Super Falcons striker, Asisat Oshoala, returned from an injury lay-off in Barcelona Femeni\u2019s Champions League semi-final clash against Wolfsburg on Friday.<\/p>\n
A world record 91,648 crowd saw Barca claim a massive 5-1 first leg victory at the Nou Camp, easing pressure on the second leg next week.<\/span><\/p>\n The 27-year-old was out of action due to a knee injury she sustained in training ahead of Nigeria\u2019s Africa Women\u2019s Cup of Nations qualifying encounter against Ivory Coast in February.<\/span><\/p>\n She came in as a 73rd minute substitute, coming in for Jennifer Hermoso with the game at 4-1.<\/span><\/p>\n Aitana Bonmati had put the defending champions ahead in the third minute, before Caroline Hansen doubled the lead seven minutes later.<\/span><\/p>\n There were two quick goals for the Spanish side to take them 4-0 up, with the first one coming through Hermoso in the 33rd minute, followed by captain Alexia Putellas finding the back of the net five minutes later, taking a comfortable lead into half time.<\/span><\/p>\n At the resumption of the second half, the visitors pushed for a goal and were rewarded when Jill Roor found the back of the net in the 70th minute.<\/span><\/p>\n The goal however took a long VAR review before it was confirmed after the assistant referee had earlier ruled it out for offside.<\/span><\/p>\n The Falcons stars had an opportunity to increase the tally for her side twice, but missed on both opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n The first was a one-one with the goalkeeper in the 81st minute, hitting the keeper\u2019s leg.<\/span><\/p>\n When another similar chance presented itself as a minute leader, the visiting keeper used the same method to stop Oshoala.<\/span><\/p>\n Putellas scored one more goal for the home side with five minutes of normal time left, scoring from the spot after being brought down in the penalty box.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Super Falcons striker, Asisat Oshoala, returned from an injury lay-off in Barcelona Femeni\u2019s Champions League semi-final clash against Wolfsburg on Friday. A world record 91,648 crowd saw Barca claim a massive 5-1 first leg victory at the Nou Camp, easing pressure on the second leg next week. The 27-year-old was out of action due to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[715,4423,2086,4424],"class_list":["post-7351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-barca","tag-injury-return","tag-oshoala","tag-wolfsburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7353,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351\/revisions\/7353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}