Chelsea forward, Nicolas Jackson went the extra mile to call out the club’s legend, Mikel Obi, after scoring the club’s opener in their 2-6 win over Wolves on Sunday, and the Ex-Nigerian midfielder has responded.
Nicolas Jackson, who missed a series of chances in his debut Chelsea campaign, was relieved to grab his first goal of the new season, after Obi accused him of wasting the club’s goalscoring chances.
The 37-year-old former Nigeria international made this claim after Jackson failed to score for Chelsea in their 2-0 defeat to Manchester City in the Premier League opener.
“We created chances, we haven’t taken them. And just an example of how Jackson finishes”, the Chelsea legend told beIN Sport.
“You can see there, even though he was offside, he dribbles [past] one or two or three players and the way he shoots the ball!
“You need a striker who knows how to hit a ball back in the back of the net and that’s what we don’t have.
“I know I talk so much about him and sometimes I sound like I disrespect him. I don’t disrespect him.
“I think at Chelsea Football Club we need a top striker who can get us a goal.
“A bit like [Haaland], 91 goals [for City] that’s absolutely unbelievable.”
In response to Mikel Obi’s claims, Nicolas Jackson took to his Instagram page to claim that the criticism from the Nigerian legend was one of the ways Africans kill themselves.
“Mikel Obi, shut your mouth, don’t talk sh*t, we are killing ourselves for Africa,” Jackson wrote.
Jackson is expected to lead Chelsea’s attack again when they take on Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, September 1.
Ahead of the game, Mikel Obi took to his Obi One Podcast to urge the Senegalese forward to keep scoring so that he can “shut up”.
Obi said, “I really like the Guy as a football player, I like him, there is something there as a football player.
“I haven’t said he is a bad player at all, I’ve just said that his finishing qualities is not there yet. He is a young boy, and all I’ve said is that he needs a more kind of experienced striker to come into the football club to help him.
“To help him improve, to help him get better, and because we all know, we all can see the shifts he puts in week in week out, so for me I would like to see my African brother like he said, do well in the premier league, come to Chelsea, a big club, a massive club you know, where we’ve had one of the greatest strikers in Didier Drogba from Africa, Ivory coast, did really well.
“I’d like to see him do well as well, you know, in the club. If he plays well, I will praise him, if there is something to be said about him where he needs to improve, I will definitely say it. When you know, listen, if he scores every week and tells me to shut I’ll take that.”
