{"id":20832,"date":"2021-02-01T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/dennis-delight-on-bundesliga-debut-oshoala-too-hot-to-handle-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2021-02-01T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T00:00:10","slug":"dennis-delight-on-bundesliga-debut-oshoala-too-hot-to-handle-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/dennis-delight-on-bundesliga-debut-oshoala-too-hot-to-handle-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Delight On Bundesliga Debut; Oshoala Too Hot To Handle In Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<p><em>The on-loan Club Brugge striker got his Germany adventure to a bright start as he led his new club to a convincing home victory on Sunday<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Super Eagles attacker Emmanuel Dennis began a new chapter in his career on a promising note as he helped Cologne to a delightful 3-1 win over Arminia Bielefeld in a game-week 19 Bundesliga clash at the RheinEnergie Stadion.<\/p>\n<p>Cologne boss Markus Gisdol handed the Nigerian forward his first start, <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2021\/01\/transfers-super-eagles-star-joins-bundesliga-side-fc-cologne.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">just days after moving in from Belgium,<\/a> and the tactician was rewarded with a fine attacking display that has become a rare sight in the Billy Goats&#8217; games this term.<\/p>\n<p>A Marius Wolfe double in the opening half-hour and an Elvis Rexhbecaj effort shortly after the hour mark was all Cologne needed to secure all the three points at stake.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time the Billy Goats would score three times in the Bundesliga this term.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis was replaced in the 82nd minute by Jan Thielmann, ten minutes after Cordova got the visitors&#8217; consolation goal.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old will hope his performances in the coming days impress his German bosses before the expiration of his loan spell later in June.<\/p>\n<p>In Spain, Super Falcons star Asisat Oshoala was back to her deadly best as she found her target twice to inspire Barcelona to an exciting 4-1 home victory over ten-woman Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors had goalkeeper Maria Rodriguez sent off in the 72nd minute, by which time Oshoala and co. had done all the damage inside the Estadi Johan Cruyff.<\/p>\n<p>Oshoala ensured Barcelona went into the break with a three-goal lead, profiting off a Christine Hansen pass in the 37th minute after Alexia Putella and Jenni Hermoso had scored for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning African Women Player of the Year then added a fourth goal &#8211; her 13th strike of another prolific league campaign &#8211; in the 70th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez then received her marching orders shortly after before Olga Carmona struck from the penalty spot to give Real Madrid something to cheer about on a sad day.<\/p>\n<p>Oshoala is now two goals short of catching up with the league top scorer, Levante&#8217;s Esther Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>Sourced From: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2021\/01\/dennis-delight-on-bundesliga-debut-oshoala-too-hot-to-handle-in-spain.html?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dennis-delight-on-bundesliga-debut-oshoala-too-hot-to-handle-in-spain\" target=\"_blank\">Soccernet.ng<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The on-loan Club Brugge striker got his Germany adventure to a bright start as he led his new club to a convincing home victory on Sunday Super Eagles attacker Emmanuel Dennis began a new chapter in his career on a promising note as he helped Cologne to a delightful 3-1 win over Arminia Bielefeld in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9508],"tags":[2218,5009,13762,10747,5266,9981,6063],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}