Nigeria’s Imoh Ezekiel was on
the score sheet as his club Al Arabi defeated Al Wakrah 3-1 in a Qatar Stars
League match on Saturday.
With his side having a
slender 2-1 lead into stoppage-time, the one-time Super Eagles striker beat his
marker to nod the ball into the net from close range.
It was Ezekiel’s sixth goal
in 20 appearances for the Doha-based club.
Chilean Luis Jimenez scored a
brace in the game after Al Wakrah’s Mahir Yousef grabbed the opener for the
bottom-of-the table club.
The victory takes Al Arabi
into mid-table in the 14-team league on 23 points from 22 matches. Only last
week, Ezekiel’s club suffered the heaviest defeat in their recent history, a
7-0 whitewash in the hands of former Barcelona great Xavi Hernandez’s club Al
Sadd.
Al Arabi is popularly known
as the “ Dream Team” in Qatar.
Al Arabi has won the league
seven-times and there last was in the 1995-1996 season, where Nigeria’s former
Super Eagles striker Richard Owubokiri was top striker in the league with 16
goals that season.
The club’s most renowned
player is Gabriel Batistuta, former Fiorentina and Argentina great.
Ezekiel received his first
call-up to the Nigeria national team in February 2014 and his last on 3 September
2016. He earned his first senior cap on 6 March, in the 0–0 draw with Mexico in
a friendly match after coming on as a second-half substitute for Victor Moses.
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