{"id":146302,"date":"2023-10-27T01:15:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T22:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/?p=146302"},"modified":"2023-10-27T01:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T22:23:45","slug":"victor-boniface-continues-hot-streak-for-bayer-leverkusen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/victor-boniface-continues-hot-streak-for-bayer-leverkusen\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Boniface continues hot streak for Bayer Leverkusen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Boniface was on target for Bayer Leverkusen in their 5-1 victory over Qarabag on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Boniface was honoured with the Europa League Golden Boot award for the 2022-23 season prior to kick off at the BayArena.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Victor Boniface with the Golden boot, Europa League top scorer for last season. \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddec\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XafaA5lNYS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XafaA5lNYS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LERRY (@_AsiwajuLerry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_AsiwajuLerry\/status\/1717656990200004763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While there were rumours that he <a href=\"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/victor-boniface-leverkusen-dropped-for-this-reason\/\">could be benched for the game against Qarabag<\/a>, Boniface was named in the starting XI for Xabi Alonso's men.<\/p>\n<p>The striker failed to score in his last outing against Wolfsburg and was keen to get himself back on the score sheet.<\/p>\n<p>His first opportunity of the game came midway through the first half when Boniface found himself with a yard of space inside the box, but he was unable to get his effort on target.<\/p>\n<p>With half time approaching, Boniface found the back of the net with a powerful strike after receiving a fine pass from Floran Wirtz.<\/p>\n<p>That was Boniface's 10th goal of the season across all competitions and his 14th direct goal contribution of the campaign.<\/p>\n<h2>Victor Boniface continues to deliver the goods for Leverkusen<\/h2>\n<p>Boniface has made a fast start to life for his current employers and the 22-year-old is showing no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\u271d\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YeLHu9o1ct\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YeLHu9o1ct<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boniface_jrn (@boniface_jrn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/boniface_jrn\/status\/1717655915220828515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With Leverkusen current vying for titles on both the domestic and continental fronts, Boniface's goalscoring heroics could be rewarded with trophies come the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Leverkusen currently sit at the Bundesliga table after the first eight matchdays and also lead the way in their Europa League group with nine points from a possible nine.<\/p>\n<p>Boniface will be keen to continually come up trumps for his side ahead of what is set to be a crucial run of matches.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of the Nigerian Super Eagles will be hoping that Boniface maintains his streak in front of goal with the Africa Cup of Nations just a couple of months away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Boniface was on target for Bayer Leverkusen in their 5-1 victory over Qarabag on Thursday night. Boniface was honoured with the Europa League Golden Boot award for the 2022-23 season prior to kick off at the BayArena. Victor Boniface with the Golden boot, Europa League top scorer for last season. \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddec\u2764\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/XafaA5lNYS &mdash; LERRY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":146312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no"},"categories":[1,14238],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Marvellous Adepoju","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146302"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146317,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146302\/revisions\/146317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146302"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=146302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}