Oladoye who played the entire duration of the match started Gent’s comeback with a 52nd minute goal after the visitors had scored two first half goals via Darko Lemajic and Tomas Simkovic.

The bulky midfielder who was making his European debut for Gent was instrumental in his side’s second goal which was finished up by Tarik Tissoudali with less than 20 minutes to end the game.

Gent dominated the remaining proceedings but fell short of initiative to get the needed winning goal.

Oladoye was simply a delight to watch in the middle of the pack, a performance that earned him a match of the match award.

The highly rated Water FC product with his Gent side now have an herculean task to book a place in the next stage as they must get a decent result in the second leg slated for Latvia next week.

Oladoye joined Gent in the early part of 2021 from Water FC alongside Emeka Chinonso.

Former Flying Eagles star Oladoye Adewale has made his debut for KAA gent in their Jupiler League playoffs ties against Standard Siege which they won 2-0 on Wednesday night in Belgium.

The victory made possible through the goals of Yonas Malede and Roman Yaremchuk in the seventh and 94th minutes has brightened Gent’s hope of stealing the ticket to the Europa conference league which makes its debut in Europe next season.

Adewale’s moment to cherish came came on the 90th minute when he was thrust into the game by Gent head coach.

The flying Eagles Star under Coach Ladan Bosso got the nod in the second half of jupiler league. The water f c Combative Midfieder made instant impression when he came in as interception of pass led to the second goal of the match.

Oladoye needs no introduction, he looked hungry to play his competitive debut arfter he was on the bench in the last game. It could be recalled that, the duo of Adewale Oladoye and Emeka Chinoso signed the dotted lines from water fc Abuja to Gent Fc about not quite long. Nigeria international The likes of Moses Simon, Samuel Kalu, peter Olayinka, Rabiu Ibrahim one time or the other has played for Gent fc .

Top Belgian club side KAA Gent have completed the signing of two Water FC players Emeka Chinonso and Adewale Oladoye for an undisclosed fee, onwardnews24.com can confirm.

Both players are expected to start life with Gent’s reserves team and will also train with the club’s first team.

Chinonso is a centre-forward who made Nigeria’s final squad to the 2019 U20 World Cup in Poland.

Adewale is a lanky defensive midfielder who featured for the most recent Flying Eagles at the U20 AFCON qualifiers in Benin Republic in 2020.

Chinonso and Oladoye, both 20 years are to continue their progress with the top Belgian which has in the past, given more Nigerians, including late Samuel Okwaraji, Taiwo Awoniyi, Moses Simon and Samuel Kalu a run out

According to the source in the Nigeria U20 team’s camp, the agents flooded the hotel after watching him in the group B opener of the U20 WAFU Zone B tournament against Cote d’Ivoire on Sunday.

The Junior Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire in the 90th minute scored the equaliser to force Nigeria to a 1-1 draw at the Stade de Gualle.

The lanky defensive midfielder’s great talent was noticed by many following his sensational performance in the match which attracted the representatives of many foreign clubs who have since then been calling his parent club, Water FC, Abuja over his signature.

‘The Nigeria Viera’ as his fondly called showed class in the group opener as he remained the link for Flying Eagles when forming an attack, his deadly attacking moves, with strength in marking out opposition, truncating their attacking plans, supplying of accurate short and long passes to his team mates won him the Man of The Match award.

With a draw against Ivory Coast on Sunday, the two-time World Cup finalist will need a win against Ghana’s U20 men team to stand a chance of progressing to the semi final.

Flying Eagles of Nigeria will face Ghana on Wednesday at 4pm (Nigerian time) at the Stade de Gualle, Port Novo.

Oladoye nicknamed Nigeria Patrick Viera is a product of Water FC Abuja shone like a million star versus Ivory Coast in a match where ten-man Flying Eagles were forced to a 1 – 1 draw.

The tall lanky defensive midfielder showed class to truncate opposition deadly attacking moves on several occasions and ensured the Nigeria U20 did not lose their opening match in Benin after they were reduced to 10-man

Oladoye’s great talent with strength to mark and supply long-passes have been noticed as plethora of scouts that saw the match are now in talk with the representative of the young talented midfielder.

Having picked a point in their opening match, the Flying Eagles will next face the defending champions Ghana in their next game.