Canadians in Europe: Ugbo, Leon score winners

Iké Ugbo and Adriana Leon scored game-winning goals for their respective teams and Alphonso Davies took a step closer to returning to action. Here's a look back at the weekend for Canadians in Europe.

Iké Ugbo, Troyes - On loan from Genk, Iké Ugbo is doing what he can to help keep Troyes in Ligue 1 and that continued on Sunday at home to a Europe-chasing Nantes side. From the start, the hosts looked like the more likely of the two sides to find a goal and Troyes almost had the lead from Ugbo midway through the first half. Wing-back Yasser Larouci, making his first senior appearance, was lively and picked off a clearance near midfield. Running down the left, he lofted a cross to the back post for Lebo Mathiba, who tried to feed Troyes, but had his effort scuppered by defender Andrei Girotto. But Ugbo would get his goal. Just before the half, Larouci, now on the right, sent a cross to the far post where it was nodded down by Erik Palmer-Brown to Xavier Chavalerin. The French winger swept the ball across the face of goal where it was guided home by Ugbo in the 43rd to make it 1-0. The goal would be the only one of the match, earning a precious three points for Troyes. The win puts them on 28 points, five points clear of Metz in 19th and automatic relegation and two points up on 18th-place Saint-Etienne in the relegation/promotion playoff spot. Ugbo played 76 minutes, completing 15 of 18 pass attempts and carrying the ball 13 times.

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Adriana Leon, West Ham United - West Ham kept pace with the teams that they're chasing at the top of the Women's Super League table on Sunday and helped heap more misery upon Birmingham City with Adriana Leon playing a starring role. The 29-year-old Mississauga, Ont. native scored the game's