The best and worst of African players abroad

Too Good: Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane

After a recent run of three defeats in four, Liverpool were under pressure before Saturday’s lunchtime encounter with Bournemouth, and it looked to be going awry after Callum Wilson opened the scoring early on.

The ninth-minute goal silenced the Anfield crowd, but the hosts were to reverse the deficit through Salah and Mane’s first-half strikes, taking their Premier League tallies for the season to 16 and 14 respectively.

With Manchester City’s 2-0 defeat by Manchester United on Sunday, Jurgen Klopp’s side are now two wins away from a historic title win.

Too Bad: Ismaila Sarr

After Watford’s phenomenal 3-0 win over Liverpool last time out, the expectation was a repeat performance or at least something better than what they served up in Saturday’s 1-0 defeat by Crystal Palace.

Sarr, the hero of the win over Jurgen Klopp’s men, was badly off the pace at Selhurst Park, failing to beat his man on numerous occasions, coming out second-best in a plethora of his duels and constantly losing the ball over the course of the game.

On a weekend where Norwich City, Bournemouth, West Ham United and Brighton & Hove Albion dropped points, Watford missed a huge opportunity to pull away from the bottom three.

Too Good: Bengali-Fode Koita

Relegation-threatened Kasimpasa thrashed Kayserispor 5-1 on Sunday afternoon to give themselves hope of beating the drop.

The Istanbul side’s win was greatly helped by Koita's outstanding showing, who scored and set up another as his team extended their recent unbeaten run to three.

They moved level on points with Konyaspor in 15th and the striker’s impact has taken his team even nearer to escaping the bottom three.

Ghana’s Bernard Mensah netted the away side’s consolation goal on the hour mark, his third league strike of the season.

Too Bad: Moussa Djenepo

The wideman was selected in the Southampton side for the first time since his mother’s passing in February, but the Malian’s showing against Newcastle United lasted only 28 minutes before his red card.

Djenepo became the third Saints’ player to be sent off this season, and it left the Saints in the lurch for the rest of the match as Steve Bruce’s side gained control of the game from that point onwards, before deservedly getting a late winner through Allan Saint-Maximin.

Southampton have lost four of their last five league matches, but aren’t in any immediate danger with seven points separating them from Bournemouth in 18th place.

Too Good: Achraf Hakimi

Borussia Dortmund picked up a colossal 2-1 victory in the Borussen Derby over Borussia Monchengladbach this weekend, which took them into second spot in the Bundesliga, with RasenBallsport Leipzig only drawing at Wolfsburg.

Having been pegged back with Lars Stindl’s leveller five minutes after the break, Hakimi netted in the 71st minute of the encounter at Borussia-Park to secure maximum points on enemy territory.

It was his first league goal since October – a 2-2 draw with Freiburg – and the assist king couldn’t have picked a better moment to score!