UCL Roundup: Sanusi wins battle of the Super Eagles stars; Osimhen benched; Bassey bashed

Matches within the Gameweek 5 of the UEFA Champions League have been concluded on Wednesday night time, with a couple of Nigerian stars experiencing combined fortunes.

Tremendous Eagles fullback got here up tops over worldwide teammate Raphael Onyedika as Porto crushed Membership Brugge 4-0 in Belgium.

It was Onyedika’s first defeat within the competitors with Brugge following a wonderful outing of their first 4 matches. The Belgian champions have been already by means of to the knockout spherical of the competitors earlier than Wednesday’s matchup.

The convincing win additionally handed Porto their knockout spherical ticket on the expense of Spanish giants Atletico Madrid.

On the San Siro, Nigerian ahead Fortune Bassey was within the beginning lineup for Viktoria Plzen of their 4-0 tumbling to Inter Milan.

Bassey was subbed off at halftime as targets from Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Edin Dzeko (brace), and Romelu Lukaku noticed off the Czech champions.

Inter’s win sealed the Serie A aspect’s passage to the spherical of 16 forward of Barcelona.

Within the Netherlands, Calvin Bassey featured from begin to end, however his effort was not sufficient to cease Liverpool from operating out 3-0 winners over Ajax Amsterdam.

With the defeat, Ajax are out of the Champions League however are in place to beat Glasgow Rangers to the Europa League ticket.

On the Diego Maradona Stadium, Tremendous Eagles striker Victor Osimhen was an unused substitute in Napoli’s 3-0 thrashing of Glasgow Rangers.

Giovanni Simeone’s first-half brace and Leo Ostigard’s strike after the break have been all Napoli wanted to outclass the Scottish giants.