According to reports gathered by Owngoalnigeria.com , Algeria have made significant progress in their search for a replacement for the sacked Milovan Rajevac ahead of their World Cup 2018 qualifiers clash against Nigeria.

Algeria parted ways with Rajevac, three months and three games into his reign as coach of the team after they started their World Cup 2018 qualifiers on a shaky note with a 1-1 draw at home to Cameroon.

After been linked with several coaches, latest reports indicate that they are neck deep in talks with Hubert Fournier, who last coached Olympique Lyon in France.

49 year old Fournier is reportedly interested in the job and talks are well underway for his appointment, which the FA hope to announce before their game against Nigeria in Uyo next month.

Fournier was sacked as coach of Lyon in 2014 after just a year as coach and he has been without a job since then. Prior to moving to Lyon he coaches Gueugnon and Reims.

The quest to appoint a coach ahead of their World Cup 2018 qualifiers tie with Nigeria in Uyo next month has put the football governing body of Algeria under immense pressure.

The FA have been forced to deal with so many speculations in the media as to who will succeed Milovan Rajevac, who left as coach shortly after their first game against Cameroon which ended 1-1 in front of their fans.

However, the FA have categorically deny making contact with former coach of Zambia Herve Renard, who won the 2012 AFCON with the Chipolopolo who are also in same group with Algeria.

He also won the 2015 AFCON with the Ivory Coast in 2015 to go into the record books as the first man to lift the title with two different nations.

Reinhard who is presently in charge of Morocco claimed he has been contacted by the Algeria FA to manage their team but president of the FA firmly deny the claims.

” Even when he was free, we didn’t make make approach to recruit him. So how do you expect us to contact him now that he is in charge of Morocco. It’s not true, we have not contacted him” Mohammed Raouraoua said.

Victor Moses goal celebration after scoring in Chelsea 3-0 win over Champions Leicester City didn’t quite go down well with some Nigerians, judging by their reactions on twitter.

Moses missed the Super Eagles of Nigeria 2-1 win over Zambia in Ndola, with a hamstring injury picked up in Chelsea’s win over Hull City but some Nigerians were of the opinion that he feigned injury to skip the tie.

However the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) debunked the insinuations but after seeing Moses celebrate his goal in style with back flips. Some Nigerians were quick to reopen the debate as to if he was actually injured or if the injury was fabricated so he can skip the tie against Zambia.

They took to twitter to air their views, on the 25 year old, who is experiencing a new lease of life at Chelsea under manager Antonio Conte. Owngoalnigeria.com picked just two of the numerous tweet aimed at him.

” Good to see Chelsea have gotten a better medic then. Moses was so sick, he couldn’t fly to Nigeria for a game. Doing. flips now” One wrote.

” Victor Moses Starts and scores for Chelsea after miraculously recovering from a hamstring injury he got while removing his boots. Classic way to celebrate” Another wrote.

Alex Iwobi who was compared to his uncle Austin Okocha by his Arsenal teammate Mesut Ozil, proved the German right when he went past five players with a some neat piece of skills.

During the week Ozil who has been one of the players motivating the 20 year old, during the course of the week said ” He reminds me of his uncle Jay-Jay Okocha, he was a player I loved watching”.

Iwobi appreciated the praise and reacted by saying, ” When I saw (Ozil compared me to Okocha and Edgar Davids), I was like, wow is he serious?. Because he never really says that much to me”.

After his off pitch reaction, he proved on the pitch that he can be every thing his legendary uncle was in Arsenal’s hard fought 3-2 win over Swansea City.

In the 55th minute, he collected a pass from the edge of Swansea’s box from Ozil and used some clean pair of hells to leave five Swansea defenders in their wake, but his cross failed to reach Theo Walcott, which Ozil later did with a headed pass but Walcott failed to beat Luskaz Fabianski in goal for Swansea City.

Arsenal 20 year old forward Alex Iwobi missed out on a nomination for the CAF Player of the year award, even as five other Nigerians made the list released earlier today.

Chelsea of England midfielder Mikel Obi and Leicester City big money buy Ahmed Musa, lead rave of the moment Kelechi Iheanacho of Manchester City as the three Nigerians in the list.

They will battle current holder Pierre Emerick Aubemeyang and 26 other African players in a list which also has Musa’s teammate Riyead Mahrez who was voted the best player in England last season.

The Nigerian duo of Mfon Udoh who plays for Enyimba and Wydad Casablanca’s Chisom Chikatara were also nominated, but in the category of Best African Player based in Africa.

CAF will trim the list before the end of the year for the awards which will be handed out in the first quarter of next year.