{"id":29374,"date":"2020-08-31T16:03:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T16:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=29374"},"modified":"2020-08-31T16:03:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T16:03:21","slug":"bent-palace-should-replace-zaha-with-iwobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bent-palace-should-replace-zaha-with-iwobi","title":{"rendered":"BENT: PALACE SHOULD REPLACE ZAHA WITH IWOBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian star Alex Iwobi should be signed by English side Crystal Palace according to former England international Darren Bent.<\/p>\n<p>The retired striker believes Iwobi, who is currently on the books of Everton, would be the perfect replacement for Ivorian star Wilfried Zaha in the left-wing at Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Iwobi is coming off a poor debut season at Everton where he scored only two goals and registered one assist in 29 games across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Bent, who played for Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa during his time in the English Premier League, indicated that Iwobi needs to improve his end product.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s definitely a signing that they need because they need people with quality,\u201d Bent said to Football Insider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, Alex Iwobi doesn\u2019t do it for me, his end product\u2019s not good enough, he doesn\u2019t score enough goals, doesn\u2019t create enough goals so he\u2019s not really doing anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, if Zaha can get himself down there and play on the left-hand side with Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin, Gomes, I really like what they\u2019re doing down there. If I\u2019m Everton, I go for that one 100 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iwobi joined Everton in August 2019 from Arsenal where he started his professional career \u2013 scoring 15 goals from 149 competitive matches.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old player has netted seven goals in 40 international matches for Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Nigerian star Alex Iwobi should be signed by English side Crystal Palace according to former England international Darren Bent. The retired striker believes Iwobi, who is currently on the books of Everton, would be the perfect replacement for Ivorian star Wilfried Zaha in the left-wing at Palace. Iwobi is coming off a poor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":16955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[174,115],"class_list":["post-29374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football-in-nigeria","tag-nigerian-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BENT: PALACE SHOULD REPLACE ZAHA WITH IWOBI - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Nigerian star Alex Iwobi should be signed by English side Crystal Palace according to former England international\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bent-palace-should-replace-zaha-with-iwobi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BENT: PALACE SHOULD REPLACE ZAHA WITH IWOBI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Nigerian star Alex Iwobi should be signed by English side Crystal Palace according to former England international\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bent-palace-should-replace-zaha-with-iwobi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-31T16:03:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/10\/iwobi.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"612\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"408\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bent-palace-should-replace-zaha-with-iwobi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bent-palace-should-replace-zaha-with-iwobi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"BENT: PALACE SHOULD REPLACE ZAHA WITH IWOBI\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-31T16:03:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bent-palace-should-replace-zaha-with-iwobi\"},\"wordCount\":231,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bent-palace-should-replace-zaha-with-iwobi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/10\/iwobi.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Football in Nigeria\",\"Nigerian sports\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bent-palace-should-replace-zaha-with-iwobi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bent-palace-should-replace-zaha-with-iwobi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bent-palace-should-replace-zaha-with-iwobi\",\"name\":\"BENT: PALACE SHOULD REPLACE ZAHA WITH IWOBI - 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