Nigeria’s George Ilenikhena made his mark on the classico between his Al-Ittihad side and Al-Nassr, a night “the Dean” settled 2-1 in the fifth round of the Roshn Pro League.<\/p>\n
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The 19-year-old stole the spotlight with a superb brace inside 18 minutes. His second, in the 22nd minute, was the pick of them. He rose into the air and steered the ball home with his foot.<\/p>\n
The Roshn Pro League’s official account on “X” called the moment a cinematic goal, a nod to the Nigerian’s brilliance in the decisive instant.<\/p>\n
Well-known pundit Khaled Al-Shenaif was equally taken. He said on his programme “Dorina Ghair”: “What Ilenikhena did is something out of the imagination, and I believe this leap could become the emblem of our league in the future.”<\/p>\n
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He concluded: “The player rose in the air by about 220 centimetres, which is considered a very high elevation, but it demonstrates his agility and physical strength.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigeria’s George Ilenikhena made his mark on the classico between his Al-Ittihad side and Al-Nassr, a night “the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[272534,20870,92077,275104,85,46,24484,105],"class_list":["post-607738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-al-ittihad-vs-al-nassr-fc","tag-al-nassr-fc","tag-al-ittihad","tag-g-ilenikhena","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-saudi-pro-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}