Angola national team striker M’Bala Nzola spent several years in the second and third division of Portuguese and then Italian football but the 26-year-old is now scoring regularly in Serie A, scoring two goals in Spezia’s important road victory against Hellas Verona over the weekend. Nzola’s goals are the highlight of our recap of African goal contributions in European football from this past weekend. Check out the goals and assists from Nzola and on fire forwards Victor Osimhen and Eric Choupo-Moting below as well as Ivorian starlet Amad Diallo’s excellent match for Sunderland:

M’Bala Nzola (Angola) continues his strong season with a double to lead Spezia to an important road victory over fellow relegation candidates Hellas Verona

Lameck Banda (Zambia) scores his first Serie A goal with a clever chipped finish in Lecce’s road win over Sampdoria

Victor Osimhen (Nigeria) continues his reign at the top of the Serie A goal charts with Napoli’s first in a 3-2 win over Udinese

Ademola Lookman (Nigeria) scores his seventh of the season from the spot in Atalanta’s defeat to Inter Milan

André-Frank Zambo Anguissa (Cameroon) sets up Napoli teammate Eljif Elmas for an excellent strike 

Wilfried Singo (Ivory Coast) provides a perfect cross to assist the opener in Torino’s 1-1 draw at Roma

Isaac Success (Nigeria) chests the ball down for Ilija Nestorovski to finish and spark a Udinese comeback attempt against Napoli

The goals keep coming from Eric Choupo-Moting (Cameroon) as he makes it ten goals in his last nine against Schalke

Ramy Bensebaini (Algeria) heads in a free kick as Borussia Mönchengladbach’s victory over Dortmund

Wilfried Kanga (Ivory Coast) nods in his second of the season in Hertha Berlin’s win against Köln

Christopher Antwi-Adjei (Ghana) scores in his second straight match to win it for Bochum

Patson Daka (Zambia) sets up James Maddison for Leicester City’s opener in a 2-0 road victory against West Ham

Achraf Hakimi (Morocco) scores his third of the season in PSG’s dominating victory over Auxerre

Youcef Belaïli (Algeria) scores on a penalty kick for Ajaccio but Mostafa Mohamed (Egypt) assists Nantes’ first before Samuel Moutoussamy (DR Congo) sets up Moses Simon (Nigeria) for a late equalizer

Seko Fofana (Ivory Coast) produces the match winner for Lens in their home victory over Clermont

Terem Moffi (Nigeria) scores early for Lorient but Habib Diallo (Senegal) levels late for Strasbourg

Marshall Munetsi (Zimbabwe) pokes home to open the scoring in Reims’ 1-1 draw at Montpellier

Achraf Hakimi (Morocco) scores his third of the season in PSG’s dominating victory over Auxerre

Nicolas Pépé (Ivory Coast) scores his fourth of the season from the penalty spot in a 1-1 draw for Nice

Steve Mounié (Benin) scores his first goal of the season from the spot in Brest’s victory over Troyes

Amad Diallo (Ivory Coast) assists the opener then produces an outstanding individual effort to put Sunderland beyond reach against Birmingham City

Yakou Méïté (Ivory Coast) scores for Reading after Jean Michaël Seri (Ivory Coast) assists the opening goal for Hull City

A cross from Tendayi Darikwa (Zimbabwe) sets up Wigan’s late winner against Blackpool