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Bordeaux announce Nigerian international Josh Maja highest goal scorer

As the seasons across Europe are gradually winding up, some subscribing to total cancelation while others are thinking of resuming back their leagues, the French league have since announced PSG winner of the 2019/2020 season and all other awards in the league have to follow same way.

French Ligue 1 outfit Bordeaux have named Nigeria international Josh Maja as club’s top scorer for the 2019/2020 season. 

The Sunderland striker finished the cancelled season with eight goals to his name across all competition, level with two other Bordeaux players in the shape of Jimmy Briand and Nicolas De Préville.

But Bordeaux have decided to name Maja as their top scorer in all tournaments because he was more efficient than Briand and De Préville, scoring a goal every 113 minutes and played fewer games.

While Maja played 24 games over the course of the season and was in action for 894 minutes, Briand logged 1,774 minutes in 26 matches and De Préville racked up 2,251 minutes in 28 games. 

The Bordeaux number nine provided three assists, with two of them coming in the Ligue 1.

The highlight of Maja’s season in terms of goalscoring was netting his first career hat-trick against Nîmes Olympique on matchday sixteen in December 2019.