Victor Boniface scored the only goal as Bayer Leverkusen defeated AC Milan 1-0 in their UEFA Champions League (UCL) group stage encounter at the Bayer Arena on Tuesday night. The Nigerian forward struck in the second half to give Leverkusen a perfect start to the UCL campaign.
October 1, 2024 10:43 pm Victor Boniface scored the only goal as Bayer Leverkusen defeated AC Milan 1-0 in their UEFA Champions League group stage encounter at the Bayer Arena on Tuesday night.as a teenager.
Boniface lasted 75 minutes of the encounter, while Samuel Chukwueze, his Super Eagles of Nigeria colleague, came on as a second-half substitute for AC Milan in the 79th minute. Nathan Tella was also an 89th-minute substitute for the home side.The match produced 33 shots, 14 of which were on target, but only Boniface’s 51st-minute effort found the right spot in the net.
It was, however, a goal rush for Karim Adeyemi, who hit a hattrick in Borussia Dortmund’s 7-1 win over Celtic at the Signal Iduna Park in Germany.The German player of Nigerian descent scored all three goals in the first half. He became the first German to score a UCL first-half hattrick in 13 years.
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