After scoring in Napoli’s 4-1 win over Udinese on Wednesday night, Napoli sticker, Victor Osimhen refused to celebrate.
The Super Eagles forward scored the Serie A champions’ second goal.
Despite the fact that his relationship with the club had soured in the previous 24 hours, Osimhen was selected to start the game.
The Nigerian ended his four-match goal drought, but he chose not to celebrate in order to make his feelings about the current conflict with Napoli and their social media antics obvious.
While teammates went over to applaud him, the typically emphatic celebrator took a neutral position.
Osimhen, who fired Napoli to their first league title in over 30 years last season, was the target of a video where he was mocked by his own club on social media on Tuesday.
The Nigerian, who scored 62 goals in 107 appearances for the Serie A side, had a rare penalty miss, yet the video appeared to mock him for his attempts to persuade for the penalty to be given.
The video shows the 24-year-old begging for a penalty but using an unusually sped-up voice with the caption ‘Gimme penalty, please’ before sending the spot-kick wide of the post.
