Sao Tome 0-10 Nigeria: Osimhen hails amazing display from Super Eagles teammates
Osimhen set the tone for the day as he opened his goal-scoring account with a powerful header in the 9th minute
Super Eagles striker, Victor Osimhen has hailed his teammates for their amazing display in Monday’s 10-0 demolition of Sao Tome during the Match Day 2 of the Africa Cup of Nations qualifying series in the Moroccan city of Agadir.
Osimhen who scored four of the goals which helped the Super Eagles obliterate Nigeria’s 63 –year old international scoring record said the team will continue to build on the momentum.
On his Twitter handle, the gangling striker who equalled one of Rashidi Yekini’s record acknowledged his teammates’ efforts.
“Amazing display from the whole squad. We will continue to build on this momentum,” he tweeted.
Osimhen set the tone for the day as he opened his goal-scoring account with a powerful header that goalkeeper Anastacio Braganca could not just stop in the 9th minute.
In the 28th minute, defender Ola Aina’s pull-out found Osihmen, who laid for Moses Simon to tap beyond the flailing hands of Braganca for Nigeria’s second.
Moffi wasted two excellent opportunities to take Nigeria higher on the scoreline, in the 36th and 40th minute, but did just that in the 43rd minute when he beat two defenders to slam into the net from a great Osimhen pass.
In the second half, it was all Nigeria. Osimhen’s firm header from pull-out by Lookman in the 48th minute went in for the fourth goal, and seven minutes later, Oghenekaro Etebo fired his 20 –yard free-kick into the underside of the bar and into the net for Nigeria’s fifth. Osimhen thought he had scored a sixth for Nigeria in the 57th minute, but it was ruled off-side.
On the hour mark, substitute Ahmed Musa, only two minutes on the pitch, found an onrushing Sanusi whose cross found Terem Moffi well-placed to slam the ball into the net for Nigeria’s sixth. It was Moffi’s first goal for the Super Eagles.
Three minutes later, Ademola Lookman found the roof of the net after another Musa pass found Moffi and he chipped over onrushing goalie Braganca. It was Lookman’s first goal for Nigeria.
Osimhen got his hat-trick in the 65th minute when laid on by a sweet Ahmed Musa pass, and in the 84th minute, another brilliant Musa pass found Osimhen in the right place to score his fourth and Nigeria’s ninth.
Substitute Emmanuel Dennis won and converted a penalty kick on the dot of 90 minutes to round up a goal-spangled afternoon for Nigeria in Morocco’s southern coastal city.
The Super Eagles’ next games in the qualification are against Guinea-Bissau home and away in September.
