Izuchukwu OkosiKemar Roofe’s extra-time goal sent Rangers into the Europa League semi-finals with a nerve-wracking 3-2 aggregate win over Braga at Ibrox with the visitors finishing with nine men on Thursday night reports Prime Business Africa.
Super Eagles midfielder Joe Aribo was in inspirational form for Glasgow Rangers Thursday night as they reached the semifinals of the UEFA Europa League at the expense of Portuguese side Braga 3-2 on aggregate after extra time. .
The feat was the 14th time Rangers will reach the semifinals of the competition.
Aribo provided two assists in the 3-1 win albeit they had lost 1-0 away on Portugal last week.
Aribo’s first assist was a perfect pass to James Tavenier who fired past the opponents goalkeeper into the bottom right corner.
Roofe thought he had it made 2-0 for the Gers but the VAR overruled the effort for offside. Tavernier then doubled their lead from the penalty spot for the Scottish giants
with the visitors reduced to ten men with the sending off of Tormena.
Aribo should have netted a third shortly after the start of the second half but his shot flew just wide of the left post.
Leon Balogun came off the bench in place of Borna Borisic to firm up the defence while Calvin Bassey played from start to finish and was imperious in defence especially in the first half.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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