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Nigeria’s Ogbiagbevha Finishes Joint Top Scorer In UEFA Women’s Champions League

Nigeria’s Ogbiagbevha Finishes Joint Top Scorer In UEFA Women’s Champions League

Nigeria and Minsk FK of Belarus striker Emueje Ogbiagbevha emerged as the joint top scorer in the just concluded 2019-2020 UEFA Women’s Champions League, Completesports.com reports.

Ogbiagbevha, 30, scored 10 goals alongside Vivianne Miedema of Arsenal and Berglind Bjorg of Breidablik, to finish as the top scorers of the competition.

The former Pelican Stars player helped Minsk finish top of their Group after winning all their three games in the Champions League.

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In the round of 32, she scored her team’s goal in their 1-0 home win against Zurich and bagged a brace in the second-leg which ended 3-1.

And in the 8-1 aggregate defeat to Barcelona in the quarter-final she got her side’s only goal.

Ogbiagbevha joined Minsk FK in 2016 winning the Belarusian league title, Cup, and Super Cup four times as well as winning the Baltic League in 2018.

In 2019, she was awarded the best football player in the Belarusian championship. 

This season’s UEFA Women’s Champions League saw Lyon retain their title after defeating Wolfsburg 3-1 in Sunday’s final.


By James Agberebi 


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WORDPRESS: 1
  • I’ve not seen her play for super falcon b4….
    10goals in UCL (WOMEN) is not a childs’s play….

    Even our best attacker @Oshoala hasn’t achieved this fate…

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