Exciting Super Eagles Winger Bags Assist in Europa League Helping His Side Cruise to Quarter-Final

Exciting Super Eagles Winger Bags Assist in Europa League Helping His Side Cruise to Quarter-Final

Babajide Orevba
updated at April 12, 2023 at 7:48 PM

- Samuel Chukwueze’s Spanish La Liga club Villarreal are through to the Europa League quarter-final

- The Nigerian international winger bagged an assist in their 2-0 second leg win over Dynamo Kyiv

- Peter Olayinka, Leone Balogun are among other Nigerian stars who were in action at the tournament

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Super Eagles winger Samuel Chukwueze was in action at the Estadio de la Ceramica in Spain on Thursday night, March 18, where he provided an assist in Villarreal’s 2-0 home win against Dynamo Kyiv.

Following the victory, the Spanish club go through 4-0 on aggregates after claiming a 2-0 win in the first-leg.

Chukwueze put up a fine show in the encounter setting up Gerard Moreno for his side’s opening goal as early as the 13th minute.

Moreno also got the La Liga side’s second goal on 36 minutes and Chukwueze was later replaced in the 71st minute by Alex Baena.

Also, Nigeria’s Peter Olayinka found the back of the net in as Slavia Prague 2-0 win over Rangers inflicting the Scottish team their first defeat at Ibrox in just over a year as Praque proceed.

Super Eagles defender Leon Balogun and Rangers teammate Kemar Roofe were both sent off in the second half of that encounter.

Also in action for the newly crowned Scottish champions was Joe Aribo.

Slavia Prague advanced into the quarter-finals 3-1 on aggregate after being held to a 1-1 draw at home in the first-leg.

Exciting Super Eagles winger bags assist in Europa League helping his side cruise to quarter-final
Samuel Chukwueze's Villarreal are through to Europa league quarter-final. Photo: Arroyo Moreno
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Meanwhile, Manchester United are through to this season's Europa League quarter-final after a hard-fought victory over AC Milan at the San Siro on Thursday night, March 18.

Paul Pogba scored the only goal on the night as the Red Devils grabbed a crucial 1-0 victory away from home.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's men United were desperate to secure a favourable result in the second leg clash with a place in the quarter-finals of the European competition at stake, after the first leg ended 1-1 at the Old Trafford.

Legit.ng earlier reported that Arsenal are also through to the quarter-finals of the Europa League despite their 1-0 defeat vs Olympiacos at the Emirates on Thursday evening, March 18.

The Gunners took a huge step towards reaching the last eight of the competition after they secured a 3-1 win away in Greece in the reverse tie of the Round of 16 last week.

Goals from Martin Odegaard, Gabriel and Mohamed Elneny secured the crucial win, with the Mikel Arteta-tutored side following up the victory with another against rivals Tottenham Hotspur at the weekend.

Babajide Orevba is a digital publishing expert, an avid sports content thinker, researcher and writer. He is a graduate of Guidance and Counselling, having bagged his B.SC (ED) from the Ekiti State University. He can be reached on Twitter @JideOrevba

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Babajide Orevba is a CAF accredited Nigerian journalist and HOD of the Local Desk with over 10 years of experience in media landscape.He studied NCE Political Science/Social Studies, AOCOED.
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