Champions League: Osimhen hat-trick downs Ajax, Atalanta earn dramatic win at Marseille

Victor Osimhen scored two penalties as a part of a hat-trick that helped Galatasaray sink rock-bottom Ajax 3-0 within the Champions League on Wednesday.

The Nigeria striker opened the scoring simply earlier than the hour at Johan Cruyff Area when he met Leroy Sane’s in-swinging cross with an excellent diving header.

Osimhen doubled the lead when Youri Baas was pinged for handball within the space, the previous Napoli ace powering his effort into the bottom-left nook.

One other handball, this time from Gerald Alders, gifted Osimhen the possibility to safe the hat-trick, and he fired excessive to spherical out a win that leaves Galatasaray with 9 factors, and Ajax rooted to the underside with 4 losses from as many video games.

OSIMHEN COMPLETES THE HATTRICK.

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Atalanta wanted a dramatic Ninetieth-minute winner from Lazar Samardzic to earn a 1-0 win over Marseille at Stade Velodrome.

Charles De Ketelaere had seen a first-half penalty saved by Geronimo Rulli, Ademola Lookman had a objective dominated out, and a number of other different probabilities went begging earlier than the guests lastly discovered the winner by means of Samardzic’s breakaway objective – Marseille left livid as they felt Ederson had dealt with in his personal space on the different finish.

Atalanta are consequently sixteenth, whereas Marseille are down in twenty fifth.

Knowledge Debrief: Osimhen matches Ronaldo feat

Together with his hat-trick, Osimhen is the third participant to attain a hat-trick away at Ajax within the Champions League, alongside Cristiano Ronaldo (2012 for Actual Madrid) and Lucas Moura (2019 for Tottenham), whereas it is just the second time a Gala participant has notched a hat-trick within the competitors (Burak Yilmaz in November 2012 v CFR Cluj).

Osimhen has now scored in every of his final eight appearances in main European competitors, the longest such run since Robert Lewandowski managed 9 between November 2020 and 2021.

Rulli was on the dropping facet for Marseille, however he has saved 4 of his 10 penalties confronted in Europe’s big-five leagues throughout all competitions for the reason that begin of final season; solely Nikola Vasilj and Vanja Milinkovic-Savic have extra in that point (each six).

Because the begin of the final marketing campaign, solely Inter (11), Arsenal (10) and Paris Saint-Germain (eight) have recorded extra clear sheets within the Champions League than Atalanta (seven), who’ve recorded back-to-back shutouts following a run of only one in eight matches.