It seems that what made Manchester City get back on track was not entirely because Erling Haaland returned to the field but more so because Kevin De Bruyne returned to playing for his club.
For several seasons he has been the key to Manchester City's game, how his team carries out attacks and also when they have to break attacks from their opponents, it's just that Haaland's return will make Manchester City, which is already productive, even more productive, because so far they are the team with the most scored goals, their average goal per match is more than 2 goals.

The competition is indeed very tight and that is the most interesting thing about the English Premier League because the point difference between the title contenders is thin and the end of the season will be the most decisive, and Manchester City's chances look better than Liverpool or Arsenal because they still have one postponed match, but that doesn't mean they will finish this season easily because the meeting between these three competitors will really determine who will become champion.

Arsenal, which previously looked doubtful, started to show something good when they managed to beat Liverpool with a convincing score so that they also have a chance of becoming champions this season if City and Liverpool slip up.

Other clubs will support Liverpool to break Manchester City's dominance over the last few seasons. Manchester City always wins the Premier League so that other clubs don't feel frustrated because Manchester City is difficult to stop, making the Premier League a farmers' league if no other club breaks its dominance. , just like Chelsea, which has failed to reach the top several times and in the last 2 seasons has experienced a decline and resulted in a decline in player mentality and a decline in the quality of the club which may have been caused by several factors.

Yes, Liverpool's injuries have indeed affected their performance a little, but I don't think this is sustainable because Liverpool will immediately improve their performance in the matches they will play, their defeat against Arsenal will not be repeated in the next match. Arsenal itself is trying hard to break Manchester City dominance, whether Liverpool or Arsenal. I want to see other clubs able to break Manchester City dominance. I think Arsenal still has a chance to wins the Premier League title this season.

Congratulations to Ivory Coast they were far better than Nigeria they controlled the game throughout and they showed they were well prepared for the final, the players were well composed and didn’t give up despite going a goal down. Nigeria on the other hand lacked composure and played like an underdog despite having the lead before half time they couldn’t define their play and I didn’t see any style of play in their game.

I feel they have been lucky all through the competition because their style of play have not been convincing enough as all teams they face easily outplayed them but they usually get lucky to win one way or another. Nigeria lacks midfield and that was their major weakness and it cost them the game because Iwobi was totally careless and was useless throughout the game, Ola Aina was also very poor and allowed Adingra to exploit him and assisted two goals all from his wing.

Ivory Coast deserved to win because they were clearly the better team, they had more goal attempts and created more chances.

AS Roma's defeat against Inter Milan is something normal for me personally. just imagine, De Rossi has only managed AS Roma in 4 matches, including the match against Inter. we know very well that Inter can currently be said to be a team that is on fire in the Serie A League. they are at the top of the standings, and Inter should be able to win the match without conceding. remember, De Rossi is a coach who lacks experience. however, AS Roma put up quite an interesting match, they scored two goals against Inter Milan. unfortunately, one of AS Roma's defenders made a blunder with his own goal. as it should be, in this match AS Roma's defeat was only limited by a narrow goal difference. Technically, the patterns and systems used by De Rossi are not too bad. unfortunately, the performance of AS Roma's defensive players underperformed.

But it doesn't matter, they were able to put up a fight and were able to score two goals in this match. even though the final result, AS Roma collapsed. now De Rossi's job is only to maximize his team. their first defeat against Inter was a valuable lesson for the AS Roma coach to improve his squad. in the match against Feyenoord which will be held in the next 4 days, De Rossi still has time to prepare his team when they visit. even though based on the betting market, Feyenoord is currently the favorite, but in the actual match we will know the result. so, we wait and can De Rossi? quite interesting.

Not only the club management, all parties, including Bayern Munich fans, also really hope for Thomas Tuchel to be able to bring Bayern Munich to a title, either the domestic league or the Champions League, because both are very important for Bayern Munich. The distance between Bayern Munich and Leverkusen is still quite close, if Leverkusen suffers 2 defeats then Bayern Munich could be in first place, Bayern Munich currently really hopes that Leverkusen will lose points even though Bayern Munich failed to stop Leverkusen's winning streak but Bayern Munich is still waiting for that defeat to happen to Leverkusen this season this is because Leverkusen has not experienced it.

