his feet.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe 28-year-old has found a new lease of life with \u00a0S\u00fcper Lig side Trabzonspor with whom he is spending a season-long loan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Southampton loanee was on target for the Turkish outfit in their 3-2 win over Bright Osayi-Samuel&#8217;s Fenerbah\u00e7e yesterday, finding the back of the net with an accurate header in the 10th minute.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe lanky striker, who is renowned for his heading prowess and winning aerial duels has admitted that his height gives him an advantage over his markers, and also highlighted his ball-playing ability.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The former Jupiler Pro League top scorer made this admission after his goal from another header yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nSpeaking to reporters after the game, Onuachu stated: &#8220;I am tall and you can also see that I use it sometimes my height but I also have a lot of qualities with my feet even better than my head.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Being tall is one advantage and I have quality with my feet and you could see it with some of my actions. Being tall is an advantage but my feet is also working very well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Onuachu has only failed to score in three appearances in the S\u00fcper Lig this term, recording 4 goals and one assist in 7 games.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria international has some catching to do if he is to win the top scorer award as he is 6 goals behind leading marksman Edin D\u017eeko.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abdulkareem Abdulhamid<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPhoto Credit: trabzonspor.org.tr<\/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=49348\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles forward Paul Onuachu has admitted that his height gives him an edge over opposing defenders but also claimed he is better with his feet.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0&#13; The 28-year-old has found a new lease of life with \u00a0S\u00fcper Lig side Trabzonspor with whom he is spending a season-long loan. \u00a0 The Southampton loanee was on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4141","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\/4141","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=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}