13 things we loved this weekend: Eriksen, Payet, Can, Milner & more
While we in England hunkered down to avoid Storm Ciara this weekend, the rest of Europe had plenty of fun with some ridiculous games across the continent.
Inter came back from 2-0 down to triumph 4-2 in the Milan derby, Borussia Dortmund were beaten 4-3 by Bayer Leverkusen, and Barcelona were 3-2 victors over Real Betis in a game featuring two red cards.
We’ve rounded up the best of the action on and off the pitch.
Emre Can
*holds R1 + shoot*
Emre Can scores a stunner against his former club on his Borussia Dortmund debut!!! pic.twitter.com/64JEvKkm6x
— PassTheBall (@_PassTheBall) February 8, 2020
Marco Moncosu
Just sprint up to a free-kick and whack it into the top corner, fair.
😍 INCREDIBLE FREE KICK FROM MANCOSU!
😮 Lecce are 3-1 up and cruising to a comfortable win away to Napoli now pic.twitter.com/VddAL5SaOr
— Premier Sports 📺 (@PremierSportsTV) February 9, 2020
Dimitri Payet
The king.
Dimitri Payet did it again 🔥
His second eye-catching goal in a matter of days lifted Marseille to victory over Toulouse…
And it was a peach 🍑 pic.twitter.com/vKSnxsWNY3
— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) February 9, 2020
Christian Eriksen
Just imagine.
Fernando Marcel
Finish.
The maddest own goal I’ve ever seen in the PSG Lyon game! pic.twitter.com/r1uC5Zm0uq
— Andy Stirling Robertson (@andysr_design) February 9, 2020
Jeremy Mathieu
We didn’t expect him to do this.
Karim Benzema
Real Madrid’s unsung hero.
Karim Benzema now has more number of assists than any player in the history of Real Madrid .
1st assist 132nd assist pic.twitter.com/IfT7cRWhv8
— ُ (@BlancoAbhi) February 9, 2020
Nene
The former West Ham man has still got it at 38.
Djibril Sidibe
Ancelotti wasn’t happy with this.
Everton's Djibril Sidibé realises he is missing a sock just seconds before being substituted into the game between Everton and Crystal Palace today! 😅#EFC | #EvertonFC | #EVECRY | #Toffees | @EvertonInUSApic.twitter.com/5ouzkkD8eW
— Football Moments (@Footyments) February 8, 2020
Jesus Corona
Sure, Porto beating Benfica is big, but this nutmeg is even better.
Que baile de Corona 🤭
(via @vsports_pt)pic.twitter.com/u57C9adioj
— B24 (@B24PT) February 8, 2020
Luis Diaz
Porto were very good at nutmegs this weekend.
Luís Diaz 👑🔥 pic.twitter.com/Ou1zbsIAXH
— Marco Martins (@MarcoMartins08) February 8, 2020
Said Benrahama
You can see the exact moment Lewis Wing wants to go home.
James Milner
He’s still better than all of us put together.
Origi assist 👍🏼 #cornertakenquickly https://t.co/bnnOxrqz5D
— James Milner (@JamesMilner) February 8, 2020
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