Rejuvenated Leicester City recorded first win in 11 away matches on Saturday and Nigerian forward .Ahmed Musa had the pleasure of playing for 14 minutes in the victory.
Musa who has been left out in recent matches including the wave making Champions league victory against Sevilla came in as late substitute for Shinji Okazaki with Leicester already leading host West Ham 2-3. Algerian international Riyad Mahrez opened scoring Leicester in the 5th minute of the game with Huth and Vardy increasing the tally in the 7th and 38th minutes respectively. Vardy particularly enjoyed a good assist from Nigeria international Winifred Ndidi who was in action for 90 minutes.
Musa’s 14 minutes return may as well be signal that the former CSKA Moscow ace who boasts of some Champions league experience may stand a chance of enjoying piece of the action when they face Athletico Madrid following the Champions league quarter finals draw released on Friday.
Both Musa and Mahrez have been penciled down to feature in the world cup qualifiers between their countries later in the year.
An elated coach Shakespeare said ‘there’s no secret,’. ‘I think hard work. Endeavour. Resilience. We showed all of that today. Along with some good footballers.’
Talk of the quarter-final drawn against Atletico Madrid has been put on hold. ‘The Champions League has been put to one side,’ Shakespeare added.
‘We have parked it. We wanted to do that. We knew we were coming on the back of an awful away record and we wanted to try and put that right. Talk of Atletico was put to the back of everyone’s mind. We said as a group, once the draw was made, we know who we have got and now let’s park that and concentrate on the Premier League.’
