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5 Magic Weekend Sports Moments You May Have Missed

We take a look at the biggest and best sporting moments from this past weekend.

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8 years ago

January 23, 2017

Some tight encounters, brilliant individual performances, and dramatic moments made for an incredibly entertaining weekend of sport. But with so many great highlights, we decided to rank out top 5; so without further ado, here are our picks of the best sporting moments from the past weekend:

Bastareaud’s bulldozing hit

Mathieu Bastareaud put in a massive shift in Toulon’s defeat to Saracens culminating in a massive tackle on Saracens full back Alex Lozowski.

Rooney’s record-breaker

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney became the club’s all time leading goalscorer with a stellar free-kick against Stoke.

Wayne Rooney’s record breaking goal to become Manchester United’s all time leading goalscorer. Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Goosebumps. pic.twitter.com/rkcTUVVf35

— David. (@Rooney_esque) January 22, 2017

Nemani Nadolo’s colossal performance

130kg winger Nemani Nadolo displayed one of the most dominant performances by a winger since the era of Jonah Lomu, scoring two tries and making a complete mockery of the defence against Northampton in the European Champions Cup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNgI7_2v9MM&t=0s

Osborn’s cheeky free-kick

Ben Osborn scored a brazen free-kick goal after a flick and volley for Nottingham Forest against Bristol.

Ben Osborn’s cheeky free kick goal for Nottingham Forest today. WOW!! pic.twitter.com/XC3P3BXpLE

— Troll Football Media (@Troll__Footbal) January 21, 2017

Spurgeon’s icy-cool goal

The NHL delivered a cracker, with Jared Spurgeon volleying the puck out of the air with his hand and setting himself up for a perfect home run swing to score against the Devils.