New Serie A record puts Victor Osimhen ahead of Obafemi Martins, Nwankwo Kanu

The previous Lille star can now lay declare to being the best Nigerian striker to ever play within the Italian high flight

Tremendous Eagles striker Victor Osimhen scored three targets for Napoli within the membership’s 4-0 demolition of Sassuolo on Saturday on the Diego Maradona Stadium.

It’s Osimhen’s first ever hat-trick for any membership since he turned professional. The Napoli ahead has beforehand defended the badges of Germany’s Wolfsburg, Belgium’s Royal Sporting Charleroi, and France’s LOSC Lille.

And based on revered stats firm Gracenote, Osimhen’s hat-trick is the primary by a Nigerian striker within the Italian Serie A.

? – @sscnapoli‘s Victor Osimhen?? is the first Nigerian participant to web a @SerieA hat-trick. #NAPSAS #SerieA

— Gracenote Dwell (@GracenoteLive) October 29, 2022

That’s no imply feat, contemplating that Italy’s high flight has at totally different instances been residence to a few of Nigeria’s best attackers. That record contains former Inter Milan heroes Kanu Nwankwo, Obafemi Martins and Victor Moses, ex-Lazio man Ayodele Makinwa, and Simeon ‘Simy’ Nwankwo.

Simply as importantly, Victor Osimhen, along with his newest purpose haul, has risen to change into Nigeria’s most prolific goalscorer in Serie A historical past. With 31 targets, he now shares that title with former Crotone goal-king Simy.

It has taken Osimhen 59 matches to achieve that milestone when Simy wanted practically twice that (101) to get his.

At present within the type of his life, Osimhen has discovered the again of the online in every of his final 4 video games in opposition to Ajax, Bologna, AS Roma, and Sassuolo.

The 23-year-old can be Serie A’s high goalscorer with seven targets whereas his Napoli sit atop the league desk, six factors away from second place AC Milan.