Osimhen Tops Goal Chart In AFCON 2023 Qualifiers

Victor Osimhen may have shot blank in two matches against soft target, Guinea Bissau, he remains a leading scorer in the on-going qualifying series of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations which finals hold in 2024.

With 88 matches concluded out of the projected 144, there have been 209 goals, making an average of 2.38 per match.

Of the 209 goals, Nigeria’s Osimhen scored five to tie with Senegal’s Sadio Mane who scored the same number.

Four of Osimhen’s goals came in the 10-0 defeat of Sao Tome & Principe last June. The match is Nigeria’s heaviest win, eclipsing a 1959 10-1  defeat of Dahomey (now Benin Republic).

Osimhen’s fifth goal was the one he scored in the 2-1 defeat of Sierra Leone in Abuja.

AFCON qualifying scorers so far

5 goals

• Victor Osimhen (Nigeria)
• Sadiq Mane (Senegal)

4 goals

• Dango Quattara (Burkina Faso)
• Louis Mahouta (Central African Republic)