Thursday 23 August 2012

EMENIKE: I can do it again in TURKEY


...As Spartak Moscow website hacked by Turkish nationalist group


Spartak Moscow ace Emmanuel Emenike has said he would have been happier with more goals against Fenerbahce in a UEFA Champions League tie.

On Tuesday, Emenike scored a 59th minute opener in his side’s 2-1 home win over his former team with the return leg fixed for next week.

The big striker revealed he wanted to score more than one goal to help his team to an emphatic victory to make the return leg in Turkey easier.

“We deserved the victory because we dominated the game and we showed class,” Emenike told MTNFootball.com

“It was an exciting game, we both played an open game. We wanted an emphatic victory but it did not happen and I wanted to score more than one goal so that we could be safer going to Turkey because I know the return leg will be tough.

“At least for now, we are at advantage and we can go all the way to make it to the next stage of the competition after the second leg in Turkey."

Emenike was replaced in the 72nd minute by Brazilian striker Wellington.

The powerful Nigeria striker put his team in front in the 59th minute after he received a pass from Kombarov before Dirk Kuyt equalised for the Turkish team in the 65th minute.

Victory was secured for Emenike and his teammates in the 69th minute when Kombarov struck with a superb shot off a corner.


Meanwhile, Nationalist Turks hacked the website of Spartak Moscow last night to demand that team officials apologize after a group of fans from theRussian side burned Turkish flags and Atatürk posters during an Aug. 21 Champions League playoff against Fenerbahçe.

The group replaced the website's original content with a statement that called on the team to "immediately apologize."

"You will immediately apologize to the Turkish Republic and the Turkish people. No crime goes without punishment, and FIFA may forgive you, but we won't," the statement read.

A portrait of 
Atatürk next to a Turkish flag was also posted on the website.

Spartak Moscow fans burned flags and posters of modern Turkey's founding father, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, during their team’s 2-1 victory over the 
Istanbul giants in the first leg of their Champions League playoff.

An official response is yet to come from UEFA, but 
Russian media reports hinted at a possible end to Spartak's Champions League journey if football authorities decide to come down hard on the club.

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