• Alex Mendez registered his first assist in two seasons in Portugal’s Primeira Liga, coming off the bench to set up the final goal in Vizela’s 3-0 win over Estoril. Vizela is in ninth place, safely positioned to stay up for a second year in a row … Matthew Hoppe had an assist in Hibernian’s 4-1 win away at Livingston that extended its unbeaten Scottish Premiership run to seven matches, leaving it just five points behind third-place Hearts ahead of matches this week against Rangers and Celtic … Also with assists were Florida-born Agustin Anello (20) in his third game for Croatia’s Hajduk Split (4-3 loser to Lokomotiva Zagreb) and former Barca academy standout Ben Lederman (22) for runaway Ekstraklasa leader Rakow Czstochowa (2-0 winner at Pogon Szczecin) in Poland, where he played for its U-21 national team last year.

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