{"id":222989,"date":"2026-05-01T11:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=222989"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:54:28","slug":"how-virgil-van-dijk-has-performed-against-the-best-african-strikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=222989","title":{"rendered":"How Virgil van Dijk has performed against the best African strikers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles and Galatasaray striker Victor Osimhen came out on top in his side&#8217;s 1-0 win against Virgil van Dijk&#8217;s Liverpool back in September, Soccernet.ng reports. The pair will play against each other in the UEFA Champions League&#8217;s round of sixteen, as they look to advance to the latter stages of the competition&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2026\/02\/how-virgil-van-dijk-african.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles and Galatasaray striker Victor Osimhen came out on top in his side&#8217;s 1-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/222989-how-virgil-van-dijk-has-performed-against-the-best-african-strikers.jpg",1200,867,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/222989-how-virgil-van-dijk-has-performed-against-the-best-african-strikers-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/222989-how-virgil-van-dijk-has-performed-against-the-best-african-strikers-300x217.jpg",300,217,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/222989-how-virgil-van-dijk-has-performed-against-the-best-african-strikers-768x555.jpg",640,463,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/222989-how-virgil-van-dijk-has-performed-against-the-best-african-strikers-1024x740.jpg",640,463,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/222989-how-virgil-van-dijk-has-performed-against-the-best-african-strikers.jpg",1200,867,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/222989-how-virgil-van-dijk-has-performed-against-the-best-african-strikers.jpg",1200,867,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/222989-how-virgil-van-dijk-has-performed-against-the-best-african-strikers-1024x740.jpg",1024,740,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/222989-how-virgil-van-dijk-has-performed-against-the-best-african-strikers-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/222989-how-virgil-van-dijk-has-performed-against-the-best-african-strikers-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}