Musa dedicates goals to new baby

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Two goals hero, Ahmed Musa, has dedicated his goals to his newly born daughter after helping his Russian club, CSKA Moscow to a 3-2 victory over Sparta Prague in the second leg third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League Wednesday night.

The Super Eagles striker earlier in the day announced on his Instagram account the arrival of a second child from his wife who gave birth to a baby girl in Russia saying, “We are very happy and thankful to God as we announce the newest addition to our family, a beautiful baby girl, born today the 5th of August 2015.”

He later inspired his club to victory as CSKA Moscow came from two goals down to defeat their hosts.

Leonid Slutsky’s men had played out a 2-2 draw in the first leg at the Arena Khimki – and needed a win away to secure a spot to the next round of the qualifying stage.

Ladislav Krejci put the hosts ahead in the sixth minute before Kehinde Fatai added the second for Sparta ten minutes later.

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With the odds against CSKA to progress, Musa was on ground to reduce the deficit in the 34th minute as he put his team back on level terms six minutes after the restart of the second half before Alan Dzagoev sealed the win for the Russians.

Having qualified 5-4 on aggregate, CSKA are likely to face Manchester United in the last qualifying round for a slot to the group phase of Europe’s top club competition.

Musa later said, “The goals are for my new baby.”

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