{"id":39597,"date":"2024-12-28T02:43:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T23:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=39597"},"modified":"2024-12-28T02:43:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T23:43:43","slug":"van-nistelrooy-salahs-goal-killed-leicesters-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/28\/van-nistelrooy-salahs-goal-killed-leicesters-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Nistelrooy: Salah\u2019s Goal Killed Leicester\u2019s Hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Leicester City manager Ruud van Nistelrooy believes his team had a chance to secure a positive result against Liverpool until Egyptian star Mohamed Salah scored the Reds\u2019 third goal in their recent encounter.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Liverpool overturned an early goal by Leicester\u2019s veteran Ghanaian forward Andre Ayew, with Cody Gakpo, Curtis Jones, and Salah scoring to secure a 3-1 win at Anfield.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Van Nistelrooy felt his team was competitive until Salah\u2019s 82nd-minute goal. He said, &#8220;I think we were in the game for a long time. The 3-1 goal was a turning point, as it essentially ended the match for us.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Dutch coach explained: &#8220;In the 60th minute, we had a clear chance to equalize through Patson Daka. We were in the match and hoping to cause an upset.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He emphasized: &#8220;We worked hard and gave everything. We started well with our opening goal, but the third goal from Salah sealed the game for Liverpool.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Van Nistelrooy also commented on his decision to drop goalkeeper Danny Ward, who struggled in the 3-0 loss to Wolves last week and faced boos from Leicester fans.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said: &#8220;Changing the goalkeeper was necessary. Ward\u2019s attitude in our discussion was admirable, showing his commitment to the team and the club.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Leicester City, with 14 points, sits in 18th place (third from bottom) in the Premier League standings after suffering their 10th loss of the season, alongside three wins and five draws.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester City manager Ruud van Nistelrooy believes his team had a chance to secure a positive result against Liverpool until Egyptian star Mohamed Salah scored the Reds\u2019 third goal in their recent encounter. Liverpool overturned an early goal by Leicester\u2019s veteran Ghanaian forward Andre Ayew, with Cody Gakpo, Curtis Jones, and Salah scoring to secure &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39598,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39597\/revisions\/39598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}