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  • I wanted to score on my debut —Ideye

    I wanted to score on my debut —Ideye

    West Bromwich Albion record signing, Brown Ideye, made his much anticipated debut for the Baggies and the Nigerian showed his qualities but after getting so close on two occasion the ball just couldn’t hit the back of the net.

    Ideye, who left Ukrainian club, Dynamo Kiev to West Brom over the summer, was introduced in the 52nd minute in the match against Southampton and his introduction saw an instant impression.

    The African Nations Cup winner,Ideye told WBA.co.uk that it was a good game but he felt it would have been better if he got a goal on his debut.

    “It was a good debut but I really wanted to score ” Ideye said.

    Brown Ideye got close twice within the 40 minutes he played, he had a header that hit the side netting and a nice turning inside the box but Southampton goal keeper, Fraser Forster was alert and raced off his goal line to claim a good save off Ideye’s effort.

    Ideye shared his views on those two moves that nearly hit the back of the net on his debut.

    “The first header was close,in my mind it was in,I saw the ball and anticipated a move to the back post, I was unlucky,”

    “The second chance, I made a great turn but the ‘keeper came out very quickly and it was a good save,”Ideye told the club’s official website.

  • West Brom: Ideye must score like Osaze

    West Brom: Ideye must score like Osaze

    • Coach yet to see him play

    Super Eagles forward Brown Ideye will not only need to meet but surpass the standard set at West Brom by compatriot and former ace of the club Osaze Odemwingie.

    West Brom coach Alan Irvine, who made the submission, confessed that he has never watched Ideye play live but expressed hope that the former Dynamo Kiev striker, who crossed over to The Hawthorns for a whooping  £10million, would live up to expectation.

    Irvine is heading into his first Premier League season as a coach following his appointment in June and he noted with delight that Odemwingie, now at Stoke City, scored a record 30 goals for the side before bidding them goodbye in 2013.

    “It would be fantastic if he could have the same impact as Odemwingie did,” the 56-year-old said.

    “I don’t know much about Brown Ideye – I’ve not seen him live, but people we trust have done.

    “It’s not necessarily something that is detrimental to me not to have seen him live, though ideally I would like to because that’s how I like to do my work. “But we’ve done our research on him and what we have done is found decent players in the past in this way,”

    If things work out well for 25-year-old Ideye, who has made 24 appearances for the Super Eagles scoring five goals in the bargain, surpassing Odemwingie’s record at West Brom will not be a problem. The former Ocean Boys and Sochaux ace scored 33 goals for Dynamo Kievin in 74 appearances between 2011 and 2014.

    West Brom will be the fourth international club Ideye will be playing for having played for Swiss side Neuchâtel Xamax, Sochaux and Dynamo Kiev.

  • Obasi, Ogbeche score in pre-season warm-ups

    Obasi, Ogbeche score in pre-season warm-ups

    Nigeria strikers Chinedu Ogbuke Obasi and Bartholomew Ogbeche continued their impressive runs in front of goal for their respective clubs ahead of the new season in Europe.

    AfricanFootball.com reports thatObasi was on target in Schalke 04’s big win on Wednesday night. He opened scoring after just two minutes as the German Bundesliga side romped to an 11-1 win over Sportbund DJK Rosenhelm.

    Ogbeche also opened the scoring for Dutch club Cambuur in a 4-1 thrashing of Almere City.

    He scored the opening goal in the second minute, also.

  • Chima hopes to score more

    Chima hopes to score more

    After grabbing a brace in their cup win over Mjondalen last weekend, Nigeria and Molde of Norway striker Daniel Chima Chukwu says his target is to increase his goals tally.

    Speaking to sl10.ng, Chima expressed delight at having scored two of the goals that propelled his side to the win.

    “It’s always a nice feeling when you score a goal, and a better feeling when you score two, and even great when the goals helps your club get out of a difficult situation,” he said.

    The 23-year old helped his club progress to the quarter finals of the Norwegian cup with a 4-1 victory over the Mjondalen club, and says he hopes to put the ball in the back of the net with more frequency between now and the end of the season.

