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Ighalo inspires Watford to away win
Super Eagles striker, Odion Ighalo, was in fine form on Saturday as he inspired his club, Watford, to a 3-2 away win over relegation threatened side, Aston Villa.
Ighalo continued his incredibly impressive transition into Premier League football by bagging his eighth goal of the season.
The Hornets took the lead when Kieran Richardson, Carlos Sanchez and Ciaran Clark all failed to clear the danger and Ighalo in the 17th-minute pounced on Ben Watson’s blocked shot for his eighth Premier League goal of the season.
Aston Villa, who missed earlier, scored the equalizer four minutes to half time, as Micah Richards headed Jordan Veretout’s whipped free-kick beyond Heurelho Gomes for his first goal for the club.
Quique Sanchez Flores had to make a goalkeeper change when Gomes received a head injury, but as Hutton looked to stop Troy Deeney’s ball finding Ighalo, the Scotland international could only divert the ball into his own net.
Troy Deeney looked to have sealed all three points for the visitors when he headed home a third after 85 minutes, but Jordan Ayew’s curled effort set up a tense finale, however, Watford held on.
Ighalo already has more goals than a Watford player has previously managed in a Premier League season, bettering the six notched by Heidar Helguson and Hameur Bouazza during the 2000s.
The 26-year-old has now jumped above Arsenal forward, Olivier Giroud and Manchester City superstar, Sergio Aguero in the scoring charts, and level with Tottenham Hotspur hero Harry Kane.
Only Leicester City record-breaker Jamie Vardy and Everton’s Romelu Lukaku have outscored Igahlo in the top-flight this season, but nobody has more goals than him in English football throughout 2015.
The Nigerian, signed on a free transfer from Udinese in 2014, made it 24 for the calendar year.
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