FA CUP: Iheanacho scores hat-trick, as Ighalo nets late winner

Two Nigerian soccer stars, Kelechi Iheanacho and Odion Ighalo, playing in the English Premier League, on Saturday, helped their clubs picked tickets for the next round of the FA Cup competition.
Iheanacho scored a hattrick as Manchester City kept alive their dream of an unprecedented quadruple of trophies by easing to a 4-0 win at Aston Villa, last season’s beaten finalists. The former Eaglets star opened the scoring in the fourth minute, following in to score after Fernando’s header was cleared off the line, and the 19-year-old forward added a second with a 24th-minute penalty.
He completed his hattrick with 16 minutes remaining, seizing on ex-City defender Micah Richards’s back-pass and surging through to score, before Raheem Sterling completed the scoring.
Manuel Pellegrini’s City who are second in the Premier League, face Dynamo Kiev in the Uefa Champions League last 16 and will tackle Liverpool in the League Cup final on February 28.
In another English FA Cup game, Odion Ighalo’s late goal sent Watford into the FA Cup fifth round as the Premier League side saw off Nottingham Forest 1-0 on Saturday.
The Super Eagles star capitalised on a defensive mistake from Kelvin Wilson in the 89th minute to ensure Watford’s progress into the next stage.

The Forest goalkeeper was called on to keep out an Ikechi Anya effort in the 30th minute, but he could do nothing to prevent Ighalo from snatching victory with his 10th goal in his last 15 competitive appearances as Forest crashed out.