The absence of Gabriel Jesus was starting to be felt for Arsenal, Mikel Arteta played Eddy Nkentiah to fill Jesus' position. During the course of the match Nkentiah appeared less than optimal, Arteta also had no other attacking options on the bench. Arsenal appeared dull against Newcastle despite controlling the match, the difficulty of penetrating the back area of a team that has a solid defense seemed to be an alarm for Arsenal to hunt for new players in the transfer market this winter. This draw does not interfere with Arsenal position at the top of the standings, but if it continues it will be a red flag for Arsenal.

After a convincing win against Bournemouth, the Red Devils are level with third place on points. There are three more home games coming up and I look forward to watching this newly reenergized Manchester United team. Newcastle lost points, Arsenal lost points, Liverpool lost the top four, and now Man United won. There is nothing obvious in football, so Man City should focus on their next meeting against Chelsea. It's United time. Slowly, but surely, becoming a title contender. It will be possible for Manchester United fans to dream if they win the next two games in the EPL.

The match was more like defensive match else I don't see why they weren't able to score, not as if VAR or whatsoever reason voided their goals, their efforts never came through.


What I meant by statement wasn't Arsenal persay, I wanted them to get that 3 points by all means because so many people was so depending on them winning Newcastle, so many tickets were destroyed when everyone needed the most even though they ended up with a single point and they are still at the top of the table. With yesterday conclusion, I expect bookies to start increasing their odds for Arsenal in their next few matches atleast.

At Al Nassr, Ronaldo is welcomed into the Saudi Arabian league with a nice gesture.
As CR7, breaking records and contributing to the movement is what he does for Al Nassr, it's nothing new to him. A great vision attracts great opposition, but he ultimately prevails. I pray that he makes his new team soar to greatness by taking them to a higher level. As far as I can tell, this contract is kind of a win-win for both parties. It is impossible to describe how extraordinary Ronaldo is when he enters the pitch. In this stage, he is truly a record-breaker.

Tottenham have started a quite poor form recently. There is a significant decrease in their performance in their Premier League games and it has caused them to get negative results recently. I have started wondering how this form would reflect on their Champions League matchup against Milan. I know that there is still a long time until that but they don't look like good at all. Kane has still performed solidly and scored so many goals until now. But even his effort isn't enough as long as they don't stay strong as a team.

We don't know about Milan's condition yet as they haven't played a Serie A game after the break ended. But if they have a better form until the first leg then I might start giving more chance to Milan about eliminating them. I'm still saying "might" because Milan didn't seem well against a big team in the group stage - Chelsea.

I just read now (forgot which Spanish newspaper was) that Cristiano Ronaldo maybe playing in the Champions League next year if Newcastle manages to qualify which seems pretty easy so far.There is a clause in the latest contract of Ronaldo which permits him to be given on loan to Newcastle as Newcastle is owned by Saudi State Fund and therefore this move can be easily done if Newcastle qualifies.

I know that Ronaldo will be near 39 years of age if that happens and he passes on loan to Newcastle to play both on Premier League and Champions League but I think his physical condition is still at the top and most likely will be still be near the top for the next season.

The competition between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid may continue in the laliga table till the next El clasico will settle it.
I am very sure that in this present time we are not going to witness a draw in El clasico. There must always be a winning in one way or the other and that would make the difference.

