A late Victor Osimhen’s towering header sealed a hardfought 1-0 for Napoli which saw them record their eight consecutive win in the Serie A this season, KikioTolunews reports.



Napoli are now the only team in Europe’s top five leagues with a 100 per cent record and reclaim first position from AC Milan as they have 24 points.

Also in action in the encounter was Osimhen’s Super Eagles teammate Ola Aina who played for 90 minutes.

It was Osimhen’s fifth goal in seven appearances so far in the Italian elite division this season.

Osimhen now has eight goals in nine games in all competitions for Napoli.

With nine minutes left in the game, Osimhen emerged the hero for Luciano Spalletti’s dominant side.

Kalidou Koulibaly’s back-heel flick sent Dries Mertens down the left, his cross was charged down, then Eljif Elmas deflected the attempted clearance for the ball to bounce up and the Nigerian hung in the air to nod past the Torino keeper.

Napoli would have scored in the 27th minute after they were awarded a penalty but Lorenzo Insigne saw his effort saved.

It was Insigne’s third miss out of five attempted penalties this season.

In the 56th minute Napoli had the ball in the net with a smart free kick routine, Mario Rui whipping the ball across the six-yard box for Di Lorenzo’s header. However, after a very long VAR check, it was ruled marginally offside.

Source: https://kikiotolunews.com/victor-osimhen-does-it-again-nigerian-strikers-late-goal-helps-napoli-win-8-straight-games/

Mynd44, lalasticlala

this gee is on form...always scoring crucial goals..

paulolee:
this gee is on form...always scoring crucial goals..

he is really in form. May the form not be hampered by goal drought and injury.
Same as Taiwo Awoniyi

In other news, Code of brotherhood; brother assisting brother.
Joel Obi assisted Simy’s goal yesterday but was not enough as Salernitana lost on the road to Spezia by 2 goals to 1 in the Italian Serie A.

Paul Onuachu missed a penalty and fired blank

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Enoch3721:
I tink is about time we get a beta technical advisor we can't b trusted ROHR just like d way Man U are trusting OLE they are a lot of beta managers out dear DAT will take Nigeria to d next level with d amount of stars at our disposal

What we need first is having sincere men running the affairs of the NFF before appointing new coach.

I can assure you that if Gernot Rohr is sacked, the next coach will either be technically at par with Rohr or worse.
Cos no reasonable and technically sound coach will accept the “unwritten conditions and requests” in the contract presented by the NFF.