Most headed goals Europe's top 5 leagues 2022 : Osimhen only behind Spurs superstar 

Nigeria international Victor Osimhen was on the score sheet as Napoli continued their domestic unbeaten run with a win over Udinese. 

Luciano Spalletti's men recorded a 3-2 win against the Udine based club in an Italian Serie A match played at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

On the visiting team, Kingsley Ehizibue played the entire duration of the game while Isaac Success came on in the 26th minute as s replacement for Gerard Deulofeu.

Osimhen opened the scoring in the 15th minute after guiding an Elif Elmas cross home with his head.

The 23-year-old is now one goal behind Tottenham Hotspur superstar Harry Kane as the forward with the most headed goals in Europe top five leagues for the year 2022, according to the statisticians at OPTA.

Napoli's lead got extended to two in the 31st minute after Piotr Zieliński finished off an assist from Hirving Lozano.

Elmas went on to score the third goal of the day two minutes before the hour mark.

Success would go on to have a goal involvement in the game as he assisted Ilija Nestorovski to draw one back for the visitors in the 79th minute.

Napoli's win was threatened three minutes later as Lazar Samardžić put another one beyond the Udinese goalkeeper. 

Osimhen currently leads the goalscorers chart of the Italian topflight with nine goals from eleven outings.

In the standings, the Parthenopeans are first with 41 points from 15 games while Udinese stay in eighth place with 24 points from the same number of games. 

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