I mentioned few weeks ago that a draw between Chelsea and Liverpool could happen and it will be the best new year gift for City to run further from both teams that is following it closely. Now the gap is 10 points between City and Chelsea and 11 points from Liverpool which still lacks 1 more game.
The difference of matches played between teams in EPL is confusing.

That was quite unexpected, following the game in the last minutes and Real Madrid is still unable to score, even the header after the free kick by Modric was relatively easy for Getafe goal.. It seems they will lose 3 points today

I think you’ll are bit harsh on the teams that beat Bayern, because they beat them by playing better football than Bayern so you’ll should give those teams the credit rather say Bayern randomly played bad to allow them to win.

Also even if Bayern lose one or two games then too it’s difficult to see them not winning the league title again, however if they lose many matches back to back then yes we’ll be in for a thrilling finale, but I doubt that their form will suddenly collapse.
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I doesn't mean exactly that since even we consider Bayern playing poorly in one game, this won't mean their opponent will win unless it plays better football for sure.
Bayern lost vs Augsburg and Frankfurt in 1.Bundesliga and vs M'Gladbach in DFB-Pokal. All these teams were playing miserable football when they faced Bayern. Frankfurt and Augsburg were in the relegation zone while M'Gladbach were failing and still BTW. I would say it is a mixture of performing well vs not my day Bayern.

I like this description of lottery, you never know who will be the next infected player and how many he contacted before testing positive... Many EPL teams were affected by the virus and there was many postponed games. In Serie A the situation isn't better but the decision of postponing games aren't taken easily letting teams criticise each others and blame health authorities for taking or not any decision.
At the end might this becomes true

Regarding previous matches between both teams, ATM is favourite and should continue winning. If we consider the latest results of ATM and Rayo in La Liga then Rayo seems to be in a better condition. Overall, odds are in favour of ATM and bookies and people there are supporting them. It is hard to tell which team will win this match. ATM isn't in its best condition and betting on them is quite risky. I think taking a look on the starting eleven and watching the first minutes of the game will be a wise move before taking any action.

Yeah I read that yesterday and was thinking that is the worst timing to contract the virus... Liverpool isn't well lately and having Klopp out when facing Chelsea is a very bad news.
Chelsea also suffers from covid and injuries, Christensen, Werner and few others will miss this game also. Lukaku interview made some tensions on the team and how Tuchel will react in the field is not known yet.

Less than a week separation us from Juve - Napoli and Juventus risks to play without many players including Chiellini and who knows how much aren't aware they are positive... The spread of the virus right now is incredible in Europe. I think this game will be postponed if they will found more positive results or Napoli will not show as usual because health authorities won't allow them leave..

Morata going back to ATM can save them this season since their scoring ability is in its lowest.. Juve will try to find a better scorer. Icardi isn't finding the right time to show his ability to PSG, so moving out to Juve might be a good option and this won't happen unless Morata moves to Barca... Barca is already making offers to several players from City and I heard about Cavani from ManU.. They have enough money to sign many players?

Arsenal defeat was expected but I would say that resisting vs City until the end of the match although playing with 10 players is something impressive. They did their best and they should be proud of their performance tho.
West Ham and Spurs won their games with 1 goal difference. Regarding the difference in games played, the table will be different in the next rounds.

I would say Real Madrid could score 2-3 goals easily in case the players are in the best shape. Otherwise 1 goal difference is the worst scenario. I don't think Real Madrid will drop points at this point vs what suppose to be an easy party.

Most of the coins follow bitcoin trend whether it is up or down so I don't think there will be anything special in the upcoming months. There is few coins that move separately from bitcoin like Shiba, at least as far as I followed it but who knows

Aubameyang wanted to leave Arsenal in the previous season but he failed since his contract didn't expire yet. This season, he wasn't doing good in the field, he wasn't disciplined in the training, he made Arteta angry when he got tattooed instead of resting for a game or coming to the training, can't remember anymore what was the problem exactly. I think he is doing this intentionally to force Arsenal to get ride of him.

Indeed, Bayern is doing incredibly good until they switch to sleep mode in one random game and play like a 2.Bundesliga team although having all stars in the field, then revert back to god mode in the next game. So far this doesn't have a big impact in Bundesliga but switching off that mode in CL will be a catastrophic failure.

Regardless of the draw and the hazardous pandemic effects on the games, I think the favorite team to win the title this year is:
1- Bayern
2- City
3- Real Madrid
4- Liverpool
5- PSG
6- the rest

I am quite surprised honestly, I checked the score several times and left Valencia leading with the game almost finished and unexpectedly I found Espanyol scoring 2 goals and winning! That was a very bad day for Valencia and for the ones that placed a bet on them

Draw @4.6 is interesting odds but I think City will win the game. BTTS @1.66 is good also and possible but I can't trust Arsenal. They won 4 successive games so it is time to rest for them

Espanyol and Valencia moved to Serie A
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Inter and Juve claimed to postpone the game considering the wide spread of the new variant of the virus but they have to wait for the League Council to accept this request. So far the game is still scheduled January 12.

That was rumoured in the last season seeing the bad economic situation of the club before Inter sold its top players, after that they stopped talking about that until now?
The deal with Newcastle is done but they cannot 100% guarantee that team will be able to play in EPL next season so maybe focusing with Inter might be a solution for the next two seasons?

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I see talks about Dortmund giving an offer for Haaland to extend his contract. I think Haaland has no intention to keep playing with a team that is unable to win Bundesliga nor CL nor any important title.. I find it better for him to move to La Liga, he can build his career there. In EPL he might remain good but he won't shine as in La Liga imo.

ATM @1.33 5th place - Rayo Vallecano @11 4th place!
We all know that ATM is overall better and its chances for winning is higher but these odds sounds like ATM is facing a team in the second division and not the first one and certainly not a team in the top 4 spots
The other funny odds are Mallorca @3.7 and Barcelona @2, it is like people and bookies are trusting that Barca will win but not that much.

A bad round for Liverpool which lost 3 points and for Chelsea also which lost 2 points and the gap increased between them and City to 8 points although Liverpool still lacks one more game and will play vs Chelsea next!
City will play vs Arsenal next and the odds are quite big between them and odds between Liverpool > Chelsea are quite in but risky 2/3