{"id":4521,"date":"2026-10-30T20:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/osimhen-scores-in-third-straight-game-as-galatasaray-thrash-awaziems-konyaspor-4-0\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T20:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:00:59","slug":"osimhen-scores-in-third-straight-game-as-galatasaray-thrash-awaziems-konyaspor-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/osimhen-scores-in-third-straight-game-as-galatasaray-thrash-awaziems-konyaspor-4-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Osimhen Scores In Third Straight Game As Galatasaray Thrash Awaziem\u2019s Konyaspor 4-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria international Victor Osimhen continued his red-hot form, scoring in his third consecutive game as Galatasaray thrashed Konyaspor 4-0 away in the Turkish S\u00fcper Lig on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Also in action in the game was Osimhen\u2019s national team colleague Chidozie Awaziem who played for 90 minutes in the colours of Konyaspor.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen opened the scoring in the 12th minute* with a header from Gabriel Sara\u2019s cross at the Konya Metropolitan Municipality Stadium \u2013 just a day after welcoming his second child, Liora Audrey.<\/p>\n<p>It was Osimhen\u2019s ninth league goal in eight appearances in the Turkish topflight this season.<\/p>\n<p>Also on target for Galatasaray were Yunus Akgun (28th minute), Aleksey Batrakov (49th minute) and Rafael Leao from the penalty spot (55th minute).<\/p>\n<p>Galatasaray (25 points) have now extended their lead over Amed Sportif, who will host Eyupspor on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen had initially stayed behind in Istanbul on Thursday after the birth announcement of his child but traveled separately to Konya on Friday to make the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria international Victor Osimhen continued his red-hot form, scoring in his third consecutive game as Galatasaray thrashed Konyaspor 4-0 away in the Turkish S\u00fcper Lig on Friday night. Also in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521","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=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}