Chuba Akpom has returned to the EFL Championship after completing a loan move from Eredivisie giants Ajax to Ipswich Town, Afrosport reports. The 29-year-old English forward of Nigerian heritage will spend the 2025-26 season at Portman Road with an obligation to buy him if the Tractor Boys win promotion back to the Premier League. He was previously on the books of Middlesbrough between 2020 and 2023,...
Chuba Akpom ran the show for Ajax on Thursday as the Nigerian forward scored a hat-trick in their 4-1 comeback win over Polish club Jagiellonia Białystok in the first leg of their UEFA Europa League play-off encounter. The 28-year-old, who joined Ajax last summer, opened his account for the season with a strike in the 9th minute after Adrian Dieguez had put the home side in...
The second leg of the UEFA Europa League and Europa Conference League knockout playoff takes centre stage tonight with 15 teams vieing for a place in the round of 16. These fixtures are incomplete without African players and Afrosport takes a look eight players across the two competitions to keep an eye on. Europa League Amine Gouri (Algeria & Rennes) vs AC Milan Gouri has been...
Olympique Marseille booked their place in the UEFA Europa League knockout phase after recording an entertaining 4-3 Group B win over 10-man Ajax Amsterdam on Thursday night. The French outfit were favourites for this tie but had to work extra hard to get the three points. They began with Aubameyang netting from the penalty spot in the ninth minute after Senegal winger Ismaila Sarr was brought...
Nigerian forward Chuba Akpom scored for the third consecutive game in the Dutch Eredivisie as Ajax were held to a 2-2 draw by Almere City on Sunday. The former Middlesbrough forward scored Ajax's equaliser in the 68th minute for his fourth league goal of the season. https://twitter.com/AFCAjax/status/1723720906793435506?t=pQURvgZ_6aehh1pzfUIzHg&s=19 Jochem van de Kemp put the hosts ahead at the Yanmar Stadion in the 67th minute after a very...
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