For the Champions League, Bayern Munich still has the same opportunity as Real Madrid and Manchester City, Tuchel himself has good experience in the Champions League so Bayern Munich is still quite optimistic about achieving the title.
But if this season Bayern Munich ends without winning any titles, I doubt Bayern Munich will still retain Tuchel because Bayern Munich wants a coach who can give him titles, why keep a coach who can't give Bayern Munich any titles?? I think Bayern Munich will still fire him and replace him with a new coach even though it is difficult to find a suitable coach for the club.

When I look at the team's positions in the table and I see Aston Villa position and Manchester United's position:


makes me wonder what the hell happened to Aston Villa, until a few weeks ago they were a team that was well placed in the table, they managed to stay in the best places, they beat strong teams, I even thought that Aston Villa would be able to finish in a good position in the table, but looking today at Aston Villa's performance and looking at the performance of teams like Manchester United, I see that Aston Villa will finish in a terrible position, it won't take many rounds for Manchester United to catch up and surpass Aston Villa in the table.

West Ham 0 - 6  Arsenal

honestly, it didn't even seem like the West Ham players had the desire, motivation and strength to play, the impression I got from that game was that it seemed like the West Ham players didn't have any desire to play, especially the defensive players and the goalkeeper, The goals Arsenal scored seemed like goals that West Ham's goal didn't have a goalkeeper for. I know that Arsenal is a great team, and a strong team and a candidate for the title, but in this game the blame for the many goals is undoubtedly on the shoulders of West Ham players, but of course the Arsenal players are to be congratulated for having achieved They score a lot of goals, with this victory Arsenal are closer to Liverpool, but if Arsenal really want to win the title then they must win all the games ahead and they must beat Manchester City when they play against Manchester City on the 31st of next month

Ronaldo may be losing his emotion during such a moment. i meant that if ronaldo was feeling very disappointed with it and i do agree with you. I think that this is still an inappropriate act from him to throw a gift received from the fans. I do agree with all of you said above. Ronaldo can at least give it to the his asisstant and this will be much more respectful.
There has been a perception in the media that his actions are arrogant, which has caused his fans to show disrespect towards him. Ronaldo's clarification would greatly assist in preventing any negative perceptions that the fans may develop about him, and I sincerely hope he takes the initiative to do so. Ronaldo is always having so many eyes watching him.

I don't even like his attitutde. I do like him morality but his attitude was a big no. It has been known since a few years ago about how arrogant ronaldo was. We can learn a lot from his morality but it's not for his arrogant.
Ronaldo can try to respect with any gift from his fans. He can give it to the his child or someone else rather than thrown it away like it was nothing valuable for him.

This will put fans to have negative opinions about his attitude. Show more respect ronaldo. You're big caused by your fans too. This must be criticized caused by ronaldo is also a public figure too.

Yes, according to the news circulating, Enzo Fernandez doesn't feel at home at Chelsea because this big club is going through a bad period in the last 2 seasons. Chelsea has been struggling in the middle of the standings, every effort has been made by Chelsea to buy several players at high prices like when Chelsea brought in Enzo Fernandez from Benfiqa for more than 100 million but he did not appear at all impressive in the Premier League so it was a waste for Chelsea as well as several of the other young players Chelsea recruited they also did not perform optimally therefore Chelsea spent too much money but there is no progress at all.

If I'm not mistaken, Enzo Fernandez's contract with Chelsea is still up to 2031, so it's impossible for Enzo Fernandez to leave if Chelsea terminates not his contract. Moreover, offering himself to Barcelona doesn't necessarily mean that Barcelona will be interested because the price is quite expensive given Barcelona's current financial condition. Especially because his potential is still mediocre for a player and not that impressive so any club will think long and hard about signing him, he should stay at Chelsea until another club can afford him, but definitely not Barcelona.

Almere 0 - 0 AZ

things really aren't going well for AZ in the last 6 games they haven't managed to win in any game, although they have managed to get some draws, this is still a loss of points considering that there are other teams that are getting very close to AZ in the table. Something funny is that in December last year AZ played against Almere and won the game against Almere, and it wasn't just a simple victory, it was a game in which AZ managed to score 4 goals. almere improved while AZ declined and in yesterday's game almere showed that they improved compared to the last game against AZ. although Almere were unable to win the game, a draw in that game was already a good result for Almere. With this draw, AZ remains in position 4, while Almere remains in position 11

Excelsior 0 - 3 Twente

well, this was an easy game for twente, that's because Excelsior in the last few games has been a very inconsistent team, they had mixed results, for example in the last 4 games they had 2 defeats, 1 draw and only one victory and they are fighting to distance themselves from the teams that are in the relegation zone, while Twente, which was also coming from mixed results, had managed to go 2 consecutive games without losing, which is why they were favorites in that game, with this victory, Twente remained in third place, doing with make it difficult for ajax to overcome them

