Omeruo Ineligible To Represent Leganes In Their First Match After Super Eagles Duty

Published: March 17, 2019

Kenneth Omeruo received his fifth yellow card of the season in the Spanish La Liga and sixth in all competitions as Leganes were defeated 2-0 by Girona at the their Estadio Municipal de Butarque home stadium Saturday evening.

Thus, the Super Eagles defender will be suspended for the trip to Getafe on March 30 upon his return from international duty.

Portu fired the visitors ahead with a shot to the bottom left corner in the 13th minute and doubled the advantage when he slotted home the ball into an empty net nine minutes later.

Omeruo who will be on duty when the Super Eagles play Seychelles and Egypt in both a 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier and international friendly was yellow carded in the 63rd minute after catching Stuani with a mistimed tackle, one of his two fouls in the 90 minutes he was in action.

Omeruo had one attempted shot, won two aerial duels, made a total of four tackles, three interceptions and three clearances according to information provided by statistical website, Whoscored.com.

The match had nine yellow cards in total handed out by the referee.

This season, Omeruo has played 21 league games, logging 1, 841 minutes.

Izuchukwu Okosi