Victor Osimhen, on Wednesday night, at the appropriately named Estadio Diego Armando Maradona, set a record that the late Maradona couldn’t achieve in his glory days with Napoli.
Osimhen, who scored a brace in the second leg Round of 16 tie against Eintracht Frankfurt, became the first Napoli player ever to score in both matches of a European Cup/Champions League knockout stage and his three goals over the two legs led his side to a first-ever quarterfinal in the UEFA Champions League.
The Nigerian striker scored one goal in the first leg 2-0 win in Germany before capping it up with another spectacular show in Naples, where Napoli won 3-0 on the night and 5-0 on aggregate to seal their place in the last eight.
Having scored in over seven consecutive games, Osimhen fired blanks in his last two outings against Lazio and Atalanta.
The 24-year-old, however, proved he is not running out of steam in any way when he broke the deadlock in the dying stages of the first…
