Osimhen Youngest Player to Net 10 Goals in Top 5 Euro Leagues in 2019/20 Season

Super Eagles forward, Victor Osimhen has been breaking all sorts of records with his performances for Lille this season and the latest sees him on the list of Under-23 scorers in Europe’s top five leagues, Completesports.com reports

Europe’s top five leagues are made up of the Bundesliga, the Premier League, Serie A, La Liga and Ligue 1 in which Osimhen has so far found the back of the net ten times in 18 outings for the Great Danes.

Marcus Rashford (22yrs-old) is the top Under-23 scorer in Europe’s top five leagues this season with 14 goals for Manchester United, Tammy Abraham (22) has netted 13 times for Chelsea.

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Kylian Mbappe (21) has scored 11 goals for French Ligue 1 leaders, Paris Saint-Germain, Osimhen follows with ten goals while Jadon Sancho (19) of Borussia Dortmund and Inter Milan’s Lautaro Martinez (22) have nine each.

Meanwhile, 21-year-old Osimhen was the youngest to reach ten goals in any of Europe’s top five leagues this season. He was 20 years & 357 days as at the time he scored against Monaco in a 5-1 bashing on December 21, 2019.

By Oluyemi Ogunseyin