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  • Musa scores in Leicester victory over Palace

    Musa scores in Leicester victory over Palace

    AHMED Musa scored his first goal for Leicester City as the champions beat 3-1 Crystal Palace in the English Premier League yesterday.

    Musa struck on 42 minutes as the Foxes took the lead in a tight first half at the King Power Stadium.

    The Nigeria forward struck from outside the area following good work by Algerian striker, Islam Slimani who displayed impressive upper body strength before teeing him up with a delightful ball.

    Musa had the option of passing to Riyah Mahrez on his right but showed the belief and composure of a veteran to fire past the Palace goalkeeper, Steve Mandanda from 20 yards out.

    It was Musa’s first goal for Leicester since completing his move from Russian club, CSKA Moscow in the summer.

    Champions Leicester City left striker Jamie Vardy on the bench but capped a fine week with a third home league win of the season, beating Crystal Palace 3-1 thanks to goals by Ahmed Musa, Shinji Okazaki and Christian Fuchs. After continuing their 100 percent start in the Champions League, Leicester’s disappointing domestic form came back under scrutiny and they responded emphatically.

    Leicester had created little until three minutes before halftime when Musa lashed home an unstoppable shot from Islam Slimani’s set-up to open his account for the club.

  • …. Musa slammed for poor showing

    …. Musa slammed for poor showing

    FORMER Manchester United goalkeeper, Peter Schmeichel, has slammed Ahmed Musa for his unimpressive performance against Chelsea Saturday.
    Musa was handed his second start of the season for Leicester City as the reigning EPL champions suffered a 3-0 loss at Stamford Bridge, their fourth defeat of the campaign.
    And Schmeichel thinks the Nigeria international didn’t do enough to justify his place in the starting ahead of the duo of Islam Slimani and Riyad Mahrez.
    “Musa hasn’t done enough to justify his starting place in the team but obviously Ranieri has the Champions League in mind to think of with the team that played against Chelsea,” the Danish legend said during his half time analysis of the game.

  • Musa ready to face Liverpool

    Musa ready to face Liverpool

    Super Eagles’ assistant captain Ahmed Musa is poised to make his fourth appearance in the Premier League when Leicester City tackle Liverpool at Anfield this weekend.

    Manager Claudio Ranieri revealed during Thursday’s press conference that the Nigerian and the other first team players that traveled for international duty returned to LE2 7FL in good physical condition.

    “When you start the season you want to continue to keep going but there is also the international break,’’  Ranieri told lcfc.com.

    “The national teams need to make their job and fortunately nobody was injured, they came back with very good strength and atmosphere.

    “We made a very good training session and we are ready to play these seven matches in 22 days. This is our block. ’’

    Musa started on his Premier League debut against Hull City and came off the bench against Arsenal and Swansea City.

  • IMPRESSIVE MUSA starts Premiership on losing note

    IMPRESSIVE MUSA starts Premiership on losing note

    NIGERIA international, Ahmed Musa, was on the losing side as the Premier League got off to a thrilling start on Saturday with defending champions, Leicester City, taking on newly promoted Hull City.

    Musa, who played all 90 minutes at the KC Stadium, was one of the stand-out performers in the season-opener but his effort was unable to save Leicester from going down to an opening day defeat as Hull City claimed a 2-1 victory.

    It was Robert Snodgrass’ second half goal that effectively condemned Musa and his Leicester teammates to defeat.

    The first half was lacklustre for the premier league champions as they had all the possession but were slow and not swift as witnessed last season.

    Leicester’s record signing Musa showed his lightning pace when he beat Livermore down the left but Jamie Vardy miss-timed his cut back as the Tigers survive.

    Musa again was involved as he latched onto a loose ball in the final third and again played the ball into Vardy’s part but the England forward blazed the ball over the bar.

    However, Hull went into the lead just before half-time as Snodgrass corner was connected with a header by David which Kasper Schmeichel pushed into the path of Hernandez and Diomande and both applied a bicycle kick at the same time to score but the goal was later awarded to Diomande.

    The Foxes started the second half on fire as Gray earned a penalty within 15 seconds of the restart and Riyad Mahrez stepped up to convert with ease.

  • Inspector shot by robbers alive, say police

    Inspector shot by robbers alive, say police

    The police in Lagos on Tuesday said the Inspector who was shot by gunmen at the Idimu area of the state was alive.

    According to a statement by the command’s spokesperson, Dolapo Badmos, a Superintendent of Police  (SP) said the Inspector identified simply as Musa and attached to the Police Mobile Force (PMF) Keffi, Lagos was rushed to Ikeja General Hospital where the bullet was extracted.

    Badmos also disclosed that the policeman was trailed from the bank and shot on the face in a bid to dispossess him of the money he was carrying.

    It was learnt that Musa, who was not dressed in Police uniform had gone to make some withdrawals from a commercial bank at Okunola Road near Aregbesola.

    The gunmen who stormed the place in two motorcycles and had earlier killed a civilian bank customer, were said to have trailed him to his Ford Jeep, where he was shot on the head.

    Badmos said: “The gang had targeted a customer coming out of a bank, the customer who was later identified as an Inspector of police was fired on the face in order to dispossess him of the money he’s carrying in a bag. The sound of the shooting attracted the IGP’s team and patrolmen from Idimu who swiftly moved to the scene.

    “On sighting the operatives, the robbers opened fire and the team responded which led to two of the robbers being hit by bullets. The robbers were rushed to hospital where they were confirmed dead while the victim is recovering in the hospital.

    “The case was transferred to Special Anti-Robbery Sqaud (SARS), where investigation revealed that the suspect Gafar Ismail is on the wanted list of the command for cases of okada robbery.

