Nigerian duo, Peter Olayinka and Collins Sor, were on target for Slavia Prague who held Feyenoord to a 3-3 draw away, in the first leg of their Europa Conference League quarter-final game on Thursday, Completesports.com reports.
Also in action was Cyriel Dessers, who provided the assist for one of Feyenoord’s goal.
Olayinka drew Slavia Prague level on 41 minutes before Sor put the Czech Republic side 2-1 Ahead in the 67th minute.
Dessers who came on in the 64th minute then set up teammate Marcos Senesi who made it 2-2 in the 74th minute.
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With four minutes left Orkun Kokcu scored to put Feyenoord 3-2 but five minutes into added time Ibrahim Traore equalized for Slavia Prague thanks to an assist from Sor.
Olayinka’s goal against Feyenoord was his fourth in the Europa Conference League this season while Sor bagged his sixth goal in the competition.
Slaves Prague will welcome Feyenoord for the return leg next week Thursday.
By James Agberebi
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Congrats to Olayinka and Sor. I hope the tribal bigots in NFF are taking note…
Meanwhile Amaju Pinnick has set in motion another idiotic move to hire a coach that Cameroon just severe ties with. Behold folks… Mango-shaped-head pinnick is on another journey of getting a left-over coach for Nigeria again.
Look the man with Cameroon tracks sef. Person wey fail Cameroon on their home turf just over a month ago. Amaju is the problem of Nigeria football. He wants a caoch he can always do deals on salaries with. Can’t we get a fresh face that no other African country has used?
@Jimmyball, Pinnick can’t try that nonsense except he wants to experience a bloody coup d’etat in the Glass House.
Abeg, when is the next NFF election sef?? So none of these noisy stakeholders can gang up to boot out this bull in the China shop from NFF and Nigeria’s football?
This is looking like another sit-tight Isa Hayatou reign of 2 decades, despite all the rot and high level abracadabra in favour of Cameroun.
Omo, i am still in shock why olayinka was not invited, his display today was top notch. Hmmmm that sor boy na wonder, hope those clamoring for top 5 league can see that the club you play for makes u a top player
@KENNETH… Notice where he plays from for Slavia Prague and where they dropped him to play in Nations Cup. On the left flank, Olayinka will kill. MOSES SIMON one million times and over with efficiency.
The guy Olayinka is a massive player that Nigeria does not know how to use, see that he is now wearing his side’s captaincy armband even. Super Eagles is fashion out like a cult where certain players are maligned from really staking their claims for jerseys. I am currently watching Chuba Akpom for PAOK against Marseille.
He is also a decent forward that can really help us. It’s high time we moved away from the kind of undue previlieges accorded the likes of Musa, Shehu, Ighalo, Osimhen, Chukwueze, Iheanacho, Ekong and the rest of the average dudes… It’s time to begin to call players who play in Europe’s elite competitions. Nobody should be made to feel like landlord anymore in Super Eagles, including the overhyped Osimhen.
YES O, I WAS EVEN SURPRISED SEEING HIM SWITCH WITH HIS LEFT BACK. THE BOY IS A TALENT TO WATCH. I PRAY SOR CONTINUES TO IMPROVE, HIS HUSSLE ALONE IS WHAT WE NEED IN THE SUPER EAGLES FORWARD RIGHT NOW. NOT SOME LACKLUSTRE MOVEMENT.
Sor wil du Well four the Supa Egles. He has to bi invited nest taime di kamp opins.
@Akanlo Ede… Bro why are writing this sort of English. Why not use the time and energy you used to write this sort of stuff to write properly instead? It makes your read displeasing…
I wheel du mai best. Tank yu.
LMFAO!
This guy don KOLO finish…
Anyway we dey FEEL you.
Don’t mind that DRY and BORING JIMMYBALL
@Akanlo Ede continue like that it makes the forum interesting, am laughing loud like this jare.
So kinni koko???
They will not invite Sor, same excuses he’s too young he must wait for his turn, or who he go bench. For Nigeria soccer to move forward we must do away with local coaches, we must not allow someone from south south or south East to head our technical committee again. The sentiments and nepotism these people displays with national teams are just too much. We lost to Ghana thanks to them, people inviting Ighalo over olayinka and Awoniyi. I know people will disagree with me, but disagree with me with facts. And I have my facts
A player who captains a team that regularly plays in the Quarter Finals of Europa League being dropped for a player playing for a relegation candidate.
I pointed out severalty on this forum that OLAYINKA provided two assists in the less than 25mins he played against TUNISIA but surprisingly the so called gods of this forum never saw that.
EGUAVOEN just lost an opportunity to write his name in gold with his tactical blunders like @DEO, LARRY, DESTAR, JIMMYBALL, POMPEI, AYPHILLY, KENNETH etc rightly noted.
Why start a BASSEY who has never played in a hot weather like ABUJA before over a ZAIDU?
Why keep SADIQ, IGHALO on the bench that late if he believed in them in the first place?
Why not bring boy wonder AMOO to run at the GHANAIAN backline??
BASSEY kept bending and holding his waist yet ZAIDU sat all through
The form of players should take prominence over their status or where they play
IGHALO, SHEHU, MUSA had no business being invited over OLAYINKA, AWONIYI, NWOBODO
@ Mahmud, you are very correct as regards Olayinka’s two assists against Tunisia while he came in. Those two assists were quite fantastic and were the closest we came to scoring in the 2nd half. Both chances were wasted by Simon & Sadiq respectively.
