🇺🇸 Weekend review: Big 5 European leagues

It proved a rough weekend for the Germany-based corps while Americans in France went undefeated. The English Premier League featured a rare goal by a U.S. defender. In Italy, AC Milan’s title hopes slipped while Juventus celebrated a big win.

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🇺🇸 Weekend Review: England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Chris Richards scored Crystal Palace’s consolation goal in the 88th minute of a 3-1 loss to Chelsea.

Palace was down 3-0 by the 64th minute and played a man short after Adam Wharton’s 72nd-minute red card.

• Stats: It was Richards’ 100th Fulham appearance in all competitions and his third Premier League goal in 78 games.

🎥 Watch (👇): Chris Richards score his first goal of the season

⤵️ Sinking: The loss extended Crystal Palace’s winless streak to eight games (6 losses, 2 ties) and dropped it to 15th place.

⤴️ Rising: With its 2-1 win over Brighton, Fulham moved up to 7th place, four points below the top four Champions League qualifying zone. Antonee Robinson increased his starting streak to eight games, only one of which ended in a Fulham loss.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England:
Sky Sports ratings (1=low; 10=high)
6 Chris Richards (Crystal Palace), 90 minutes, 1 goal (1-3 vs. Chelsea)
6 Antonee Robinson (Fulham), 59 minutes (2-1 vs. Brighton)
Tyler Adams (Bournemouth) injured (3-2 vs. Liverpool)
Brenden Aaronson (Leeds United) Monday (at Everton)

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🇺🇸 Weekend Review: France 🇫🇷

Tim Weah had his second assist of the season in Marseille’s 3-1 win vs. RC Lens. ending the Nordistes’ 10-game winning streak across all competitions.

The victory kept Marseille in third place, two points ahead of Tanner Tessmann‘s fourth-place Lyon, a big winner at Metz. Monaco (Folarin Balogun) dropped to 10th place with scoreless tie. Toulouse (Mark McKenzie) won away to remain in 8th-place,

🎥 Watch (👇): Tim Weah’s precise setup

🇫🇷 France:
L’Equipe ratings (1=low; 10=high)
6 Tanner Tessmann (Lyon) 90 minutes (5-2 at Metz) 
6 Tim Weah (Marseille), 90 minutes, 1 assist (3-1 vs. RC Lens)
6 Mark McKenzie (Toulouse), 90 minutes, 1 assist, 1 yellow card (2-0 at Brest)
5 Folarin Balogun (Monaco), 90 minutes (0-0 at Le Havre)