Simy Is The Hottest Striker In Europe Big Five Leagues Since March

Robert Lewandwoski may be just a goal away from breaking the 49 year old Bundesliga goal record but the hottest striker in the five big leagues in Europe in the last 71 days is Nigeria’s Simy Nwankwo.

The 29 year old Nigerian may have been relegated with his club, Crotone in the Serie A but the Super Eagles striker to the 2018 FIFA World Cup has scored more goals than any striker in the Serie A, German Bundesliga, English Premier League, LaLiga and the Ligue 1 since the beginning of March.

Simy has scored 12 times in the 11 games he has featured in since he scored Crotone’s consolation goal in their 5-1 drubbing at the Gewiss Stadium by their host, Atalanta on March 3,2021.

To put it in proper context, Simy has scored more goals than Lewandwoski (Bayern Munich), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus), Harry Kane (Tottenham) and Kylian Mbappe (PSG) who are all top scorers in their respective leagues.

Interestingly, Simy, with his 19 goals thus far is not even the top scorer in the Serie A in the ongoing 2020/21 season. That honour belongs Ronaldo who has scored 27 times in 29 games for Juventus.

Simy has scored just one more than Lewandowski who hit a hat-trick at the weekend in Bayern’s 6-0 mauling of Borussia Monchegladback to bring his total to 11 from nine games since the start of March.

Coming in third is another Nigerian, Kelechi Iheanacho who has scored 10 goals in his last nine games, a feat that won him the Premier League Player of the month for March and got him nominated for April’s award as well.

Messi has eight goals from 10 games, same as Ronaldo while Kane and Mbappe have seven goals in their last nine and six games respectively.

Nigeria’s Victor Osimhen is also one of the hottest strikers in Europe in the last 71 days after scoring a brace against Spezia in Napoli’s 4-1 win to take his tally to eight goals in his last 11 games since March 2021.

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