Galatasaray striker Victor Osimhen is on the verge of yet another milestone as his club prepares to face AS Monaco in the UEFA Champions League tonight. According to reports, the Nigerian forward already in red-hot form could set fresh records if he finds the back of the net.
Osimhen has already struck six goals in just three Champions League appearances this season, making him the competition’s top scorer so far. Galatasaray have won every game he has featured in and lost both matches he missed through injury illustrating just how central he has become to the team’s European fortunes.
Earlier this season, Osimhen made history by becoming the first Nigerian to score 10+ goals in the Champions League, surpassing former record-holder Obafemi Martins.
His incredible run includes seven consecutive European games with a goal a new standard in the club’s modern era, breaking the previous mark set by a club legend.
If he manages to score tonight at the Stade Louis II, Osimhen will draw even closer to the greatest European marks for both his club and country, extending a form that has already drawn the gaze of football lovers across the continent.
Editorial
On nights like this, Europe turns its eyes to individuals not merely for flair, but for the cold arithmetic of impact. When Victor Osimhen strides onto the turf for Galatasaray, he does so wrapped in expectation, not as a child’s dream but as a fiercely earned reality. Over the past weeks, he hasn’t just scored he’s spoken with the eloquence of a man rewriting his name in history.
What makes his run so compelling is not just volume, but timing the right goals at the right moments. In a tournament where pressure mounts by the minute, Osimhen offers clarity. Opponents tangle themselves with deft passing or desperate defence he lingers in spaces between the lines, senses danger before it fully forms, and finishes calmly, precisely, ruthlessly. This is not heroics it is craft honed to lethal definition.
Some legends burn fast and fade. Others smoulder, growing in intensity game by game. Osimhen belongs to the latter. Tonight at Monaco, when the ball arcs through the cold European air, he won’t just carry the weight of jerseys and fans — he carries a statement. That for certain clubs, for certain players, history is not something you wait for. It is something you forge. And in his boots, history just might have another date.
Did You Know?
- Osimhen is the first Nigerian to score 10 goals in the UEFA Champions League a milestone he passed after netting in Galatasaray’s win over Liverpool.
- His hat-trick against Ajax in November 2025 made him only the second Nigerian ever to record a Champions League treble — the first was Yakubu Aiyegbeni in 2002.
- After the Ajax game, Osimhen led the 2025/26 UCL scoring chart — ahead of household names like Erling Haaland, Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappé with six goals.
- His scoring run for Galatasaray now spans seven straight European appearances the longest streak for any player at the club’s modern era setting a new standard for consistency in Europe.
- Beyond breaking national records, Osimhen has rapidly become one of Galatasaray’s most prolific European scorers — matching the totals of former club greats and setting the stage to surpass them should he continue on this trajectory.
