Ezeji Slams Solksjaer Over Ighalo Snub

Ezeji Slams Solksjaer Over Ighalo Snub

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Nigerian football league veteran, Victor Ezeji, has slammed Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, for snubbing former Super Eagles pointman, Odion Ighalo.

Ezeji criticised Solksjaer for not playing Odion Ighalo after the lockdown period. Solksjaer brought Ighalo on loan to Old Trafford in January as a backup for then injured Marcus Rashford. Despite the former Watford striker impressive performance at higher stage, the Manchester United boss has not found Ighalo suitable for role on the pitch even when his front three of Mason Greenwood, Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford are not performing up to expectations.

Ighalo had before the lockdown impressed for United, scoring four goals in eight games.
Not happy with his country man treatment, former Nigeria forward, Ezeji, believes Ighalo deserves more games at the Theatre of Dreams.
He said, “Every coach believes in his starting XI and to be very fair to Ighalo, the Covid situation did not help him, because if not for Covid, (Marcus) Rashford would still have been out until the end of the season. And when Rashford recovered, because of the belief Ole has in Rashford, he had to bring him back into the team. And then you can see that (Anthony) Martial was firing on all cylinders, same as (Mason) Greenwood, so there was no way Ole was going to drop any of those guys for Ighalo."

“But where I will fault Ole is that even when these guys are not meeting up in some games, I think he should have tried Ighalo. It wasn’t really nice that a player’s contract was renewed and you didn’t even allow him to play up to 20 minutes of any Premier League game. That is not encouraging. It makes a player lose all the confidence he has built over time," Ezeji added.