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Enyeama keeps 11th consecutive clean-sheet!

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...