    “My scoring rate hasn’t been that good this season. My coaches have often commended my overall play and the assists I make for my teammates, but the truth is, I want to score more often.

    “And the truth is, I hope to score a lot more before the end of the season. I feel I can still improve and I’m really working hard towards that,” he said to sl10.ng.

    Molde sit atop the Norwegian league, and are bookmakers’ favorites to win the Tippeligaen again, having been the most impressive side in the league so far.

  • Akinjide and his Ajimobi score

    SIR: Chief Richard Akinjide granted an interview which was published in The Punch newspaper of Sunday, February 2,. It was quite revealing, but only to discerning minds. The one-time National Party of Nigeria (NPN) stalwart, known for his wonky 12 2/3 analysis of the 1979 elections, and foremost lawyer, was evasive on several issues raised by the reporter on the state of the nation. He was however reflective on the tough times his party, the PDP, is currently facing, both at the national level and in Oyo State.

    When asked on his assessment of the incumbent governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, he told the reporter that he would not score Ajimobi’s government a first class if he were to mark its score but would rank him average. Apparently lamenting the loss of his party to the then ACN, Akinjide had, at the early part of the government, told the world that Ajimobi’s government would soon leave the Government House. For a man with such nihilistic divination on a man he perceived as a political enemy to now score the same man he predicted his political and governmental death an average pass mark is indeed a favourable judgment.

    Chief Akinjide is known by all to be an exceptionally stingy man to everyone but himself, even in his ranking and estimation of the other person. When he attacked the late Lamidi Adedibu and his politics, Ibadan people asked him to point at a particular person who had ever benefitted from him, even though he is one of the most successful Ibadan sons, unlike Adedibu whom Ibadan people at least ate a plate of amala in his house everyday.

    In the said interview, Akinjide praised his minister daughter, Ms. Jumoke Akinjide to high heavens, committing Political Oedipus of romancing his own daughter preparatory to the 2015 governorship. What Mr. 12 2/3 has forgotten is that in Ibadan, we, like the biblical trait of Almighty God, will demand the sin of the father from the daughter, up till three generations.

    In any case, only a blind will not see the dualizations going on in all the nooks and crannies of Oyo State, the transformation of a once-centre of filth into a metropole by Ajimobi, the Hobbesian state of nature that Ibadan became, even under the tip of the nose of Akinjide and the peaceful, good governance that the APC government is giving the people now.

    For a man like Akinjide, a pass mark from him is like scoring 120 per cent in a thorough examination!

    • Kareem Inaolaji,

    No 2, Idi Ishin Road, Ibadan.

     

  • Eagles will score four — Dike

    Eagles will score four — Dike

    • Says Ideye, Onazi are ‘his boys’

    Toronto FC of USA attacking midfielder, Bright Dike has predicted that Ethiopia will concede four goals in today’s World Cup play-off return leg against the Super Eagles.

    “By the time we score the first goal, Ethiopia would have collapsed. From there the goals would just start coming,” he said.

    Speaking to SportingLife after lunch at the team’s Transcorp Hotel, Dike is eager to play a part after failing to make the final cut for the Africa Nations Cup in January.

    If he gets to start, it will be Dike’s first competitive match.

    “Playing for your country is always an honour and the Ethiopia game would be one,” said the player who scored Nigeria’s equaliser against a Catalonia selected side in a friendly prior to the Nations Cup.

    On how he has blended into the team considerng the fact that he did not grow up in Nigeria, Dike said he had adjusted perfectly.

    “I have made friends, apart from Emmanuel Emenike who is my cousin. Onazi, ldeye and Elderson are my friends, in fact they are my boys,” he jokingly said.

    Endowed with natural energy, the 26-year-old has expressed delight to chief coach, Stephen Keshi for another invitation to the team.

  • Mexico won’t score against me — Alampasu

    Mexico won’t score against me — Alampasu

    Golden Eaglets’ goalkeeper, Dele Alampasu, has acknowledged Nigerians’ support even after he made some mistakes in goal at the beginning of the Dubai 2013 FIFA Under 17 World Cup.

