Georginio Wijnaldum and James Milner scored one apiece in Liverpool’s 2-0 victory over Cardiff, but with the title now out of Liverpool’s hands, attention turns to Wednesday night’s Manchester Derby.
Nevertheless, let’s see how the players out on loan away from Merseyside got on in their games at the weekend.
Danny Ings – Southampton
Ings played 76 minutes up top before being replaced by Shane Long for Southampton as they were defeated 3-1 by Newcastle away at St. James’ Park.
Ayoze Perez scored a hat-trick and Mario Lemina scored for the Saints as they remained in 16th place in the Premier League.
Apps: 22
Goals: 8
Nathaniel Clyne – Bournemouth
Clyne was absent from the squad as Junior Stanislas played at right back – the Cherries lost 1-0 to already relegated Fulham in the Premier League.
Aleksandar Mitrovic scored the only goal of the game as he sent Bournemouth down to 14th place in the English top flight.
Apps: 12
Goals: 0
Harry Wilson – Derby County
Derby had two games at the weekend with the first coming on Friday, a 2-2 draw with Birmingham away from home.
Martyn Waghorn and Richard Keogh scored for the Rams with Lukas Jutkiewicz and Michael Morrison scoring for the home side.
Wilson played 71 minutes at right wing before being replaced by Mason Bennett.
But Wilson scored two very late goals for Derby in their second game on Monday night to ensure they claimed all three points in their 2-0 Championship clash against QPR at home.
The Welshman played the full game at right wing as he was once again Frank Lampard’s star man.
Thanks to Wilson, Derby moved up to sixth place in the promotion play-off places in the Championship after the two games.
Apps: 40
Goals: 16
Ovie Ejaria – Reading
Reading also had two goals at the weekend and the first was a 1-1 draw with Bristol City away from home in which Yakou Meite (Reading) and Josh Brownhill (Bristol City) scored one apiece for their sides.
Ejaria played 73 minutes in the left of a midfield three in a 5-3-2 formation before being replaced by Thomas McIntyre.
Ejaria then played the full game at left midfield in a 4-2-3-1 formation but failed to make an impact as Reading saw out a goalless draw at home to West Brom on Monday night.
Reading moved down to 20th place in the Championship after the two goals, however still six points safe of relegation.
Apps: 11
Goals: 1
Ryan Kent – Rangers
Kent was still banned for Rangers as his side beat Hearts 3-1 away from home with Jermain Defoe, Ryan Jack and Nikola Katic scoring for Steven Gerrard’s side.
Steven MacLean scored the consolation for Hearts as Kent’s side remained in second place in the Scottish Premiership play-off places.
Apps: 39
Goals: 6
Adam Bogdan – Hibernian
Ofir Marciano was again preferred in goal as Bogdan had to settle for a place on the bench as his side drew 0-0 with Celtic in the Scottish Premiership.
Apps: 25
Clean Sheets: 8
Liam Millar – Kilmarnock
Killy ended the game with eight men in what was a feisty affair in Scotland, Millar came off the bench in the 77th minute for Youssouf Mulumbu.
Despite their low numbers, Kilmarnock were only defeated 1-0 away at Aberdeen with Scott McKenna scoring the goal.
Millar’s side moved down to fourth place.
Apps: 10
Goals: 1
Marko Grujic – Hertha Berlin
Grujic’s side drew 0-0 with Hannover in the Bundesliga and the Serb picked up a yellow card in the 43rd minute in the match as he played the full game in a defensive midfield role.
Berlin remained in 11th place in the German top flight.
Apps: 20
Goals: 4
Loris Karius – Besiktas
Karius played the full game in goal but conceded one in a 2-1 victory over Sivasspor away from home.
Domagoj Vida and Burak Yilmaz were on the scoresheet for Karius’ side and Fousseni Diabate got the goal past the German shot-stopper.
Besiktas remained in third place in the Turkish Super Lig, in the Europa League qualification places.
Apps: 30
Clean Sheets: 6
Sheyi Ojo – Stade Reims
Ojo again didn’t feature in the squad for Reims as they were defeated 2-0 by Saint Etienne at home.
Remy Cabella and a Bjorn Engels own goal were what split the two sides as Reims remained in 7th place in Ligue 1 despite the defeat.
Apps: 16
Goals: 1
Pedro Chirivella – Extremadura UD
Chirivella again didn’t feature for Extremadura as his side beat Deportivo La Coruna 2-1 at their place.
Roberto Olabe and Jose Antonio Pardo got the goals for Extremadura and Christian Santos got a late consolation for Deportivo.
Extremadura moved out of the relegation zone and into 18th place in the Spanish Segunda Division.
Apps: 0
Goals: 0
Kamil Grabara – AGF Aarhus
Grabara again played the full game in goal for AGF but conceded two in a 4-2 victory over Vejle away from home.
Patrick Mortensen (3) and Tobias Sana got the goals for the Pole’s side and Vladlen Yurchenko scored a brace past Grabara.
AGF remained in first place of Group 1 in the Danish Superligaen.
Apps: 10
Clean Sheets: 4
Taiwo Awoniyi – Royal Mouscron
The Nigerian forward returned to the starting XI for Royal Mouscron as they were defeated 2-1 by Waasland-Beveren away from home.
Noe Dussenne scored for Awoniyi’s side and Louis Verstraete and Stefan Milosevic scored for the home side.
Mouscron are in sixth place in Group B of the Belgian First Division A Europa League play-off places.
Apps: 11
Goals: 7
Allan de Souza’s Fluminense didn’t have a game in Brazil.
