{"id":19035,"date":"2022-06-11T16:35:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T15:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gongnews.net\/?p=19035"},"modified":"2022-06-11T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T15:45:40","slug":"super-eagles-will-go-for-maximum-points-sadiq-umar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gongnews.net\/super-eagles-will-go-for-maximum-points-sadiq-umar\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles Will Go For Maximum Points – Sadiq Umar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Olayinka Elebute<\/p>\n
UD Almeria and Super Eagles forward, Sadiq Umar is optimistic Monday’s nation’s cup qualifiers game against Sao Tome and Principle in Marrakech is a must win.<\/p>\n
While speaking in a chat with moment before the teams departure for Marrakech opined that Monday’s game against Sao Tome and Principle will be different from Thursday’s 2-1 victory over Sierra Leone in Abuja.<\/p>\n
The Kaduna-born forward who was in blistering form last season played a pivotal role to Almeria’s Spanish Liga promotion with 18 goals as the club top scorer.<\/p>\n
“Every football game is different game,” said the former Perugia forward.<\/p>\n
“They (Sao Tome) lost their last game but we are not going there relax, but to get a result. The most important thing is to win,” the soft spoken forward said<\/p>\n
Sadiq Umar has been the top goalscorer for UD Almeria for the past three seasons and has represented the Nigeria national U-23 team and was an important member of the squad that won a bronze medal at the 2016 summer Olympics.<\/p>\n
The striker who is of the opinion that the team will give Nigeria fans the much needed victory in Morocco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Olayinka Elebute UD Almeria and Super Eagles forward, Sadiq Umar is optimistic Monday’s nation’s cup qualifiers game against Sao Tome and Principle in Marrakech is a must win. While speaking in a chat with moment before the teams departure for Marrakech opined that Monday’s game against Sao Tome and Principle will be different …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001015,"featured_media":19036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-sports","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n