Goals and assists from African players in Europe: January 10-13

European club football is getting back into full swing after several of the world’s top leagues took time off for the holiday season. Germany’s Bundesliga and La Liga were among the competitions to return to full match days.

Click here to watch all the goals and assists from African players in England’s FA Cup over the weekend.

However it is French Ligue 1 where we turn our focus this week on Nice forward Evann Guessand. The 23-year-old born in Ajaccio recently decided to represent Ivory Coast where he appeared in five of The Elephants’ six qualifying matches for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations. Guessand scored his 8th Ligue 1 goal this season, fifth best in the league to go along with four assists in an outstanding campaign so far.

Watch Guessand’s goal from the weekend as well as all over goal contributions from African players from mainland Europe’s four major leagues below.

Bundesliga

With rumors swirling of an upcoming transfer to Manchester City, Omar Marmoush (Egypt) scores the only goal in Frankfurt’s victory at St. Pauli

It only takes 24 seconds for Nathan Tella (Nigeria) to open the scoring for Leverkusen in their victory at Dortmund

Serhou Guirassy (Guinea) scores his 7th Bundesliga goal of the season and 13th in all competitions with a penalty kick in Dortmund’s defeat against Leverkusen

Mohamed Amoura (Algeria) continues his strong season at Wolfsburg by scoring his 6th of the season in a 1-0 victory at Hoffenheim

Serie A

Frank Zambo Anguissa (Cameroon) finishes with a well struck effort to put Napoli out of reach against Verona

Boulaye Dia (Senegal) puts Lazio ahead in an eventual draw with Como

Yann Karamoh (Ivory Coast) assists Torino’s goal in a 1-1 draw with Juventus

Emmanuel Gyasi (Ghana) assists Empoli’s only goal in their home defeat to Lecce

La Liga

Seydouba Cissé (Guinea) levels for Leganés in their draw at Espanyol

Jonathan Bamba (Ivory Coast) assists a first half equalizer in Celta Vigo’s defeat at Rayo Vallecano

French Ligue 1

Evann Guessand (Ivory Coast) opens the scoring in Nice’s 4-2 victory at Stade Reims

Ali Abdi (Tunisia) comes off the bench to score the final goal for Nice after over two months out due to injury

Mohammed Salisu (Ghana) heads in from a Lamine Camara (Senegal) corner kick to give Monaco a point at Nantes

Goduine Koyalipou (Central African Republic) scores on his debut in Lens’ victory at Le Havre

André Ayew (Ghana) puts Le Havre ahead with an early header in defeat to Lens

Zinedine Ferhat (Algeria) finishes into an empty net from a Haris Belkebla (Algeria) assist to confirm victory for Angers at Montpellier

Habib Diallo (Senegal) crosses for Strasbourg’s second goal in victory at Toulouse

Wilfried Singo (Ivory Coast) sets up Breel Embolo for Monaco’s first goal in a 2-2 draw at Nantes

Sofiane Diop (Morocco) creates the third goal in Nice’s victory at Reims

Marshall Munetsi (Zimbabwe) sets up an excellent effort from Mamadou Diakhon in Reims’ defeat to Nice

Jim Allevinah (Gabon) assists the first goal in Angers’ victory over Montpellier