EFE AMBROSE could have spent last night in Lagos, joining in extended celebrations with the rest of the Nigeria squad after winning the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in 19 years.
EFE AMBROSE could have spent last night in Lagos, joining in extended celebrations with the rest of the Nigeria squad after winning the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in 19 years.
Efe Ambrose lost the flight of the ball for the opener, and ceded possession for the third goal
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Instead he boarded the first available flight and found himself thrust into the heat of a Champions League last-16 battle on a chilly night in Glasgow.
The home side, inspired by a cacophony around Celtic Park, had flown out of the traps, with Victor Wanyama and Kris Commons putting Gianluigi Buffon's goal under threat, but this Juventus side know how to deploy a long ball as well as a short one. Martin Caceres levered one over from the left, and Ambrose found himself outmanoeuvred by the brawny Alessandro Matri on his blind side. The front man tucked the ball underneath the onrushing Fraser Forster – who knows what the watching Roy Hodgson made of that – and the ball was over the line by the time Kelvin Wilson attempted to salvage the day. In terms of morale- sapping early setbacks against Italian opposition, it was right up there with Luca Toni's strike against Scotland at Hampden a few years back.
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