The Best Matches Since Football Returned - Ranked

The one month anniversary of football returning following a coronavirus enforced absence is fast approaching, with the beautiful game serving up a selection of quality matches to remind us exactly why we've missed its beautiful face so much.

From Italian football's thrilling return on Friday night, to the sex dolls in South Korea, it's been wall to wall behind closed doors entertainment.

From such an array of fixture finery, we've plucked out the most entertaining since football returned.

6. Bayern Munich 5-2 Eintracht Frankfurt - Bundesliga

Underdogs Frankfurt really made the German champions sweat, before Bayern eventually secured victory, with the pair treating us to seven goals in the process.

Leon Goretzka, Thomas Muller and Robert Lewandowski all netting inside 46 minutes to send Bayern coasting to victory, only for Frankfurt to pull two goals back from set pieces inside three extraordinary second half minutes.

While the hosts' opening three goals had been explosive, attacking moves, they wrapped up victory thanks to a couple of Frankfurt defensive errors, bringing a lively - and much less straight forward than Bayern were expecting - game to a close.

5. Santa Clara 3-2 Sporting Braga - Primeira Liga

Mid-table Santa Clara caused an upset in the Portuguese top tier's first round of returning fixtures by getting one over third place Braga in a thoroughly entertaining encounter.

Braga - unbeaten since February, partly due to being a competent footballing side but mostly due to not playing since 6 March because of the coronavirus - had twice taken the lead, first through a Fransérgio Barbosa penalty, and then a smart finish from Francisco Trincão following a flowing team move.

However, they were cancelled out by Thiago Santana on both occasions, firstly via a rocketed effort into the top corner and then with a spot kick of his own. Braga played the final 25 minutes with 10 men as Raul Michel Melo da Silva saw red for his part in conceding the penalty, before Carlos netted a 92nd minute winner for Santa Clara.

4. Koln 2-4 RB Leipzig - Bundesliga

Koln and RB Leipzig treated fans to a frantic goal fest, with the visitors coming from behind to come out on top.

The hosts took the lead through Jhon Cordóba, but Leipzig had the advantage by half time thanks to goals from Patrik Schick and Christopher Nkunku. Timo Werner doubled their advantage five minutes into the second half, with a goal normally conceded by a side chasing an equaliser deep into added time, not a team 2-1 down in the 50th minute.

Koln pulled one back thanks to Anthony Modeste's fabulous long-range effort, but Leipzig restored their two goal cushion just two minutes later with another excellent strike from distance. Both sides looked leggy in the final 10 minutes following a breathless opening hour.

3. Eintracht Frankfurt 3-3 SC Freiburg - Bundesliga

Frankfurt came from two goals down to rescue a point in the final 11 minutes against Freiburg in a six goal thriller.

An Andre Silva header had cancelled out Vincenzo Grifo's deflected strike to ensure it was all square at half time. Nils Peterson edged Freiburg in front in the second half, before Lucas Höler extended their lead following a rapid counter attack.

However, Frankfurt were not to be beaten, and their tirade on the Freiburg goal finally came to fruition twice in the space of three minutes with goals from Daichi Kamada and substitute Timothy Chandler.

2. Wolfsberger AC 3-3 LASK - Austrian Bundesliga

Fourth versus third in the Austrian Bundesliga threw up a pulsating 90 minutes of football. Third place Wolfsberger came from two goals down to lead 3-2, only for the visitors to score a 90th minute equaliser.

The hosts were 2-0 up inside 56 minutes thanks to goals from Dominik Frieser and Gernot Trauner, before Cheikhou Dieng and Michael Liendl pulled the scores level.

Michael Novak completed an astonishing turnaround with what looked to be an 89th minute winner, only for LASK to find an injury time equaliser through Samuel Tetteh.

1. Rio Ave 2-3 Pacos Ferreira - Primeira Liga

Five goals, two red cards, and the team who only managed 28% possession taking all three points? Yes please.

Relegation threatened Pacos Ferreira recorded a huge victory in their battle to avoid the drop with a thrilling 3-2 win over Europa League chasing Rio Ave. In their first game back after three months without football, the visitors were 2-0 up inside 14 minutes thanks to a fortuitous Joao Amaral free-kick and a Douglas Tanque strike.

Diego Lopes stabbed home on the brink of half time to halve the deficit, before Pacos were reduced to 10-men following a late Bruno Teles challenge in the second minute of first half stoppage time.

Despite being a player down, Pacos extended their advantage through Bruno Santos's spectacular solo effort, the Brazilian weaving through the Rio Ave defence and slotting home. The hosts pulled themselves back into contention in the 58th minute as Gelson capitalised on a goalkeeping error, but 10 minutes later they too were down to 10-men after Matheis Reis unleashed a cheeky head butt.

There was still time for Rio Ave to have a goal disallowed for offside, but despite the hosts having double the number of shots and nearly three times the possession, it was the underdogs who triumphed.