In this outlet, I will be bringing to the limelight those teams, players and managers who are performing against the odds, putting in tremendous efforts of performance. For the inaugural post, let's look at one man having the best time of his life, he is none other than, Emmanuel Benaventure Dennis.
PROFILE
Name: EMMANUEL DENNIS
Height: 1,75 m
Position: Centre Forward
Footed: Right
Age: 24 (Nov. 15, 1997)
National Team: Nigeria
Current Club: Watford
Number: 25
Dennis the menace is causing a lot of menace in the English Premier League. For a league debutant, he's done himself a lot of credit in a league even some established names find difficult to cope with. The EPL is tagged as one of the most difficult and the biggest football league in Europe yet Dennis makes it look like a walk in the park.
CAREER PATH
Dennis, a citizen of Nigeria started his playing career with Accademia di Abuja here in Nigeria before being picked up by Ukrainian side Zorya Luhansk.
In Zorya, he polished his playing style as he had the chance to come up against the likes of Shakhtar Donetsk in the local league, Manchester United, Feyenoord and Fenerbahce in the Uefa Europa League (UEL). With Zorya his first professional team, for which he played only a single season, he rose his stakes and Europe biggest clubs in the likes of Manchester City came knocking. With Zorya, he scored six times in 22 matches helping them to a third-place finish. The next season, he found himself in the books of another household club in the form of Club Brugge. The Belgium giants took him in and help refine some aspects of his game. With Brugge, he got the chance to compete in Europe biggest club competition in the form of the Champions League, a league of Titans and European elite players. His time with Brugge started electrically as he would net 5 goals in his first 6 appearances. However, one of his biggest moments came in the 2019-2020 champions league when Club Brugge visited Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium where he netted all club Brugge's goals in a 2-2 draw.
Before moving to Watford FC, he had a brief loan spell with FC Koln of Germany when he dawns their uniform only 9 times.
With Watford, Dennis has continued his fine scoring form, finding the back of the net from his debut match against Aston Villa. He currently has 7 goals and 5 assists to his name so far, taking his goal contribution tally to 12G/A, a number judged to be his career-high and we are not even halfway through the league, can he make double figures?
His performance so far earned him praises when compared against other EPL strikers.
Dennis can only hope to continue in his electrifying performances till the end of the season, and if this is achieved I fail to see him in the books of Watford come next season.
I can never stop being appreciative of your great efforts. Thank you all for always making out time to go through my work. I can never say thank you enough. You are my real MVPs.
THANK YOU!!!
NOTE: Always have a smile on your face, as you are never fully dressed without one.
