{"id":247177,"date":"2026-04-16T06:19:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsworldghana.com\/?p=247177"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:19:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:19:36","slug":"kirsten-otchere-scores-again-as-leicester-city-u21-defeat-leeds-united-u21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/2026\/04\/16\/kirsten-otchere-scores-again-as-leicester-city-u21-defeat-leeds-united-u21\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirsten Otchere scores brace as Leicester City U21 defeat Leeds United U21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Promising Ghanaian striker Kirsten Otchere again hit top form when Leicester City\u2019s Under-21s came from behind to record a dramatic 3-2 victory over Leeds United on Monday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Foxes youngsters headed into the final Premier League 2 clash of the regular season already assured of a play-off place and ended on a high thanks to an away win at LNER Community Stadium.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/contentful-assets.yinzcam.com\/images\/0wcpt07qzvlh\/4K2qMtDOlnR24iP4Dux0F8\/c386aefd01a72794d09b1097860bcb83\/mirsad-ali.jpg?clxf=t_general_medium\" alt=\"mirsad-ali\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the Whites who took the lead on 20 minutes courtesy of Samuel Alker&#8217;s sharp left-footed strike inside the box, but Louis Page ensured we&#8217;d go in at the break back on level terms, driving forward before applying an equally impressive finish from 25 yards out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kirsten Otchere then edged the Foxes ahead early in the second half, emphatically planting the ball into the roof of the net from Logan Briggs&#8217; cutback, only for Alker&#8217;s second of the game 10 minutes later restoring parity, squeezing one in at the back post.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/contentful-assets.yinzcam.com\/images\/0wcpt07qzvlh\/6ojDwzlPwAv7nb9ATRkXJX\/ce83ce3393fe8cecc1dd07c9b22e4a32\/ryan-donnelly.jpg?clxf=t_general_medium\" alt=\"ryan-donnelly\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It looked to be headed for a point apiece until the second minute of injury time, when Otchere popped up to complete his brace, again from a Briggs assist, allowing the forward to slide in from close range and meet his low cross to secure three points for the side coached by Leon McSweeney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result means we finish ninth in the final PL2 standings, having collected 31 points from the 20 matches and await our opponents in the last-16 stage of the play-offs, which will be an away tie against the side who finishes eighth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promising Ghanaian striker Kirsten Otchere again hit top form when Leicester City\u2019s Under-21s came from behind to record a dramatic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn.oshtree.org\/b-class\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}