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NIGERIA’S IGHALO LEADS GOAL-CHART AT HALFTIME OF AFCON QUALIFIERS

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Ahead of the second half of the qualifying series for the 2019 Africa Cup of nations qualifying series which began on Sunday, Nigeria’s lead striker, Odion Ighalo is also one of the lead strikers in the continent.

 

His hat-trick performance on Saturday against Libya put his total goal so far in the competition at four, making him a joint-top scorer with Zimbabwe’s Knowledge Musona as at the end of the first half of the qualifying tournament.

 

Before Saturday, Ighalo who was heavily criticized for his wasteful adventures at the World Cup, had scored a goal against Seychelles in September. Incidentally, it was from the penalty spot just as the opener in Saturday’s match with Libya.

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His four goals have thus been consecutive. As at Saturday night when the first half of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying tournament ended, the lead scorers were:

 

4 GOALS

 

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Odion Ighalo – NIGERIA

Knowledge Musona – ZIMBABWE

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3 GOALS

Gelson Dala -ANGOLA

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Mohamed Salah – EGYPT

Faneva Imà Adriatsima -MADAGASCAR

Paulin Voavy – MADAGASCAR

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2 GOALS

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Mateus Galiano – ANGOLA

Baghdad Bounedjah – ALGERIA

Aristide Bancé – BURKINA FASO

Ricardo Gomes – CAPE VERDE

El Fardou Ben Nabouhane – COMOROS ISLAND

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Thievy Bifouma – CONGO

Seydou Doumbia ??

Cédric Bakambu ??

Denis Bouanga ??

Percy Tau – SOUTH AFRICA

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Justin Chonga –ZAMBIA

Emmanuel Okwi -UGANDA

Taha Yassine Khenissi – TUNISIA

James Moga –SOUTH SUDAN

Moussa Sow – SENEGAL

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Idrissa Gueye – SENEGAL

Youssef En-Nesyri – MOROCCO

Carolus Adriamatsinoro – MADAGASCAR

Jonathan Kodjia – COTE D’IVOIRE

Frédéric Mendy –GUINEA BISSAU

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François Kamano – GUINEA

Raphael Dwamena – GHANA

Assan Ceesay – THE GAMBIA

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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