    “Meanwhile, the suspect has been giving the command useful information that will aid investigation. Items recovered from the suspects are two locally made pistols, four live ammunitions and one bajaj motorcycle.

    “The command will continue to be on the trail of okada robbers in the state as it’s committed to ending the activities of these hoodlums.”

  • Musa joins Leicester City

    Musa joins Leicester City

    Nigeria international, Ahmed Musa, has signed with English champions, Leicester City, yesterday, supersport.com can report.

    Supersport.com sources say the deal will see the Nigerian stay at the King Power Stadium for four years, until 2020.

    The 23-year-old completed his move for an undisclosed fee though it believed that it is worth around £16 million after passing his medicals on Friday.

    Already personal terms between Musa and his new employers have been agreed paving way for the move.

    The English champions are expected to announce the capture of the Nigeria winger, later on Friday barring any hitch.

    Musa scored 13 league goals and provided five assists for Russian champions, CSKA Moscow last season.

  • AFCON: Siasia replaces Iheanacho with Aminu

    AFCON: Siasia replaces Iheanacho with Aminu

    The acting Head Coach of the Super Eagles, Samson Siasia has made three changes to the Nigerian team that played 1-1 with Egypt at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna last Friday.

     

    On the new lists, West Ham United’s Victor Moses replaces Simon Moses as Daniel Akpeyi fills injured Carl Ikeme’s place while Aminu stands in for Manchester City’s Kelechi Iheanacho.

     

    Similarly, Super Eagles midfielder, Ogenyi Onazi, who is returning from a three match ban for a red card he got in the first game against Chad will start the game from the bench.

     

    Nigeria’s first eleven against Egypt include Akpeyi, Shehu, Amuzie, Ambrose, Oboabona, Mikel, Etebo, Aminu, Musa, Victor Moses, Ighalo.

     

    The on the bench are Echiejile, Iheanacho, Azubuike, Simon, Ezenwa, Onazi and Iwobi.

  • BATTLE OF THE PHARAOHS: Mikel, Musa, Omeruo listed

    BATTLE OF THE PHARAOHS: Mikel, Musa, Omeruo listed

    Sportinglife scooped exclsuvely from a top chieftains of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) that there won’t be any radical change in the super Eagles 23-man list expected to be released today with Chelsea FC of England’s midfield pearl, John Mikel Obi, the team’s captain Ahmed Musa and Kenneth Omeruo topping the list.

    Sportinglife gathered further that Super eagles coaches, Samson Siasia, Yusuf Salisu and Alloy Agu after their meeting with the body’s Technical Director, Shuaibu Amodu in Abuja on Tuesday selected players based on thier current club forms in Europe and Nigeria.

    Sportinglife’s source informed that no player nursing injuries or who is recuperating would be invited, stressing that Nigeria is endowed with talents which makes it easier to replace anyone who is injured.

    “The coaches had sufficent information on the players’ health status and picked players who would be ready to fight for them in the two matches against Egypt, first in Kaduna on March 25 and in Cairo on March 29.”

    Green, on Tuesday said that there would be a press conference in Abuja after the technical committee meeting on Thursday where Siasia would announce the list of players invited to prosecute the two-legged game in Kaduna and Cairo.

    The Technical Committee chairman stated further that newsmen would have the opportunity to ask Siasia what informed his choice of players for the two games, stressing that: “The technical committee members don’t impose players on coaches. Rather, we also ask for little details like those players who are eligible for the next game, knowing that CAF only releases such information to participating countries, 24 hours before any game during the pre-match conference.

    “Besides, during such techncial committee meetings, we let the coaches know some information that we have gathered about the opposition including asking the calibre of passports some of our Europe-based players would tender before the game, especially those with dual nationality. It would interst you to know that we also discuss injuries which we scooped from our players’ club doctors for those  invited but are carrying injuries unknown to the coaches.

  • Leicester, Man Utd offers CSKA will decide my fate-Musa

    Leicester, Man Utd offers CSKA will decide my fate-Musa

    CSKA Moscow forward, Ahmed Musa has reacted to reports linking him with a possible switch to the English Premier League in the winter transfer market.

    The Super Eagles star has not hidden his desire to play for an EPL side but is aware that only the leadership of CSKA Moscow can decide his future having prolonged his stay with the Muscovites last summer.

    “I leave everything to the club, I would not even comment there is nothing.  Let CSKA decide, everything will happen as decided by our leadership, ” Musa said to R-Sport .

    “If they agree on something, I will  move on, and if they consider that I stay, I will stay with pleasure.  Of course, I am very pleased to hear that.

    “Of course, I would like to try myself in a strong championship, but it will happen when it should happen. English League.  They show a style that I play.”

    Premier League pace-setters Leicester City are the front-runners to secure the signature of Musa if CSKA Moscow agree to shred his agreement, while Manchester United have been credited with an interest.

  • Musa on target in Spain

    Musa on target in Spain

    super Eagles’ skipper, Ahmed Musa was on target on Wednesday evening as CSKA Moscow booked a 4 – 0 victory against Sion in an exhibition game at their training camp in Spain.

    The pacy striker doubled the advantage of the Muscovites in the 43rd minute, a minute after Aleksandr Golovin had opened scoring for the Russians.

     Musa scored more goals than any other CSKA Moscow player in the first half of the season, 13 in total across all competitions, two more than Ivorian international Seydou Doumbia, whose loan deal has expired.

    The 23 – year – old was replaced by Makarov in the 70th minute.

    CSKA Moscow is scheduled to play another friendly today, before they face  Odds BK (Norway), Valerenga (Norway) and Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) at the La Manga Cup, starting from January 25.