{"id":225156,"date":"2026-02-26T12:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ucl-roundup-galatasaray-survive-juve-comeback-as-osimhen-strikes-in-extra-time\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:42:37","slug":"nigeria-ucl-roundup-galatasaray-survive-juve-comeback-as-osimhen-strikes-in-extra-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ucl-roundup-galatasaray-survive-juve-comeback-as-osimhen-strikes-in-extra-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: UCL Roundup &#8211; Galatasaray Survive Juve Comeback As Osimhen Strikes in Extra Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The Nigerian striker has scored seven goals in eight matches in the Champions League this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Victor Osimhen delivered when it mattered most as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Galatasaray\">Galatasaray<\/a><\/strong> edged Juventus 7-5 on aggregate after a dramatic extra-time battle in Turin to book their place in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Holding a 5-2 advantage from the first leg in Istanbul, the Turkish champions appeared in control of the tie. But a spirited Juventus performance, despite playing more than an hour with 10 men, forced the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602260288.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian striker has scored seven goals in eight matches in the Champions League this season. Victor Osimhen delivered when it mattered most as Galatasaray edged Juventus 7-5 on aggregate after a dramatic extra-time battle in Turin to book their place in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16. Holding a 5-2 advantage from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9733,15148,42950,50393,257,4687,393,35859,49804,254,3292,11667,6599,20545],"class_list":["post-225156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-comeback","tag-extra","tag-galatasaray","tag-juve","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-osimhen","tag-roundup","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strikes","tag-survive","tag-time","tag-ucl"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}