Super Eagles star in a race against time to be fit for historic Europa League clash vs Juventus

The Nigeria worldwide is presently nursing a thigh harm however he could have his eyes skilled on the midweek conflict with the Italian Serie A giants

Tremendous Eagles winger Moses Simon is in a race in opposition to time to be match and obtainable for Nantes forward of the membership’s essential Europa League assembly with former Serie A and UEFA Champions League winners, Juventus.

Simon has been out injured since struggling a thigh bother within the second half of Nantes’ 2-0 defeat at dwelling to Marseille on the primary of February.

The Nigerian ahead missed the Yellow Submarines’ subsequent victory away to Ajaccio in Ligue 1 and their penalty shootout win over Angers within the Coupe de France.

The 27-year-old attacker can also be sure to be unavailable for head coach Antoine Kombouaré when he units his fees in opposition to visiting Lorient on Sunday.

Nonetheless, in accordance with L’Equipe, Moses Simon may very well be again within the Nantes’ fold for the crunch first leg of their Europa League knockout spherical encounter with Juventus on the Allianz Stadium in Turin on Thursday.

If Simon wants every other motivation to push to be match for this tasty conflict aside from serving to Nantes report a historic win of their first-ever assembly with Juventus, it will likely be to finish his poor aim report in European competitions.

After showing in 5 UEFA Champions League matches and 14 Europa League video games, Simon continues to be and not using a aim within the continent’s greatest membership competitions.

The previous KAA Gent and Levante star, nevertheless, has three objectives throughout the qualifying rounds of the Europa League.

Whereas he could have dropped off in the previous few weeks, Simon stays one in all Nantes’ most influential attacking gamers with 5 objectives and two assists in 19 Ligue 1 video games this time period.