The Europa League matches continued on Thursday with several Nigerian players playing for their respective clubs
Nigerian striker Nathan Tella scored his first goal for Bayer Leverkusen in Thursday’s 2-1 win over Molde in the Europa League second leg, Soccer reports.
The Werkself have been outstanding this season, drawing only one game and winning the rest. Terra was used sparingly until she got used to life in Germany.
On Thursday, he got a rare start at Bayer Leverkusen and took advantage of it. Jeremy Frimpong scored Werkself’s first goal in the 14th minute.
And Terra’s moment came in the 18th minute. He was played on goal by Adam Frozek and fired a great shot past Jakob Karlström into the Molde goal to make it 2-0.
Tella came on for Jonas Hofmann, and in the 83rd minute Victor Boniface replaced Flozek. Emir Breivik opened the scoring in the 87th minute with a devastating goal for Molde.
Meanwhile, in the Czech Republic, Slavia Prague’s Igo Ogbu scored in a 6-0 victory over Şerif Tiraspol. Ogbu quickly became an integral part of Slavia Prague’s defense and continues to prove his importance.
Mosimi Sitil gave the Czech giants the lead in the fourth minute before Ogbu saved a free kick and headed his shot into the visitors’ goal. He won 6-0 thanks to goals from Munashe Grananga (OG), Ivan Schranz, David Dudela and Sitiru.
No Nigerian players scored in the conference league, but some did. Gift Orbán played 86 minutes in Ghent’s 2-0 win over Maccabi Tel Aviv. The Super Eagles striker has not scored since August 28. Jordan Tornalija missed the game due to injury.
Meanwhile, Bright Ossai-Samuel played the full 90 minutes in Fenerbahce’s 2-1 win over Trnava at the City Arena Trnava. He was a super Eagles defender, recording his three tackles, out of eight duels he won in seven, and had an astonishing passing accuracy of 95.8%.
In Greece, Super Eagles defender William Troost-Ekong put in a great performance for PAOK in a 2-1 win against Eintracht Frankfurt. The 30-year-old made six clearances, three interceptions and three tackles. He also won his five of six duels.
