{"id":820268,"date":"2025-01-16T08:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/i-wasnt-trying-to-score-iwobi-breaks-silence-on-brace-following-fulhams-3-2-loss-to-west-ham-united\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T08:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:12:17","slug":"i-wasnt-trying-to-score-iwobi-breaks-silence-on-brace-following-fulhams-3-2-loss-to-west-ham-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/i-wasnt-trying-to-score-iwobi-breaks-silence-on-brace-following-fulhams-3-2-loss-to-west-ham-united\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI wasn\u2019t trying to score\u201d \u2013 Iwobi breaks silence on brace following Fulham\u2019s 3-2 loss to West Ham United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Super Eagles and Fulham attacking midfielder, Alex Chuka Iwobi, was left disappointed despite scoring a brace in his side\u2019s 3-2 loss to West Ham United last night, <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The highly anticipated London derby among the locals lived up to its billing, but Fulham came out on the short end as errors from Bernd Leno and Andreas Pereira gave away two free goals to Graham Potter\u2019s Hammers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the game, Iwobi lamented about his side\u2019s lack of focus which led to mistakes, but urged his teammates to pick themselves up and try to win the next game against Ruud Van Nistelrooy\u2019s Leicester City.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all disappointed, especially with the way we lost the game, it was just mistakes, but everyone makes mistakes at the end of the day. If we had nullified that, we could\u2019ve won the game today, but there\u2019s a game around the corner. We can\u2019t dwell on it, we have to analyze it, dust ourselves up and go again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe created so many chances and hit the woodwork twice and we felt like we could have gotten a few more goals, but if you don\u2019t defend as a team, if you make these mistakes, then in the Premier League, everyone can punish us. We just have to work on that, to try and cut out the mistakes and I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll be able to beat teams like West Ham,\u201d the former Arsenal midfielder told <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fulhamfc.com\/news\/2025\/january\/14\/alex--we-can-t-dwell-on-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fulham TV<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_147301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147301\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/01\/imago1057620064-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147301\">London, England, January 14 2025: Alex Iwobi 17 Fulham and Edson Alvarez 19 West Ham in action during the Premier League game between West Ham and Fulham at London Stadium in London, England. Pedro Porru\/SPP PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxBRAxMEX Copyright: xPedroxPorru\/SPPx spp-en-PePo-4F8A9828_DxO. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><strong>Get Our Sports News First \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VagMHLcA89MZvw0Btc21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join Our WhatsApp Channel Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The former Everton man<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/01\/westham-vs-fulham-iwobis-brace-not-enough-as-silvas-men-fall-to-potters-hammers.html\"> scored two goals<\/a><\/strong> in a similar fashion last night. He floated in two crosses which evaded everyone till it landed in the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>However, he had help from his teammates, as their run left the goalkeeper confused. In the end, he admitted he didn\u2019t intend to shoot.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter who scored. The main thing is to try and get the three points. I\u2019ll just take the two goals if they\u2019re mine. Of course, I won\u2019t say I took a shot. I was aiming for both of them (Raul Jimenez and Harry Wilson). I was just trying to make sure I was creating chances for my teammates, I wasn\u2019t trying to score. Whether I\u2019m scoring or I\u2019m creating, as long as we get the goals, I\u2019m easy,\u201d Iwobi concluded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fulham are now down to 9th position in the English Premier League following their loss yesterday. The travel to the King\u2019s Power Stadium on Saturday to take on<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2024\/12\/its-woven-into-our-culture-wilfred-ndidi-reveals-the-effects-of-football-on-the-nigerian-populace.html\"> Wilfred Ndidi\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> Leicester City.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img alt=\"Soccer Adefolahan Guerreiro\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/740e257566cac1cbb2887e0f85afd655?s=80&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g\"  height=\"80\" width=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\">\t\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/author\/guerreiro\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tAdefolahan Guerreiro\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAdefolahan is a multilingual journalist and writer at Soccernet Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>With a track record of involvement in College sports, Adefolahan is focused on crafting engaging football content and utilising his language skills and extensive sports knowledge to enhance content accessibility for a global audience.<\/p>\n<p>He has interviewed Nigerian stars like Finidi George, Junior Lokosa, and Abraham Onahi Ogbu.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/01\/i-wasnt-trying-to-score-iwobi-breaks-silence-on-brace-following-fulhams-3-2-loss-to-west-ham-united.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Adefolahan Guerreiro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Super Eagles and Fulham attacking midfielder, Alex Chuka Iwobi, was left disappointed despite scoring a brace in his side\u2019s 3-2 loss to West Ham United last night, Soccernet.ng reports. The highly anticipated London derby among the locals lived up to its billing, but Fulham came out on the short end as errors from Bernd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":820269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2005,1446,3389],"tags":[5548,15049],"class_list":{"0":"post-820268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"category-trying","9":"category-wasnt","10":"tag-trying","11":"tag-wasnt"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}