{"id":17831,"date":"2024-02-18T19:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T19:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-hojlund-makes-history-with-brace-in-2-1-win-over-luton-town\/"},"modified":"2024-02-18T19:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T19:02:30","slug":"epl-hojlund-makes-history-with-brace-in-2-1-win-over-luton-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-hojlund-makes-history-with-brace-in-2-1-win-over-luton-town\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Hojlund makes history with brace in 2-1 win over Luton Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Manchester United striker, Rasmus Hojlund, scored twice as they defeated Luton Town 2-1 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The two goals extended his fine goal scoring run for the Red Devils.<\/p>\n<p>Hojlund, at the age of 21 years and 14 days, has become the youngest player to score in six consecutive Premier League games.<\/p>\n<p>He takes the record from Newcastle\u2019s Joe Willock (21 years and 272 days).<\/p>\n<p>He is now ahead of players like Erling Haaland, Romelu Lukaku and Thierry Henry, who all achieved the same feat at 22.<\/p>\n<p>Hojlund arrived at Old Trafford in a \u00a372 million deal during the summer of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Denmark international took a while to start scoring in the league, with his first five goals for United all coming in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>He eventually opened his account in the league against Aston Villa on December 26.<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Hojlund makes history with brace in 2-1 win over Luton Town<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United striker, Rasmus Hojlund, scored twice as they defeated Luton Town 2-1 on Sunday night. The two goals extended&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,2323,15,160],"tags":[156,2327,180,201],"class_list":["post-17831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epl","category-hojlund","category-news","category-sport","tag-epl","tag-hojlund","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}