Naija Stars Overseas: Onuachu breaks report, Osimhen scores once more, Maja ends 5-month drought in busy weekend for Tremendous Eagles

From the Turkish Tremendous Lig to the English Championship and the French Ligue 1, it was a weekend to recollect for Nigerian footballers in Europe.

Information had been damaged, lengthy waits ended, and milestones had been reached. Here’s a full breakdown of how Nigeria’s stars carried out throughout the continent.

Paul Onuachu is rewriting Trabzonspor’s historical past books one sport at a time. The Tremendous Eagles striker scored the one aim in a 1-0 victory over Caykur Rizespor on Saturday, netting in his tenth consecutive Tremendous Lig match – a report that stands alone within the membership’s historical past.

The aim got here six minutes after half-time, with Onuachu calmly changing a exact cut-back from Oleksandr Zubkov from shut vary. It was his twenty first league aim of the season, preserving him high of the Tremendous Lig scoring charts. Throughout all competitions, he now has 23 targets in 26 appearances.

The win was an emotional one for Trabzonspor, devoted to assistant coach Orhan Kaynak who handed away earlier within the week. Onuachu additionally turned the membership’s third highest-scoring overseas participant of all time along with his fortieth aim for the membership, behind solely Shota Arveladze (85) and fellow Nigerian Anthony Nwakaeme (51).

With 9 video games remaining and needing 5 extra targets to interrupt Arveladze’s single-season report of 25, Onuachu is properly on track to make additional historical past earlier than the season ends.

Victor Osimhen continued his relentless type with a aim in Galatasaray’s 3-0 win over İstanbul Basaksehir, extending the league leaders’ benefit on the high of the Süper Lig. He scored within the 66th minute and arrange substitute Yunus Akgün for the third aim.

The Tremendous Eagles striker additionally got here inside inches of a spectacular bicycle kick aim within the first half, his effort rattling the crossbar earlier than being cleared. He was substituted within the seventy fifth minute as supervisor Okan Buruk fastidiously managed his workload forward of Wednesday’s Champions League second leg towards Liverpool at Anfield.

Osimhen now has 12 league targets for the season and carries a 1-0 combination lead into the Anfield second leg.

Ola Aina was the standout Nigerian performer in a goalless draw on the Metropolis Floor, producing what many described because the efficiency of the match. His 58th-minute strike from the sting of the field was the closest both aspect got here to scoring, the ball crashing off the crossbar in what would have been a robust contender for aim of the season.

Aina additionally made an important goal-saving block late within the sport to disclaim Fulham, finishing a two-way show of appreciable high quality. The draw lifted Forest out of the relegation zone on aim distinction.

Calvin Bassey was a stable presence within the Fulham defence, almost opening the scoring within the nineteenth minute with a robust header from an Alex Iwobi supply. The centre-back was disciplined all through, finishing 90 minutes in a match Fulham will really feel they need to have gained given their superior head-to-head report towards Forest.

Alex Iwobi dropped deep to dictate play from midfield, offering the supply for Bassey’s header and exhibiting his standard composure on the ball. Each gamers had been unable to interrupt the impasse regardless of a promising second-half exhibiting.

Awoniyi got here off the bench within the 62nd minute and injected urgency into Forest’s assault. He got here agonisingly near a late winner within the 88th minute, discovering house in behind the Fulham defence earlier than dragging his shot simply broad of the far submit. A aim would have been totally deserved for his affect instead.

Josh Maja’s wait is lastly over. The Tremendous Eagles striker ended a painful 25-game league aim drought by opening the scoring in West Brom’s emphatic 3-0 win over Hull Metropolis at The Hawthorns – their first league victory of 2026 and first in 14 Championship matches.

Maja turned in a Jed Wallace cross within the twenty fifth minute to interrupt the impasse, his first league aim since West Brom’s win over Swansea Metropolis in November 2025. The breakthrough got here after a Hull goalkeeper error gifted Wallace possession close to midway, and Maja confirmed the composure of a striker who had been ready patiently for his second.

The win, helped by Hull defender Charlie Hughes’ first-half pink card, moved West Brom out of the Championship relegation zone. Maja left the pitch to a standing ovation from The Hawthorns crowd.

Moses Simon reached a landmark private milestone on Sunday, changing into solely the second Nigerian footballer in historical past to make 200 appearances within the French Ligue 1. The Paris FC winger, who constructed the majority of his expertise throughout six seasons at FC Nantes, achieved the milestone in a goalless draw away to Strasbourg.

Simon began the match and featured for 64 minutes earlier than being substituted, serving to his aspect declare a beneficial away level that retains Paris FC thirteenth within the desk and 9 factors away from the relegation zone.

Throughout his 200 Ligue 1 appearances, Simon has recorded 76 aim contributions – 36 targets and 40 assists – essentially the most aim contributions by any Nigerian participant within the historical past of the French high flight. His 40 assists can also be the very best tally ever recorded by a Nigerian in Ligue 1, surpassing the earlier report held by John Utaka.

Wilfred Ndidi and Besiktas returned to profitable methods following their defeat to Galatasaray, with the Tremendous Eagles vice-captain producing a composed efficiency – finishing 91% of his passes and creating one key probability. Ndidi’s management on the base of midfield continues to be the inspiration of Besiktas’s season.

In La Liga, Akor Adams and Chidera Ejuke had been unable to make an affect as Atletico Madrid ran riot towards Sevilla in a 5-2 victory, with Ademola Lookman additionally having a quiet afternoon for the Spanish capital membership. Samuel Chukwueze got here on as an alternative choice to Fulham late within the Forest draw.

A weekend of information, milestones and long-awaited targets. Nigerian soccer in Europe could be very a lot alive and with Victor Osimhen heading to Anfield on Wednesday, the largest second of the week continues to be to come back.