{"id":450595,"date":"2026-02-05T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/450595\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:52:09","slug":"what-iwobi-said-about-kobbie-mainoos-physicality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/450595\/","title":{"rendered":"What Iwobi said about Kobbie Mainoo&#8217;s physicality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/What-Iwobi-said-about-Kobbie-Mainoo-s-physicality-2020283?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/90635135.295.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Iwobi is a Nigerian national who plays for Fulham\" title=\"Alex Iwobi is a Nigerian national who plays for Fulham\" width=\"295\" height=\"167\" \/> <\/a>Alex Iwobi is a Nigerian national who plays for Fulham<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Super Eagles player Alex Iwobi has said that Manchester United\u2019s Kobbie Mainoo caused him an injury during Fulham\u2019s 3-2 loss at Old Trafford last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Iwobi, a crucial player for Marco Silva\u2019s team this season, played the entire 90 minutes as Fulham made a late comeback, but a last-minute goal from Benjamin Sesko defeated them.<\/p>\n<p>On his Alexander Yaa Digg podcast, Iwobi showed his injured finger and mentioned Mainoo\u2019s strength, jokingly linking it to the midfielder\u2019s Ghanaian background. \u201cShout-out to Kobbie Mainoo,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Kobbie, you finished my hand. Kobbie, you absolutely finished my hand. This guy has got Ghanaian strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iwobi also praised teammate Kevin Santos Lopes, who scored his first goal for Fulham and briefly tied the game, calling it \u201ca mad goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a good performance to bring it back. Shout out to Kevin, scoring his first goal\u2014what a goal, by the way. That was an extraordinary goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also praised Raul Jimenez for his composure during the penalty kick, while expressing disappointment at conceding in the final moments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a solid performance, and Raul [Jimenez] clearly doesn\u2019t miss when taking a penalty. Obviously, we felt hard done by with them scoring in the last minute of the game,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Iwobi has continued performing well for Fulham this season, scoring two goals and providing two assists in 18 league games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Iwobi is a Nigerian national who plays for Fulham Super Eagles player Alex Iwobi has said that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-450595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}