{"id":111180,"date":"2023-07-31T14:27:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T13:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/?p=111180"},"modified":"2023-08-01T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T07:24:23","slug":"champions-league-group-stage-tolu-arokodare-genk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/champions-league-group-stage-tolu-arokodare-genk\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League group stage hunt continues for Tolu&#8217;s Genk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tolu Arokodare will have his sights set on the Champions League group stage as Genk look to seal a spot in the upcoming edition of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The UEFA Champions League qualification stages forge ahead as the second leg of the second round of qualification matches are set to take place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/tolu-arokodare-performance-genk-opening-day-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KRC Genk<\/a> are not exempt from this as they play the second leg match of their tie against Servette of Switzerland. This time they will be the home team for the exchange on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wednesday<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> , August 2nd. The match will take place at the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cegeka Arena<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Belgium in front of the Genk faithful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Champions League group stage spot hangs in the balance for Genk<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stade the Geneve<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Carouge, Switzerland was the stage for the first leg match between the two clubs with the home team looking to get a crucial home win before the second leg against a stronger Genk side.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Genk were favourites going into the tie for a reason and the start of the game did not go according to Sevrette's plan with the Belgians taking early control of the game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Their dominance paid dividends as they eventually got the opening goal of the game, through Nigerian forward, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tolu Arokodare<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tolu Arokodare was on target for Genk in their Uefa Champions League Qualifier game away at Servette, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Collins Yira Sor saw 6mins of action.<\/p>\n<p>FT Servette 1-1 Genk<\/p>\n<p>Winner over two legs will face Rangers in the next round.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCLQ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UCLQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kw53GrP7jx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Kw53GrP7jx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ojora Babatunde (@ojbsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ojbsports\/status\/1683955598843584512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 22-year-old striker found the back of the net in the 21st minute of the match as the Nigerian used every bit of his six foot six inch frame to connect with a cross played in by Patrick Hrosovsky from a corner kick before anyone else could.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">KRC Genk looked comfortable in the match after Arokodare's goal and controlled large parts of the game but they were pegged back by a Sevrette equalizer towards the end of the match through Steve Roullier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was the second set piece goal of the night, but this time it was a cross from Timothee Cognat which reached the head of Roullier in the penalty box. His well placed header was able to beat Martin Vandervoort in goal to give them the equalizer which saw the game end in a stalemate at full time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Genk and Arokodare can finish the job on Wednesday<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A draw was probably a disappointing result for Genk due to how much better they were on the night but it's not the worst outcome in the world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They will go into the second leg as favourites to win again and this time, they will have the backing of their loyal fans as the hosts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The last game Genk played was a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/gift-orban-genk-europa-conference-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jupiler Pro League<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> match against RVD Molenbeek. Tolu Arokodare did not start the match and came on in the second half. Fellow Nigerian striker Collins Sor started in his place. They didn't really need Tolu's services as they picked up a comfortable 4-0 win.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RESULT | First game, first \ud835\uddea\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde1! Forza Racing \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/krcgenk?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#krcgenk<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mijnploeg?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#mijnploeg<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rwdgnk?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#rwdgnk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q7arWlLcsN\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/q7arWlLcsN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; KRC Genk (@KRCGenkofficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KRCGenkofficial\/status\/1685389163997118464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arokodare only played 15 minutes of the game and will be fully prepared and ready for the second-leg tie against Sevrette. The 22-year-old will most likely lead the line for the team from the start as he did the previous week since he didn't start over the weekend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolu Arokodare will have his sights set on the Champions League group stage as Genk look to seal a spot in the upcoming edition of the tournament. The UEFA Champions League qualification stages forge ahead as the second leg of the second round of qualification matches are set to take place.\u00a0 KRC Genk are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":977,"featured_media":111181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no"},"categories":[14238,14311],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Daniel Kolade","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111180"}],"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\/977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111205,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111180\/revisions\/111205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111180"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=111180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}