Victor Osimhen has once again put his name in Napoli’s history books after becoming the third player in the club’s history to score 10+ goals in four consecutive Italian Serie A seasons, according to Opta Paolo.
Osimhen scored a hat-trick, his first of the season, and assisted one goal as Napoli thrashed Sassuolo 6-1 away from home. The Partenopei are hoping the win will turn their season around after a slow start that saw the management sack two managers, Rudi Garcia, and Walter Mazzarri before hiring Francesco Calzona as caretaker manager last week.
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The hat-trick takes Osimhen’s tally to 11 league goals in 15 games. This means the Nigerian has scored a minimum of 10 goals in each season since joining the club from French side Lille in the summer of 2020.
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Osimhen scored 10 goals in 24 league games in his first season. He grabbed 14 goals in 27 games the next season while he had a breakthrough season scoring 26 goals in 32 games last season to win the Golden Boot, becoming the first African in the history of the league to achieve such a feat.
According to OptaPaolo, Osimhen has joined an all-exclusive club of Diego Maradona who achieved the feat between 1984/85 and 1987/88, and Attila Sallustro who set the record between 1929/30 and 1932/33.
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