While players invited to the Super Eagles’ upcoming 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Sierras Leone again failed to hit target this weekend in the English Premier League, one of the Nigerian-born players being desperately sought by the country’s football federation, Eberechi Eze was again on song for Queens Park Rangers in the second-tier English Championship.
Megasportsarena.com reports that Eze continued his amazing goals scoring spree, as he showed a number of other Nigerian-born players the way to goals with another beauty in the colours of QPR, as The Rs silenced Preston North End 3-1.
The dreadlocks-wearing attacking-midfielder, who has been severally touted by Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president, Melvin Amaju Pi9nnick was again at his very best, taking his haul to 12 goals and eight assists in 37 English Championship games, as he netted one and made another in their latest victory over Preston.
QPR captain Grant Hall headed home Eze’s free-kick to bring the visitors back on level terms just past the hour mark, after which the youngster extinguished any hopes Preston had of staging a comeback when he curled the ball into the bottom corner to double his side’s advantage.
Eze, who found the net 11 times in the previous three seasons, is having his best scoring season with more than half of his league goals as a professional coming in this campaign, as he showed the way to go for Daniel Udoh, who struck in England’s League One.
Udoh, though, could not save Shrewsbury Town from falling to a 3-2 defeat at home to Oxford United, despite opening scoring after 12 minutes with a first time finish from close range, which was his second goal in as many games.
A similar feat came in League Two, as former Fulham youth-teamer, Elijah Adebayo hit a second half brace for Walsall in a 3-1 win over Exeter City at Banks’ Stadium, where his first effort on 71 minutes restored his side’s lead when he headed home a cross, after which he tapped home from close range to make it 3-1 in the third minute of stoppage time.
