{"id":684601,"date":"2019-08-18T09:50:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T09:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Nigerian youngster Samuel Chukwueze has hit the ground running in his first match of the season in the La Liga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Chukwueze got one of t"},"modified":"2019-08-18T09:50:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T09:50:31","slug":"nigeria-la-liga-chukwueze-scores-in-eight-goal-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/18\/nigeria-la-liga-chukwueze-scores-in-eight-goal-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: La Liga &#8211; Chukwueze Scores in Eight-Goal Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Nigerian youngster Samuel Chukwueze has hit the ground running in his first match of the season in the La Liga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Chukwueze got one of the goals as Villareal played a 4-4 draw against Granada on Saturday night at the Estadio de la Cer\u00e1mica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">After proving his mettle last season, the young prodigy was rewarded with a starting shirt in the opening match of the new campaign and he did not disappoint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Chukwueze&#8217;s goal came in the 72nd after teammates Santi Carzola, Moi Gomez and Gerard Moreno had all scored earlier for the Yellow Submarines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">Chukwueze made it 4-2 off an assist Carzola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">While one would think the hosts had done enough for maximum points, they blew the two-goal lead away to share the spoils with the newly promoted side which had a Nigerian Ramon Azeez in thier squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Villarreal will next be up against Levante UD at the Ciutat de Val\u00e8ncia on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Elsewhere, the Nigerian duo of Kenneth Omeruo and Chidoze Awaziem were not in action as Legannes suffered a 0-1 loss at home to Osasuna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">In a match that seemed destined for a stalemate, the visitors struck the killer blow in the final 15 minutes through Ezequiel Avila.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">In another Saturday encounter, Mallorca&#8217;s return to the Spanish top flight ended with a 2-1 victory over Eibar at the Iberostar Estadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.story-footer-link--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian youngster Samuel Chukwueze has hit the ground running in his first match of the season in the La Liga. 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After proving his mettle last season, the young prodigy was rewarded with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":683802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: La Liga - Chukwueze Scores in Eight-Goal Thriller - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/18\/nigeria-la-liga-chukwueze-scores-in-eight-goal-thriller\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: La Liga - Chukwueze Scores in Eight-Goal Thriller - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nigerian youngster Samuel Chukwueze has hit the ground running in his first match of the season in the La Liga. 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