“He made a picture”– Former Napoli striker salutes Osimhen’s ‘Pele-like’ goal

The excellent objective scored by Victor Osimhen was named Serie A objective of the month for January.

Former Napoli striker, Antoni Careca, doffs his hat to Victor Osimhen’s objective for Napoli in opposition to AS Roma.

Soccernet.ng earlier reported that the sensible objective scored by the striker was introduced Serie A objective of the month for January.

The Georgian ahead, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, acquired a superb go from Mario Rui on the left earlier than it was crossed to Osimhen, who pulled it down on his chest and fired it large previous Rui Patricio.

Because the Parthenopeans welcomed AS Roma to the Diego Maradona Stadium, the Nigerian ahead scored his 14th objective of the marketing campaign for Napoli.

The 62-year-old spoke into the Kiss Kiss Napoli microphones.

“Osimhen? He made an image, a good looking Pelé-like objective. Victor, Simeone, Lobotka, creator of an amazing match, Kvara and the entire workforce churned out an unbelievable efficiency.” he remarked as quoted by TuttoNapoli.

Roma tied the rating within the second half, however Napoli produced a dramatic late victory to present them 53 factors after 20 video games.

In his post-victory reflections, the Brazilian praised the 2 targets scored by Neapolitan gamers and mentioned that the challenges Jose Mourinho’s workforce encountered have been anticipated.

“On the objective, it was a good looking technical gesture by Victor, then Simeone sealed the double benefit. Nevertheless, Roma is an effective workforce with an skilled coach like Mourinho, the difficulties encountered by Napoli are pure. It mattered to win, I don’t know what the beginning workforce is, however the gamers on the bench are additionally making a distinction.” he mentioned additional.

Previous to the match in opposition to Roma, the Tremendous Eagles’ star participant had the best per-90 common for non-penalty targets (0.93), pictures (4.5), non-penalty xG (0.66), and touches within the opponent’s field (8.3).