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- The 2024/2025 European shot play has drawn to a adjacent successful astir leagues, but for a few
- Nigerian footballers made their people this season, winning awards and championships
- Victor Osimhen is the highest-scoring Nigerian striker with his goal-scoring spree for Galatasaray
The 2024/25 European shot play is gradually drafting to a adjacent with the UEFA Europa Conference League and UEFA Champions League near to play.
Super Eagles stars proved that they could vie connected the biggest signifier this play arsenic they made their people successful immoderate of the apical clubs and leagues successful the world.
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Two Super Eagles stars won Golden Boots successful their leagues, 2 won the title, portion a fewer others won cupful titles and different awards successful a mostly palmy season.
Legit.ng looks astatine the highest scoring Super Eagles stars successful Europe this season.
Super Eagles stars with astir goals
1. Victor Osimhen
Victor Osimhen is the biggest Nigerian footballer astatine the moment, and rightly so, is the highest scoring Super Eagles prima successful Europe this season. He played for Galatasaray connected a season-long indebtedness aft acrimoniously leaving Napoli past summer.
As noted by Transfermarkt, Osimhen has scored 36 goals successful 40 matches for Galatasaray this season, adding a further 8 assists. He broke Mario Jardel's grounds of astir goals by a foreigner for the club. The Turkish play has 1 lucifer left, and helium could amended connected his tally.
2. Cyriel Dessers
Rangers striker Dessers is the second-highest scoring Nigerian guardant successful Europe this play with 29 goals successful each competitions, 18 of which came successful the league, capable to triumph the Scottish League's Golden Boot.
Despite his exploits, helium was overlooked for Super Eagles callups. However, Eric Chelle invited him arsenic portion of the squad for the 2025 Unity Cup successful London, but near him retired for the affable against Russia.
3. Tolu Arokodare
Arokodare announced himself to Nigerian football fans with his exploits successful Belgian football. He scored 23 goals and 7 assists for Genk this season, 21 of which came successful the league, frankincense winning the Golden Boot, but his squad failed to seizure the title.
He was besides the recipient of the Ebony Shoe Award, fixed to the champion African subordinate successful the Belgian league. He made his Super Eagles debut successful March during the 2-0 triumph implicit Rwanda, replacing Osimhen successful the 2nd half.
4. Ademola Lookman
Reigning African Footballer of the Year Lookman had different decent play with Atalanta, during which helium had it all: goals, assists, injuries and adjacent controversies aft aggregate clashes with Gian Piero Gasperini.
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As noted by Goal, helium volition permission Atalanta this summer. The squad qualified for adjacent season’s Champions League, acknowledgment to 20 goals and 7 assists contributed by the English-born attacker.
Chelle explains Osimhen, Lookman snub
Legit.ng reported that Eric Chelle has explained why helium dropped Super Eagles apical attackers Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman from the 2025 Unity Cup squad.
The manager did not telephone them up either for the affable against Russia, and helium claimed helium regards the Unity Cup arsenic an accidental to measure caller players up of the 2026 World Cup qualifier successful September.
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