Aguero Musa Sets New World Cup Record

Many soccer loving Nigerians were yesterday excited after CSKA Moscow winger, Ahmed Musa gave the Super Eagles a lifeline by waking the team from the dead with his two well taken goals against World Cup debutants Iceland in the Group D encounter at the Volgograd Arena.

Musa however made history for himself by becoming the first Nigerian player to score at two different World Cups.

At the 2014 Mundial in Brazil, Musa was on the score sheet, scoring twice in Nigeria’s 2-3 loss to Argentina in an encounter Lionel Messi also scored twice.

The former Kano Pillars player was transferred to Premiership side, Leicester in 2016 but could not pin down a regular shirt culminating to his being loaned back to CSKA Moscow, where he had since rediscovered his form.

Nigerians would be hoping that he continue with his stellar performance in Super Eagles last group game against Argentina on Tuesday.

All six of Nigeria's wins at the World Cup have come against European opposition, and they have kept a clean sheet in five of those six victories.

This was Iceland's first ever defeat in a group stage match at a major international tournament (Euros and World Cup), having previously drawn three and won one of four such games.

This was only Nigeria's second win in their last 14 matches at the World Cup (D3 L9), having also beaten Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2014.

Nigeria did not attempt a single shot in the opening 45 minutes, the first side to do so in the first half of a World Cup match since South Korea against Algeria in 2014

Iceland's Gylfi Sigurdsson fired in two shots on target in the first six minutes of this match, as many as his side managed in total in 90 minutes against Argentina in their opening