Injury boost for Super Eagles star ahead of Olympiacos, Nantes Europa League opener

The Nigeria worldwide had missed his aspect’s final two league video games resulting from an damage picked up on August 28

Tremendous Eagles winger Moses Simon is about to make his ninth look within the Europa League when Nantes FC host Greek giants Olympiacos on the Stade de La Beaujoire on Thursday night time.

Regardless of ending ninth within the French La Ligue 1 final time, Nantes returned to the European circuit following their triumph within the French Cup final season.

Moses Simon was one of many Yellow Canaries’ finest gamers as they beat all odds to say the membership’s fourth Coupe de France in historical past.

The Nigeria worldwide has picked up from the place he left off final season, as he has been essential to Nantes’ respectable begin to the brand new season.

The 27-year-old has managed two targets and an help in 4 league matches for Antoine Kombouaré’s males.

Simon, nonetheless, suffered a quadriceps damage within the 3-1 win over Toulouse on August 28, forcing him out of the encounter within the eightieth minute. The previous Levante ahead netted the third objective within the 61st minute of that match.

In Simon’s injury-enforced absence, Nantes may solely handle a 1-1 draw at Strasbourg earlier than they have been trounced 3-0 at residence to PSG.

However the Tremendous Eagles ace seems to have made it again from the therapy desk simply in time to make the Canaries’ 20-man squad for his or her Europa League Group G opener in opposition to Olympiacos.

Additionally drawn within the group with Nantes and Olympiacos are German Bundesliga aspect Freiburg and Azerbaijan’s Qarabag.