Super Eagles forward, Sadiq Umar scored an important goal for Almeria in their 2-2 SmartBank LaLiga II final day clash at Leganes to secured his side’s league title.

The result has also helped Almeria gained promotion back to the Spanish top flight after missing out last season in the playoff.

The match played at the Estadio de Municipal De Burtaque was explosive from the get go as both sides find back of the next inside opening 15 minutes.

Borja Carces gave Leganes the lead with just nine minutes into the game before Almeria equalized via Rodrygo Ely six minutes after.

Umar’s team mate in the Super Eagles, Kenneth Omeruo restored Leganes’ lead with from a goal mouth melee with three minutes to end the first half.

But Almeria who remained resolute with what they intend to achieve even the score with eighth minutes into restart from Sadiq Umar’ sublime finish.

Almeria held on to ward off late pressure from their hosts to secure the point which was enough to win the second division league title and returned to LaLiga after went down in 2014.

Umar will be among the notable names to be remembered for the historic feat as his 18 goals and nine assists helped Almeria win the SmartBank league.

It was a rain of goals and display of natural talent and soccer artistry as Remo Stars FC U-15 side put Abia Warriors FC U-15 to the sword, in Day 3 of the ongoing NPFL Laliga U-15 Premises Youth League.

The Junior Sky Blues raced into an early lead with two quick goals from Arierhi Kparoboa and Adejimi Peter, while entertaining the fans with their individual skills and team cohesion at the same time.

They put the game beyond the reach of the young Warriors with three second half goals from Promise Meliga, Peter Adejimi and Oreoluwa Agbenla.

Remo stars coach, Tiago Conde, while giving his post match reaction said; “The early goals we got in the match actually paved the way for us to do far better in the second half.

“Although after the first two goals, the boys lost focus for a while and then, the second half was far better and they got three goals, but above all, team work, consistency, determination and commitment is key; if we have all these in our team at any point in time during this competition, I am sure we would go far.”

In the second match of the day, goals from Kolawole Olalekan, Mahmud Balogun and Olatunji Yusuf ensure that Gombe United U-15 side fell to the fire power of Kwara United U-15. However, the North Eastern team didn’t go down without a fight, as a consolatory goal from Miko Dalhat saw the scoreline at 3-1 after the final whistle.

In his post match reaction, the coach of Kwara United, Mukaila Ayala maintained that his side has greatly improved compared to how they played in the last edition in Enugu.

“I am happy with the way we played; the team has improved tremendously compared to how we played in the last edition. We created a lot of chances but we couldn’t utilize anyone of them, but this time around, it is a different ball game, as we were able to utilize three of our chances in the first half.”

The final match of the day saw team Rangers Int’l beat Sunshine Stars 2-1, with goals from Salami Taiwo and Sunday Oreoluwa, while Adeyemi Ola got the only goal for the young Gunners of Akure.

Former Nigeria’s U23 player, Sadiq Umar was absolutely an outstanding player in Almeria’s 3-1 demolition of Cartegena in the Spanish Segunda clash on Monday.

Umar scored the first goal of the match as at 19 minutes of play via assist from Jose Carlos .

He registered his name again in the score sheet but no thanks no VAR. He tormented the back line of the hosts with his intelligent runs and a goal to end the game .

He scored two goals again Real Betis last week before the commencement of the league. He began where he stopped last season where he scored 20 goals in the smartbank league . He is simply a goal getter and a player who is quite deadly in front of goal.

Can sadiq Umar be included in the list of invited player come this week? His fans are waiting desperately to see the former AS Roma striker in the super Eagles Jersey.

He has been invited twice in the Super Eagles but club restriction did not allow him with the hope that he will help Almeria secure promotion to the la Liga during the play off.

Sadiq Umar expressing himself after the team Almeria could not promote to Lal Liga at the end of the season had said its painful that they couldn’t get the promotion but he’s still grateful to God for it all.

“To me the goals do not really count but the promotion is the main target of the club as it should have been a collective responsibility to promote the team to Elite league. The team have invested so much and we should have paid back the club owners with promotions to the Elite league”

He further stated that:
“We tried our best but our best was not good enough in the play off, we should have obviously done better but it’s a thing of the past now which makes me feel bad as human. It’s one of the things you cannot change so you should not get too worried about it and that’s my present position as I speak to you”.

Talking about joining another club, he opened up that it’s not what he wants to talk about;
“Regarding me joining another club, I don’t want to discuss it, I just want to remain cool and enjoy the break while my manager takes care of that.”

While concluding, he said.
“There is better days ahead for me . My goals I scored in this season is 28 goals 6 with my former club before I joined Almeria I scored 2 goals in cup games and 20 goals lin the league , I would have been happier if my goals can assist my team to promote to la liga.”

Nigerian striker, Sadiq Umar increased his LaLiga II goal tally to 20 on Monday as he helped Almeria secure a position in the playoff for LaLiga Santander promotion following a nervy 2-1 win over Logrones.

The former AS Roma forward opened the score sheet for the hosts with second minutes into the game finishing up a lay up pass from Manu Morlanes.

