Some Nigerian stars outhere in Europe put up scintillating performances and shone brilliantly for their various clubsides in Match Day 2 of the second tier of club football in Europe, the Europa League.
Super Eagles defender, Zaidu Sanusi was on from start to finish for his Portuguese club, FC Porto, they defeated Red Belgrade of Sebia 2-1. Nigerian duo of Tebo Uchenna and Peter Olayinka were both in action for Red Star Belgrade. Tebo Uchenna, the defender, played the whole 90mins, while Peter Olayinka was a second half substitute.
Hungarian League Champions new signing, Bamidele Isa Yusuf was in action for his new club, Ferencvaros fc as they got a valuable away win over Belgian giants, KRC Genk in Belgium.
Bamidele Yusuf, who netted 4 goals in his first domestic game for Ferencvaros, was introduced in the 78th minute to add more and to use his great ball holding, energy, pace and attacking prowess to make sure the Hungarian League defending Champions leaves Belgium unscathed.
The explosive and entertaining match ended: Genk 0 Ferencvaros 1. Barnabas Varga got the only goal of the match in the 44th minute. Although the same player missed a penalty in the 49th minute.
Another Nigerian player that was on the winning side of Match Day 2 with his club, is Philip Otele.
Philip Otele was a starter for his team, FC Basel of Switzerland, as they beat a formidable Stuttgart fc of Germany 2-0.
The last Nigerian on the winning side for his European team is Rafiu Durosimi of Viktoria Pllzen of Czech Republic.
Rafiu Durosimi scored one of the goals as they beat Malmo 3-0.
Friday Etim of Midtjylland, Denmark, beat English side, Nottingham Forest 3-2 in England. Unlike the duo of Ola Aina and Taiwo Awoniyi of Nottingham Forest, who were both not listed due to injuries, Friday Etim was on the line up but was not featured.
It was not a rosy one for the likes of Kelechi Iheanacho of Celtic, Scotland; Terem Moffi of Nice of France and Cyriel Dessers.of Panathinaikos, Greece, who lost at home 1-2 to Go Ahead Eagles of Holland.
Kelechi Iheanacho’s Celtic lost 0-2 at home to Braga fc. Kelechi Iheanacho played 90mins of the match.
Cyriel Dessers was sidelined due to injury as his club, Panathinaikos, lost at home 1-2 to Go Ahead Eagles.
Terem Moffi was a 2nd half substitute as his team, OG Nice, lost 1-2 at away to Fenerbahce.
Yira Sor was a second half substitute for Genk in that home defeat to Ferencvaros.
