Paul Onuachu’s haul: The most impressive stats behind Super Eagles striker’s four goals

The Nigeria worldwide claimed the person of the match award after nearly single-handedly crushing Sporting Charleroi on Friday night

Tremendous Eagles striker Paul Onuachu hogged the main highlights and headlines following KRC Genk’s 4-1 wallop of Royal Charleroi.

Onuachu scored all of Genk’s 4 targets within the encounter, netting a brace in every half to energy the Limburgers to a document ninth consecutive win within the Belgian Championship.

It’s the first time in Onuachu’s profession that the FC Ebedei academy product will rating 4 targets in a single recreation.

Onuachu additionally turns into the primary Genk participant to attain 4 targets in a single Jupiler Professional League match since Wesley Sonck achieved the identical on February 7, 2003, towards Excelsior Mouscron.

The haul was additionally Onuachu’s first ‘good hat-trick’ within the Belgian First Division A, with the Nigerian netting a purpose along with his proper foot, one other along with his left, and two different targets along with his head.

Curiously, since Onuachu made his Jupiler Professional League debut in 2019/20, the striker has scored 24 targets along with his head.

That’s 5 instances greater than anybody within the high 10 European leagues in the identical interval, together with the prolific Robert Lewandowski.

Onuachu has now scored 80 targets for Genk, elevating the ahead into the membership’s top-3 all-time high scorers.

The Tremendous Eagles star is joint-second with the legendary Wesley Sonck.

Onuachu has some catching as much as do with Branko Strupar, Genk’s number-one goal-getter with 106 targets.

With 69 league targets in 97 outings throughout 7049 minutes, Onuachu has turn into the second only goalscorer in Belgian league historical past.

The previous FC Midtjylland man displaces Croatia’s Robert Spehar, who’s at a purpose each 106 minutes.

Solely former Mouscron and Anderlecht ahead Nenad Jestrovic (a purpose each 100 minutes) is forward of Onuachu.

Onuachu signed for Genk from Midtjylland for six million euros.