Nigeria’s seventh all-time top scorer edges closer to career landmark

The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations’ prime goalscorer is displaying no indicators of slowing down regardless of his advancing age

Nigeria worldwide ahead Odion Ighalo scored the opening aim to encourage Al Hilal to an exhilarating 3-2 win over Al Tai on the Prince Abdul Aziz bin Musa’ed Stadium in a gameweek eight conflict of the Saudi League.

Ighalo’s Thirty ninth-minute strike was his third in seven appearances for the reigning champions this season. The 33-year-old additionally has an help.

With the aim – Ighalo’s twentieth within the colors of Al Hilal – the Tremendous Eagles striker has now recorded 195 membership targets, 5 wanting a profession landmark of 200.

Ighalo managed solely 9 targets in his early days at Lyn 1896 Fotballklubb in Norway.

A number of of the striker’s targets had been for Italian and Spanish groups, together with Udinese Calcio (1), Udinese Primavera (14), and Granada CF (38).

The Lagos-born ahead smashed in 40 targets for Watford, essentially the most he managed for a single membership. He returned to England not too long ago to fireplace 5 targets for Manchester United in 23 appearances.

A productive spell in China yielded 38 targets in 55 video games for Ighalo at Changchun Yatai and one other ten targets at Shanghai Shenhua.

In just a few years in Saudi Arabia, Ighalo has plundered 42 targets mixed for Al Shabab (22) and Al Hilal (20).

Away from his membership account, Ighalo has a formidable file of 16 targets in 37 video games for Nigeria’s Tremendous Eagles.

That output locations the previous Watford man in joint-seventh with Samson Siasia on Nigeria’s all-time aim chart.

Solely the late Rashidi Yekini (37 targets), Segun Odegbami (23), Yakubu Aiyegbeni (21), Ikechukwu Uche (19), Obafemi Martins (18), and Sunday Oyarekhua have scored extra targets for Nigeria than Ighalo.

5 of Ighalo’s targets for Nigeria got here on the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, which helped him declare the event’s prime goalscorer award.