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.