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Nigeria winger Samuel Chukwueze bagged an assist as Villarreal recorded their second win of the season following a 2-0 home win against Real Valladolid in their LaLiga clash on Saturday, reports Completesports.com.

Chukwueze started the game on the bench and took the place of Moi Gomez in the 66th minute.

Veteran Spanish midfielder, Santi Carzola put Villarreal ahead from the spot in the 7 7th minute.

Javi Ontiveros netted the second goal a minute from time with Chukwueze providing the assist.

The young Nigeria international has so far this term scored once and recorded an assist in four Laliga appearances for the Yellow Submarines.

Villarreal’s next league game is against Barcelona at the Nou Camp on Tuesday.

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Victor Osimhen says playing in the UEFA Champions League was a dream come true for him after he made his first appearance in the competition for Lille who suffered a 3-0 away defeat to Ajax at the Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam on Tuesday, reports Completesports.com.

Osimhen was in action for 90 minutes against the last season’s semi-finalists, and despite a spirited efforts was unable to prevent Lille from going down to defeat in the game.

Despite a disappointing end to his maiden appearance in the Champions League, the forward is happy to feature against the former champions.

“The Champions League was a dream come true, a privilege for any player, and I want to thank the coach and the whole club for allowing me to play in this competition,” Osimhen told a news conference on Saturday.

“It was a bad feeling to start the Champions League with a defeat in Amsterdam. The coach reminded us of the importance of playing this competition, we learned a lot from this defeat, we have to fix that in the next game.

“We had some chances to score in the first half in Amsterdam, we were not efficient in this game, we can do a lot better.”

The Nigeria international arrived Lille from Belgian side, Sporting Charleroi, this summer and and has already made a big impression at the club, with five goals in five league games.

Osimhen is seen as the perfect replacement for Ivory Coast star, Nicolas Pepe who left Lille in a big money move to Arsenal during the off-season, but he states that he is at the club to write his own story.

“I have a lot of respect for Nicolas Pepe for everything he brought to the club, many people think I’m replacing him, but I’m here with another name and to write my own story different, we are not the same players,” he added.

“When I arrived here, I immediately spoke to the coach, who explained to me the important [role] that I could have in this team, how young people should be integrated into the project. welcomed with a lot of love, it made things easier. ”

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Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Sunday Dare , has held meeting with the chieftains of the Nigeria Football Federation in his resolve to sanitize the country’s football administration, Completesports.com reports.

The Minister on Friday met with the 15-man Executive Board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) led by Amaju Pinnick solely for the purpose of agreeing on ways of addressing some of the issues that have bedevilled the country’s football ruling body.

“Today [Friday] I met with the 15 Executive board members of the NFF towards charting a new direction and resolving some of the pending lingering issues,” Dare tweeted on his Twitter platform.

“It was a frank exchange in which I asked that everyone works with patriotic zeal to change the narrative about football administration.”

The meeting came on the heels of the corruption charges against some top NFF officials by the anti-graft agency, Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC).

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Nigerian international, Henry Onyekuru will be targeting his 3rd start for his French Ligue 1 side, Monaco when they take on home side Reims tonight at the Stade Auguste-Dalaune in Reims, Completesports.com reports.

Onyekuru has started two out of the theee games he has played since joining Monaco at the start of the season with the former Anderlecht striker still looking for his debut goal for the Ligue 1 side.

The 22-year old was in the starting line-up for Monaco in the 3-0 away loss to Metz playing for 70 minutes and also started in the 2-2 home draw against Nimes in which he was in action for 74 minutes.

Onyekuru played a cameo role in the 2-2 draw away to Strasbourg coming on as a 89th minute substitute and was an unused substitute when Monaco lost 3-4 at home to Marseille.

Monaco are yet to win any game going into the Round of 6 fixtures which has left them second to the last on the league table on only two points.

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Brazil fans have come down hard on Brazilian Football Confederation( Confederacao Brasileira de Futebol; CBF) for prioritizing friendly games against ‘2018 World Cup flops’, Nigeria and Senegal, over the country’s local league, Completesports.com reports.

Brazil – five-time world champions, will first clash with the Teranga Lions of Senegal on October 10 at the Singapore National Stadium before taking on three-time African champions Nigeria at the same venue on Sunday, October 13.

Criticism has trailed the 23-man Brazil list released by he Selecao coach Tite on Friday for list home-based stars who will miss important games for their respective clubs while on ‘inconsequential’ national duty against minnows opponents.

The general feeling among fans is that CBF is neglecting the local championship in preference to friendlies against ‘teams that could not qualify from the group stages at the last World Cup.’

According to Garone’s Column in odia.ig.com.br, “the Brazilian teams have become a burden for clubs. The CBF is making selection increasingly unfriendly,” Garone said.

“Flamengo without Gabigol and Rodrigo Caio. Sao Paulo without Daniel Alves. Guild without Everton and Matheus Henrique. Palm Trees without Weverton. Athletic Paranaense without Santos.

“It (the list) has emptied a championship that should be a priority for the Brazilian Football Confederation, but in practice receives less attention than friendlies against countries that did not even pass the group stage at the last World Cup.”

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Scottish club Kilmarnock are keen on former Everton striker Victor Anichebe.

The club have been in talks with the 31-year-old’s representatives, trying to convince the Nigerian frontman, who is a free agent, to make the move to the Premiership.

The problem for Killie is they face stiff competition from a number of sides in England’s lower leagues.

Anichebe has already been offered a deal by League One Doncaster with whom he trained on Friday.

He has, however, sounded out former team-mates, including Youssouf Mulumbu, about Kilmarnock and the Premiership. The experienced forward came through the ranks at Everton and also had spells at West Brom and Sunderland.

Anichebe has just returned to the United Kingdom from a lucrative spell in China with Beijing Enterprises.

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