Sky Bet Championship: Nigeria Players On Parade As Mikel, Ekong Clash Tonight.

  Sky Bet Championship: Mikel, Ekong Clash Tonight. By Omolagba Oluwayemi It's early days in the English second tier club football league and one cannot really say if the matches tonight will be a decider but which ever way, points gained tonight for clubs will go a long way in deciding their eventual positions when the league ends next year. There are many Nigerians in the diaspora plying their trade in the English Sky bet Championship, and BSNsports.com.ng takes a look at how they'll line up tonight. In what promised to be the battle of Nigerians at the Vicarage Road, Watford with Williams Troost-Ekong, Isaac Success and Tom Dele-Bashiru in their ranks will welcome John Obi Mikel's Stoke City. Mikel has captained his club in the last 4 games during which they've gotten 3 wins and a defeat. The match will come up 20:00 Nigerian time. At the same time, Ovie Ejaria's Reading FC will host Preston North End at the Madejski Stadium. Adebayo Akinfenwa, Fred Onyedinma, and Dennis Adeniran will travel with Wycombe Wanderers as they search for their second win of the division at the St Andrew's Trillion Trophy Stadium where they will face Birmingham City at 20:45. Derby County with Nigerian Emmanuel Idem and Jordan Ibe will welcome Bright Osayi-Samuel's QPR to the Pride Park Stadium, 20:45. At the same time, Sammy Ameobi, the younger brother of Shola Amoebi and his Nottingham Forest will target the 3 points when Coventry City come to town and finally, Rotterdam with four Nigerian eligible players, Matthew Olosunde, Chiedozie Ogbene, Freddie Ladapo and Michael Ihiekwe will slog it out against Luton Town at the New York Stadium