NewStats: 3,261,186 , 8,173,330 topics. Date: Wednesday, 28 May 2025 at 01:39 PM 6r6s5g

Simy Nwankwo, Super Eagles striker, on Saturday scored his 17th goal of the season to equal Yakubu Aiyegbeni’s 10-year-old goalscoring record — but his team, Crotone, lost 2-1 to Udinese.

Yakubu held the record for the most goals by a Nigerian in a single season in any of the top five leagues in Europe — English Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Série A, Ligue A. He scored 17 goals with Blackburn Rovers in the 2011/12 season.

Nwankwo’s Crotone entered the fixture rooted to the bottom of the table with relegation breathing down their neck.

The defensive frailty that has consigned them to the bottom spot reared its head 40 minutes into the game. The defense was sluggish to respond after Alex Cordaz, Crotone goalkeeper, stopped a shot from Roberto Pereyra with his leg.

Pereyra capitalised on the listlessness, gathered the ball and laid it clean for Rodrigo De Paul who curled it elegantly into the top right corner of Cordaz.

Nwankwo replied for the home team a few minutes later. Udinese’s Nahuel Molina handled the ball within his team’s 18-yard box and a penalty was given. The lanky Nigerian sent Juan Musso, Udinese’s goalkeeper, the wrong way to score his 10th goal in seven consecutive matches.

In the 74th minute, Crotone were split open by De Paul once again, but this time he ed a couple of defenders before slotting the ball beyond a wrong-footed Cordaz.

Although Crotone remain the lowest-ranked team in the league with seven games to go, their Nigerian striker can’t seem to stop scoring.

A couple of weeks ago, Nwankwo matched George Weah’s record as he became only the third African to score in five consecutive Serie A games.

The 28-year-old is the league’s fourth leading goalscorer behind Cristiano Ronaldo, Romelu Lukaku and Luis Muriel.

https://www.thecable.ng/simy-nwankwo-equals-aiyegbenis-decade-old-goalscoring-record/amp

Too much talents for super eagles at the moment ..... coach go confuse about who to use sef

Good one bro!

How come na the footballers we see as not being useful to the Super Eagles dey break record?

Paul Onuachu just scored a brace

Amotolongbo:
How come na the footballers we see as not being useful to the Super Eagles dey break record?

Paul Onuachu just scored a brace

They are prospects.. tagging them as useless is kinda harsh..

Naso them say Paul onuachu dey useless.. but now he's proven to be useful

Bornsinner7:
They are prospects.. tagging them as bout useful is kinda harsh..

Naso them say Paul onuachu dey useless.. but now he's proven to be useful

I recommended that these two strikers should be invited for our qualifiers, many people shut me down. They said they were not useful to our national team, until Paul Onuachu was drafted in to fill gap, proving them wrong

Damnnn niggarrrr
Isoright

Nice.

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Simy should make the WCQ mehn

Not sure who you have to drop

We definitely pick the form players

Excellent

Ok

Calamity Yakubu Aiyegbeni....
Thank goodness his record has been erased!
I hate nonsense.

@Seniorwriter

Cool

Excellent

Let's celebrate hardwork and grace

Is he related to kanu?

The next GOAT

Congrats

Amotolongbo:
How come na the footballers we see as not being useful to the Super Eagles dey break record?

Paul Onuachu just scored a brace

cos we no get coach

The real goal in life is to be an achiever.

Lord, help us attain our innermost desires.

This Simy guy dey ball. imagine scoring 17+ goals for a rock bottom team is no small feat. Congrats to him.

T

Amotolongbo:
How come na the footballers we see as not being useful to the Super Eagles dey break record?

Paul Onuachu just scored a brace

Belgian league having 3 Nigerians as top scorers...just wow!
1. Onuachu P.
2. Ike Ugbo
3. Nmecha L.
Igbo amaka

It seems it's our turn to have many players doing well all over the world in their different clubs.

Meanwhile, Aiyegbeni was underated o. Scoring 17 goals was not easy in the EPL at that time

JustCruise:
This Simy guy dey ball. imagine scoring 17+ goals for a rock bottom team is no small feat. Congrats to him.

And in the serie a at that. Even osimhen our first choice striker has only five goals in the same league though he suffered some injuries early in the season sha

Amotolongbo:



https://www.thecable.ng/simy-nwankwo-equals-aiyegbenis-decade-old-goalscoring-record/amp

on first glance u do underrate diz fellow but over time jst have to say he his good, good off d ball movt, moves well into channels, he knows d box very well, i think best Nigerian striker diz season so far.