Super Eagles forward shines in Spain, clinches prestigious award after WCQ performance

• Nigeria planetary Umar Sadiq has been named La Liga’s Goal of the Month victor for March 2025
• The erstwhile AS Roma subordinate was an unused substitute successful Nigeria’s World Cup qualifiers against Rwanda and Zimbabwe
• The erstwhile Nigeria U23 subordinate bushed different competitors from CD Leganes and Rayo Vallecano to win Real Betis' Romain Perraud

Umar Sadiq's backheel extremity against CA Osasuna has been named La Liga EA SPORTS' Best Goal of March.

The 28-year-old joined Valencia connected indebtedness from Real Sociedad successful January 2025 and has since scored 4 goals successful 15 appearances for the club.

The lanky guardant was made successful Eric Chelle’s 23-man squad for Nigeria's World Cup qualifiers.

Super Eagles guardant Umar Sadiq scored a backheel extremity against CA Osasuna successful the 2024/25 La Liga. Photo by: Bruno Penas/Quality Sport Images.
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Sadiq shines successful Spain

Super Eagles subordinate Umar Sadiq has achieved a singular feat successful Spain by winning La Liga’s Goal of the Month.

According to Nation, the 28-year-old scored an equaliser successful the 88th infinitesimal with a backheel against Osasuna, helping the lucifer extremity successful a 3-3 draw.

The erstwhile Partizan subordinate bushed Diego Garcia's overhead footwear for CD Leganes against Getafe CF and Andrei Rațiu's long-range changeable for Rayo Vallecano against Sevilla FC per La Liga.

Sadiq succeeds Real Betis' Romain Perraud, who won it successful February, successful the database of winners of this trophy.

Valencia are presently successful 16th presumption with 28 points successful the 2024/25 La Liga season.

Mixed absorption trails Sadiq's goal

Super Eagles fans person questioned the nationalist team’s coaching unit for not fielding Umar Sadiq during the World Cup qualifiers against Rwanda and Zimbabwe.

One instrumentality argued that the Valencia player's awesome performances should person earned him a spot successful the starting XI, portion different instrumentality suggested that his extremity deserves a Puskás nomination.

@olulade15 said:

This is the idiosyncratic who is expected to beryllium benching Chukwueze. I get aggravated and uninterested whenever I spot him successful the starting lineup alternatively of this guy. This feline is far, far, acold amended than him.

@SpiceyMall57010 wrote:

Never adjacent played a infinitesimal successful the World Cup qualifiers. Baffling however these guys bash good successful Europe and past flatter to deceive backmost home.

@JubalKraft added:

Some goal!🔥❤️ Should decidedly get successful the premix for Puskas.

@mukhtar_gubio said:

Lol yet they don’t springiness him minutes cos helium is from north.

@Lilly7862 wrote:

Umar Sadiq's backheel brilliance secures La Liga's March award!

@divaUTD_ added:

That's fundamentally extremity of the year, arsenic good arsenic the extremity of the season. Add it to the puskas

@OddsDanny said:

Sadiq's backheel brilliance caught La Liga's eyes - nary astonishment he's nabbed Goal of the Month.That precocious equaliser showing outrageous imaginativeness and method erstwhile Valencia needed it most.

Super Eagles striker Umar Sadiq bushed competitors from CD Leganes and Rayo Vallecano to triumph the Goal of the Month. Photo by: Aitor Alcalde.
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Lamidi unimpressed with Nigeria players

Veteran Nigerian writer Kehinde Lamidi has praised the 2016 Olympic bronze medalist for his achievements but expressed disappointment with the players' cognition during nationalist assignments.

Speaking successful an exclusive chat with Legit.ng, Lamidi stated that portion players springiness their champion for their clubs, the aforesaid cannot ever beryllium said erstwhile they correspond the Super Eagles. He said:

“Umar Sadiq is simply a fantastic subordinate and has been accordant implicit the years. The La Liga Goal of the Month grant is simply a testament to his hard enactment and commitment. He has proven that each helium needs is playing clip and a tactical attack from his coach. “While players similar Umar Sadiq are giving their each for their clubs, galore of the existent Super Eagles players lone put their vigor into their nine sides, dissimilar successful the past. We present person a procreation of players who play with passionateness for their clubs but springiness thing backmost to the country. “I don’t deliberation these players recognize what it genuinely means to deterioration the green, white, green.”

Boniface appeals to Nigerians

Legit.ng earlier reported that Super Eagles striker Victor Boniface returned to Bayer Leverkusen aft the planetary break and was trusted to commencement successful Friday’s German Bundesliga against VfL Bochum.

He scored the team's 2nd extremity to enactment the champions backmost up aft Felix Passlack cancelled retired Aleix Garcia’s opener. Amine Adli scored Leverkusen's 3rd to wrapper up a 3-1 win.

It was his eighth Bundesliga extremity of the play and his 11th successful each competitions.

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Source: Legit.ng