Paris (AFP) – Senegalese Sadio Mane, Egyptian Mohamed Salah and Guinean Naby Keita shared the glory among Africans in Europe at the weekend by scoring all the goals as Liverpool crushed Huddersfield 5-0.
Mane and Salah netted twice each after Keita had put the Reds ahead in 15 seconds at Anfield as a thrilling title race with Manchester City continued.
Defending champions City won 1-0 at Burnley two days later to top the table by one point with two rounds remaining.
ENGLAND
NABY KEITA (Liverpool)
The midfielder launched the Reds’ rout of Huddersfield with an opening goal after 15 seconds — Liverpool’s quickest of the Premier League era. He closed down the Terriers’ Jon Goren Stankovic, robbed him of the ball, exchanged passes with Salah and advanced into the area to score with an accomplished finish from some 15 yards in a brilliant example of the team’s football under manager Jurgen Klopp.
SADIO MANE (Liverpool)
An excellent season for the forward continued with two goals. Following good work by full-back Andrew Robertson, he found space between his markers to head his 11th goal in 13 games in the 23rd minute before another header, in the 65th minute, saw him score his 20th league goal of the campaign.
MOHAMED SALAH (Liverpool)
Earlier in the season when he was undergoing the kind of ‘goal drought’ common to all forwards, there were those who questioned whether the Egypt star was a “one-season” wonder. In first-half stoppage time he wrapped up the points for Liverpool with a sublime lob over the head of the advancing goalkeeper following a brilliantly-weighted ball from Trent Alexander-Arnold. He then completed the scoring seven minutes from time with a classic close-range finish.
SPAIN
SAMUEL CHUKWUEZE, KARL TOKO EKAMBI (Villarreal)
Nigerian Chukwueze and Cameroonian Toko Ekambi could not find a winner as Villarreal were held 1-1 by Huesca in La Liga. A point puts Villarreal five points clear of the bottom three and should be enough to see them safe, but a victory would made have made survival all but certain. The Africans have 25 goals between them this season but drew a blank as Huesca’s Ezequiel Avila cancelled Pablo Fornals’ first-half strike.
ITALY
FRANCK KESSIE (AC Milan)
The 22-year-old Ivory Coast midfielder was harshly penalised for a push on Armando Izzo, which resulted in a penalty for Torino in the second half. It was converted by Andrea Belotti before Spanish winger Alex Berenguer made it 2-0 as Torino celebrated their first Serie A win over Milan since 2001.
from World Soccer Talk http://bit.ly/2PA9bqo
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