Osimhen, Boniface Others Celebrate As Taiwo Awoniyi Overtakes Ighalo In EPL Scorers’ Chart.
Super Eagles players Victor Osimhen, Victor Boniface are celebrating Taiwo Awoniyi’s gaol scored on Monday night as Nottingham Forest beat Wolves 3-0 Sports247 reports.
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Taiwo Awoniyi scored the last goal of the match played at the Molineux in the 90+4 minutes after just six minutes he was introduced into the match to overcome a 324 days goal drought.
The goal which is his first of the season and the first of the year. The goal has taken his tally in the EPL since he joined from Union Berlin in 2022 to 17 goals
A feat which has seen him took a step up in the Nigerians goal scorers” chart, in the EPL to number 11 leaving Odion Ighalo.behind and dropping him to number 12th position.
Prior to the match, Awoniyi was occupying the number 11, jointly with Odion Ighalo as both players were tied on 16 goals.
Awoniyi last scored is 16th goal in the EPL in February of 2023/2024 when Nottingham Forest defeated West Ham United by 2-0 to tie with Odion Ighalo on the Nigeria goal scorers chat until Monday night.
Leading the chart is Yakubu Aiyegbeni with 95 goals followed by Kanu Nwankwo with 54 goals while Efan Ekoku is third on the log with 52 goals with Shola Ameobi on 43 goals closing up the top five goal scorers on the chart.
Kelechi Iheanacho ranked sixth with 42 goals followed by Peter Odenwegie has 36 goals on number seven while Obafemi Martins scored 28 goals to stay on number eight followed by Alex Iwobi on 27 to stay number 9 followed by Victor Anichebe with 26 goals completed the top of Nigerian goal scorers in the EPL since 1992 to date.
Taiwo Awoniyi lost his place in the Nottingham Forest side after a lengthy injury lay but the impressive form of Chris Wood, in the attack of the City’s Forest has pushed Awoniyi down the pecking order after he recovered from the injury.
The victory takes Nottingham Forest’s win streak to six, the longest by any team in the Premier League in the 2024/2025 season and are in contention for a champions league spot finish.
Meanwhile, Nigeria footballers and others have come to celebrate Taiwo Awoniyi after he went emotional by scoring the third goal in the game.
Amongst are Super Eagles teammates Victor Osimhen, Victor Boniface and Benjamin Tamimu.
The three players under Awoniyi’s post on his verified Instagram page where he posted a picture of celebrating the goal with his teammates.
Here are some of the replies to the post , congratulating and encouraging him.
Super Eagles fringe player, Benjamin Tamimu wote using
@benjamintaniminu:
“More to come senior man.”
While Victor Osimhen expressed his mind via :
@victorosimhen9:
“GOD never fails my bro.”
And then Boniface Victor
@boniface_jrn:
“Congrats bro.”
Former Super Eagles midfielder, John Ogu wrote:
@ogu30:
“Many more to come Eshin.”
The English Premier League continues this weekend as Nottingham Forest will square against Taiwo Awoniyi’s former club in England, Liverpool FC, and a victory for Nottingham can trigger their title hopes.