Now Real Madrid is not a club with star players, now they are very focused on the talents of young players and this has started several years ago after several of their star players started to leave Real Madrid. However, this seems to have paid off very well for Real Madrid, with many young players and a few senior players remaining, they are still very strong until now. For Liverpool, until now, nothing is certain, especially since their performance in the regular league is very bad. Darwin Nunez, who was considered to be able to solve the club's needs, seemed unable to do anything, now perhaps their only hope is Cody Gakpo, who is now ready to fill in Liverpool's attack line.

leeds united today completed the signing of Maximilian Wöber. the center-back is leaving rb salzburg after 3.5 years and will join the premier league team of his former coach Jesse Marsch with a contract until 2027. leeds will reportedly pay a transfer fee of around €20 million, making MW one of the five most expensive austrian footballers in history.
and fc liverpool are reportedly still interested in buying wolves midfielder and portugal international Matheus Nunes

It looks like AC Milan has the potential to lose several of its players, Stefano Pioli has confirmed Divock Origi is still out due to a muscle injury he suffered during the training camp in Dubai United Arab Emirates, during the break for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Junior Messias and Alessandro Florenzi are both still out. Now Cedra is joined by Ante Rebic and Fode Ballo-Toure.

Thus, the total AC Milan players who will be absent in this match are 5 people. milan should get full points in their first match after the world cup break, i think milan is able to give their best game so as not to lose points against Salernitana

To be honest, I also really didn't expect that the red card penalty that Lewandowski received could be suspended like that, I don't think there has ever been such a case before. With that incident too, I really don't understand Barcelona, does Barcelona really have the many privileges it has.
Just imagine, from the financial cases that happened before, basically when a team has experienced a bad financial decline, they won't be able to buy many players. But strangely, Barcelona didn't even just buy a lot of players, but Barcelona could buy a lot of luxury players, which seemed to have something or something special about Barcelona that seemed difficult to disclose or investigate.

But apart from that case, Barcelona still couldn't win in that match, which basically on paper Barcelona would win easily.
But the fact is that even their players in that match got a red card and in fact, Xavi also got a yellow card in that match. So with the privileges that Barcelona have but still, they are still difficult to win in that derby match and I hope that with all these cases Barcelona will prove to be a foul because this team is very strange and makes no sense to me.

I think that yesterday's defeat of Liverpool has shaken their self-confidence very much. Now their backlog from the top 4 is again large and even with the fact that there is still a month and a half before the game with Real, they will not have time to correct this, so this factor of pressure on Liverpool will remain. Real, on the contrary, from the first round after the restart of the season, they have adjusted their business (thanks to the fact that Barcelona lost points) and their prospects look solid.
It is interesting if the events continue to develop as they are developing now (Real shows a reliable game and Liverpool is unstable) whether the bookmakers will change their opinion that Liverpool is the favorite in this pair.

Liverpool can win this trophy to break record in this season because, they started improving in some competition which they will surely display them in this UEFA champions league competition. It will be difficult for Liverpool to miss this opportunity because, many people are expecting them to win all their games to stand in a position to win this trophy to make their coach happy.

Coach Erik ten Hag made a very drastic decision to keep Marcus Rashford on the bench because of disciplinary issues. But the English striker who is Manchester United's highest goalscorer has proved again that he is an important player of the team. United coach should learn player management skills because he might end up losing their best players if they are not well managed. Rashford must not also be proud or indisciplined because his skills and quality might not be enough to make him a complete world-class striker he needs to be well-mannered. Congratulations to Manchester United for this difficult but well-deserved victory.

I am also impressed by Wolves performance because the team didn't show respect for Manchester United. They defended very well and also pushed some good attacking runs and goal attempts.

Saturday's transfer gossip:

Benfica and Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez, 21, has agreed a move to Chelsea.
However, the Evening Standard reports that this is fake news. Is this the beginning of a new football saga?
Real Madrid are ready to spend over 100m euros (£88.6m) to sign 19-year-old Borussia Dortmund and England midfielder Jude Bellingham, who is also a target for Liverpool.
Real knows that it has very old players in the midfield and is preparing for the future without Modrić and the other senators. They seem to be missing only Bellingham to create a new midfield of the future.
Jorginho, 31, wants to return to Napoli when his Chelsea contract ends, but Barcelona and Newcastle are also interested in the Italy midfielder. Everyone wants Jorginho and what will he decide in the end? In which club will he finish his football career?

Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/64128722