Osimhen ranked No 2

10 Best Strikers in Italy

Osimhen ranked No 2

Super Eagles and Napoli wantaway striker, Victor Osimhen, Napoli has been rated as the second best striker in the Italian Series A last season.

His compatriot, Ademola Lookman is listed as No.8 with 11 goals and 7 assists despite not playing a full 2,000 minutes in the league. He was one of the big breakout stars of the 2022/23 Serie A season in his first season in Bergamo, though he had to take a bit of a backseat in the 2023/24 campaign to accommodate Gianluca Scamacca and Charles De Ketelaere.

The ranking is based on a combination of recent success and overall pedigree.

Despite not being at his best level, Osimhen did score 15 goals with 3 assists, which is a pretty comparable statistical output to Vlahovic.

Injuries and a downturn in performance from Napoli as a team without Luciano Spalletti contributed to a down year from Victor Osimhen, who was the leading scorer in Serie A during the Scudetto-winning 2022/23 season.

Osimhen will likely move to a bigger club, such as PSG, this summer, even with Premier League clubs cooling interest due to concerns whether or not a 100 million euro price tag justifies the injury risk.

If he stays in Serie A, the Vlahovic vs. Osimhen will be an even bigger topic of debate among Calcio fans, with Osimhen holding the edge because of the sheer brilliance of his 2022/23 campaign.

Of course, the leading striker last season is Inter Milan’s Lautaro Martinez.

Martinez put that to bed with an incredible 2023/24 season that was a continuation off a brilliant second half to his 2022/23 campaign.

Last season, Lautaro answered his critics who said he was holding Inter Milan back and had stagnated by playing like a man on a mission, leading Inter to the Champions League Final and a Coppa Italia triumph.

The Argentinian superstar was easily the best player in Italian football with 24 goals, 1.8 fouls drawn per game, and 1.1 key passes per match.

Right behind Osimhen is Dusan Vlahovic of Juventus. He began the 2023/24 season slowly with mounting concerns regarding his star status in the league and even his future in Turin.

By the end of the season, he was unquestionably Juve’s best player and far more of a solution than a problem, standing out amongst his peers in the attack.

Vlahovic scored 16 goals with 4 assists, and you wonder what the former Fiorentina man will be capable of doing next under Thiago Motta, especially with a significantly upgraded midfield already in place after the Khephren Thuram and Douglas Luiz signings.

Inter’s Marcus Thuram is rated fourth while Charles De Ketelaere, of Atalanta is placed fifth ahead of Albert Gudmundsson of Genoa on sixth place with Gianluca Scamacca of Atalanta on seventh followed by Duvan Zapata of Torino on ninth and Andrea Pinamonti of Sassuolo competing the 10-man list.