Both strikers have begun at a furious pace with their respective clubs, but whose performances have caught the eye more so far?
A quirk of birth a generation removed has conspired to pit two strikers playing league football in two different nations against each other, at least in the minds of the Nigerian football faithful.
Kelvin Tamarebi Abraham – remarkably that is not the full extent of his naming – has this season taken to the Premier League swimmingly in blue, relishing the chance to finally be the figurehead of boyhood club Chelsea after a number of loan spells away.
The result has been the sudden realization that the player, born to a Nigerian father in London, has a taste for scoring in clumps: for his latest feat, he put Wolves to the sword on Saturday, netting three times at Molineux.
Just across the channel, Victor Osimhen has been doing something more or less similar, but no less spectacular.
The Nigeria international cannot claim a long-term affiliation with Ligue 1 runners-up Lille, but that has not stopped him from announcing himself in style since joining in the summer from Belgian side Charleroi.
Lille’s Victor Osimhen
His predatory finish against Angers at the weekend took his tally with Les Dogues to five in his first five games, matching a French league record set by none other than the enigmatic Mario Balotelli.
Their respective starts to the season have led to much speculation as to the international future of the former.
Whereas Osimhen has risen through the ranks of the Nigeria national teams, and has already featured for the Super Eagles (he scored his first senior goal in a friendly against Ukraine last week), Abraham’s eventual allegiance remains unclear.
A must-read from @TheOddSolace @GoalcomNigeria ahead of this evening's final. Osimhen profile. https://t.co/9DDx13Wbh1
— Ed Dove (@EddyDove) November 8, 2015
