{"id":837962,"date":"2025-03-31T12:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T17:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/arokodare-hits-20-for-the-season-in-genks-4-0-win-over-gent\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T12:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T17:12:23","slug":"arokodare-hits-20-for-the-season-in-genks-4-0-win-over-gent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/arokodare-hits-20-for-the-season-in-genks-4-0-win-over-gent\/","title":{"rendered":"Arokodare hits 20 for the season in Genk\u2019s 4-0 win over Gent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/03\/arokodare-ycee-super-eagles.html\">Super Eagles<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/03\/tolu-arokodare-happy-to-make-nigeria-team.html\">Genk<\/a> centre-forward, <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/tag\/tolu-arokodare\">Toluwalase Emmanuel Arokodare<\/a>, scored his 20th goal of the season in his side\u2019s Genk-Gent derby win,<a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/\"> Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old lanky striker is enjoying his most prolific career season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/03\/super-eagles-eric-chelle-tolu-arokodare.html\">Belgian<\/a> side, crowning it with a call-up to the Nigerian National team, even making his debut during the March International break.<\/p>\n<p>On return to action in club football, the former Koln striker fired Thorsten Fink\u2019s side to a 4-0 win over their rivals in the Belgian Pro League play-offs.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"in\">\u26bd\ufe0f GOAL: Tolu Arokodare<br \/>\nGenk 2-0 KAA Gent<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rHRnAPbSms\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rHRnAPbSms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Goals Xtra (@GoalsXtra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoalsXtra\/status\/1906402480675500150?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Get Our Sports News First \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VagMHLcA89MZvw0Btc21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join Our WhatsApp Channel Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/03\/nigeria-italy-juventus-leao.html\">New Leao \u2013 Highly-rated Juventus attacking youngster ditches Nigeria, dreams of Italy call-up<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/03\/yamal-williams-skales-spain.html\">Watch: Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams vibe to Skales\u2019 shakebody on duty with Spain<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/03\/nigerian-england-premier-league.html\">Nigerian players in England: Five Super Eagles Stars Who Scored Premier League Hat-Tricks<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_155148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/imago1060449676-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155148\">Tolu Toluwalase Arokodare celebrates after scoring during a soccer match between KRC Genk and KAA Gent, Sunday 30 March 2025 in Gent. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t a smooth ride for <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/03\/super-eagles-genk-slavia-eric-chelle.html\">Arokodare<\/a>, as he missed from twelve yards earlier in the game, but a brilliant turn saw him score his 20th goal across all competitions this season, which is a career-high for him.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_153735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/imago1059933160-1024x683.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-153735\">Tolu Arokodare celebrates after scoring a goal to make it 1-0 during the Jupiler Pro League match between KRC Genk and Royale Union Saint-Gilloise on March 15, 2025 in Genk, Belgium. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jarne Steuckers missed a penalty kick in the 15th minute, while Arokodare stepped up eight minutes later, but his effort was just wide off the left. However, as the game grew, Genk dominated.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good way to start the Champions\u2019 Play-Offs! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oFdoQNopAI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/oFdoQNopAI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KRC Genk (@KRCGenkofficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KRCGenkofficial\/status\/1906415082440908844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Genk are currently top of their play-off group, four points above Club Onyedika\u2019s Club Brugge. Up next for the Smurfs is a high-end against Anderlecht.<\/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\/03\/arokodare-hits-20-for-the-season-in-genks-4-0-win-over-gent.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 Genk centre-forward, Toluwalase Emmanuel Arokodare, scored his 20th goal of the season in his side\u2019s Genk-Gent derby win, Soccernet.ng reports. The 24-year-old lanky striker is enjoying his most prolific career season with the Belgian side, crowning it with a call-up to the Nigerian National team, even making his debut during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":837963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130534,795,2005],"tags":[130533,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-837962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arokodare","8":"category-season","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-arokodare","11":"tag-season"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837962","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=837962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}