Exactly one month after suffering a muscle injury, former Manchester United striker Odion Ighalo made his comeback to help Al Shabab record an excellent 4-1 win at Al-Batin in a Saudi Pro League match on Saturday evening.
Ighalo suffered a rupture of the first degree in his posterior muscle during his side’s 2-1 defeat at Al Ittihad on March 10.
But the Nigerian forward played every minute at the Al-Batin FC Stadium as a brace each from Cristian Guanca and Ever Banega powered Al Shabab to their 14th victory of the campaign.
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Ighalo has enjoyed a decent start to life in Saudi Arabia, scoring three goals in eight appearances for Carlos Hernandez’s title-chasing side.
In Switzerland, goalkeeper Sebastien Osigwe kept a second clean sheet in as many games as Lugano edged FC Lausanne-Sport 1-0 at the ooh.
Osigwe conceded in each of his first four games of the season as Lugano struggled to win just a match, drawing the other three between September and October.
The 27-year-old still earned a Super Eagles call-up ahead of the team’s friendly matches against Algeria and Tunisia last year.
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But on his return to his club from international duty, he was relegated to the bench. He didn’t make a competitive appearance until three days ago when he guided Lugano to a 3-0 win over Monthey in the cup competition.
Osigwe’s brilliant displays convinced head coach Maurizio Jacobacci to name the shot-stopper in the starting eleven for a league match for the first time this year.
And he didn’t disappoint as Lugano secured their ninth win of the season to move to second place, a massive 20 points behind league leaders Young Boys.