UEFA have on Thursday confirmed the official winner of the Champions League Participant of the Week award.
And, as anticipated, it has been scooped by a La Liga star, within the type of Atlético Madrid summer time signing Julián Alvarez.
Frontman Alvarez proved himself match-winner on Tuesday evening, as Atlético recovered from each a purpose and a person all the way down to put German champions Bayer Leverkusen to the sword in Spain’s capital.
The Argentine worldwide was answerable for each of his facet’s objectives, together with an outstanding Ninetieth-minute winner.
Elsewhere on the Champions League POTW shortlist, one other pair of La Liga stars take third and 4th locations, too.
After notching a brace en path to Actual Madrid’s 5-1 drubbing of RB Salzburg, Vinícius Jr. slots in behind 2nd-placed Luuk de Jong.
And rounding out the top-4 is Barcelona wide-man Raphinha, who was additionally on track to the tune of a double, because the Blaugrana recovered from two objectives all the way down to get the higher of Benfica.
Conor Laird – GSFN