Coach of Leicester City Claudio Ranieri has given his opinion on Ahmed Musa first goal for the club, since his big money transfer from Russian side CSKA Moscow in the summer.

Musa rifled in a shot from 20 yards to open scoring for Leicester City in their 3-1 win over Crystal Palace, and the Italian manager who handed him his second consecutive start believes the recently turned 24 year old is finally settling down in England.

Aside scoring, he used his pace and body strength to good effect, as witnessed in the build up to the second goal, when he let loose Jamie Vardy who in turned fed Shinji Okazaki for the second goal scored by Leicester City.

A delighted Ranieri, spoke about Musa and Okazaki after the game. Two players who have had a barren spell in front of goal lately, although Christian Fuchs left foot stunner stole the manager’s attention.

” I know what Okazaki can do. He works hard and links the team. Musa is getting better at understanding the Premier League. This could just be the first of many to come for him” He said in his post match conference.

Super Eagles deputy captain Ahmed Musa scored his first goal for Leicester City as they cruise to a 3-1 win over Crystal Palace, in one of the games of the English Premier League.

Musa handed his second consecutive start by manager Claudio Ranieri broke the dealock in the game, three minute before the half time break.

The big money buy from CSKA Moscow was teed up by last season top scorer in the English Premier League Jamie Vardy, and Musa hit a ferocious drive from the edge of the box, which nestled in the back of the net.

He also had a hand in the second goal scored by Shinzi Okazaki as his lay off to Vardy from a tight angle on the left flank, released the forward who in turn slid the ball for Okazaki to turn home.

Ahead of Algeria November 12 World Cup 2018 qualifiers against Nigeria in Uyo, Sofiane Feghouli has lifted the lid on why players of the Desert Foxes made the FA fire manager Milovan Rajevac.

Feghouli alongside other senior players in the team approached the country’s soccer ruling body after their disappointing 1-1 draw at home to Cameroun in their first World Cup 2018 qualifiers game. They demanded the coach be fired for his poor tactics in the game.

“FAF were wrong in the choice of Rajevac,” he opened up.

“He did not know the names of the players or their positions. There was very little information on Cameroon. We did not prepare as we should.

“But I was not annoyed that I did not start against Cameroon because I do not have any ego problems when I play for the national team. I play for the flag.”

Ahead of the tie against Nigeria, the West Ham star fired a warning to his teammates, insisting anything short of a win or a draw will compound their chances of making it to the World Cup 2018 from their group.

“It will be a difficult trip to Nigeria in November,” conceded West Ham United star Feghouli in an interview.

“We will have to bounce back immediately because if we lost, it will become very complicated to qualify (for the World Cup). We know that.

“Unfortunately, it started badly with the home draw with Cameroon.

“In the group stage, the first match is always very important. But we still a chance as there are still five matches to go.”

The chances of out of favour Super Eagles midfielder Raheem Lawal returning to the team ahead of the tie against Algeria, has been dealt a serious blow.

26 year old Lawal last played for Nigeria in May during the friendly games against Luxembourg and Mali, before the appointment of new coach Gernot Rohr.

The midfielder who has 5 senior caps for Nigeria was rumoured to be pushing for a recall to the team, for the World Cup 2018 qualifiers game against Algeria on the 12th of November.

Group B leaders Nigeria will host group rivals Algeria in Uyo, in their second game as the qualification race for the World Cup in Russia hots up, but Lawal won’t be considered for selection by Nigeria.

According to his Turkish team Osmanlispor, he will be out for three weeks after picking up an injury, which lead to his substitution after 39 minutes, in their 2-2 draw against Villarreal in the Europa League.

On loan Arsenal midfielder Kelechi Nwakali came off the bench to help his loan side MVV Maastricht pick up a hard fought 2-1 win away to Jong FC Utrecht, despite playing with 10 men towards the end of the second division league game.

The highly rated 18 year old, who joined Arsenal in the summer is on a season long loan deal to the Dutch second division side, as part of the Gunners plans for his development.

However, since joining the Dutch side, he has been restricted to making cameo appearances as he settles down to life as a professional footballer, after his heroics at the last U-17 WYC where he lead Nigeria to glory, and got voted as the Most Valuable player of the tournament.

He made his impact felt the most, this time around coming on earlier than in previous games, as he replaced Ricardo Ippel in the 66th minute with scores at 1-0 in favour of his team.

Nwakali started the move that lead to Patrick Nkoyi increasing the lead for Maastricht to 2-0, before slotting into a more defensive role after Steven Pereira was sent off with four minutes left to play.

Dani van der Moot pulled a goal back for the home side on the dot of regulation time but Nwakali and the rest of his teammates hanged on to pick all three points.