Top-scoring Africans Europe's Top 5 Leagues : Osimhen Only Behind Arsenal & Liverpool Stars

Published: February 18, 2020

With 13 goals to his name, Lille goal poacher Victor Osimhen is the third top-scoring African player in the big five European Leagues consisting of the English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, German Bundesliga, Italian Serie A and French Ligue 1, allnigeriasoccer.com reports.

After the latest round of matches in Europe, Arsenal captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang took his tally for the season to 15 goals thanks to his 54th minute opener against Newcastle United, making him Africa's highest goalscorer.

The other player ahead of Osimhen represents a club in the English top-flight, Liverpool's Egypt winger Mohamed Salah, who has racked up 14 goals.

Completing the top five highest goalscorers are Liverpool's Sadio Mane and FC Metz's Habib Diallo who have found the net twelve times each.

As you might be aware, majority of Osimhen's goals came in home matches - ten in total - and he had to wait until the nineteenth matchday at Monaco before netting his first goal away from home.

The 2015 U17 World Cup Golden Boot winner has scored against nine different teams in the Ligue 1, namely FC Nantes, Saint-étienne, SCO Angers, Strasbourg, Nimes Olympique, Dijon, Stade Brest, Monaco and Marseille.

Ifeanyi Emmanuel

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