Both strikers have begun at a furious pace with their respective clubs, but whose performances have caught the eye more so far?
A quirk of birth a generation removed has conspired to pit two strikers playing league football in two different nations against each other, at least in the minds of the Nigerian football faithful.
Kelvin Tamarebi Abraham – remarkably that is not the full extent of his naming – has this season taken to the Premier League swimmingly in blue, relishing the chance to finally be the figurehead of boyhood club Chelsea after a number of loan spells away.