Salah and Jackson continue to excel, with Salah contributing to Liverpool's win over Manchester City and Jackson scoring early for Chelsea. Cheddira of Espanyol also adds to the list of standout performances by African players in European leagues.
Mo Salah and Nicolas Jackson continue their excellent form in the Premier League this season, while Walid Cheddira scored a brilliant goal for Espanyol in LaLiga. We round up the best performing African players from the weekend.Another week, another major contribution from Salah as her provided a goal and an assist for Liverpool in their 2-0 win over Manchester City that may have already secured them the Premier League trophy.
Jackson is another striker in fine form and has been an important part of Chelsea’s bright start to the season that sees them in third in the table. They fell; behind early to Leicester City, but such is their attacking quality, it always looked as they though would win the game and Brentford eventually recorded a superb 4-1 victory.
That takes Diallo’s assist tally in the Premier League to five this season, to go with a single goal.Lamptey has had an injury-plagued start to the season and only managed 82 minutes so far in the Premier League for Brighton & Hove Albion, but despite this now already has two assists. Cairney was later sent off with a straight red card. Iwobi now has three goals and three assists in 13 Premier League matches this season.Rayo Vallecano suffered a third straight defeat when they lost 2-1 at home to Athletic Bilbao on Sunday, but there was a first goal of the campaign for Angolan midfielder Nteka.
The Moroccan joined Espanyol from Napoli in Serie A at the start of the season, having spent his entire career in Italy to that point.
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