Footballers declare their love on Valentine’s Night: Alisha Lehmann gets cosy with Douglas Luiz, while Jack Grealish and Enzo Fernandez share affectionate posts of their partners on social media
- Multiple footballers showed their affectionate side for loved ones on Wednesday
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Love was certainly in the air for many Premier League stars as they celebrated Valentine’s Day with their loved ones in some capacity.
Wednesday marked the annual worldwide occasion and footballers from around England’s top flight.
None of this was more prevalent than between Aston Villa couple Douglas Luiz and Alisha Lehmann.
In a series of snaps, Swiss winger Lehmann posted pictures of the pair on her Instagram page pulling multiple different poses in a car.
Accompanying the caption: ‘Happy Valentin’s [sic] day’ she wrote with a love heart emoji. ‘I love you.’
Alisha Lehmann shared this snap of her and boyfriend Douglas Luiz kissing on Valentine’s Day
The Aston Villa footballer also shared this picture of her Brazilian boyfriend in a series of snaps
Luiz, who also plays for Aston Villa, can be seen pulling array of different poses with his partner
Lehmann, also uploaded a picture of the pair on her Instagram story with the caption ‘Love, love, love’ as they shared a kiss while walking down a staircase.
The duo were not the only footballers to display public realms of affection on social media.
Manchester City and England forward Jack Grealish was another to do so, taking to Instagram to share a picture of himself and model partner Sasha Attwood – captioning it simply with three love hearts.
City face Chelsea next in the Premier League on Saturday, 5.30pm and the latter’s Enzo Fernandez was another showing his romantic side on social media by declaring his love for partner Valentina Cervantes.
Grealish’s England team-mate Harry Maguire was another in a romantic mood sharing a throwback snap from his wedding to wife, Fern – who also posted an Instagram story of her own about the Manchester United centre-back and the presents on display ahead of their Valentine’s dinner.
Maguire, who impressed for United in a 2-1 win at Aston Villa on Sunday, wasn’t the only Red Devils player to upload an Instagram story as Brazilian winger Antony uploaded a picture of himself and Rosilene Xavier.
Antony, accompanied the picture of the couple – who are expecting a child later this year, with the caption: ‘Happy Valentine, I love you’ alongside a love heart and love-heart eyes emojis.
Everton midfielder Dele Alli posted a picture of his partner Cindy Kimberly with the caption: ‘Happy valentines’ alongside a love heart.
Jack Grealish (left) and Enzo Fernandez both declared their love for their partners too
Harry Maguire’s wife, Fern, shared pictures of them together and then their Valentine’s dinner
Maguire’s Manchester United team-mate Antony also shared a picture of his partner
Everton midfielder Dele Alli shared this snap on his Instagram story on Wednesday
The affection shown by the aforementioned footballers, contrasts with a section of fans – with a recent study showing one in three British football fans priortise the sport over their partner, or are at least hesitant to choose between the two, according to new research.
The study by BonusCodeBets.co.uk questioned Brits on whether they prioritise their love life or their relationship with football, finding 12% held their team in higher regard – while a further 20 per cent expressed an equal affection or were simply unable to pick a winner.
And almost two-fifths (38%) have fallen out with their other half over football at least once.
Most significantly though, one per cent of respondents report their love of football was to blame for their marriage ending – equating to 240,500 divorced Brits.
Almost one in five of Luton Town supporters (19 per cent) have ditched their partner for their team on the day of love, while Bournemouth (17 per cent) and Crystal Palace fans (13 per cent) aren’t much better.
At the other end of the table are fans of Nottingham Forest, Brentford and Fulham, with none of their supporters skipping February 14 for football. Luckily there was no top-flight English side playing on Wednesday.
