Champions League. After Milan, Noah Okafor disgusts Chelsea.

Noah Okafor shone once more on Wednesday within the Champions League with RB Salzburg.

Two days and two targets: Noah Okafor is in fine condition firstly of the European marketing campaign. Already a scorer final week within the draw towards AC Milan (1-1), the Swiss striker struck once more on Wednesday night within the Champions League.

Providing the equalizer (seventy fifth) to RB Salzburg towards Chelsea, the Basel allowed his group to go away Stamford Bridge with a degree (1-1). The Swiss worldwide thus plunged the Blues just a little extra into doubt, they who skilled the good first of coach Graham Potter, changing Thomas Tuchel, on the bench.

Carlos Varela: “He’ll overtake Chapuisat and Frei”

From a private viewpoint, Okafor scored the fifth aim of his younger profession in C1. At 22, he turned the third greatest Swiss scorer in historical past within the competitors, behind Stéphane Chapuisat (7 targets) and Alex Frei (8). “I feel he’ll overtake them,” mentioned Carlos Varela, current on the blue Sports activities set on Wednesday. “Large groups are all in favour of him. It might be mandatory, on the selection of profession, to not intention too excessive too rapidly.

Decisive within the final 6 outings of the Austrian membership, the previous FC Basel participant now has 7 targets in 12 video games, in all competitions this season. A very good omen for the Swiss group two months earlier than the World Cup in Qatar…