European giants Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich, and Napoli are said to be interested in the signature Nigeria forward, Henry Onyekuru.
Manchester United Legend Gary Neville has heaped praised on Lucas Torreira for his “absolutely brilliant” performance in Arsenal‘s comeback win against Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.
Super Eagles winger Samuel Chukwueze played the entire duration, but couldn’t save his side Villarreal from suffering 2-0 defeat in the hands of Catalan giants Barcelona at Camp Nou on Sunday.
Chukwueze was deployed on the left side of the attacking midfield for the yellow submarine and given the task of tracking the Barcelona left full back Jordi Alba, a job he did perfectly.
Goals in each half from Gerard Pique and Carles Alena condemned the Chukwueze and his teammates to their sixth loss of the season.
However, in spite of the defeat the Nigerian international was rated as best performer from the visitors according to Whoscored with a rating of 6.91.
”We’ve competed very well. We can’t lower our heads. We are very happy with the work done.”Villarreal’s manager Javi Calleja stated.
”Sam (Chukwueze) had a great match. He is growing. He is a more and more important player. He is young and confident, he’ll end up learning a lot.”he added.
Chukwueze was the most fouled Villarreal player, winning three fouls, the same number won by Barcelona Captain Lionel Messi and completed team-high five take-ons.
Chukwueze has started all Villarreal’s last four matches in all competitions.
Raja Casablanca of Morocco survived a late fight back from AS Vita Club of DR Congo to win the 2018 CAF Confederation Cup 4-3 on aggregate on Sunday.
Raja who defeated Nigerian side Enyimba in the semi-final took a 3 goals first leg advantage to Kinshasa for the second leg and suffered 3-1 defeat but it was enough to see them crowned champion.
Raja’s Abdelilah Hafidi made it 4–0 for visitors after 21 minutes into the second leg, when he scored from the mistake of AS Vita at the back .
Vita Club fought back into the match and restored parity on the stroke of half-time through Makusu Mundele to set up a tensed second 45 minutes.
Two late goals in the second half from Mukoko Batezadio andFabrice Ngoma for the host reduced the deficit and put in a difficult position for remainder of the game.
Raja stood firm and withstand everything thrown at them by Vita to become Confederation Cup winners for 2018.
Stephen Odey continued his goals scoring form as he scored his sixth Swiss Super league goal of the season for FC Zurich‘s 2-1 winover Grasshoppers at the Letzigrund stadium on Sunday.
Salim Khefili had opened the scoring for Zurich seven minutes after the restart but Grasshoppers stayed in contention for a point for much of the remaining minutes.
Odey made the maximum points save for his side when he scored the decider in the 84th minute to take his tally to ten in all competitions this season.
The win put FC in third position with 24 points after 16 league games, while Grasshoppers remain 9th with 17 points from same number of matches.
William Troost Ekong was on from start to finish for Udinese who played out a goalless draw with Sassuolo in a Italian Serie A league game at Stadio Citta Del Tricolore on Sunday.
Ekong was making his 14th successive start for the Italian side since he arrived From Turkey and it was the fourth clean sheet of this season for the club.
Following 1:0 loss to AS Roma a week ago, Udinese was lucky toavoid another defeat in the hands of the Neroverdi ( The black and Green), thanks to good solid display from Ekong and his partners who made sure the team earned a point, as the attacking players struggled to create anything meaningful up front.
The draw means Ekong and his teammates will closer to drop zone, having recorded 13 points from 14 league games to stay in 16th position with a point behind 15th placed Spal and better goal difference ahead of Empoli in 17th position.
Super Falcons Coach Thomas Dennerby has revealed that Desire Oparanozie suffered injury in the build up to the AWCON finalagainst the Bayana Bayana at Accra Sports Stadium on Saturday.
Oparanozie alongside the duo of Asisat Oshoala and Francisca Ordega started all Super Falcons games enroute to the final and it was surprise decision to see the Guingamp forward was dropped from to the bench for the final.
However , while answering questions from media, Dennerby said the decision to leave the attacker out of the team was due to fitness problem and not tactical issue.
“Oparanozie , I think everybody saw her in the semi-final , she has a small injury ( hamstring) , but she was training with team, until after last training before the final when she said no, I probably can’t playand we have to change our plan because of that.”
Oparanozie was replaced by Robo FC Captain Rasheedat Ajibade in the starting line up as the Falcons clinched her 9th AWCON title in the epic final.
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