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Sports News of Wednesday, 16 August 2023

Source: soccernet.ng

Victor Adeboyejo’s first half hat trick secures three points for Bolton Wanderers

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Bolton and Nigerian striker, Victor Ayomide Adeboyejo continued his fine start to the English League one season with his club side, after scoring a hat trick last night in the game against Fleetwood Town, Soccernet.ng reports.

Prior to the game against Fleetwood Town, Victor had scored a goal in his team’s 3-0 on the opening game of the season against Lincoln City, and he set up a goal in the following game against Cheltenham Town, a game his team won by a scoreline of 3-0, and he continued his fine form by bagging a first half hat trick last night to make sure his team stayed top of the Skybet League one Table.

The twenty-fie-year-old scored the first goal of the game in the third minute of the game, after he receive a pass from the edge of the box by Edmond-Paris Maghoma, and wasted no time in putting his team a goal up.

The second goal would come just eleven minutes after the first goal, after a long diagonal pass from Portuguese centre-back, Ricardo Santos found Josh Cogley on the edge of the box, and he squared the pass in a similar fashion to the first goal, and Adeboyejo again, wasted no time in putting the ball into the back of the net.

The third goal came in the thirty-seventh minute, set up by Josh Cogley again after the wing-back showed dazzling footwork to get past his marker on the edge of the box, he squared it for Adeboyejo to bag his hat-trick.

Fleetwood Town would pull one back after Bolton’s winger was given a red card for a foul, but the team was able to see out the win in grand style.

Adeboyejo, was born in Ibadan, Nigeria and was on the books of Hale End, Arsenal’s famous youth academy, signed for Bolton Wanderers in January 2023, but is yet to play for Nigeria, at any level.