Soccernet.ng highlights some eye-catching shows from Nigerian footballers exterior the nation’s shores on Thursday, December 7, 2023.
Christian Mba was unfortunate to not seize his first objective of the season as his Partizani Tirana compelled visiting Teuta Durrës to a 1-1 draw within the Albanian Superliga.
Mba scored 5 objectives in 18 league video games final time period.
Taofeek Ismaheel got here off the bench at halftime so as to add tempo to SK Beveren’s assault, but it surely resulted in disappointment as Union Saint-Gilloise scored two objectives after the Ninetieth-minute mark to progress to the subsequent stage of the Belgian Cup.
Within the Bulgarian Cup, Umeh Emmanuel and Samuel Akere delivered the products for Botev Plovdiv of their 4-2 away overcome Etar VT.
Emmanuel scored within the Ninetieth minute, whereas Akere hit the goal 4 minutes later as their late objectives propelled Botev Plovdiv to the subsequent spherical of the competitors.
Within the Premier League Worldwide Cup, enterprising Nigerian teenager Nelson Okeke was the inventive pressure behind Sparta Prague U21’s spectacular 3-1 away victory over Leeds United U21.
From his central midfield position, 21-year-old Okeke equipped the assists to Sparta’s first two objectives because the Czech facet claimed their first win of the match.
Within the Indian Tremendous League, former Molde and Legia Warsaw star Daniel Chima Chukwu netted a stoppage-time equaliser for Jamshedpur as they clawed their manner again from two-nil to seal a 2-2 house draw with Chennaiyin.
Tremendous Eagles captain Ahmed Musa scored his first-ever objective for Sivasspor to encourage the membership to a fantastic 2-1 win over Arnavutköy B within the Turkish Cup.
Musa’s final objective in any competitors got here when he was nonetheless defending the colors of Fatih Karagümrük, serving to his facet to a implausible 2-1 away win over Istanbul Basaksehir in February 2022.
Nonetheless, on the BG Group 4 Eylül Stadyumu in Sivas, Musa doubled Sivasspor’s benefit within the twenty fifth minute with a cultured end six minutes after Hakan Arslan opened the scoring from the penalty spot.
Musa acquired the ball exterior of the penalty field and, with a pointy burst of tempo, drove into the world earlier than smashing a wonderful effort into the roof of the web, leaving goalkeeper Cantuğ Temel with no probability of creating the save.
Watch Musa’s objective under (it begins within the third minute)
Musa will hope his objective sends the correct message to the Tremendous Eagles teaching crew headed by Portuguese supervisor Jose Peseiro forward of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.
The previous Leicester Metropolis winger has not been in Peseiro’s plans in current worldwide engagements.
Elsewhere, Ibrahim Olawoyin and Rizespor strolled into the fifth spherical of the Turkish Cup following their spectacular 4 – 0 win over Bucaspor 1928.