Thursday, November 21, 2024

UCL Wrap: Porto's Sanusi Shines As Midtjylland Onyeka Suffer Loss


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  UCL Wrap: Porto's Sanusi Shines As Midtjylland Onyeka Suffer Loss By Abidoye Babatunde BSNSports.com.ng round-up of the Nigeria-eligible players who were in action for their respective clubs on match-day three in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday night. Super Eagles midfielder Frank Onyeka was in action for ninety minutes for his club side Midtjylland, as Danish champions lost their third consecutive game to Ajax at home by 1-2. Super Eagles left-back Zaidu Sanusi followed up his promising performance against Olympiakos with another fine showing against Marseille at the Estádio Do Dragão. Moussa Marega, Sergio Oliveira and Luis Diaz got the goals for the Portuguese champions. Elsewhere, enterprising prodigy Noah Okafor was used from bench, after been introduced 65th as Red Bull Salzburg suffer huge home loss to cup holders Bayern Munich at the Red Bull Arena. Felix Nmecha made it off the bench for Manchester City in a 3-0 win against Olympiakos at the Etihad Stadium. Ferran Torres opened the scoring in the 12th minute before Gabriel Jesus doubled the advantage nine minutes from time. In the 90th minute, João Cancelo curled the ball into the net from 20 yards, assisted by Nmecha who was in action for the last five minutes on his Champions League debut.
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Award winning journalist, Niyi Busari, the Publisher and CEO of BSN Sports Concepts is one of the most celebrated Nigerian sports journalist of his generation. A"cross-over" professional, he combines the talents and abilities of a print and electronic journalist in a manner that is rare, even though his specialization is print. A graduate of Economics from the University of Abuja where he obtained his Bachelor Degree in 2015.

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