{"id":22912,"date":"2026-01-14T13:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/22912\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:11:11","slug":"can-2025-3-impressive-stats-from-ademola-lookman-with-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/22912\/","title":{"rendered":"CAN 2025: 3 impressive stats from Ademola Lookman with Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3 impressive stats from Ademola Lookman with Nigeria<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/71f557afa4027817f64bfde96f641306.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ademola Lookman\/@Le Parisien<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian international Ademola Lookman is making headlines in this 35th edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/foot-africa.com\/en\/news\/can\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Africa Cup of Nations (CAN 2025).;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Africa Cup of Nations (CAN 2025).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Atalanta Bergamo forward has undoubtedly been one of the key architects behind the Super Eagles&#8217; qualification for the tournament&#8217;s semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The London-born star has caught everyone&#8217;s attention with his electrifying stats at CAN 2025.<\/p>\n<p>7 goal involvements<\/p>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.fr\/rb-leipzig\/transfers\/verein\/23826\/saison_id\/2021\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Leipzig;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Leipzig<\/a> player has netted 3 goals and provided 4 assists across 5 matches played at the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN 2025).<\/p>\n<p>He currently sits fourth in the tournament&#8217;s top scorers ranking, trailing Brahim D\u00edaz (5 goals), Mohamed Salah (4 goals), and Victor Osimhen (4 goals).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>5 big chances created<\/p>\n<p>On top of his 7 goal involvements, Ademola Lookman has also crafted 5 clear-cut chances that his teammates failed to convert.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an outstanding feat for the Nigerian international, who has shone both as a scorer and a playmaker.<\/p>\n<p>15 key passes<\/p>\n<p>The Lombard-based player also leads the standings for most key passes at CAN 2025.<\/p>\n<p>With 15 key passes to his name, he edges out Senegal&#8217;s Sadio Man\u00e9 (14) and his compatriot Alex Iwobi (13).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3 impressive stats from Ademola Lookman with Nigeria Ademola Lookman\/@Le Parisien Nigerian international Ademola Lookman is making headlines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[126,146,1871,124,166,4352,122,14140,1536,159,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-22912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-ademola-lookman","9":"tag-africa-cup-of-nations","10":"tag-alex-iwobi","11":"tag-atalanta-bergamo","12":"tag-brahim-diaz","13":"tag-mohamed-salah","14":"tag-nigeria","15":"tag-nigerian-international","16":"tag-sadio-mane","17":"tag-senegal","18":"tag-victor-osimhen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}