Moses leads Africa stars’ song abroad
PARIS – Chelsea and Nigeria winger Victor Moses ended a four-year English Premier League goal drought by completing the scoring in a 3-0 rout of Burnley at the weekend.
The Lagos-born 25-year-old attacker is back with the west London club after oneseason loans to Liverpool, Stoke City and West Ham United.
The Nigeria international scored his first Premier League goal in four years when, having been played in by fellow substitute Pedro, he slid the ball in from close range in the 89th minute to set the seal on unbeaten Chelsea’s 3-0 win at home to Burnley.
Performances of other African players abroad: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund, Germany)
African Footballer of the Year and Gabon striker Aubameyang bagged a brace for Borussia Dortmund in a season-opening 2-1 Bundesliga victory over Mainz. Lamine Kone (Sunderland, England) Had a generally sound game in defence for the Black Cats at Southampton, and the Ivory Coast centre-back might have opened the scoring in an eventual 1-1 draw but shot wide after being teed up by Patrick van Aanholt. Kevin-Prince Boateng (Las Palmas, Spain)
Boateng’s brilliant start to life in the Canary Islands continued as Las Palmas went top of La Liga with a 5-1 thrashing of Granada.
The Ghanaian headed home his second goal in as many games to put the hosts 2-1 up early in the second half. Kwado Asamoah (Juventus, Italy)
Just how long Asamoah will keep his starting place in the Juventus midfield remains to be seen, but the Ghanaian dynamo won the plaudits of coach Massimiliano Allegri after a “solid” performance in a 1-0 win at Lazio that maintained the champions’ 100% start to the campaign.
Asamoah may even have had his name in lights if Lazio ’keeper Federico Marchetti had not flapped his speculative effort away from the top corner of his goal. Moustapha Diallo (Guingamp, France)
Senegalese midfielder Diallo scored his second goal this season to help Guingamp to a 2-0 win at Nancy that leaves them surprisingly top of the Ligue 1 table. –