West Ham United manager, David Moyes has identified Gift Orban as KAA Gent’s main attacking threat ahead of Thursday’s (today) UEFA Europa Conference League clash.
The Hammers will be up against the Belgian Pro League outfit in the quarter-final first leg encounter at the Ghelamco Arena.
Orban scored a hat-trick in Gent’s 4-1 drubbing of Turkish Super Lig club, Istanbul Basaksehir in the previous round last month.
It was the fastest hat-trick recorded in the history of UEFA club competition.
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“Gent did very well in Istanbul. They are going very strong. Gift Orban scored a hat-trick in Istanbul,” Moyes told a press conference.u
“He is a very dangerous player but we saw them work enough and realize that their core has several strong players.
“We don’t know everything about Geent, but we really did our homework. We just have to get to our best level to go one round and keep our perfect record in Europe.”
Orban joined Gent from Norwegian second division club, Staebek in January.
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Even a coach in far away England knows Orban’s qualities but our own coaches and football administrators based at home knows nothing about him…… That tells you alot about the practices going on in all segments of the Nigerian society……All we need is a New Nigeria and we believe it will come to pass in this our generation.
We have ban him. His name or ban ….don’t blame me u can go to court.lol.
Benin fA already invited him against a friendly coming up in January agaiñst super eagles.