Scorer this weekend during the spectacular draw between his team Fatih Karagümrük and the leader Galatasaray (3-3), Mbaye Diagne now has 71 goals in the Turkish first division championship. He equals the Malian Fernand Coulibaly at the 2nd place of the best African scorers in the history of the Super Lig.
When he hangs up his boots and retires, we will not only remember Mbaye Diagne as a sulfurous player. A footballer capable of getting into fights with his teammates and coach over a penalty kick. The striker is also writing weekend after weekend his legend of serial scorer in the Turkish championship. He will certainly leave his mark. Already the top scorer of the 2018-2019 season with 30 goals, the 2009 African vice-champion never loses his scoring instinct when he treads the Turkish lawns.
This weekend, against Galatasaray his former team, he managed to find the net. Fatih Karagümrük neutralized 3-3 the leader of the championship. For Mbaye Diagne, it is his 18th goal in Super Lig this season, the 8th in the last 8 games. And above all his 71st goal in 105 matches in the Turkish first division. He equals the Malian Fernand Coulibaly in the ranking of the best African scorers of this championship. The former Eagle, now 52 years old, played in Turkey between 95 and 2002. However, he did not have the same incredible ratio of Mbaye Diagne. It took him 179 games to reach 71 goals.
However, Mbaye Diagne will have to keep on slamming the counters if he wants to be the best African striker of all time in Super Lig. The ranking is indeed dominated by Andre Kona, former Congolese international. In Turkey from 1996 to 2003, he managed to record 100 goals in 265 games.
Top 5 African strikers in Turkey
Andre Kona (DR Congo): 100 goals; 265 games
Mbaye Diagne (Senegal) : 71 goals ; 105 games
Fernand Coulibaly (Mali) : 71 goals; 179 games
Souleymane Youla (Guinea) : 65 goals ; 183 matches
Moussa Sow (Senegal) : 67 goals ; 142 games
