Mohamed Salah is starting to show the consistent form that Liverpool supporters are familiar with after a slow start to the English Premier League season. The Egyptian legend scored both goals for his side as Liverpool earned an important 2-1 road victory in London over Tottenham Hotspur, making Salah our star of the weekend for Africans playing abroad in Europe. Check out Salah’s goals and also how Nigerian forwards continued to provide decisive moments in Italy’s Serie A below:
English Premier League
A double from Mohamed Salah (Egypt) lifts Liverpool past Tottenham
Wilfried Zaha (Ivory Coast) levels for Crystal Palace and creates the match winner in second half stoppage time
Bryan Mbeumo (Cameroon) converts from the penalty spot and Yoane Wissa (DR Congo) also scores in Brentford’s draw against Nottingham Forest
Saïd Benrahma (Algeria) opens the scoring in West Ham’s defeat to Crystal Palace
Clever midfield play from Boubacar Traoré (Mali) leads to a goal for Gonçalo Guedes in Wolves’ defeat to Brighton
Mohammed Salisu (Ghana) gets his first goal contribution with an assist in Southampton’s defeat to Newcastle
Emmanuel Dennis (Nigeria) chests down for Morgan Gibbs-White to do the rest on Nottingham Forest’s opener
Serie A
Victor Osimhen (Nigeria) stays at the top of the Serie A scoring charts with an equalizer followed by a match-winning assist at Atalanta
A penalty kick from Ademola Lookman (Nigeria) opens the scoring for Atalanta in eventual defeat to Napoli
David Okereke (Nigeria) produces an excellent left-footed volley for Cremonese against Salernitana
Lassana Coulibaly (Mali) starts and finishes a sequence for his first Serie A goal in Salernitana’s 2-2 draw with Cremonese
An excellent lofted ball from Ismaïl Bennacer (Algeria) sets up AC Milan’s opener in victory over Spezia
A cross from Isaac Success (Nigeria) leads to Udinese’s leveler against Lecce
Bundesliga
Eric Choupo-Moting stays on fire with two goals after Sadio Mané sets up the opener in Bayern Munich’s road victory at Hertha Berlin
Ligue 1
Two penalty kicks and an assist from Youcef Belaïli (Algeria) help Ajaccio to comeback victory over Strasbourg
Terem Moffi (Nigeria) scores his 9th of the season to equalize in Lorient’s eventual draw against PSG
Alexander Djiku (Ghana) assists Kevin Gameiro as Strasbourg jumps out to a 2-0 lead against Ajaccio
Mama Baldé (Guinea-Bissau) assists Troyes’ opener and Lassine Sinayoko (Mali) sets up the equalizer for Auxerre in 1-1 draw
La Liga
A sweet strike from Amath Ndiaye (Senegal) wraps up Mallorca’s victory at Villarreal