Osimhen will fight, cheat just to win – Iwobi opens up on Super Eagles team-mate

Fulham playmaker, Alex Iwobi has spoken astir the “sick” mentality of his Super Eagles team-mate, Victor Osimhen.

Speaking connected the Best Mode On podcast, Iwobi claimed that Osimhen volition combat and cheat successful a bid to win.

Osimhen is ranked among the apical strikers successful the satellite and has netted 35 times successful 52 caps for Nigeria.

Iwobi said: “Every clip successful training, he’s ever getting wounded successful grooming due to the fact that he’s got to enactment his limb oregon his caput into thing that helium shouldn’t do. He’s ever been fighting.

“I’m not amazed helium is wherever helium is close now. Some would accidental he’s not polished, he’s a spot raw, but Victor volition make himself 5 chances a game, conscionable himself, conscionable from hard enactment and running.

“He doesn’t attraction who you are. He doesn’t attraction if you’re [Virgil] van Dijk, if you’re a feline from non-league – nary disrespect to non-league – helium volition fight. He volition dainty the crippled successful the Champions League arsenic if he’s playing with his brethrens.

“He ever wants to win, and that mentality is sick. It’s sick. Sometimes it tin beryllium implicit the apical due to the fact that successful training...