SS Napoli will be counting on the strenght and the speed of their most expensive player, Victor Osimhen to fire the Partenopei to secure Champions League football next season with only four games remaining in the Serie A.
The Nigerian is the most in-form player in Gennaro Gattuso squad and the former Azzurri star will be hoping the former Lille forward continues to deliver like has been doing in the last 10 Serie A games.
Today’s edition of TuttoSport underlines the excellent numbers of the former Lille player: “Now he is well again and the whole team will focus on his goals to ensure they get maximum points from the remaining four games that are needed to qualify for the Champions League next season. His most recent numbers are extraordinary,’ wrote the newspaper.
“Victor has played 555 minutes in the last 10 games, that is those played consecutively after overcoming his long series of injuries. In this time frame he scored 6 goals (3 in the last 3 games), for the extraordinary average of one goal every 92 minutes. That is, the Nigerian is maintaining the average of one goal per match”, stressed the Piedmontese daily.
Against La Spezia this weekend, the Nigerian will certainly start the game, his freshness and speed will be needed to sink the Ligurians.
Napoli are fifth on the log with 67 points from 34 games, two behind the trio of Atalanta,Juventus and AC Milan from the same number of games.
With Juventus and AC Milan playing eac other on Sunday and and Atalanta also playing AC Milan in the final week of the championship,Napoli knows maximum points in their remaining four games will quarantee them Champions League football next season.