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.

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.

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.

The Slim sleaky tall lanky Sadiq Umar who have scored 21goals in all competitions this season has been an influential player for Almeria, it could be recalled that last week he was not on parade with his team hence, his team lost 2 goals to 1 in that encounter.

Research has proven that Sadiq Umar has been the goal poacher of Almeria football club and quest to return back to the early clique La Liga.

Sadiq Umar who just got invitation to the super eagle but the club refused bluntly knowing fully well, according to the club.

Sadiq Umar is needed to prosecute 3 consecutive match for his team in other for them to gain promotion to the elite league.

The team actually stated their cogent reason why they don’t want to miss their star player in their next 3 matches if he honors the national team invitation

Sadiq Umar who has been in a brilliant form since he joined Almeria football club, former player of A.S Roma, former player of glassglow rangers in Scotland,former player of Parizan Bagrade in the Serbian league.

Now with Almeria, time will tell if Sadiq Umar will still be the colour of Almeria next season as lots of clubs are actually justing for his signature, lets see what the future holds for the star player Sadiq Umar the Kaduna born player.

Umar who has being in scintillating form this season following his move from Bulgarian side, Partizan Belgrade scored the only goal of the match in the 77th minute pushing Almeria up the log as they continue to dream for a return to Spanish top flight next season.

The goal off an assist from Brian Rodriguez make it 14th Segunda goal for Sadiq Umar.

The former AS Roma striker has truly justified the huge amount spent on him before the commencement of the season scoring 16 goals in all competition this season.

The Olympics bronze medalist winner has had his goals pushed Almeria to second on the log with 55 points from 28 league games.

Sadiq opened the scoring for the La Liga Smartbank side in the eighth minute before getting his brace in the 45th minute. Ager Aketxe, Andres Battaglia (own goal), and Juan Villar were the other scorers for Almeria in the rout.

The forward who has now scored five goals in his last two games for Rojiblancos including a sensational hat-trick in their 3-1 victory over Ponferradina on January 3rd, 2021 told www.dasportstainment247.com that they were able to eliminate Alaves in the Copa Del Rey because of their self-belief and confidence.

The 23-year-old’s two goals against Alaves made it his 17th goal of the season having scored six goals for his ex-club Serbian’s Partizan Belgrade from 10 games before crossing over to Almeria in October last year. He has netted 11 goals from 19 games for Almeria with nine of those goals scored in the La Liga Smartbank and an additional two in the Copa Del Rey.

Having met his target of 17 goals for last season in just 29 games this term and with lots of games more to be played, the Striker opined that he hopes to score more crucial goals for Almeria as they eye La Liga Santander return at the end of the season.

“My target is to beat my last year’s goals and now I have done it. Without limits, I just have to keep on going and see where I will arrive (at the end of the season),” Umar told www.dasportstainment247.com.

The Rio Olympics bronze medallist added that Rojiblancos are improving In every game based on the numbers of matches and successes they have recorded including the morale-boosting 5-0 triumph over the topflight side, Alaves last weekend.

“For us to beat a first-team side (like Alaves) all came with the belief and the pep talk we had among ourselves. We told ourselves that we needed to get a positive result from big games such as this and this inspired us to achieve our target. Even though I had played bigger teams than this before, like playing against big clubs in the Europa League like Manchester United. I also played in Serie A (for Bologna and AS Roma). I have experience when it comes to such games.

“But here (before the game with Alaves), we didn’t bother ourselves thinking we want to play a first division team because of the commitment to the target we have set for ourselves. We just wanted a test in bigger games and we did past the test. Now, it gives us more confidence in the team which keeps us going,” he concluded.

Umar’s superlative season is rubbing on Almeria positively as they are currently third in the La Liga Smartbank with 41 points from 20 games. They are a point and four points adrift of second and first placed Mallorca (42 points) and Espanyol (45 points) who both have played a game more than Almeria.

The Rojiblancos will host Sabadell on Sunday this week after their tie with Kenneth Omeruo’s Leganes initially fixed for January 10th, 2021 was postponed indefinitely because of bad weather and they will be relying on their best marksman in the league (nine goals) for goals.

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