Osimhen treble fires Napoli past Sassuolo and six points clear
Naples, Italy - Victor Osimhen continued his red-hot return from injury on Saturday with a hat-trick
in Napoli’s 4-0 win over Sassuolo which sent his team six points clear at the top of Serie A.
Nigeria forward Osimhen struck twice in the first 19 minutes in Naples and then dinked home his third with 13 minutes remaining to ensure Napoli extended both their club-record winning streak to 13 matches and their lead on champions AC Milan, who face Torino on Sunday.
The 23-year-old has burst back into the team after over a month out with a thigh injury, rat
tling in six goals in his last four matches between Serie A and the Champions League.
Saturday’s clinical display of
finishing took his league tally this
season to seven goals in eight appearances and moved him level
with Bologna’s Marko Arnautovic at the top of the scoring charts.
“I just want to help keep the momentum going, I want to keep helping my team,” Osimhen told DAZN. “I think this season the coach has given me as much confidence as I can get and I’m really
happy to work under him... I just came back from a five weeks injury, which is not easy.”
Osimhen’s first two goals were laid on by Khvicha
Kvaratskhelia, this year’s revelation who also netted the third in an exciting performance on the day Napoli celebrated late club icon Diego Mara-dona’s 62nd birthday, which would have been Sunday.
Georgia winger Kvaratskhelia has scored eight times and set up eight more since arriving in the
summer and plays for Napoli with the kind of zest and freedom
which few have since Maradona fled Italy in disgrace in the early 1990s.