{"id":2964,"date":"2026-10-29T06:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/okoye-reflects-on-penalty-save-in-udineses-draw-with-parma\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:31:33","slug":"okoye-reflects-on-penalty-save-in-udineses-draw-with-parma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/okoye-reflects-on-penalty-save-in-udineses-draw-with-parma\/","title":{"rendered":"Okoye Reflects On Penalty Save In Udinese\u2019s Draw With Parma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maduka Okoye has reflected on his crucial penalty save in Udinese\u2019s away draw against Parma, which helped the team end their six-game losing streak in Serie A.<\/p>\n<p>The Zebras had suffered six consecutive league defeats before travelling to Parma but delivered an encouraging performance in their fight to avoid relegation.<\/p>\n<p>Kosta Runjaic\u2019s side created the better chances and had several opportunities to secure all three points.<\/p>\n<p>However, they had goalkeeper Okoye to thank for ensuring they returned home with a share of the spoils.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria international initially made a costly error when he fumbled a corner, leading to a penalty after the ball struck James Abankwah\u2019s arm.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/serie-a-okoye-concedes-chukwueze-missing-as-ac-milan-overcome-udinese\/\">Serie A: Okoye Concedes, Chukwueze Missing As AC Milan Overcome Udinese<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, Okoye quickly redeemed himself by saving Adrian Bernab\u00e9\u2019s spot-kick with an excellent stop, earning him the Man of the Match award.<\/p>\n<h3>Okoye Thumbs Up Parma\u2019s Draw<\/h3>\n<p>Okoye expressed satisfaction with the result, while insisting that the team\u2019s attention had already shifted to their next fixture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always want to win and we need points. Today we got one, and that\u2019s fine. Now we\u2019re immediately focusing on the next one.The penalty save was pure instinct,\u201d Okoye told the <a href=\"http:\/\/udinese.it\">club\u2019s official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been unlucky in these games, and we\u2019ve also been missing players like Zaniolo, whose importance we saw today,\u201d he told the club\u2019s official website.<\/p>\n<p>The draw offers Udinese a welcome boost after their difficult run of results, with Okoye\u2019s decisive intervention proving vital in helping the team stop the slide.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Adeboye Amosu <\/strong><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maduka Okoye has reflected on his crucial penalty save in Udinese\u2019s away draw against Parma, which helped the team end their six-game losing streak in Serie A. The Zebras had&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}