Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Africans players in European leagues:performance in the past week
England
-Demba Ba
(Senegal) who plays for Newcastle United is the English Premier
League’s leading scorer of the week, his double over the weekend which led to a
2-2 at Reading takes him to the top of the scoring charts. Newcastle United’s
manager Alan Pardew called Ba’s first goal in the game against Reading
“majestic” the two goals brings his overall goal tally for the season to 6.
-Jimmy Kebe
(Mali) who plays for Reading as a Winger scored the first goal in the match
against Newcastle, however, with Demba Ba's equalizer, the game ended in a
draw keeping his side still in the bottom 3.
- Gervais
Lombe Yao Kouassi, better known as Gervinho (Ivory Coast) plays for Arsenal FC
as a striker. Even with Torres's early strike in Saturday’s game against Chelsea FC, Gervinho's powerful finish put Arsenal level before halftime but the
Blues claimed the points early in the second half with Mata's long-range free-kick
resulting in the 2-1 victory against Arsenal. Gervinho has 4 goals already in
this season.
In France,
- leading is
Algerian midfielder FOUED KADIR who plays for Valenciennes, he recently scored
one goal and made another as Valenciennes ended Marseille's 100 percent start
to the season with a 4-1 win.
-Following
is Senegalese YOUNES BELHANDA (Montpellier) and Souleymane Camara (Montpellier), in their second win of the season, Belhanda made the first goal and in the
final minutes, Camara guaranteed their 2-0 win at Nancy with a 25-yard drive.
-Malian striker CHEICK DIABATE (Bordeaux) scored
his first goal of the season in the match against the undefeated Lyon, his
header sealed Bordeaux’s 2-0.
In Germany,
Cameroon
international JOEL MATIP (plays for Schalke) got on the score sheet for the first
time this season in a 2-2 draw at Fortuna Dusselforfhis first goal of the
season in a 2-2 draw at Fortuna Dusseldorf.
Another
Didier, only this one plays for German side Hanover, in a match against
Hamburg, Didier Ya Konan came close to scoring again after scoring twice in a
4-1 victory over Nuremberg three days before, unable to make the net however,
the game ended in 1-0 defeat for Hanover.
In Spain,
ALEX SONG (Cameroon) who plays for Barcelona played beautifully in 3-2 win over Sevilla
MANUCHO (Angola)
who also plays for Valladolid showed he had more to offer the team and in the
game against Rayo Vallencano, his performance was exceptional as he produced
two goals in a 6-1 win
Nigeria’s
Obafemi Martins (Levante) did not do quite well in the match against Osasuna as
Levante crashed 4-0. His disappointing performance is coming right after he
made an impact with a winning goal in his debut game last week against Real
Sociedad. :
For Italy,
-Kwadwo Asamoah
(Ghana) who plays for Juventus was recently used as substitute in the
second-half of a 4-1 victory over Roma.
-Ghanaian
midfielder Kevin Prince Boateng who also plays for AC Millan showed improved
performance in a 1-1 draw at Parma.z
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