Alexander Sorloth and the Stars of the Weekend in Top 5 Leagues

Harry Kane lifting his first professional trophy made the biggest highlight of the weekend, while Thomas Muller also made his final Bayern Munich home appearance before his departure in the summer.
The goodbyes also extended to several other clubs where players and coaches played their last home games as it was the penultimate gameweek in these leagues — Xabi Alonso also said his farewell to Bayer Leverkusen after almost three years in charge.
Amidst the glory of triumph and the anguish of relegations, we have as usual selected the best performers in each of the top five leagues, starting from Crystal Palace's Eberechi Eze in the Premier League to Goncalo Ramos of PSG Paris Saint-Germain in the Ligue 1.
Alexander Sorloth and the Stars of the Weekend
English Premier League: Eberechi Eze of Crystal Palace

Eberechi Eze continues his impactful performance in the run in as his brace led The Eagles to a massive win at Spurs as the complete the league double over their host for the first time in topflight history.
Palace, who were unbeaten in four ahead of kickoff were looking for a win to secure their status in the top 12, had several chances to break the deadlock between the end of the first quarter till a few minutes past the half hour, but failed to take them.
However, Oliver Glasner's charge did put the ball into the back of the net twice, through our protagonist and Marc Giehi, only for those to be ruled out after VAR review for offside and handball respectively.
Eze eventually give the visitors a deserved lead on the stroke of halftime. As the Eagles broke away, Jean-Philippe Mateta found Daniel Munoz on the right, and the Colombian rightback kept his cool to set up Eze with a simple finish.
Tottenham Hotspur's league woes was compounded less than three after the restart as Eze gets his second and his seventh league goal of the campaign through a similar goal. This time it was Ismaila Sarr who teed up the Englishman for the finish.
- 1 big chance created
- 4 shots
- 4 recoveries
- 4 duels won
- 2 fouls won
It was Spurs' 21st defeat, now their most in a single league campaign, while the win ensures Palace can no longer finish below 12th, and a place in the top 10 now within the reach of Glasner's charge with two games to go.
Spanish LaLiga: Alexander Sorloth of Atlético Madrid

A man who has been kept at bay all season by Diego Simeone, Alexander Sorloth was unleashed in absence of the suspended Julian Alvarez, and to devastating effect as he bagged four first half goals against his former club, Real Sociedad.
The Norwegian striker, making just his 13 LaLiga start of the season, scored all four goals to give Atlético Madrid a 4-0 win in Wanda Metropolitano as they sealed their ticket for the UEFA Champions League next season.
Sorloth, who was the latest player to score four in a single LaLiga game following his player of the match performance for Villarreal in the run in of last season, completed a four minute hat-trick in the eleventh minute of the game.
Real Sociedad, who had never won at the Wanda Metropolitano fell behind seven minutes into the game as Alexander Sorloth got his first of the evening, firing home a first time volley from a Pablo Barrios' cross from the right.
He got his second three minutes later, firing home from the edge of the box after being played through by Samuel Lino, while the hat-trick was sealed a minute later, as an attempt to clear a cross saw the ball came off the back of Jon Martin and into the path of Sorloth, who riffled a shot into the net from close range.
Sorloth scored the fourth on the stroke of the half hour, firing home a left footed shot from the edge of the box from another low cross, this time via Javi Galan from the left.
The 29-year-old's goal feast performance saw him finish ahead of Kylian Mbappé, who bagged a hat-trick in the Clasico loss to move ahead of Robert Lewandowski in race for the Pichichi.
Italian Serie A: Santiago Gimenez of AC Milan
AC Milan overcame adversity against one of the best teams in the Serie A this season to keep their European hopes of alive thanks to Santiago Gimenez, who bagged a brace off the bench to make what seemed impossible their truth.
In what was to be their warm up before the two clash again in the Coppa Italia final during the week, Milan showed their mettle to end a run of two winless in this fixture.
Bologna, who had never lost a game where they've taken a second half lead thought they were on course to maintain their impressive record after Riccardo Orsolini put them ahead four minutes after the interval, but the host had other ideas.
Introduced for the final quarter of the game, Santiago Gimenez scored eight minutes after coming on, firing home between the legs of the goalkeeper to restore parity, assisted by Christian Pulisic following a fast break.
Pulisic completed the comeback six minutes before, and Gimenez ensured safety of the points with a brilliantly set-up goal in the second minute of add time, from a Samuel Chukwueze assist.
- 100% shot accuracy
- 100% aerial duel won
- 100% ground duel won
- 100% successful dribble
- 1 chance created
It was a dream cameo for our Serie A player of the weekend, who has now scored as many goals in the competition as he did in the Eredivisie, seven, before joining Milan in the winter window.
His performance and goals helped Milan up to 60 points, four off a UEFA Champions League spot with two more games to go.
German Bundesliga: Michael Olise of Bayern Munich

At Bayern Munich's Bundesliga coronation, Michael Olise was the star of the show as they brush aside Borussia Monchengladbach on their way to clinch an already sealed 12th League title in the last 13 years.
The French winger hass been a revelation in his first season in Germany, breaking multiple records earlier on and a few more in the latter stages of the season.
He may have thought he scored his 11th league goal of the season just after the half hour, but his curling striker took a glance off the head of Harry Kane en route, leaving him with his 14th assist of the Bundesliga season.
His goal finally came in the final minute of normal time, nicking the ball past the goalkeeper from close range following a through pass from Leroy Sané.
- 8 chances created
- 1 big chance created
- 4 shots
- 7 successful dribbles
- 10 duels won
- 2 fouls won
Olise, wish a goal and an assist on the day took his goal involvement for Bayern to 36, made of 17 goals and 19 assists.
He is the highest rated Bundesliga player during the weekend and with just one more gameweek to go, it's safe to say he is the outright leading candidate to win both the rookie and player of the season in the Bundesliga.
French Ligue 1: Goncalo Ramos of PSG Paris Saint-Germain

The Portuguese striker scored a 16 minute hat-trick in the second half as the Ligue 1 champions sealed their 25th League win of the season in a 4-1 win at relegated Montpellier.
After a dominant first-half display produced just one goal, a much changed Luis Enrique selection added to Senny Mayulu's opener through Ramos, who scored the first of his three goals of the night, ending a run of five games without one.
The goal came four minutes after the restart. The visitors broke forward and the ball was passed to Ibrahim Mbaye, who sends in a low cross from the right for Ramos to connect with a first time shot, which beats the goalkeeper via a deflection.
PSG got their third just before the hour mark as Ramos fired home from the spot as a result of a penalty won by Desire Doue, who picked the pocket of Jordan Ferri on the edge of the area, before being fouled by the latter inside the box.
Tanguy Coulibaly pulled one back for the host in the 64th minute, but Goncalo Ramos restored the three-goal cushion a minute later, firing home a belter from the edge of the box, following a long ball from goalkeeper Arnau Tenas.
The hat-trick sees Goncalo Ramos reach double digits of goals in the Ligue 1 this season at 10, one away from equaling his tally for last season despite starting only 12 games in the competition so far.
Ultimate Player of the Weekend

Alexander Sorloth and his magical four goal haul against a formidable opponent in Real Sociedad secured him the status as our ultimate player of the weekend.
The 29-year-old scored his 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th LaLiga goals of the season, making him Atlético's top scorer despite making just 13 starts.

