Statistics
and figures of the current English Premiership show that Odion Ighalo is better
this year than Man City’s Aguero, Diego Costa of Chelsea and Leicester’s Vardy,
reports soccernet.com.
The
Super Eagles’ star scored a brace at the weekend against Liverpool, taking his
goal tally this season to 12 in just 17 matches. The 26 year-old has not looked
back since scoring against Everton on his debut on 8 August 2015.
The
Lagos-born Watford striker has taken the premier League by storm. After five
years on loan at different clubs in Spain and Italy, the 6ft 2in tall forward
as found a stable home in England and is already a terror to the League’s best
defenders.
SoccerNet
Nigeria looks at the statistics and figures that make Odion Ighalo a striking
sensation.
Starting
with his finest stat of all: Odion Ighalo has scored more league goals in
England’s top four tiers in 2015 than any other player. In other words, no one
has scored more goals in England in 2015 than the Nigerian, all while playing
for modest Watford. More than Sergio Aguero, Diego Costa and Jamie Vardy.
After
netting an amazing 20 goals in 38 appearances for the Hornets in the
Championship, Ighalo quickly dispensed any talk of being a ‘one season wonder’
or ‘lower league striker’ once Watford made the step up to the elite division.
It
took Odion Ighalo only nine minutes on the pitch to score his first Premier
League goal in a 2-2 draw with Everton, restoring Watford’s lead with seven
minutes of play left after he was introduced into the encounter as a 74th
minute substitute. It was the newly promoted side’s first top-flight game since
2006-07.
By
the end of October, Ighalo had become the highest scorer in Watford’s Premier
League history on seven goals, overtaking Heidar Helguson and Hameur Bouazza on
six.
The
Nigerian had netted again in Watford’s 2-0 trashing of West Ham at Vicarage
Road, the first time Watford have scored more than once at home in a Premier
League game since April 2007 (4-2 vs Portsmouth).
That
game was also West Ham’s first defeat at Vicarage Road since April 1985, having
been unbeaten in 11 games at the ground since then (W8 D3).
Reference: ngrguardiannews
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