Iheanacho And Musa Can Forge A Fearsome Partnership At Leicester City

Published: July 30, 2018

It's been a long time coming but Super Eagles ace, Ahmed Musa could finally have gotten the chance to fulfill his potentials in the colours of his Premier League side, Leicester City.

And the same applies to his compatriot, Kelechi Iheanacho.

Both players are back with The Foxes after starring for Nigeria at this summer's World Cup competition and combined to devastating effect over the weekend in Leicester's 2-1 loss to Udinese.

With 60 minutes gone at the Wörthersee Stadion in Austria and City already trailing by two goals, on came the Nigerian attacking duo alongside their national team teammate, Wilfred Ndidi and it will not take long before their impact was felt.

Musa initiated a swift breakaway, teeing up Ricardo Perreira who in turn found Iheanacho just at the edge of the box, turning smartly while holding off two markers to slot home and half the deficit.

Such telepathic combination says a lot and could do this team a lot of good in an unpredictable league campaign.

With Riyad Mahrez having defected to league champions, Manchester City, Claude Puel could now prepare to integrate the 25-year-old into the attacking outlet of the team after he had impressed on loan with CSKA Moscow last term and also showed real quality in Russia.

Filling in the shoes of Mahrez is quite a bit task for any player but not so much a big ask for one of Musa's calibre.

He has the pace, the finesse and the goals to boots. What it will only take to get the best out of him is a good combination with his fellow attackers, of which Iheanacho can play some part in ensuring.

Iheanacho played barely 28 first team games for the club last season, returning eight goals. Much of it was hardly down to not been decisive enough but he played second fiddle to Jamie Vardy and Shinji Okazaki. This season could prove to be different.

For Musa, he will desperately want to add to his tally of 21 league appearances since swapping the Russian division for the Premier League in 2016.

Valencia and Lille will provide further opportunities for Puel to observe the duo at close quarters before making up his mind on his best squad to mount an assault on another league campaign just before it begins again.

Emmanuel Chinaza

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