Emenike Back In Action -As Peter Utaka Scores Good news has come the way of Nigerian soccer fans, with high expectations of an end to the recent blunt edges of the national team’s attack, as Africa Cup of nations top scorer, Emmanuel Emenike is back from injury and even played for his Russian club, Spartak Moscow at the weekend. Information on offer from the Eastern European nation indicates that Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi can start plotting his goals scoring strategies round Emenike once again, as the all-action attacker returned to action for Spartak in a friendly tournament encounter against Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine on Sunday. The former FC Cape Town of South Africa and Karabükspor of Turkey forward, who has been missing through injury since April, played the first half of the match that ended 0-0. Keshi will be pleased that his main arrow head is fit again and will be hoping that the Nations Cup top scorer will keep in shape and injury free for the World Cup qualifier against Malawi in September as well as the crucial next stage of the race to Brazil 2014 later in the year. Also in action last weekend was former Super Eagles invitee, Peter Utaka, who scored all the goals for Dalian Aerbin of China in a 4-3 away win over Hangzhou, with the badging attacker’s last effort coming in the fourth minute of stoppage time. The 29-year-old former Denmark-based striker scored in the 39th, 45th, 73rd minutes and the winner in the 94th minute to make it seven goals in 14 matches, as the Chinese Super League, enters the 16th round.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 18:17:01 +0000
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