Chuba Akpom continued his rich scoring form despite Middlesbrough going down to a 5-1 defeat against Brighton & Hove Albion in the Emirates FA Cup third round tie at the Riverside Stadium on Saturday.
Pascal Groß opened scoring for Brighton on eight minutes.
Akpom equalised for Michael Carrick’s side five minutes later.
The Nigerian-born forward has now scored 11 goals in his last 13 games across all competitions for Boro.
Brighton took the lead again through Adan Lallana a minute before the half hour mark.
The visitors ran riot in the second half scoring three more goals with Alexis Mac Allister (brace) and Deniz Undav also scoring.
By Adeboye Amosu
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COMMENTS
Yaw, what’s happening here, how come Nigerian players continue to produce performances that risk being overhyped? This Akpom has scored again today while Chukwueze was playing against the mighty Real Madrid earlier on.
Yaw, how many Ghanaian players have scored in the English FA Cup tournament today? How many Ghana players have scored in top flight European leagues thus far this weekend?
I guess they are saving their best for the Chan Afcon. Oops! I forgot, Chan is for homebased players so none of the Ghanaian players in Europe is eligible.
My bad! 🙂