Mohamed Salah<\/a>.<\/p>\nThis marks a significant improvement from the previous tournament, where he scored just once, against Equatorial Guinea in the group stage.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old is a striker capable of scoring all kinds of goals – headers, long-range strikes, and tap-ins – and his movement in the box, along with his resilience, are key weapons in his arsenal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This season with his club, Galatasaray, Osimhen has scored 12 goals in 16 games, and he feels he is a better player now: “As a player, as a man, I have evolved a lot because I have always gone back to see the mistakes I made in my spare time and try to see how I can improve myself. From the last AFCON to this one, I think I have upgraded a lot, as a player and as a man.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Earlier in the tournament, Osimhen had a brief on-pitch rift with teammate Ademola Lookman during the game against Mozambique. He asked to be substituted after not receiving a pass from the winger, even though Nigeria was 3-0 up at the time. The striker, however, insisted that it was never about individual records, but always about the team.: \u201cIt is about winning something with this squad and we are on the right path. It is not going to be easy but the big confidence is there and I am just trying to do my bit for the team.”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Osimehn: I’ve evolved as a player and as a man Osimhen has four goals in the ongoing Africa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[122],"class_list":{"0":"post-21753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-nigeria"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}