Manager of Chelsea Antonio Conte has voiced out his annoyance with N’Golo Kante during their 3-1 win over Arsenal last weekend.

Conte revealed that Kante failed to keep up with his man, which left Victor Moses with so much to do, when Arsenal had a corner kick during the clash at Stamford Bridge.

Even with Chelsea a goal to the good against Arsenal on Saturday, Antonio Conte was suddenly incensed late in the first half.

For the often-animated manager it was a familiar spike in his emotions. Conte grabbed at the jacket of his assistant Angelo Alessio and bellowed at him to get down the touchline to sort out the issue he had identified.

‘I was angry because (N’Golo) Kante was supposed to track back in place of (Victor) Moses,’ he said afterwards. ‘When I see something that isn’t going right, I am capable of murdering anyone.’

Nigeria youth international Samuel Chukwueze has dropped hints about his proposed move to Spanish La-Liga giants Villarreal.

As exclusively reported by Owngoalnigeria.com, the fleet footed forward is presently in Spain holding talks with the La-Liga side and not in Nigeria as claimed by some.

Yesterday Chukwueze who dazzled for Nigeria at the last U17 World Youth Championship in Chile, posted a comment on facebook which sort of suggest that his proposed move to Villarreal is done and dusted.

The comment “Baba God don answer prayer” (God has answered my prayers) was posted from his present location in Spain, which is Villarreal de Los Infantes.

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Former coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria Samson Siasia has indicated his interest in the vacant managerial job of the Rwanda national team to reports in Rwanda.

The Beijin 2008 silver medal winning coach, who also lead Nigeria to a bronze medal finish at the Rio 2016 Olympics, is not the only Nigerian who has indicated interest in the job with former Enyimba coach Samson Unuanel also in for the same job.

The Nigerian duo alongside former Algeria coach George Leekens will have to fend off competitions from 49 others who have also applied to replace John McKinstry who was axed last August.

Siasia and Unuanel will be hoping to become the first non Rwandan African to handle the Amavubi for the first time since 2011, when Ghanaian coach Sellas Tetteh was at the helm.

Full list of applicants:

Algeria – Mourad Ouardi, Meziane Ighil

Belgium – Paul Put, Peters Guy, George Leekens, Marc Lelievre, Tom Saintfiet

Belgium/Romania – Mircenia Rednic

Bosnia and Herzegovina – Dragomir Okuka, Seslija Milomir

Bulgaria – Dimitrir Vasev, Danilo Doncic

Britain – Kevin Reeves, Peter Butler

Croatia – Marinko Koljanin

France – Bernard Simondi, Daniel Breard, Denis Doavec, Denis Lavagne, Didier Gomes da Rosa, Sebastian Desabre, Salomon Yannick, Denis Goavec, Nasser Sandjak

Germany – Antoine Hey, Winfried ‘Winni’ Schafer

Germany/Turkey – Engin Firat

The top scorer in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Stephen Odey has been proposed to La-Liga giants Valencia, Owngoalnigeria.com understands.

Odey 18, has taken the Nigeria League by storm this season with five goals in five games after six rounds of games in the league. A form which has lead to talks of an exit from his current team MFM FC when the transfer window reopens in the summer.

” He (Odey) has been proposed to Valencia, and they will monitor his progress before deciding on a move for him in the summer”, a source told Owngoalnigeria.com.

” His move is similarly to that of Ezekiel Bassey to Barcelona, a straight forward deal between the clubs which will be facilitated by the LMC-Laliga partnership.

” Odey has to work very hard and not get carried away by his early season form. The world is watching him”.

Coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria Gernot Rohr says his focus is on their immediate task, which is the AFCON 2019 qualifiers tie against South Africa and not the World Cup 2018 qualifiers against Cameroun.

Rohr made this known during a chat with Owngoalnigeria.com correspondent in Sagamu shortly after watching Niger Tornadoes beat Remo Stars 1-0 in a Nigeria Professional Football League game.

“I understand that Nigerians are concerned about our progress to the 2018 World Cup in Russia, but don’t forget that we have not qualified for the AFCON since 2013 and the crucial game against South Africa is in June, so I want to focus on that,” Rohr said.

The German reasons that a good showing against South Africa will also serve as a morale-booster when the Indomitable Lions come calling in August.

“We have six months between now and August when we play Cameroun. Between now and then we are going to play two friendly games, as well as the qualifier against South Africa. If we do well in those games, it will help our confidence against Cameroun,” Rohr says.

Wilfred Ndidi spectacular goal for Leicester City in their 3-1 FA Cup replay win over Derby County took a whole lot of people by surprise including ace commentator Martin Tyler.

Ndidi received a pass from Riyad Mahrez some metres into the half of Derby County and drove forward in bullish mood before unleashing a thunderous left foot strike, which sailed into the net to give Leicester City a 2-1 lead in extra-time.

The Nigerian was 282 seconds on the pitch when he scored, and just like most people who saw the game, Tyler was also taken aback by the strike, and reacted to it with a statement that ended up as a trend on social media platform twitter.

Tyler’s words were short but captivating as the ace commentator appeared to be short of words, he simply said ” Oh Yes Ndidi”.

#YesNdidi started trending almost immediately on twitter, and even the official handle of Leicester City also captured it in their post match picture post.

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Wilfred Ndidi opened his goal account in style for English Champions Leicester City in their 3-1 win over Derby County in the FA Cup replay.

Ndidi’s extra time goal came 238 seconds after he was introduced as a substitute, and it was scored in spectacular fashion with the Nigerian unleashing a left foot belter which sailed into the net of Derby County after charging his way through the middle.

Social media users took to Twitter to post comments about the goal, and their comments were picked up by Owngoalnigeria online editor.

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Manager of Manchester City Pep Guardiola will allow Kelechi leave Manchester City this summer according to reports coming out of the homeland of the manager.

Although Guardiola blocked him from leaving the club in January, a decision for him to leave in the summer has been reached, and according to some reports it has been communicated to the Nigeria international.

Guardiola didn’t list Iheanacho in his matchday squad for the club’s last four games, and it is reported that he has told the 20 year old that he is free to leave the club in the summer.

Iheanacho will be allowed to leave the Etihad in the summer, on an initial loan deal with the option of a permanent deal at the end of next season, as he failed to convince Guardiola during the injury enforced absence of star forward Sergio Kun Aguero.

Spanish online media Fichajes.com reports that Guardiola has decided to keep Gabriel Jesus and Sergio Kun Aguero at the end of the season, and the club is willing to listen to offers for Kelechi Iheanacho.