Red-hot striker, Victor Osimhen, on Friday evening netted his 10th goal of the season, as Galatasaray thrashed Konyaspor 4-0 in a Turkish Super Lig fixture.
Osimhen opened the scoring at the Konya Metropolitan Municipality Stadium in the 12th minute, to take his goal tally to 69 in all competitions for The Lions.
He was later replaced in the 61st minute by Deniz Gul, as Yunus Akgun [28th minute], Aleksey Batrakov [49th] and Rafael Leao [55th] were also on song for the visitors.
Osimhen has now scored 10 goals with four assists in 10 appearances across all competitions this season for Galatasaray.
The former African Footballer of the Year scored nine times in seven Süper Lig matches and once in two Champions League appearances.
The Nigeria international now moves closer to becoming Galatasaray’s all-time leading foreign goalscorer with 69 goals.
He is rated third on the club’s list of top foreign scorers after Mauro Icardi, who bagged 77 goals, while Romanian great Gheorghe Hagi is second with 72.
Osimhen had scored twice in Galatasaray’s 2-1 derby win over Fenerbahçe on Monday, before the strike at Konyaspor to take his tally to 69 goals.
The 2015 FIFA U17 World Cup winner now needs to score four more goals to overtake Hagi and nine to surpass Icardi and claim the personal record.
According to a Turkish football expert, Ugur Karakullukçu, Turkish Super Lig may never see a player like Osimhen again.
Karakullukçu believes Osimhen’s exploits with the reigning Turkish Super Lig champions was amazing.
“Osimhen is only in his third season and looks set to become Galatasaray’s all-time top-scoring foreign player. It’s truly mind-boggling. We may never see a player like him in the Super Lig again,” Karakullukçu was quoted as saying by Habersarikirmizi.
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Recall that Osimhen scored 35 goals in all competitions during the 2024-25 season, breaking the record for the most goals scored by a foreign player in a single Turkish season.
He has also become Galatasaray’s highest-scoring foreign player in European competitions, reaching 14 goals in the Champions League against Lille and surpassing the previous marks set by Milan Baroš and Shabani Nonda.
The 2015 FIFA U17 World Cup winner, also became the fastest player in Galatasaray’s modern history to score 50 goals, reaching the milestone in just 59 appearances.
Meanwhile, former Besiktas winger, Okan Koc, believes Galatasaray would struggle to finish in the Turkish Süper Lig’s top three without Osimhen.
“Take Osimhen out of Galatasaray, and they’d struggle to even crack the top 3 in the Süper Lig. Osimhen is 60 per cent of the team. Galatasaray fans, savor a player like this. Players of this caliber rarely come to Turkey,” Koc told A Spor.
