As Nigeria get ready to play two friendly
matches against Cameroon and Congo next month in Belgium, Naij.com takes
a look at the performances of some of the country’s best legs plying
their trade in top division clubs across Europe.
Head coach Sunday Oliseh recalled forwards Victor Moses and Odion Ighalo for next month’s international friendlies and both players responded by finding the back of the net to lead their teams to victory.
Odion Ighalo: The Super Eagles striker took his Premier League goals tally to four after scoring a first-half brace for Watford in Saturday’s 2-1 win away at Newcastle United.
Ighalo opened scoring in the tenth minute and doubled his lead 18 minutes later. It was Ighalo’s sixth appearance this season.
Ighalo has now scored 20 goals in 2015, the most by any player in all four divisions of English football.
Victor Moses: The Super Eagles winger scored his first goal for West Ham to help his team end Manchester City’s winning streak of five games in the Premier League.
Moses blasted home from the edge of the box for West Ham’s opener in the sixth minute and his goal was doubled by a close range finish from Diafra Sakho in the 31st minute.
Kevin De Bryune pulled one back for City late in the first half, but despite the league leaders’ best efforts, West Ham held on for another famous away win.
Ahmed Musa: The Nigerian International led CSKA epic comeback victory in 10-goal thriller. Musa grabbed a brace for his team as they came back from 3goals down to win 6-4 against Mordovia Saransk in a match which saw both sides finish with 10 men.
Mordovia forward Yevgeny Lutsenko put his team 1-0 up in the first minute.
Things became bad for Musa; team in the 13th minute as Brazilian winger Mario Fernandes was red-carded for a professional foul on Mordovia skipper Ruslan Mukhametshin.
Mordovia made CSKA pay as Vladimir Rykov scored with a powerful freekick from the edge of the box.
Mukhametshin made it 3-0 two minutes later sweeping the ball home off a cross by Yannick Djalo.
But after the interval CSKA upped the tempo and substitute forward Kirill Panchenko pull one back five minutes into the second half.
In the 55th minute, Djalo was also sent off for a second bookable offence as Mordovia were also reduced to 10 players. This restored hope for Musa and his team mates as they levelled through Zoran Tosic and Seydou Doumbia, who scored one apiece in the space of a minute.
In the 68th minute, Lutsenko put Mordovia 4-3 up firing the ball into
the net from the corner of the six-yard box but Nigerian striker Ahmed
Musa levelled again with 10 minutes to go.
With five minutes left, Musa scored his second to put CSKA into the lead, while Doumbia rounded off the scoring with two minutes remaining, also with his second.
Godfdrey Oboabona: In Turkey Oboabona scored his first goal of the season for Rizespor in their 5-1 spanking of Antalyaspor.
The Nigerian defender opened the floodgate of goals for his side in the third minute.
Obafemi Martins: The Nigerian International was on target again as his Major League Soccer side, Seattle Sounders, defeated Vancouver Whitecaps 3-0 over the weekend.
Andreas Ivanschitz put Sounders a goal up in the 45th minute before Gonzalo Pineda made it 2-0 on 71 minutes. Then with three minutes left, Martins scored Sounders’ third goal.
Martins has now scored 13 goals in 16 league appearances.
Martins now has 38 goals in his Sounders FC career, second in club history and 9 shy of Fredy Montero’s 47.
Meanwhile, Vincent Enyema, was sent-off in the 69th minute in the French league after he was adjudged to have fouled Giovanni Sio of Renne.
Head coach Sunday Oliseh recalled forwards Victor Moses and Odion Ighalo for next month’s international friendlies and both players responded by finding the back of the net to lead their teams to victory.
Odion Ighalo: The Super Eagles striker took his Premier League goals tally to four after scoring a first-half brace for Watford in Saturday’s 2-1 win away at Newcastle United.
Ighalo opened scoring in the tenth minute and doubled his lead 18 minutes later. It was Ighalo’s sixth appearance this season.
Odion Ighalo rounds goalkeepr Krul to double Watford lead on Saturday
Victor Moses: The Super Eagles winger scored his first goal for West Ham to help his team end Manchester City’s winning streak of five games in the Premier League.
Moses blasted home from the edge of the box for West Ham’s opener in the sixth minute and his goal was doubled by a close range finish from Diafra Sakho in the 31st minute.
Kevin De Bryune pulled one back for City late in the first half, but despite the league leaders’ best efforts, West Ham held on for another famous away win.
Victor Moses celebrates after scoring Westham’s opener against Man City
Ahmed Musa: The Nigerian International led CSKA epic comeback victory in 10-goal thriller. Musa grabbed a brace for his team as they came back from 3goals down to win 6-4 against Mordovia Saransk in a match which saw both sides finish with 10 men.
Mordovia forward Yevgeny Lutsenko put his team 1-0 up in the first minute.
Things became bad for Musa; team in the 13th minute as Brazilian winger Mario Fernandes was red-carded for a professional foul on Mordovia skipper Ruslan Mukhametshin.
Mordovia made CSKA pay as Vladimir Rykov scored with a powerful freekick from the edge of the box.
Mukhametshin made it 3-0 two minutes later sweeping the ball home off a cross by Yannick Djalo.
But after the interval CSKA upped the tempo and substitute forward Kirill Panchenko pull one back five minutes into the second half.
In the 55th minute, Djalo was also sent off for a second bookable offence as Mordovia were also reduced to 10 players. This restored hope for Musa and his team mates as they levelled through Zoran Tosic and Seydou Doumbia, who scored one apiece in the space of a minute.
Ahmed Musa celebrates scoring for CSKA Moscow
With five minutes left, Musa scored his second to put CSKA into the lead, while Doumbia rounded off the scoring with two minutes remaining, also with his second.
Godfdrey Oboabona: In Turkey Oboabona scored his first goal of the season for Rizespor in their 5-1 spanking of Antalyaspor.
The Nigerian defender opened the floodgate of goals for his side in the third minute.
Godfrey Oboabona celebrates with team mates after a resounding 5-1 victory
Obafemi Martins: The Nigerian International was on target again as his Major League Soccer side, Seattle Sounders, defeated Vancouver Whitecaps 3-0 over the weekend.
Andreas Ivanschitz put Sounders a goal up in the 45th minute before Gonzalo Pineda made it 2-0 on 71 minutes. Then with three minutes left, Martins scored Sounders’ third goal.
Martins has now scored 13 goals in 16 league appearances.
Obafemi Martins on Seattle Sounders FC jersey
Meanwhile, Vincent Enyema, was sent-off in the 69th minute in the French league after he was adjudged to have fouled Giovanni Sio of Renne.
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