The Nigerian found the friendly against Torrevieja the perfect time to get his first treble since moving to Europe, thus ending his 22-game scoreless streak since finding the target against Tosno in a Russian topflight encounter on August 9, 2017.
This will come as a welcome relief to the 23-year-old, having being criticised for not justifying his move from Guangzhou R&F.
Samuel got the first, second and third goals before Fedor Chalov’s treble and Vitalik Gironkin’s late minute strike powered CSKA Moscow 7-0 past the Spanish team.
The win was Viktor Goncharenko men’s third pre-season win as the fine-tune strategies for their Europa League clash against Crvena Zvezda in Belgrade.
