{"id":14441,"date":"2025-05-13T23:26:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/taiwo-awoniyi-nottingham-forest-striker-undergoes-surgery-on-serious-abdominal-injury\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T23:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:26:30","slug":"taiwo-awoniyi-nottingham-forest-striker-undergoes-surgery-on-serious-abdominal-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/taiwo-awoniyi-nottingham-forest-striker-undergoes-surgery-on-serious-abdominal-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwo Awoniyi: Nottingham Forest striker undergoes surgery on serious abdominal injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Awoniyi, who joined Forest from Union Berlin in June 2022, had only been on the pitch for five minutes having come on as a late substitute for Ibrahim Sangare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis indicated in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DJhhCLZMaKv\/?hl=en\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Instagram<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> post that his decision to march on to the pitch at the full-time whistle had been in part due to his view on how the injury suffered by Awoniyi had been handled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everybody &#8211; coaching staff, players, supporters and including myself &#8211; we were frustrated around the injury of Taiwo and the medical staff&#8217;s misjudgement on Taiwo&#8217;s ability to continue the game,&#8221; Marinakis said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is natural, this is a demonstration of the passion we feel for our club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Awoniyi, who was at Liverpool between 2015 and 2021 but never made a senior appearance, has scored once in the Premier League for Forest this season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c1ldg1n8qeeo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awoniyi, who joined Forest from Union Berlin in June 2022, had only been on the pitch for five minutes having come on as a late substitute for Ibrahim Sangare. Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis indicated in an Instagram, external post that his decision to march on to the pitch at the full-time whistle had been in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14443,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441\/revisions\/14443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}