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Enyeama keeps 11th consecutive clean-sheet!

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Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama claimed his 11th consecutive shut-out and 14th overall to displace Salvatore Sirigu as a late Nolan Roux goal gave Lille 1-0 win over Marseille.


The result means the Super Eagles number one is now just 140 minutes shy of the French League record of consecutive clean-sheets held by Bordeaux goalkeeper Gaëtan Huard.

To do so Enyeama only needs to keep Bastia out, and deny PSG for 52 minutes.

The former Enyimba man only needed to protect his net for four minutes against Marseille to slip ahead of Sirigu.

And despite the frenzy of those opening five minutes, the Nigerian barely had to do much. But then Marseille upped the ante, and it took brave, if sometimes insane, goalkeeping from the Super Eagles number one man to hold on to his record.

First he pushed out Pierre Gignac's crossed curler away after 17 minutes, then made a monster save on 24 minutes from the same man as Marseille came dangerously close to ending his run.

An initial attack for the away side appeared to have peters away, but the ball fell to Mathieu Valbuena, who slotted Gignac into the box, onside and one-on-one with Enyeama, but the Lille man sprinted off his line to make an unbelievable block.

Valbuena knocked the ball over to the left for Dimitri Payet to whip in a cross. What followed was chaos.

Gignac shrugged off his marker to hit what looked an almost certain goal from point-blank range. But Enyeama somehow found a way to make the stop and in the game of pinball that followed, Lille only just managed to clear their lines.

An unbelieving Gignac could not help himself as he went over to pat the goalkeeper on the back.

If that was great, his next save, or double save, was the stuff of insanity. First he pulled off another point-blank stop from Florian Thauvin, then somehow still found the awareness and agility to get up to turn away Payet's vicious drive.

And to crown Enyeama's efforts at the back, Roux finished Marseille off in injury-time, heading into the bottom corner from Idrissa Gueye's cross.

Lille move into second place, a point behind PSG, who have a game in hand.

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