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heerenveen - Ajax

This is a very important game for Ajax in the sense that a victory would make Ajax occupy position 4, but it will not be an easy game, this is because Heerenveen is a team that in the last 5 games has not managed to have at least 1 victory but they managed to have 3 draws and 2 defeats and playing against teams that come from many draws is always very complicated, but I believe that Ajax will win this game and will occupy position 4

I saw that Roma actually performed well in the first half. They were able to equalize the score after trailing 0-1. They were also able to lead 2-1 before Marcus Thuram equalized the score at 2-2. In the first half I thought Roma were really able to appear quite solid. I don't expect them to win the game but at least they will get a draw.

But in the second half everything changed. I don't seem to see Roma anymore like in the first half. It seems like Inter Milan tried to change the tactics of the game and it seems like it worked well. They were able to score 2 goals in the second half and ended the match with a score of 4-2.

I think this is not a bad result for Roma and De Rossi. But still, this will be an evaluation for De Rossi to see the shortcomings of their game. Feyenoord will of course watch the replay of the match to see Roma's weaknesses.

Even though if he will be failed to win the UCL then he will be having other chance to get trophy from the another competition. Im not seeing UCL must be gotten by him but we must also aware that if this competition is very hard to get. It's not as easy as people said to win UCL by having good clubs.
Let's see that whether that thing will happen to him or not. I think that thing will not happen to him. Don't you remember what happened to the kyle walker? I remember that many people were also saying the same thing like you but it's not happening.

Bayern munich was in another trouble caused by it was losing against leverkusen. Munich needs to strengthen its mentality. The chance to get UCL will be far harder caused by there will be so many drama to happen till the end of season. bayern is still having chance to win some trophies this season.
Let say that if kane will be only winning a trophy and it means that if kane's curse was only a fake news. Kane was not starting his season in bayern with good start.
The communication was limiting him to build chemistry with his teamates. Im also aware about this too. It was making the situation to be even better for munich. Let's wait how good improvement will be showing by him soon.

Football is just full of surprises like considering the fact that Westham won Arsenal in the Emirate stadium and for Arsenal to come back at them with this humiliating result is really wonderful because i never even thought of Arsenal winning Westham not to talk more of winning them by 0:6. With the determination that Arsenal have shown in their most recent previous matches and with this win against Westham today, I can confidently say that Arsenal is still very much active in the title race and what surprises me most is the huge score margin they've been having like they won Crystal palace by 5:0 and now Westham by 6:0 when they hardly win with a high goal margin. Had it been that Arsenal mostly win matches with high goal margin most of their opponents would have always been afraid whenever they are to meet each other.

With the kind of team work that Arsenal players showed in their match against Westham today i don't think FC Porto can be able to withstand their pressure when they meet in the champions league round of sixteen match on 21st February so definitely, Arsenal is gonna win FC Porto.

Real Madrid vs Girona was an interesting and competitive game we witnessed as Real Madrid defeated the opposition and proved once again that they are a strong team in La Liga. I'm a real madrid fan and I watched the game completed the game was really interesting the two teams were attacking each other most of the time the attack was high. Girona lost badly at Real Madrid's home ground and were unable to concede a goal as the game ended 4-0 until the last minute. Girona didn't play well because it wasn't their field and they didn't choose a good attacking side and they didn't manage to score a goal in this period. The performances that Real Madrid's young stars have had have been truly remarkable and the way they attack and deliver goals is truly magnificent. The three young stars have been outstanding for the Real Madrid team, their attack has been very good, which is why they continue to play well for Real Madrid and hopefully their future will be even better. Real Madrid's impressive win has moved them to the top of the points table and will require the opposition to work much harder to get to that point.

The African Cup is also coming to an end and Beşiktaş can be better but it will not happen immediately. I'm sure it will take some time. The old president and old management made some terrible moves and it is hard for Besiktas to recover. In this season, Besiktas mostly played a very bad football and it cannot get better fast. The new transfers seem great to me, finally Besiktas is spending money also. But we can't wait miracles here. But fans are very hopeful for the next season. The new president seems like going to make big moves. But it would be futile to wait good results this season.

