Surprises Trail Ighalo’s Goal Discovery after FiFA World Cup Flop
One time misfiring Super Eagles forward Odion Ighalo who has been a dismay due to his ouster for the senior national team at the Russia 20I8 FiFA World Cup has now become a fine striker with plenty goals to show for it and a surprise with delight for many Nigerian football enthusiasts.
The Nigerians Chinese base striker could not miss the chance to prove critics of his performances wrong following Eagles group fallout from the mundial as on Saturday he continued from were he stopped in the AFCON qualifier against Seychelles in the home game against Libya in Uyo.
Ighalo who led the Eagles strike force in the first leg of a double header could not stop after he converted a spot kick to give Eagles the-we-can-do-it early goal lead into the first six minutes of the game.
Unlike the AFCON away match against Seychelles where he couldn’t score again after he converted a spot kick, fire burning striker went all out to get first Eagles hat trick in the last to decade as the Eagles led Gernot Rohr led side wallop the Mediterranean opponent by one, two , three and four goals to nil.
The four goal thriller saw the nearly rejected and widely criticise but now a goal getter scored to more goals before the ninety minutes of he encounter which arguably though to erase all his wrongs against the argies(Argentina) at the Fifa mundial.
“All the players were massive,,,, except for the trio of Balogun, Musa, Aina who i think had loaded commitments.
Ighalo was definitely my delight. He has been a surprise since after the world cup. We really need more of him. I understand that Rohr had a special session with him before the match to train and sharpen his goal scoring zest which really worked out today.
” I will really hope to see more of this form. And I know if he can do this on Tuesday in the return leg of this encounter by scoring again I know Nigerians will totally forgive and forget the world cup experience,” said a Super Eagles enthusiast and sport analyst, Desmond Ekwueme after the match on the social media.
“We need to enjoy this sweet victory while it stock last. No time to check time…up naija…..soar Eagles soar…”, he said, has he celebrated Ighalo’s third goal.
It was Samuel Kalu that netted the fourth goal for the three time African Champions. With this victory Nigeria are now occupying second position in Group E, as South Africa stay top after their 6-0 win over Seychelles.