Top 10: Nigeria’s highest goalscorers in 2022

Nigeria have a few of the best finishers throughout the globe together with Nottingham Forest’s Taiwo Awoniyi and Emmanuel  Dennis, FC Lorient’s Terem Moffi, Napoli’s Victor Osimhen, Actual Sociedad’s Umar Sadiq, and Cremonese’s Cyriel Dessers amongst many others.

Curiously, a few of these celebrated strikers didn’t make the highest ten checklist of Nigeria’s most prolific strikers of the yr 2022.

Who then made the checklist?

10. Peter Olayinka: 16 targets in 40 video games

Sometimes deployed as a winger, Peter Olayinka’s pure eye for purpose yielded a number of rewards in 2022 as he received on the scoresheet 16 occasions for former Czech Republic champions, Slavia Prague.

Prominently, Olayinka turned Slavia’s all-time highest goalscorer in European competitions with one among his two strikes within the Europa Convention League this season.

9. Cyriel Dessers: 17 targets, 38 video games

A memorable 2022 noticed Cyriel Dessers rating his first-ever purpose for the Tremendous Eagles within the 2-1 pleasant loss to Mexico in Could.

Dessers netted sixteen different targets unfold throughout 36 video games for Italy’s Cremonese, Belgium’s Genk, and Eredivisie aspect Feyenoord.

The 28-year-old striker completed as the very best goalscorer within the maiden version of the Europa Convention League with ten targets, six of which arrived this yr.

The Leuven-born ahead would, nevertheless, be dissatisfied together with his meagre output of two targets in 13 Serie A video games for Cremonese thus far. 

8. Present Emmanuel Orban: 19 targets, 24 video games

Present Orban has been the rave of the second within the Norwegian second division – the OBOS-ligaen – the place he has smashed in 16 targets and 7 assists in solely 22 matches for Stabæk Fotball Membership.

The thrilling 20-year-old attacker has additionally registered three targets in two video games within the NM-Cup and appears set to leap right into a first-tier league quickly. 

7. Terem Moffi: 19 targets, 39 video games

One in every of Nigeria’s most prolific forwards in France, Terem Moffi has 16 targets for FC Lorient and three targets in six matches for the Tremendous Eagles in 2022.

Moffi’s targets for Nigeria got here within the 2-1 loss to Algeria in a pleasant in October and within the victory over Sao Tome and Principe in June, the place he netted a brace.

6. Victor Boniface: 21 targets, 51 video games

One in every of Nigeria’s most gifted younger forwards in Europe in the intervening time, Victor Okoh Boniface has been one of many revelations of 2022.

Remarkably, twenty of Boniface’s targets have come in the course of the 2022/23 season, together with 5 targets in 4 UEFA Champions League qualifying matches for Norway’s Bodø/Glimt.

Since becoming a member of Belgium’s Union Saint-Gilloise, the 21-year-old has added three targets in six Europa League video games.

And it seems solely a matter of time earlier than the Actual Sapphire academy product receives his maiden Tremendous Eagles call-up.

5. Peter Ebimobowei: 21 targets, 21 video games

A productive 2022 noticed Peter Ebimobowei web 21 targets for Chittagong Abahani within the Bangladesh Premier League.

It’s unbelievable, nevertheless, that after having fun with such a incredible yr, Ebimobowei is at current and not using a membership.

4. Paul Onuachu: 21 targets in 27 video games

A perennial purpose machine, Onuachu discovered the again of the web 23 occasions in the course of the 2021/22 season for Genk, seven of which he notched within the first half of this yr.

After a gradual begin to this marketing campaign, the Owerri-born striker has grabbed one other 14 targets in 16 matches in Belgium. And he appears to be like proper heading in the right direction to get pleasure from one other spectacular season with the Smurfs.

3. Odion Ighalo: 24 targets, 35 video games

Seemingly getting higher with age, 33-year-old Odion Ighalo smashed in 24 targets in 2022, serving to Al Hilal win the Saudi Skilled League alongside the best way. Ighalo solely joined Al Hilal on the finish of January from rivals Al Shabab.

The previous Manchester United man has already registered 5 targets and an help in 9 video games in the course of the 2022-23 season. And he ends the yr once more as one among Nigeria’s most prolific goalscorers.

2. Victor Osimhen: 24 targets in 34 video games

Victor Osimhen is Nigeria’s most precious participant on the planet for a purpose: the Napoli striker has added constant goalscoring to his uncooked bodily high quality, his boundless starvation, and his on-pitch intelligence.

Already this season, Osimhen has one UEFA Champions League strike and 9 Serie A targets that place him high of the league’s goalscorer chart. Add that to 9 of Osimhen’s 14 league targets final season that got here within the first quarter of 2022.

For the Tremendous Eagles, Osimhen scored 5 targets in two matches, together with the 4 he smashed within the historic 10-0 win over Sao Tome and Principe in June.

1. Kingsley Onuegbu: 27 targets in 32 video games

Nigeria’s primary goal-getter of the yr 2022 is 36-year-old striker Kingsley Onuegbu.
Onuegbu solely joined Chinese language membership Qingdao Hainiu in April.

However the Kaduna-born ahead wasted little time in turning into a nightmare for defenders within the Chinese language League One.

Twenty-seven targets and eight assists in 32 matches recommend he might be an in-demand participant for a lot of golf equipment when his contract with Qingdao Hainiu expires in December.