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1) Dutch duo Lieke Martens of Barcelona and Vivianne Miedema of Arsenal before the game.

2) Ahead of the match Asisat Oshoala and Ana Crnogocervic took a look at their favourite Champions League pictures from last season. They showed that famous picture of Oshoala on the ground complaining. Ana said that Oshoala was crying to the referee that it was a penalty. Watch the video here

💙❤ @AnaCrnogorcevic & @AsisatOshoala go down memory lane and remember their Champions League win last season! Ready for the next one 🔥 pic.twitter.com/z5c3HzIn0m

— FC Barcelona Femení (@FCBfemeni) October 5, 2021

Line ups.

Kenyan female football journalist, Julia Wanjeri.

Asisat Oshoala

Barcelona players were handed their UEFA Awards trophies before the match.

1) Alexia Putellas was given the UEFA Women's Player of the Year trophy. She also won the Midfielder of the Champions League award.

2) Jenni Hermoso was given the Best Striker of the Champions League award

3) Sandra Panos was given the Best Goalkeeper of the Champions League award.

4) Irene Paredes was with PSG last season before moving to Barcelona and she was given the Defender of the Champions League award.

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Better than last season and back to 2019/2020 season form.

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Former Barcelona men's captain, Carles Puyol.

Asisat Oshoala scored and provided two assists as European champions, Barcelona Femeni, defeated Arsenal WFC 4-1 in the first ever group stage of the UEFA Women's Champions League.

Barcelona were completely dominant in the first half and were rewarded with the first goal on 31 minutes when Asisat Oshoala's terrific shot was punched away by Zinsberger in the Arsenal goal, but Mariona Caldentay was there to knock the rebound into the goal.

Oshoala flew down the Barca left wing in the 42nd minute and centred the ball for Barcelona captain, Alexia Putellas to slot into the Arsenal goal and give Barca a 2-0 lead which they took into the break.

Barca scored again, barely a few minutes after the restart as Mariona Caldentay, from midfield in Barcelona's half, saw Oshoala's run and played a beautiful long pass to her. Oshoala used her pace and power to beat the defenders and was one on one with the keeper before burying the ball in the goal. She looked like she was about to start celebrating, then she remembered that it was Arsenal, her former club, so she stopped.

There followed a string of changes and former World Player of the Year, Lieke Martens replaced Asisat Oshoala, while Arsenal star, Vivianne Miedema, who had been starved of service all night, was also replaced.

Barcelona then took their foot off the pedal and uncharacteristically gave the ball away deep in the second half. This provided the opportunity for Arsenal to pull one back. Tobin Heath powered her freekick into the box from the edge of the Arsenal area and Maanum was there to guide it into the Barca goal. It was 3-1 in the 71st minute.

However, Barca was not done scoring and Lieke Martens put the icing on the cake with a typically beautiful goal in the 84th minute. Martens has often been called the "Female Messi" and that was a Messi-like goal.

Alexia Putellas missed a penalty late in the game, but Barca's victory was already certain by then.

This is the first time ever that the women's Champions League is having a group stage. It used to be a straight knock out competition.


Here is a video of the entire match.

1st goal 49:40 minute in the video. 2nd goal at 1:01:02 minute in the video. 3rd goal at the 1:23:00 minute mark. Oshoala goes off to a resounding applause at the 1:46:40 minute mark. Arsenal goal off freekick at 1:50:00 minute mark. Tobin Heath freekick. 4th goal at the 1:59:33 minute mark. Barcelona penalty at 2:09:57 minute mark. Alexia Putellas missed the penalty.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGxG7esgX9I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGxG7esgX9I

State governors used W114 Mercedes Benz cars during the Gowon era. Some used stretch limousines while others used regular sedans. Here are two of the governors, Governor Mobolaji Johnson of Lagos and Governor Abba Kyari of North-Central (Kaduna) State.

naptu2:
The Lagos City Hall was established in 1900 to serve as the secretariat of the Lagos City Council. The present building was commissioned in 1968 by Governor Mobolaji Johnson and later by the head of state, General Yakubu Gowon. The building caught fire on Thursday, April 30th, 1998 and it was renovated by the Babatunde Fashola administration and reopened in 2009.

There are two other notable people in this video. You can see the late Oba of Lagos, Oba Adeyinka Oyekan and the first clerk of the Lagos City Council, Alhaji Fasinro (in wig and gown) who died in March this year.

Here is a video of the ceremony. (Check out the Lagos State coat of arms on the governor's car).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m400q-1Jl8

naptu2:
1) Look at the North Central State (Kaduna State) coat of arms on the limousine.

2) Even state governors rode in stretch limousines back then.

3) There's been a lot of confusion about the name Abba Kyari in recent times, so I think I'll call him Abba Kyari The First. This is Brigadier Abba Kyari, the governor of the North Central State.

4) Look at the bottoms that the corps members are wearing.


This is the passing out parade of the first set of NYSC members in the North Central State. The parade was held in June 1974 at Zaria Race Course.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK67azdxSXk