Super Falcons forward, Asisat Oshoala grabbed a hatrick in side’s 4-0 league’s victory against Real Betis women on Saturday.
To people’s surprise, the Barcelona female star netted her three goals in the first half of the match before Rolfo F, scored the last goal in the 66th minute.
The 27-year-old opened the scoring in the first 18 minute before the second goal in the 36th minute and the third, a minute before half time.
Oshoala just recovered from a knee injury she picked up when Barcelona feminine was clashing against Hoffenheim in the women’s Champions League last November.
Following the hatrick, her goals reckoned up to 101 having scored 98 goals before the match.of the Catalan female team in the current campaign.
Meanwhile, the former Arsenal star has re-emerged the highest goal-scorer after having been found on target 15 times in 12 matches so far.
The ex-Liverpool ace has received a lot of awards and achievements including being joint-record four-time African Women’s Footballer of the Year.
She won the 2015 FA Women’s Cup with Arsenal; two league championships and a cup title with a Chinese club, Dalian; and the 2019–20 Copa de la Reina and 2019–20 Supercopa de España Femenina with Barcelona.
Oshoala became the first African and Nigerian player to have found the net in a UEFA Women’s Champions League final.
She emerged the first African woman to lift the UEFA Champions League, after Barca’s 4-0 win against Chelsea in final.
Also Read: Oshoala Scores for Barca on Her Return From Injury
Oshoala was the highest goal scorer at the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup and was named best player at the tournament.
The Ikorodu-born has also been named the best player at the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup after topping the list of the highest goal-scorers.
Meanwhile, Oshoala who was named a Member of the Order of the Niger by President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan in September 2014 is widely regarded as one of the greatest African female footballers of all time and one of the best in the world.
