{"id":9851,"date":"2018-06-14T20:18:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T02:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9851"},"modified":"2018-06-14T20:18:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T02:18:47","slug":"i-want-to-score-against","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/i-want-to-score-against\/","title":{"rendered":"#BirthdayGift: &#8220;I want to score against Croatia&#8221; &#8211; Odion Ighalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Odion Ighalo will be 29 years old on Saturday, when Nigeria tackle Croatia in their opening World Cup Group D match, and the former Watford striker said he hopes he can mark it will a goal with the madam watching in the stands. \u201cIt would be special to score that day as my wife will also be around to watch this game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former U-20 captain established himself in the Super Eagles after two five-star displays in the crucial back-to-back qualifiers against African champions Cameroon in September.<\/p>\n<p>He scored the goal that inspired Nigeria to coast past the Indomitable Lions 4-0 at home, and he went on to claim an assist in the team\u2019s 1-1 draw in Yaounde four days later.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lang--default\">Samm Audu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odion Ighalo will be 29 years old on Saturday, when Nigeria tackle Croatia in their opening World Cup Group D match, and the former Watford striker said he hopes he can mark it will a goal with the madam watching in the stands. \u201cIt would be special to score that day as my wife will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[321],"class_list":["post-9851","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-sports","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>#BirthdayGift: &quot;I want to score against Croatia&quot; 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