EPL Player Of The Month Award Excites Iheanacho

  EPL Player Of The Month Award Excites Iheanacho By Sampson Adedeji Nigeria's Super Eagles and Leicester City striker Kelechi Iheanacho has won March’s Premier League Player of the Month award after scoring five goals in three appearances, BSNSports.com.ng reports. The Nigerian rose to the fore in the absence of the injured James Maddison and Harvey Barnes, netting a hat-trick in the 5-0 drubbing of Sheffield United following goals against Brighton and Burnley. His vital contributions helped Brendan Rodgers’ side maintain their momentum as they enter the business end of the season, with Champions League qualification very much in sight. Meanwhile, the player has expressed his happiness wining the award for the first time in his career. "I feel great it is not easy to do but I feel very happy to win it for the first time in my career. I didn't expect that, I wasn't expecting it but i thank God that it happen in my life, I'm really grateful and happy. Hopefully I will keep really working hard to make there is more to come," he said. Iheanacho who played the two Super Eagles game in the last round of the 2021 African Cup Of Nations qualifier against Squirrels of Benin Republic and Lesotho became the 4th Nigeria to win the award after Odion Ighalo, Osaze Odemwingie and Jay Jay Okocha.