14 things we loved this weekend: Messi, Salah, Mbappe, Arsenal…

Planet Football • 06 Mar 2023

Liverpool’s historic 7-0 victory over Manchester United, Arsenal’s dramatic comeback victory and Kylian Mbappe becoming PSG’s record goalscorer were some of this weekend’s highlights.

Arsenal needed injury time to overcome Bournemouth, and their victory was even more essential considering Manchester City had eased past Newcastle just hours previously.

Elsewhere, Napoli suffered a rare defeat in Serie A while there was some mascot chaos in Japan.

We’ve compiled 13 things that made us smile over the past few days.

Lionel Messi

701 goals. 299 assists. A mindblowing milestone.

Lionel Messi reaches 1000 combined goals and assists in his club career 🤯 pic.twitter.com/TLGd8qSuQD

— GOAL (@goal) March 4, 2023

Mohamed Salah

Salah sent Lisandro Martinez back to Ajax with a lovely piece of skill…

what Salah just did to Lisandro Martinez is criminal ffs😭 pic.twitter.com/eJYgvOmE01

— ✞𝙻𝚒𝚕𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝙸𝚜 𝙽𝚘𝚠 ᗯᗩ𝘠ᗯᗩᖇᗪ✞💣💨 (@Lilgendwontmiss) March 5, 2023

Roy Keane & Gary Neville’s reaction to Souness

Oh dear, lads. Little did you know…

https://twitter.com/KobiiBanks/status/1632385352647290880

Mark Goldbridge

Even United fans would’ve smiled at this.

https://twitter.com/MrMatthewCFB/status/1632451594192076800

Erling Haaland

You’d be daft to mess with him.

Erling Haaland's smile while 'fighting' with Dan Burn. 😄 pic.twitter.com/BWLo6QSC2E

— Football Talent Scout – Jacek Kulig (@FTalentScout) March 4, 2023

Arsenal

Mentality monsters.

Arsenal went behind at 00:09 and went ahead at 96:59. Incredible game.

— Michael Cox (@Zonal_Marking) March 4, 2023

Ben White

Pure savagery from the Arsenal and England defender.

Ben White celebrating Arsenal’s last-second winning goal in front of Bournemouth goalkeeper & prolific time-waster Neto. 😂❤️ #afc pic.twitter.com/jUO1NJ3u4L

— afcstuff (@afcstuff) March 4, 2023

Mikel Arteta

Caught up in the moment.

Arteta thought he was celebrating with one of his staff before he realized it's a fogging kid 😂😂😂pic.twitter.com/gNL5Umocrx

— S👻 (@scrapytweets) March 5, 2023

Ian Wright

It’s hard not to love Wrighty.

We'll try and have some composure restored by the time Match of the Day goes on air….#BBCFootball #ARSBOU #MOTD pic.twitter.com/Zq36DO4j49

— Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) March 4, 2023

Kylian Mbappe

He became PSG’s record goalscorer at the age of 24. We feel unfulfilled.

The wink at the end from Mbappé was too cold 🥶😮‍💨 pic.twitter.com/StKXdkJhRJ

— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) March 5, 2023

Matias Vecino

It takes something special to beat this Napoli.

ᴀ ᴛʜᴜɴᴅᴇʀʙᴏʟᴛ ⚡️

Lazio go ahead at the home of the Serie A league leaders! pic.twitter.com/ThlIdU5K5g

— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) March 3, 2023