Super Eagles midfielder Raphael Onyedika was at his best mettle as he scored a goal in Club Brugge’s 4-1 win over Monaco in today’s Champions League game.
The Nigerian international, who was expected to leave the club this summer, doubled Club Brugge’s lead in the 38th minute.
This was after Nicolo Tresoldi had given the host the early lead in the 32nd minute with a cool finish.
Hans Vanaken made it 3-0 in the 42nd minute before Diakhon netted Club Brugge’s fourth in the 75th minute.
However, Monaco scored a consolation goal in the 91st minute through Ansu Fati.
In the other game, Super Eagles winger Nathan Tella was missing in action as Bayer Leverkusen played out a 2-2 draw against Copenhagen.
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The Danish hosts got the perfect start after nine minutes when Jordan Larsson met Elias Achouri’s cross to score and light up the Parken Stadium.
Leverkusen pulled level from a free kick as Alejandro Grimaldo curled the ball over the wall into the net off the underside of the bar.
The visitors’ relief was short-lived, however, as Robert restored Copenhagen’s lead five minutes later with a precise low header from a cross.
Leverkusen pressed for another equalizer, and in stoppage time substitute Claudio Echeverri broke into the box, and his attempted cross deflected off Hatzidiakos into the net.
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This guy is a champions leaugue player. Year in, year out he plays champions leaugue football and he does so well.. He should be the one anchoring the SE midfield not Ndidi.
Yet in both matches, he was benched. This was a guy who scored in his first full match for Nigeria against Benin. In contrast, Ndidi, who has been in the team for over 10 years, cannot give defense-splitting passes, cannot score, and instead balloons them away, and gets tired by the 70th minute and strolls along with opposing strikers to score last-minute goals.
Onyedika Is not better than any Midfielder that was utilised in the Recent WC qualifiers, Chelle’s Only mistake was starting Ekong and Dessers against SA, He chose the hardest Game to start Ekong even after Ekong Failed against Zimbabwe and Fredericks doing well against Rwanda, With Dessers same Story Arokodare Proved he is sharper against Rwanda but chopped bench against SA. These were Chelle’s Mistakes with game Player and taking the game to the opponent Chelle has brought that back to SE.
With Ekong’s Matter Chelle cannot be faulted because he gave Clueless fans and NFF what they wanted.against Bafana Bafana