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13 things we loved this weekend: Fernandes, Haller, Marcelo, Vela…

Watford finally ended Liverpool’s unbeaten run in the Premier League over the weekend, while Manchester City beat Aston Villa in the League Cup final to lift the first domestic silverware of the season.

Lazio moved top of Serie A in Italy, Real Madrid beat Barcelona in Spain to go top of La Liga and Major League Soccer returned in America. Football!

Here is a selection of the things that caught our eye.

Jordan Flores

If this isn’t nominated for the Puskas Award, we’re taking our ball home.

Claudio Bravo

When you need a hero…

Marcelo

Defenders should celebrate all goal-saving tackles like this.

Casemiro

Want to know what it means to win El Clasico?

Casemiro after the final whistle. The passion! from r/realmadrid

Carlos Vela

MLS is back, and so is Carlos Vela.

LAFC [1] – 0 Miami | Vela 44′ (Great chip) from r/soccer

Saul

Hey Siri, show me a good connection.

Kylian Mbappe

He’s pretty good.

Bruno Fernandes

Sit back and watch his individual highlights from the Everton game. We think we love him.

Sebastien Haller

Tom Victor is going to be begging to write about this today.

Maciej Dabrowski

In this week’s update from Poland, a player breaks his own nose attempting an overhead kick.

Alex Tettey

The wholesome content we need on a Monday.

Luis Diaz

Steady. Composure yourself. Now shoot. Oh FFS.

Luis Diaz (Columbus Crew) with a worst shot of the year candidate from r/MLS

Leeds United

Well this was nice.


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