{"id":17896,"date":"2025-08-31T09:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T09:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17896"},"modified":"2025-08-31T09:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T09:05:18","slug":"igamane-hits-debut-double-for-seven-goal-lille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17896","title":{"rendered":"Igamane hits debut double for seven-goal Lille"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Moroccan striker Hamza Igamane scored twice on his debut as Lille shrugged off the absence of the injured Olivier Giroud to humiliate Lorient 7-1 away in Ligue 1 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Igamane, 22, signed for Lille on Friday from Rangers for a reported 10 million euros ($11.7m) and wasted no time making an impact for his new club.<\/p>\n<p>Scorer of 16 goals for Rangers last season, Igamane came off the bench at half-time in Brittany and saw Romain Perraud and Matias Fernandez-Pardo score to put his new side in control at 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Aiyegun Tosin pulled one back for newly-promoted Lorient just after Sambou Soumano had missed a penalty for the hosts, but Lille ran away with the game in remarkable fashion in the closing stages.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez-Pardo&#8217;s second of the day made it 3-1 on 77 minutes, before Igamane got his first and Hakon Haraldsson scored the team&#8217;s fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Igamane&#8217;s second of the day came in stoppage time and there was still time for Osame Sahraoui to make it 7-1, completing a stunning victory.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran former France striker Giroud had scored Lille&#8217;s winner last weekend against Monaco but did not make the trip to Lorient due to a fitness issue.<\/p>\n<p>The result leaves Lille with seven points from a possible nine after three games and top of the fledgling French table, although Toulouse and champions Paris Saint-Germain both have the opportunity to go above them when they meet in Saturday&#8217;s late game.<\/p>\n<p>Nantes beat Auxerre 1-0 in Saturday&#8217;s other match thanks to an early goal by Egyptian striker Mostafa Mohamed.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s action will include Marseille travelling to Lyon, who are set to sell key Georgian striker Georges Mikautadze to Villarreal amid ongoing financial difficulties.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moroccan striker Hamza Igamane scored twice on his debut as Lille shrugged off the absence of the injured Olivier Giroud to humiliate Lorient 7-1 away in Ligue 1 on Saturday. Igamane, 22, signed for Lille on Friday from Rangers for a reported 10 million euros ($11.7m) and wasted no time making an impact for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}