Who is the best player of last week? We name 5 candidates based on their ratings & performances. Please vote for the player who impressed you most last week.
Manchester City's Raheem Sterling, Real Madrid's Karim Benzema, Tottenham's Son Heung-min, PSG's Kylian Mbappe and Barcelona's Lionel Messi are the five nominees for our All Football Player of the Week, with all of them included in our All Football Team of the Week.
Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)
With a hat-trick against Athletic Club, now Benzema just 2 goals away from his best goalscoring season (32 goals) in Real Madrid
Karim Benzema continues to extend his spectacular goal-scoring run and has scored in the last five games for Real Madrid.
The Frenchman has bagged the last eight goals that the team has scored in LaLiga, a club record. No other Real Madrid player had scored has many goals consecutively in the domestic competition. The previous record was held by Puskas, who got seven goals in the 1961/62 league season.
Benzema now has 21 Liga goals, more even than former strike partner Ronaldo, who has netted 19 so far in his first Serie A season with Juventus.
Son Heung-min (Tottenham)
Tottenham star scored 2 goals in Champions League quarter-final 2nd leg against Manchester City to help Spurs to knock out Citizens.
Tottenham's path to the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League has been a story of team over individuals, but there's no ignoring the fact that one man, in particular, played a huge part in their progression - Son Heung-min.
Now the Tottenham star has become the top scoring Asian in Champions League history (12 goals) with his quick-fire double against Manchester City.
It has been another prolific season for Son, with the 26-year-old having now reached 20 goals in all competitions for Spurs this season.
Kylian Mbappe (PSG)
Kylian Mbappe celebrated PSG’s Ligue 1 title victory in style by scoring a hat-trick against his former club Monaco
And Mbappe kicked the celebrations into gear as his treble secured a 3-1 win against Monaco, and the forward reached a number of records in the process.
– By completing his hat-trick, Mbappe is now the first Frenchman to score 30 goals in a single Ligue 1 campaign since Jean-Pierre Papin in 1989-90.
– At the age of 20, Mbappe is the youngest player to score 30 goals in a single Ligue 1 campaign.
– In the process of scoring his first goal, Mbappe clocked a speed of 38 km/hr. In 2017, a study revealed Gareth Bale was the fastest player in the world after registering a speed of 36.9 km/hr.
– Mbappe has now scored three hat-tricks in Ligue 1 this season. One more than his nearest rival and team-mate Edinson Cavani.
– Only two players in Europe’s top five leagues have scored 30+ league goals this season: Mbappe and Lionel Messi.
Raheem Sterling (Man City)
Sterling scored two goals in Man City's Champions League quarter-final 2nd leg against Tottenham, and almost netted a hat-trick to send Citizens to semi-finals.
The rise of Raheem Sterling has been remarkable. The young Englishman has taken the world by storm due to his impressive season in a City shirt. Sterling has now got 23 goals and 16 assists so far this season and has become a regular in the starting line-up.
Sterling becomes an example not only on the field also out the field. "Damary was a special young man who touched a lot of lives, including my own."
Raheem Sterling will pay for the funeral of Crystal Palace youth player Damary Dawkins.
Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
Two goals against Man Utd, 3 goals away from reaching 600 mark at Barcelona, Messi is just unstoppable
Messi has had several extraordinary performances this season, both in LaLiga as well as the Champions League, and Barcelona have the chance to secure the third treble in their history.
And maybe Messi now has been left alone in the pursuit for the Ballon d'Or award after Ronaldo's Juventus were eliminated from Champions League.
Feel free to leave your thoughts and suggestions in the comments section. The winner of the vote will be announced tomorrow.
See you next week!