Atletico Madrid of Spain yesterday showed superiority over Nigeria Super Eagles Team B, beating the Salisu Yusuf boys 3-2 in Uyo, capital of Akwa Ibom. The encounter which held at the Nest of Champions in Uyo had the Eagles team largely made up of Nigeria Professional Football League stars with a sprinkle of foreignbased pros confronting the newly-crowned Europa League champions manage by Diego Simeone. Atletico paraded some of their top like Fernando Torres, Joan Oblak and Juafran and showed Nigerian sport fans that thronged the stadium what make them thick in the La Liga. The Nigerian side drew the first blood through Kelechi Nwakali but the Atlettico quikly responded through Angel Corea makes it 1-1 as both sides ended the first half 1-1.
Fernando Torress puts Atletico in fron on resumption of the game in second as El Nino nods in the ball, but Eagles also got the leveler until Graces smash in the third for the visitors to end the encounter 3-2. Eagles starting 11 include goalkeeper Femi Th omas while Musa Muhammed, EbubeDuru, ChineduAjanah, OlamilekanAdeleye manned the defence. In the midfield were Ibrahim Alhassan ‘Muazzam’, Kelechi Nwakali, Chidiebre Nwakali, and DayoOjo while Emem Eduok and Samad Kadiriplaed in the attack. Salisu made one substitution in the first half, removing Ibrahim Alhassan for Destiny Ashadi to step in. another sub came up in the second half as Tosin Omoyele stepped in for EmemUdok
