Efe Ambrose, Three Other Nigeria Players Score For Their Clubs in Europa League

By Admin Four Nigerian players based in Europe, Efe Ambrose, Philip Azango, Leke James and Aderinsola Habib Eseola were on target in their various in the Europa League encounter on Thursday evening. Scottish club Hibernian rallied from two goals down to beat Greek club Asteras Tripolis 3-2 in the first leg of their Europa League, second qualifying round Giorgos Kiriskopoulous netted twice in the 35th minutes of the game for the visitor as former Super Eagles defender Ambrose started the comeback for Hibernian by reducing the deficit in the 64th minute, his second goal of the competition. Philip Azango scored the only goal of the tie six minutes before the break for his Slovakia side, AS Trencin over Polish side Gornik Zabrze with his fellow countryman of Abdul Zubairu and Reuben Yem feature in the clash, while Emeka Umeh, the fourth Nigerian at the club was an unused substitute. Leke James scored the third goal as Norwegian club, Molde beat Laci FC of Albania 3-0 in another Europa League clash. In another game Nigerian- born Ukrainian forward Aderinsola Habib Eseola scored both goals for Kairat Almaty over Fred Friday Dutch club AZ Alkmaar 2-0 l at the Ortaliq Stadium. Former U-23 Eagles midfielder, Usman Mohammed was an unused substitute in Sarpsborg 08 of Norway 2-1 away defeat to Swiss side, St Gallen. Another former junior international, Rabiu Ibrahim was also on the losing side with his team Slovan Bratislava going down to a 2-1 defeat against Balzan FC Malta. Nigerian striker Ezekiel Henty fired blanks while in action for his Croatian club NK Osijek who lost 1-0 to Scottish giant with Sadiq Umar who recently completed his transfer from AS Roma, did not make the matchday squad as he was not fully settled at his new home. Adeleke Akinyemi, Abdullahi Alfa and Tosin Aiyegun failed to rescue his Latvian club, Ventspils who went down to a 1-0 home defeat against the French side, Girondins Bordeaux At the Neftyanik Stadium, FC Ufa were held to a 0-0 draw at home by NK Domzale of Slovenia with Sylvester Igbonu started the game till the end for Russian outfit, while Kehinde Fatai, came in for Vyachev Krotov in the 46th minute for the 2018 FIFA World Cup host. Another Nigerian striker, Hilary Gong came in the 69th minute for Thomas Bruns as Dutch outfit, Vitesse Arnhem battled to a 2-2 away draw against Vitorul of Romania.