Juan Brandariz doubled the lead for Almeria in the 27th minutes as he tucked in a cross from Jose Lazo.

Sadiq could have put the game to rest with the third goal but the Kaduna born lanky forward missed from the spot.

Logrones tried to stage a comeback in the second half when Leonardo Ruiz halved the lead with about 20 minutes to end the game but Almeria held on to their lead which put them in the promotion playoff position with a game to end the regular season.

Sadiq Umar who will be missing out on Super Eagles’ squad due to club engagement has now scored 22 goals in all competitions for Almeria.

He had earlier had six league goals to his name while at Partizan Belgrade before joining the Spanish side later in the season putting him on 28 goals scored this season.

Sadiq still have a chance to secure a dream promotion to the Spanish top flight as his side will be in for a playoffs.

Nigerian striker, Umar Sadiq was instrumental for his side Almeria as they secured convincing 1-0 away win over Tenerife in the Matchday 33 of LaLiga Segunda on Friday.

The Olympics Silver medalist created an assist that secured maximum points for Almeria when he put Largie Ramanazi through with a final pass which the youngster calmly finished up.

The sleek and lanky forward was however swapped for Plaza Centelles with two minutes to end the game.

The win has however put Almeria in comfortable third position for promotion having garnered 66 points from 38 games.

The Kaduna born forward has swelled his goal involvement this season to 22 having scored 18 league goals and provided four assists in 33 matches.

The 24 year old is waiting for his first senior cap for Super Eagles haven missed last month’s double header AFCON qualifiers due to Covid 19 challenges.

Almeria striker Umar Sadiq has admitted that he is eyeing the Segunda Division’s Pichichi prize for the 2020-2021 season.

With 18 goals to his name, the 2016 Olympics bronze medalist is the third highest goalscorer in LaLiga 2 despite missing the first four matches of the season after joining from Partizan Belgrade.

Only Espanyol’s Raúl de Tomás (22) and Sporting Gijon’s Uro  Đurđević (21) have managed to score more goals than the former Nigeria international five matches to the end of the regular season.

“Individually I am satisfied with the number of goals I have achieved, but in reality the most important thing for me, the primary objective, is promotion to First Division and we are going to fight for it even through the playoffs,” Sadiq told reporters in Spain.

“I do not continuously look at the Pichichi data, it would be good to achieve it, but what I focus the most on is not so much in scoring, but in the team doing it, I like to give assists and score points for the team.

“If I succeed and help the team reach its goal, I would be very happy with it.

” Sadiq’s brilliant performances have seen him linked with a move to Sevilla in the summer transfer window.

Sadiq’s goals on the night has also pushed Almeria to third on the Segunda log.

Almeria could have taken the lead in the opening 12th minutes when Corpas Sema missed from the spot.

Sadiq was however employed to take the next spot kick awarded to Almeria which he dispatched past Oviedo keeper in the 22nd minute.

The Olympic silver medal winner got his second eight minutes later as he finished off a through pass from Sergio Akieme.

Oviedo staged a remarkable comeback in the second half when Ghanaian youngster Samuel Obeng scored in the 54th minutes.

Sadiq was then denied his hat trick few moments later Oviedo keeper, Joan Femenias made himself too big to thwart his goal bound effort.

Simone Grippo completed the comeback for Oviedo with five minutes to end the game.

The sleeky and lanky forward has been involved in 21 league goals for Almeria (18 goals, 3 assists) making him the third top scorer in LaLiga II.

The former AS Roma and Partizan Belgrade striker also has two cup goals.

He is currently the highest scoring African in Spanish Segunda.

The Spanish Segunda match began with the two teams showcasing good football artistry as the first half ended draw.

Five minutes into the resumption of the second half, the former AS Roma striker Sadiq Umar got the curtain raiser with a beautiful finishing after he takes on the defender of espanyol, using his strength and precision to finish up to get the goal.

Espanyol immediately responded by getting their equalising goal through a nodded player; Dimata. Barely ten minutes later, a penalty was awarded the away team but good goal-keeping denied Espanyol from taking the lead as the match ended 1:1.

Sadiq Umar have succeeded to have scored 18 goals as far as the ongoing season is concerned: 16 goals in the league and 2 goals in the Cup game.
With this result, Almeria is still 3rd position on the log table with 61 points while Espanyol is topping the table with 71 points, 10 points separating the two sides

Sadiq Umar proved how important he is to Almeria football club by scoring the third goal of his team in an away fixture where they demolished Malaga 3 goals to nil in favour of Almeria.

Sadiq Umar who became a constant threat right from the commencement of proceeding no thanks to the goal keeper who denied Sadiq on two occasions in the first half of the match. The first half ended 2 goals to nil in favour of Almeria.

On resumption of the second half Almeria proved why they deserved the maximum points and Sadiq Umar netted his fourteenth goal of the season.

With this result, Almeria now has 60 points and 1 point behind Mallorca who are second on the log.
Sadiq Umar is no doubt a player who has eye for goals.