I loved the 2nd assist the most. Olayinka got hold of the ball deep in the midfield, looked up and found Sadiq with a decent pass that left him with the goalkeeper to beat. We rarely see such passes in the Super Eagles of late. Dropping Olayinka was a great error on Eguavoen’s part. If that guy had been given enough time , he would have saved us against Tunisia and against Ghana.
Mahmud Shuaib,
Olayinka and Sor are 2 players who should be in the SE on current form.
I’m particularly excited by that Sor of a guy. That boy is deadly.
He could be very important for Nigeria in subsequent games.
Those guys you are mentioning can not be invited to play for Nigeria Super Eagles because they can not bribe NFF. That’s a simple truth. Look at Akpagona of Hoffenheim in Germany; he paly every game and was never invited into Super Eagles, but once, because the guy can not bribe the NFF for the invitation, we need a revolution in all sectors in Nigeria.
IS A SHAME THAT EGUAVON IS THE HEAD OF TECHNICAL DIRECTOR OF NFF. IMAGINE A MAN WHO LACKS TACTICS IS LEADING THE TECHNICAL TEAM, SO WHAT DO YOU EXPECT, SHAMELESS PEOPLE IN THE GLASSHOUSE.
@RESPECT IS RECIPROCAL…
Thank you for echoing my points for the last 3years on this forum. When I kept mentioning Olayinka some people chose to laugh and scorn me. I have been on the field of football myself and know who team players are. Put ten Ricardo Quaresma or Adel Tarabt with a goalkeeper on the pitch and they will crumble. We needed Junior Ajayi also when that guy was at Al Ahly as a regular week-in week-out… infact in his case, till date, nobody in the current Super Eagles can head the ball like Junior Ajayi… these players began to have a nosediving career because platforms to help and sustained their career momentum when denied them in favour of weak and inferior players… how many current SE players can pick a starting Jersey in Al Ahly Egypt, stacked with Egyptian national team players? They think whiteman softball in Europe is African football… Come to African soccer, your opposition is ready to run marathon for 2hours with you… See Bassey and the lesson he got against Ghana! What about Akpoguma against Sierra Leone?
I have stated here before and I want to emphasize again players whose team play in international competition should first be given a look in before others irrespective league. This is because competions like the Europa League, Europa conference league and champion league toughen players. I believe if Olayinka was on that pitch instead of Denis or Moses Simon he will have help out. This should be our selection criteria going forward
Hahahahaha. So all of a sudden, Olayinka and Yira Sor are the new dynamites and would have made a difference against Ghana? Nigerians! You all can never change. Always with the notion that “the absent players are better than the ones doing the job”. At the AFCON, it was “we missed the presence of Osimhen, Dennis, Ighalo and Lookman” all of whom played against Ghana and couldn’t record a goal in 180 minutes. Now we have moved the hype to Olayinka and Sor. Same Olayinka that we all saw at the AFCON and in some friendly games under Gernot Rohr; and Sor who is just springing up. Nigerians, Stop being overly emotional over issues. Stop hyping your average players. It is the same hype that caused a cross section of the media and fans to push for a new TA when there was no need because the old man Rohr was struggling to grind results and kept realistically downplaying the hype of the players by the media. Anyway, I wish you guys good luck in your continuous circus analysis of issues.
God bless to you @ Pundit, Nigerians are the problem of NIGERIA and honestly speaking, not the politicians. The politicians are just the smartest amongst the Nigerians. I WANNA USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THUMBS UP PEOPLE LIKE DREY, OAKFIELD,HUSH, AND FEW OTHERS. THEIR VERY SOUND REASONING ALWAYS STAND THEM OUT, ONLY WISH THEY TRY AVOID USING STRONG WORDS..
@OMOESAN and @POMPEI…nice one brothers. What I am saying is the supremacy of form and players compatibility and adaptability over where a player plays or past reputation.
For instance, doing a POST MORTEM of why EGUAPALACE failed, I realized just like ROHR he was a YES MAN..he had no balls, had no identity.
Few examples will suffice.
1. OLAYINKA created 2 BIG SCORING chances for SODIQ and SIMON in less than 30 mins (more than ARIBO, IWOBI, CHUKWUEZE managed across the over 120 mins run ins they had at CAMEROON! A Gaffer worth his salt will persist with such player going forward. What did EGUAVOEN do? Dropped him entirely in the two legged play offs with GHANA in favour of a CHUKWUEZE struggling for form and AHMED MUSA…well past his prime! If we qualified he can take MUSA along as the skipper of the team.
2. In 3 starts, AWONIYI scored 1 goal, had 1 assist and 1 pre-assist; meaning 3 goals involvement in his first 3 starts! A coach worth his salt will continue with such player seeing he’s integrating and adapting quickly to his philosophy. What did the clueless Yes Man do? Started an OSIMHEN just coming back from injury and who has NEVER played under EGUAVOEN before.
With the benefit of hindsight, he should have brought AWONIYI and OLAYINKA for those play offs and involved them at some point.
Rashford has lost form though plays for Man UTD. Southgate drops him for Olie Walkins. Spain for years left AZPLICUETA, ALONSO, FRANCE didn’t call up BENZEMA, PAYET,etc, Italy kept going for BALOTELLI cos he’s a fighter, England prefers Mings, Coady, Guehi all playing for smaller clubs to TOMORI who is a stalwart for Ac Milan!
Invite players based on form, team chemistry, dedication to cause etc instead of ENTITLEMENT players like CHUKWUEZE, MUSA, IGHALO, SHEHU, COLLINS, OMERUO etc