Nigeria, Oct. 26 -- Nigerian women footballers enjoyed an impressive weekend across Europe and the Middle East, with Joy Omewa scoring a dramatic late winner for BK Hacken, Chiamaka Nnadozie keeping her first clean sheet of the season for Brighton & Hove Albion, and Blessing Okpe and Blessing Nkor continuing their prolific goalscoring campaigns in Belarus.

Taiwo Lawal also found the net in Saudi Arabia, rounding off a productive weekend for Nigerian players making their mark in different leagues.

Omewa was among the standout performers after converting an 89th-minute penalty to hand BK Hacken a hard-fought 2-1 away victory over Vaxjo DFF in the Swedish OBOS Damallsvenskan on Friday.

The Super Falcons forward's late intervention proved ...