Best Five Leagues In Europe: Osimhen Pairs Messi In Whoscored Team Of The Week

Napoli forward Victor Osimhen will play alongside PSG superstar, Lionel Messi in a two-man attack in the team of the week selection made by world’s most popular and fastest-growing football statistics website, Whoscored.

The Nigerian was in devastating form at the weekend, scoring twice in Napoli’s 3-0 bashing of Spezia in a Serie A game at the Alberto Picco. It was the fifth consecutive Serie A game the 24 year old would be scoring and has netted 16 goals so far this term, four man than his nearest challengers, his compatriot, Ademola Lookman (Atalanta) and Argentina forward, Lautaro Martinez (Inter Milan).

Like Osimhen, Messi was also on song for PSG at the Parc des Princes where he led his club to a 2-1 defeat of visiting FC Toulouse in the absence of Neymar and Kylian Mbappe.

The Argentine World Cup winner has scored 10 goals and provided 10 assists in 18 Ligue 1 games so far this season.

Also on the list in a 4-4-2 fromation are PSG right back, Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi and Barcelona’s veteran defender, Jordi Alba while in the Premier League, only Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Rúben Neves made the
following his impressive performance in the 3-0 demolition of Liverpool at the Molineux Stadium.

The Portuguese scored once in the game.

Meanwhile, Osimhen and Ola Aina made Whoscored’s Serie A team of the week.

Aina was in imperious form in his first start since he returned from a biceps femoris muscle injury that kept him away from eight Serie A matches between October 2022 and January 2023.
The Nigerian provided the assist for Yann Karamoh to score the only goal of the game in Torino’s 1-0 defeat of visiting Udinese at the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino.