PARIS —
Liverpool manager
Jurgen Klopp said “something was not 100 percent right” when
asked about an injury that forced two-time African Footballer of the Year
Mohamed Salah to limp off after scoring against Brighton at the weekend.
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“He thinks it’s not serious but you can see
when
Mo Salah is sitting down... something is not 100 percent right,” added the
German.
Egypt captain Salah converted a penalty as
Liverpool won 2–0 on the road to move within three points of Premier League
leaders
Manchester City.
Here, AFP Sport highlights Africans who
starred in the major European leagues:
England
Mohamed
Salah (Liverpool)
Salah scored
his 28th goal of the season from the penalty spot as
Liverpool closed to within
three points of Manchester City with a routine 2-0 win at Brighton.
Thomas
Partey (Arsenal)
Ghana
midfielder Partey scored just his second goal for
Arsenal in a comfortable 2–0
win over Leicester City that put the Gunners back in the top four. Partey
nodded home a corner early on and also had a part to play in Arsenal’s second
as his header was handled by Caglar Soyuncu inside the box to win a penalty,
converted by Alexandre Lacazette.
Spain
Pierre-Emerick
Aubameyang (Barcelona)
Aubameyang
scored his sixth goal for Barcelona in a 4–0 La Liga thrashing of Osasuna. The
Gabon striker steered in Ousmane Dembele’s cross in the first half at
Camp Nou to continue his excellent form since moving to Barca in January. He opened his
account with a hat-trick against Valencia last month, then scored against
Napoli, Athletic Bilbao and now Osasuna. Victory lifted Barcelona to third
ahead of next weekend’s Clasico against Real Madrid.
Italy
Victor
Osimhen (Napoli)
Nigeria striker Osimhen is
in fine fettle and confident of
Napoli’s chances of securing a first Serie A
title in over three decades after netting both goals in a 2–1 win at Verona.
The 23-year-old rose highest to put the away side ahead early on and then
secured a win which kept his team three points behind leaders AC Milan in the
71st minute, sweeping home Giovanni Di Lorenzo’s pull-back before snatching a
camera to take a snap of the celebrating Napoli fans.
Hamed
Traore (Sassuolo)
Ivorian
Traore netted his fourth league goal of the season to put Sassuolo 2–1 ahead at
bottom side Salernitana, and it was a beautiful effort. Picking up the ball on
the left side he shimmied into the area between two home defenders before
curling home a classy finish. Milan Djuric leveled with nine minutes remaining
but that won’t take anything away from the quality of Traore’s strike.
Germany
Taiwo
Awoniyi (Union Berlin)
The
24-year-old
Nigeria striker banged in a first-half penalty to claim his 11th
Bundesliga goal this season. However, Union were denied a home victory when
Stuttgart striker Sasa Kalajdzic equalized for the visitors in the 90th minute
to seal a 1–1 draw.
France
Alexander
Djiku (Strasbourg)
The Ghana center-back picked an opportune time to score
his first Ligue 1 goal of the season as his overhead kick gave Strasbourg a
precious 1–0 victory over Monaco, keeping them in the hunt for a shock
Champions League berth. The France-born defender is expected to be called up
for this month’s World Cup play-off against Nigeria.
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