    A now confident Alampasu has promised that there won’t be a repeat of such howlers in the final against reigning champions, Mexico.

    The goalie was guilty of some questionable decisions in the Eaglets’ first two matches and his flaws were the talking points of Nigeria’s group stage matches.

    However, having improved his performances in subsequent games till the semi final stage when he capped his inspiring displays with eye-catching saves that denied the Swedes an opportunity for a comeback, Alampasu said he in the form of his life ahead of the final against Mexico today.

    Speaking with SportingLife in Dubai, the Football College Academy goaltender said he would ensure that he keeps his two-match clean sheet record intact in the final against the El Tri of Mexico today.

    “We thank God for all he has done for us. We are in the final and are poised to battle the Mexicans to win the title.

    “I had some off days in the group stage but I have overcome that now. I have not conceded any goal since the last the team conceded against Iran in the round of 16. I hope to extend the streak in the final against Mexico,” Alampasu assured Nigerians.

    The Eaglets have scored 23 goals and let in only five in the six matches they have played before today’s final in Abu Dhabi against the defending champions.

  • OAU Post-UMTE: 44 candidates of 12,200 score above 300

    The hope of many aspiring undergraduates of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife was dashed yesterday, as the institution announced that only 44 candidates of the 12,200, who sat for the Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Saturday, scored above 300.

    5,691 others scored 200 and above. 6,465 candidates scored less than 200.

    A statement by the school’s spokesman Mr Abiodun Olarewaju in Osogbo yesterday said Durotoluwa Olanrewaju, who applied to study Chemical Engineering, had the highest score of 332. Soile Adetola, an intending Medical student, scored 327.

    Two candidates, Odimayo Moses and Nafiu Oluwadamilare, who applied to study Electrical and Electronics Engineering, scored 323 each.

    The statement quoted the university’s Vice-Chancellor Prof. Bamitale Omole as commending the candidates who scored 300 and above.

    It advised candidates who took part in the screening to check their results on the university’s website or where each candidate registered.

  • ‘Bayelsa have score to settle with ABS’

    ‘Bayelsa have score to settle with ABS’

    Bayelsa United Technical Adviser Ladan Bosso says his team will go for revenge against Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS) in the Federation Cup round of 32 clash on Wednesday in Benin City.

    Bayelsa United were beaten 0-2 by ABS at Ilorin in the first stanza of the Globacom Premier League.

    Although the former Flying Eagles coach admitted that the match betwen the sides was going to be tough, he was confident that the Yenagoa-based side would be victorious.

    “As usual, I always respect my opponents, no matter the category whether a top flight team or lower division club.

    “It is going to be a good match, knowing full well that we have scores to settle. We lost 0-2 to them in Ilorin in a league match and we think this is pay back time,” Bosso told SportingLife.

    The former Kano Pillars gaffer added: “Playing on a neutral ground will make it more interesting. There won’t be anything like home advantage and home support. The best team will carry the day.

    “I just hope my boys will live up to expectation. We never intend to rubbish ourselves in front of our fans.”

  • Promise, Eneramo score in Turkey

    Promise, Eneramo score in Turkey

    Isaac Promise and Michael Eneramo were on target for their respective clubs on Sunday, with Promise’s Antalyaspor overcoming Eneramo’s Sivasspor 4-2 in the Turkish Super Lig.

    Issac scored in the 41st minute to restore Antalyaspor’s lead, after Grosicki’s goal for Sivasspor three minutes earlier had cancelled out Aissati’s 10th minute opener for the hosts.

    However, Nigerian international striker Eneramo scored in the 48th minute to bring Sivasspor back on level terms.

    Senegalese striker Lamine Diarra shot Antalyaspor back into the lead with a 56th minute strike, before Issac Promise sealed the win for the hosts in the 86th minute.

    Issac has now scored three goals in six League games this season, while Eneramo has scored four in eight Turkish Super Lig games.