{"id":5127,"date":"2026-10-31T17:32:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/awoniyi-scores-first-epl-goal-for-coventry-in-3-1-win-against-sunderland-man-city-to-brighton\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T17:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:32:47","slug":"awoniyi-scores-first-epl-goal-for-coventry-in-3-1-win-against-sunderland-man-city-to-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/awoniyi-scores-first-epl-goal-for-coventry-in-3-1-win-against-sunderland-man-city-to-brighton\/","title":{"rendered":"Awoniyi Scores First EPL Goal For Coventry In 3-1 Win Against Sunderland; Man City To Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwo Awoniyi opened his Premier League goals account for Coventry in their 3-1 home win over Sunderland on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Awoniyi scored in the 37th minute to put Coventry 2-0 after Tatsuhiro had broken the deadlock on in the 17th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Rudoni added the third goal on 52 minutes before Enzo Le Fee pulled a goal back for Sunderland from the penalty spot on 67 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Awoniyi was later replaced in the 72nd minute. His Nigerian teammate Frank Onyeka was not included in the squad for the game.<\/p>\n<p>It was return to winning ways for Coventry who had lost back-to-back games prior to their game with Sunderland.<\/p>\n<p>At the Etihad, Manchester City suffered a 1-0 defeat to Brighton and Hove Albion, who lost to the Cityzens 4-3 on penalties in the Carabao Cup in midweek.<\/p>\n<p>Yasin Ayari was the hero for Brighton as he slotted home from close range in the 11th minute after City defence failed to deal with a dangerous cross sent into the box.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the City, City remain top in the league table on 21 points while Brighton are third on 19 points.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwo Awoniyi opened his Premier League goals account for Coventry in their 3-1 home win over Sunderland on Saturday. Awoniyi scored in the 37th minute to put Coventry 2-0 after&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5127","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\/5127","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=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}