{"id":5299,"date":"2026-11-01T00:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/leao-hails-osimhen-for-penalty-gesture\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T00:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:47:19","slug":"leao-hails-osimhen-for-penalty-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/leao-hails-osimhen-for-penalty-gesture\/","title":{"rendered":"Leao hails Osimhen for penalty gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"65.779334500876\">\n<p><strong>Galatasaray <\/strong>forward Rafael Leao has praised Victor Osimhen for sacrificing the opportunity to score his second goal against Konyaspor to allow him to take a penalty, describing the gesture as evidence of the strong bond within the squad, <em>PUNCH Sports Extra<\/em> reports.\n<\/p>\n<p>Leao, who joined the Turkish champions from AC Milan in the summer, had been searching for his first goal for the club before Osimhen handed him the opportunity to open his account from the spot in their 4-0 victory on Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian striker had already opened the scoring in the 12th minute and could have completed his brace when Galatasaray were awarded a second-half penalty. However, he stepped aside and handed the ball to Leao, who converted in the 55th minute.\n<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the match, the Portuguese forward expressed his gratitude to Osimhen, revealing that the Nigerian understood his desire to end his wait for a goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really appreciate that moment. He knew I\u2019ve been working a lot and searching for my first goal,\u201d Leao told Galatasaray\u2019s YouTube channel. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe were speaking, and today or yesterday was the birth of his second child. I told him to score two goals.\u2019\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe could have scored the second goal, but he gave me the ball. It\u2019s about the kind of attitude we have, so we have a great group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am really happy to have this kind of teammate in the squad.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen has continued his impressive form for Galatasaray, scoring in the victory over Konyaspor after netting twice in their 2-1 derby win over Fenerbah\u00e7e earlier in the week.\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#67130f0202030e13081527171209040f09004904080a\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"14607c7171707d607b665464617a777c7a733a777b79\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galatasaray forward Rafael Leao has praised Victor Osimhen for sacrificing the opportunity to score his second goal against Konyaspor to allow him to take a penalty, describing the gesture as&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299","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=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}