Akpala opened scoring in the 13th minute, just as his Nigerian counterpart, Emmanuel Emenike, brought back Fenerbahce in to the game with an equaliser on the dot of the 40th minute of the encounter
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The stocky forward lashed home the ball to open Fenerbahce’s goal account in the 43rd minute after former Liverpool man, Dirt Kuyt, missed a penalty earlier in the game
Emenike puts the Yellow Submarines ahead with seven minutes to go while his teammate, Egemen Korkmaz’s 90th-minute strike rendered Pablo Batalla’s goal in stoppage-time little more than a consolation
Emenike, who was introduced in the 77th minute, grabbed the last-gasp winner to extend the visitor’s lead
The Nigeria Football Federation is making arrangements to have the full squad train for four days in Abuja before the departure for Addis Ababa on the eve of the game
The Afcon 2013 Golden Boot winner, who recently returned from injury, was a shadow of himself for the entire 90 minutes of the encounter at the Emirates Stadium
With 51 minutes gone on the clock, though, it was the visitors who broke the deadlock and in clinical fashion as Ramsey slipped Walcott in behind for the forward to then pick out Gibbs at the far-post, with the full-back running in to thump the ball into the roof of the net
Peters wondered how hot and productive the attack line of the Eagles would be having Nwafor pairing Emenike in the Eagles attack in matches, most especially in the remaining matches of the ongoing 2014 World Cup qualifier
A player may be registered on the B list if he has been eligible to play for the club for any uninterrupted period of two years since his 15th birthday
He leaves a Spartak Moscow side that currently sit top of the Russian Premier League after four games, in no short part down to Emenike’s three goals
Super Eagles Media Officer, Ben Alaiya, quotes Team’s Administrator,
Dayo Enebi Achor, as saying that Emenike opted out of the encounter in
order to quickly settle down at his new club
“There are only two ways this transfer will go ahead, firstly his minimum fee release clause will have to be activated
“I doubt that Spartak would sell him for less than €15 million (£13m) because he was bought for a little less than €10m (£8.5m)
A board member of the Turkish giants, Talat Yılmaz, revealed this on the club’s website on Sunday
Earlier in the game, Spartaks were rewarded in the 51st minute as
Dmitri Kombarov‘s cross from the left was re-directed towards the
right by-line with Sergei Parshivlyuk, then sending a slide-rule
provision that Aiden McGeady prodded into the net
Nimble-footed Chelsea FC ace, Victor Moses, is also back and while goalkeeper and skipper Vincent Enyeama is left out, sharp-shooting Obinna Nsofor returns after nearly two years in the international wilderness
The Secretary General of the NFF disclosed at the weekend in Abuja that the NFF President, Alhaji Aminu Maigari, has met with Emenike
and the football house is monitoring the player’s recovery
Akpala, who was invited as a replacement for injured AFCON 2013 high goal banger, Emmanuel Emenike, told The Eagle Online that he has been hungry for success with the national team
Emenike was making a return from injury for the first time, after injuring himself at the 2013 African Nations Cup, where he finished as the top scorer of the competition, with four goals
Reacting to media reports on the matter, Alaiya said the truth of the matter was that an official of the team, in person of Team Secretary, Dayo Enebi Achor, has been in constant touch with the player since he left for Russia after the AFCON in February and they still spoke on Saturday