In the first half, we had good performance from AS Roma as they were doing good job in both defense and attack which give them good reward, and they ended with 2–1 lead but in second half we have no mercy from the Inter Milan, and they were in complete control which not allowed AS Roma to hit any shot on goal which is impressive from the leaders, and they score three goals which give them good win, and now they are going to be clearly leaders for the top until end of the season.

Roma needs to work on their defense which is not giving as they needed at this level and things are surely more difficult in coming weeks as we are heading for the end and most of the top teams trying to have good results and better chance of ending at the top spots now tomorrow we are going to have AC Milan hosting Napoli which is also trying to recover from early loses.

It's too arrogant to think like that. If the assessment is that Bayern Munich is still easy to beat and Bayern Munich's strength has not returned, then it is like ignoring Bayern Munich's strength when they managed to beat other teams.
Able to score 4 goals, Leverkusen now has the upper hand in the race for the Bundesliga title.
Bayern Leverkusen's victory yesterday was a demonstration of Xabi Alonso's strategy for Tuchel.
Bayern Leverkusen's victory will have a positive impact on Xabi Alonso because several big clubs have not yet found an answer to his declining performance to hire him.

A look at a team that is still strong enough to be able to carry out future projects for another big team is Liverpool. Boehly would also be interested in signing Alonso to bring change to Chelsea.
Maybe it's true, only Leverkusen can end Munich's dominance, not other teams like Dortmund last season.
Alonso must not dwell on victory after the results his team obtained against Bayern Munich.

Lyon's performance at the start of this season was indeed bad and they were in the relegation zone for quite a long time, but entering the second half of this season, Lyon is slowly starting to get up and trying to get out of the relegation zone. Lyon's last match was impressive but still quite doubtful because Lyon's performance is not yet completely stable. However, I am quite optimistic about Lyon's performance in the future because they have shown signs of improvement, but because this match is away, perhaps Lyon will experience a little difficulty when facing Montpellier.

However, yes, because Montpellier's condition has not been good in the last few matches, I am quite sure that Lyon can still beat the home team if Lyon is able to perform impressively in this match, because every point that Lyon gets is very important to improve their ranking in League 1 so that Lyon is not relegated, if Lyon wins then Lyon's ranking will increase because the points between the two clubs are the same, namely 19 points even though Montpellier is above Lyon in 13th place.

Premier league is just getting even more interesting. As far as i know that if manchester city is leading the competition right now. The main problem is now arsenal and liverpool are starting to perform even worst than before. This is also helping manchester city to lead the competition.
I hope that city will be winning the game again. It has been long time since city was winning the competition and im sure that manchester city will able to perform even better than the last season. The chance to win the competition is very high right now caused by the club is even stronger to stay at the top.
Im hoping that arsenal and liverpool will be bottling the upcoming games. This will make the situation even better compared to the last season. City may able to dominate the competition till the end of season. I think that liverpool and arsenal will be trophyless again this season.
The situation is changing so fast. I remember that fans from liverpool talked about EPL trophy but city is just surpassing it easily. I hope that everything will be going so well for manchester city soon.

I have always been rooting for Liverpool to win the league this season since to me they are more consistent than Arsenal though i am a Chelsea fan but i hate the fact that City just continue to dominate the league almost on every season while at the end of 2023, they were under performing especially when Rodri and KDB was out and at that time i knew they will bounce at most this year January, just like how they do every season dominating the league from the beginning of the year till that season ends. Also I knew Liverpool only has a chance if they remain consistent and avoid losing or drawing to continue to keep the gap they had against City, since even till now I do not see Arsenal as title contenders but I guess I can say Liverpool failed to do just that, maybe this is as a result of their injury crisis now or maybe inconsistency on their part.

Now Liverpool will be hoping City drop some points in order to top the league well and remain consistent because though they are currently topping the league with their win today but City still has an outstanding match which they may likely win and be topping the league.

Very poor performance from both teams. None of the teams utilize their chances and I was wondering whether they both want to test the ability of their goal keeper in the penalty shootout. DR Congo were just unlucky totally both in the game play period and in the penalty shootout. If they were clinical and converted their chances, they would have won that game from first half. South Africa on the other hand seems as if they are not happy to play in the third place play off because that was not the same performance put up against Nigeria in the semi final. Congratulations to Bafana Bafana for winning the third place of this year tournament but that was not the best from them.

Today is the final day to round up the AFCON tournament for the year 2023. The host country will play against the giant of Africa. These two sides are strong opponents and the previous results justifies how they've been locking head in most of their meetings. It's definitely not going to be an easy game for both of them but our support is behind the super eagle tonight.