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Villarreal star Arnaut Danjuma continued his impressive first season in Spain on Tuesday night with two goals during a victory over Valencia.
The Yellow Submarine moved to within three points of sixth place and qualification for next season’s Europa Conference League with a 2-0 win over rivals Valencia, with Unai Emery’s former Bournemouth star Danjuma scoring both goals in the win.
The Nigerian-born Dutchman opened the scoring after just ten minutes from the penalty spot, getting his and his side’s second goal just seven minutes later to complete victory inside the opening 20 minutes of the game, with just five games left in their La Liga campaign.
In doing so, Danjuma etched himself into Villarreal club history after taking his tally of league goals for the season up to ten and in almost record speed. Danjuma’s ten league goals have come in just 23 games in what is the winger’s first season in La Liga since leaving Bournemouth last summer.
Danjuma’s 23 games to get to ten league goals has put him sixth in Villarreal’s all-time list of quickest players to ten league goals. Ahead of Danjuma are Giuseppe Rossi, Ikechukwu Uche (both 16), Diego Forlan (19), Luciano Vietto (20) and Sonny Anderson (22).
Danjuma has scored 16 times in 33 appearances across all competitions this season, with his other six goals all coming in the Champions League. Danjuma will want to add to that tally further in the