Hat-trick hero and savior – #SOTW

They made their own luck. These are the players that were instrumental in their team’s performance over the past weekend.

As it is with every other week, picking the outright brightest star is never easy, and sometimes blinding. There were many bright spots over the weekend, but these are the men that were able to make our list.

The final shortlist for #SOTW included…

Raffael (Borussia Mönchengladbach vs Hamburger SV) – German Bundesliga
Fabian Frei (Werder Bremen vs Mainz 05) – German Bundesliga
Naldo (Eintracht Frankfurt vs Schalke 04) – German Bundesliga
Sven Ulreich (Stuttgart vs Bayern Munich) – German Bundesliga
Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund vs Hoffenheim) – German Bundesliga
Wesley Said (Dijon vs Lille) – French Ligue 1
Mesut Ozil (Arsenal vs Newcastle) – English Premier League
Leroy Sane (Manchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur) – English Premier League
Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur) – English Premier League
Federico Fazio (AS Roma vs Cagliari) – Italian Serie A
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid vs Gremio) – FIFA Club World Cup
Leon Bailey (Hannover 96 vs Bayer Leverkusen) – German Bundesliga
Sergio Floccari (Benevento vs SPAL 2013) – Italian Serie A
Serge Milinkovic-Savic (Atalanta vs Lazio) – Italian Serie A
Luis Suarez (Barcelona vs Deportivo La Coruna) – Spanish La Liga

But the SOTW will have to go to
Alfred Finnbogason
(Augsburg vs Freiburg) – German Bundesliga

For scoring a hat-trick, including two crucial late goals to see that Augsburg did not fall at home against Freiburg.