{"id":843217,"date":"2025-04-24T13:12:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/arokodare-highlights-genks-title-plans-despite-dropping-points-against-royal-antwerp\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T13:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:12:34","slug":"arokodare-highlights-genks-title-plans-despite-dropping-points-against-royal-antwerp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/arokodare-highlights-genks-title-plans-despite-dropping-points-against-royal-antwerp\/","title":{"rendered":"Arokodare highlights Genk\u2019s title plans despite dropping points against Royal Antwerp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Super Eagles and KRC Genk striker, <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/tag\/tolu-arokodare\">Toluwalase Arokodare<\/a>, has admitted his side are still firmly in the race to win the Belgian Pro League despite dropping points against Royal Antwerp yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old has been crucial to the title ambitions of Thorsten Fink\u2019s side this season, scoring 22 goals and providing seven assists in 40 games across all competitions this season.<\/p>\n<p>Genk\u2019s draw against Antwerp saw them remain second in the league table, a point behind Club Brugge, who have a game in hand. Still, Arokodare is refusing to throw in the towel on his side\u2019s chances of winning the title.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158227\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158227\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/imago1061220002-1024x611.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"611\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158227\">Disappointed Fink Thorsten, head coach of KRC Genk and Tolu Arokodare, forward of KRC Genk. 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[Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The former FC Koln striker scored the equaliser last night. Quizzed about his side\u2019s performance at the Bosuilstadion, Arokodare said;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t really say anything much. All I can say is we\u2019re focused on Sunday. I don\u2019t see the game as two points lost, instead, it\u2019s a point gained. We didn\u2019t lose the game, so it\u2019s an extra point,\u201d the former Amiens forward said in quotes revealed by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hln.be\/jupiler-pro-league\/fink-moet-dringend-weer-de-juiste-knoppen-indrukken-racing-genk-laat-ook-tegen-antwerp-dure-punten-liggen~acaed95c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HLN<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With five games left for Genk to play, Arokodare admitted their only chance of winning the league trophy is by bagging three points in each match they play.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not focused on the league table, I\u2019m focused on winning every game. When we win games, we win the title, so that\u2019s our goal. We\u2019ve not lost any confidence. We just want to win the remaining games,\u201d Arokodare concluded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158226\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/imago1061219057-1024x699.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"699\"  ><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158226\">Tolu Arokodare during the Jupiler Pro League Champions Play-Off match between KRC Genk and Royale Union Saint-Gilloise. [Photo Credit\/ Imago].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Arokodare\u2019s display this season has seen him garner interest from Newcastle United and Bayern Munich. 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The 24-year-old has been crucial to the title ambitions of Thorsten Fink\u2019s side this season, scoring 22 goals and providing seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":843218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130534,3975,2005],"tags":[130533,6598],"class_list":{"0":"post-843217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arokodare","8":"category-highlights","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-arokodare","11":"tag-highlights"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843217","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=843217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}