Nigeria forward Emmanuel Dennis has been named in the UEFA Champions League team of the week after his scintillating display in Club Brugge’s 2-2 away draw against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday, Completesports.com reports.
Dennis bagged a brace in the first half of the thrilling encounter with Sergio Ramos and Brazilian midfielder, Casemiro scoring two second half goals to prevent Real Madrid from suffering an embarrassing defeat.
The striker came close to netting a hat-trick in the game but was denied by a fine save by Real’s goalkeeper.
Dennis is named in midfield alongside Bayern Munich’s Serge Gnabry who scored four goals in the side’s 7-2 thrashing of Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool’s Mohamed Sarah , and Van De Beek of Ajax Amsterdam.
He has also been nominated for the UEFA Champions League player of the week award
Robert Lewandowski, who plays for Liverpool and Liverpool ‘s Roberto Firmino also made the team.
By Adeboye Amosu
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I have been following Denise going over 2 years now. Surprises me lots of people still don’t seem to appreciate how good n fearless this guy is. Congratulations Denise
I have been to UEFA website but didn’t see the voting radio button. Completesports, any link where I could participate in the voting?
Good player anytime any day right from when he played in Ukraine
Good job Dennis.
Some South Africans on Daily Mail said their own Percy Tau was the star man of the game (he gave the assist that led to one of the goals). Hope they can see for themselves how wrong they were.
And for those of you in this forum who said Dennis was merely lucky with those goals, hope you can also see how wrong you were. You have now heard from the experts. The guy was simply superb!
More to come from our dear Dennis.