UEFA WCL: Oshoala, Ucheibe goes head to head in group stage match

Tremendous Falcons duo Asisat Oshoala and Christy Ucheibe are set to faceoff within the 2022/23 UEFA Ladies’s Champions League group stage.

The group stage draw happened on Monday at UEFA’s headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland and pits Oshoala’s Barcelona Femeni in opposition to Ucheibe’s Benfica facet, alongside Bayern Munich and Rosengård in Group D.

Oshoala has been a key determine for Barcelona Femeni through the years and performed a significant position within the workforce that gained the 2021 version.

Oshoala additionally completed joint high scorer final season within the Spanish Primera División de la Liga de Fútbol Femenino with 20 objectives as Barcelona Femeni gained the Spanish title and Copa De La Reina.

Oshoala scored her first objective of the season as Barcelona Femeni thrashed Villarreal 4-1 on the Ciudad Deportiva Villarreal CF Vila-real Sept 25.

Oshoala, a goalscorer within the last of the 2018 version will probably be hoping to reclaim the title with Barcelona Femeni, after dropping to Lyon within the last of the 2022 version.

Uchiebe has performed two matches within the second spherical stage of the Ladies’s Champions League and was a second half substitute in Benfica’s 2-1 dwelling win in opposition to Rangers Sept 28.

The 21-year-old Falcons star will probably be aiming to assist her workforce progress to the knockout stage of the competitors.

Each gamers are a part of the Falcons squad that arrived in Kobe, Japan on Monday for the worldwide pleasant fixture in opposition to Japan on the Noevir Stadium on Thursday.