Nigerian Footballers in Europe England Mikel Obi started his first league match for Chelsea and it ended in a 1-0 defeat against Everton. Sone Aluko started for Hull City in their 1-1 home draw with Cardiff City Peter Odemwingie was an unused substitute for Cardiff City in their 1-1 home draw with Hull City Victor Anichebe also making his debut for West Brom. Anichebe started and played for 78 minutes Belgium Imoh Ezekiel scored his second league goal in seven games as Standard Liege won 4-2 away to KV Oostende Michael Uchebo his team Cercle Brugge were defeated 3-0 away to Lokeren on Saturday with him coming on as a 60th minute substitute for Gaetano Monachello. Uchebo is yet to open his account for the season. Russia Ahmed Musa could not make it four goals in four consecutive matches for CSKA Moscow but helped in setting up Konstantin Bazelyuk to score the only goal against Rostov on Saturday. Obinna Nsofor was an unused substitute for Locomotiv Moscow as they beat Kuban Krasnodar 1-0 at home on Sunday. Dele Adeleye sat out the 90 minutes for Anzhi Makhachkala away to Tom Tomsk who held them to a 2-2 draw. Adeleye just signed for Anzhi and is yet to make his debut. Ukraine Michael Babatunde scored his first league goal for Volyn after his transfer from Kryvbas but they were still beaten 2-1 by Arsenal Kyiv on Saturday. Babatunde opened the scoring in the 36th minute but the homers came back with two goals in a minute in the second half to snatch all three points Brown Ideye started Dynamo Kiev’s match away to Metalist on the bench, ideye replaced Miguel Veloso in the 79th. Haruna Lukman started Dynamo Kiev’s match away to Metalist on the bench, Haruna came on for Roman Bezus in the 71st minute Turkey John Utaka scored his first goal for Sivasspor as they held on to beat Eskişehirspor 3-2 on Sunday. Utaka equalized for the home side in the ninth minute after Diomansy Kamara had given the visitors the lead in the seventh minute. Utaka was substituted at the beginning of the second half. Taye Taiwo his Bursaspor side were walloped 3-0 at home by Besiktas on Sunday Isaac Promise helped Antalyaspor hold champions, Galatasaray to a 1-1 draw on Friday at the Turk Telekom Arena in Istanbul. Promise played all 90 minutes and is yet to open his goal scoring account this season. Godfrey Oboabona was an unused substitute for Rizespor as they won away from home 5-2 against Gaziantepspor on Saturday Emmanuel Emenike Fenerbahce are away to Kasimpasa on Monday where the Nigerian will try to score his first goal on his return to the Yellow Canaries Spain Nosa Igiebor came on as a substitute for Real Betis as they got their first win in the new season. he came on in the 85th minute for Salva Sevilla This was the first match in the new season that the Nigerian has not started and played 90 minutes Ikechukwu Uche came on for Villarreal on Saturday as the Yellow Submarine forced Real Madrid to a 2-2 draw. Uche came on for Jonathan Pereira in the 65th minute. Odion Ighalo marked his first match for Granada this season with a red card. The player on loan from Udinese collected two yellow cards in the space of one minute to leave Granada with 10 men with eight minutes remaining in the encounter. Ighalo had come on for Dani Benitez in the 66th minute. MLS Obafemi Martins scored his eighth league goal for Seattle Sounders as they beat Real Salt Lake to go top of the Western Conference table with 49 points from 27 games. Martins, who just returned from a knee injury scored in the third minute to take his goals tally to eight in 17 games and he played all 90 minutes.
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