There are only a few minutes left before the Manchester United - Aston Villa match ends, I don't know what to say about the epic comeback they made. 1 thing is certain that my betting slip looks like will finish with a win, quite disappointed considering that I didn't want to choose Manchester United to win when they were 2 goals behind because it produced odds of more than @11.

Do any of you also bet when Manchester United is 2 goals behind? If so, congrats, we've had our day in this game.

It is already 3 days ago, but it is still a nice and beautiful tradition that I would like to mention here. Since 2003, the Christmas carol sing has been taking place in the stadium from Union Berlin shortly before Christmas. In the beginning there were only 89 fans, now there are over 28500 fans singing christmas songs.


Picturesource: https://www.fussballdaten.de/news/1-bundesliga/28-500-union-fans-stimmen-sich-auf-weihnachten-ein-e23b3d8b/

Liverpool is indeed better than last season, but it is always difficult to say that Liverpool can win the Premier League title this season. Liverpool have a chance to win it, but other teams will be more competitive in the second half of the season so no one can say anything about who will win the title.

So far Liverpool are favorites to win the Europa League title this season. I know this is not a certainty because after all some unseeded teams can be more surprising than favorite teams. There are always good possibilities and bad possibilities, it's just that opportunities based on performance make Liverpool the favourites.

I think PSG's defense is not that good, but even so, it is very difficult for other teams to compete with PSG. PSG is far above the other teams in the league both in terms of quality and financial power.

PSG started the season badly but over time they started to play better. I criticized PSG a lot at the beginning of the league but now they are playing better football. So I won't criticize them too much.

Nice currently have 35 points and they are 5 points behind PSG. They cannot close this points difference easily. As the league progresses, PSG is less likely to lose points. The players and the team are adapting more and more to each other and they are winning series. I can say that Nice will have a difficult task to follow PSG.

I understand your criticism of Barcelona's performance. It has been kind of a rollercoaster, to be honest. Although they may not be as strong as they formerly were, I wouldn't write them off just yet. They haven't had a great UCL run, but luck isn't everything. Do you recall a few years ago when Chelsea won the Champions League? Nor were they the favourites. It all comes down to grasping oportunities. When Barcelona plays Napoli in the knockout stage, well, that's a break. It's an even playing field because neither team is precisely playing at their best. Barcelona has a good chance if they strenthen their defence. But let's face it, this will be a difficult game if their defence plays poorly. It all depends on how they perform that day.

Burnley and Liverpool match is on right now and Liverpool is taking the lead with 0:1 goal courtesy of D. Núñez who scored in the sixth minute. There is so much tension in this game as Burnley is also showing some awesome display despite conceding early goals so let's see how the first half gonna end but I see another goal coming from either side before the end of half time because the pressure by both clubs is getting serious.

Let's put aside talking about fighting for champions this season in the Champions League or La Liga, because Barcelona's declining performance this season has disappointed everyone, especially their fans from several seasons ago who performed inconsistently, but even so they were still able to become champions. Last season's LaLiga, this year Xavi Hernandez's troops really lost their way in the League and Europa League, sometimes they still have difficulty maintaining concentration in each match. At least there is an improvement in Barcelona's squad this season so that it returns to the right direction and focuses on winning. any championship...

The wheels have definitely come off at Newcastle United lately. They were very poor again today short of ideas, confidence and a total abysmal defense. Seems Wood certainly came back to haunt them. It's absolutely not good enough from Newcastle honestly and they can't keep blaming fatigue and injuries all the time. A team should be able to win games with the players they put out. I just hope they buck their ideas up for the new year. By the way, football is indeed beautiful and normally EPL result on boxing days has always been a wow and it is a knockout blow from Wood on a boxing day as he hit hatrick.

The large number of injured Madrid players has made Ancelotti want to bring in several defenders to fill the empty positions, currently several names of players have been offered by Ancelotti to Madrid but unfortunately the Madrid management does not want to recruit players in the transfer market this season, Ancelotti wants Varane to return to Madrid After seeing Varane contract which will soon expire with Manchester United, apart from Varane, Madrid is also reluctant to bring back Rafa Marin from Alaves, who is also prioritized by Ancelotti looking at the current attitude of Madrid management, it seems that Ancelotti must be able to optimize the current players such as Nacho and Rudiger.

Barcelona must immediately replace its players, from those over 30 years old to young ones so that Barcelona's strength will not fade. Barcelona is a big team name that must be upheld to achieve victory in every competition. follow, in the upcoming match at the beginning of the year against Las Palmas it should be easy to win, but if Barcelona cannot be controlled by the interference given by Xavi then defeat will come to them and of course it will give Barcelona fans a feeling of disappointment.

Arsenal is one of the teams that must be able to compete in all existing competitions, including the Champions League. The reason is that this team from London is currently in intense competition with other clubs in the domestic league and on the other hand they also have to think about their chances of qualifying from the round of 16 against Porto. As we know, Porto is not an easy team to beat and this team will definitely make things difficult for Arsenal in the future. If the aggregate ends in a draw, it will certainly put everyone on the cusp of death because they have to try hard to qualify, even having to go through extra time or a penalty shootout.

Mikel Arteta must start moving quickly and if possible add to the squad which he feels is lacking by buying several more players in January. Because being able to advance to the last 16 of the Champions League is a rare thing for them and they are able to do it with the squad they have built in the past few seasons. So Mikel Arteta certainly doesn't want to experience difficulties against Porto later and must be sure he can escape with promising results.

I agree with you,  Barcelona won the last season La liga beating even stronger team's like Real Madrid to top the league,  which was a good performance and to keep to that trends,  there is a need to further ride on the record and performance better than the last season,  but truly this season,  Barcelona have not really shown any level pf consistency in their performance and in the last few matches,  it has become clear that the club is struggling in this season much more than the last season when their we're able to win the league title.

Most of the time,  is either they play draw game or even lose to their opponents in this season.

Atletico Madrid managed to close the distance and shift Barcelona position, which was previously ranked third in the standings, the narrow victory over Sevilla and also the impact of Barcelona defeat in Week 18, at least for the time being, made Atletico fans happy, even though they are now still 7 points behind Madrid which at the top of the standings but I think there is still a chance for Atletico Madrid to enter the championship competition if they can remain consistent, but among the 20 clubs currently available, Girona surprised me and I didn't even think that they could be in second place until week18th at the moment, it would be quite surprising if Girona could compete with Madrid until the end of the season in the race for champions.

It's very sad to see Manchester United this season, it's bitter when playing at Old Trafford, Ten Hag and his team are not the favourites. A very understandable situation, because Aston Villa is in its best form, we have seen how big teams fell at the hands of Unai Emery troops before. Ten Hag will receive sharp criticism if he loses points again, the huge pressure that continues to be on him has not yet ended, the mentality of the Manchester United squad is currently in a bad condition, there are not many words about their current performance.

As a big team, Manchester United should be able to get up and forget the defeat they suffered the previous week. At least, even though it will be difficult to beat Aston Villa, just holding a draw is good enough if you can't do more, in order to avoid being ridiculed and laughed at by your own fans. That's right, Aston Villa, which failed to take advantage of the momentum to lead the standings previously, will try again by beating Manchester United first.

I think it's easier to solve the problem on defense. Last season, Barcelona won the championship by conceding very few goals thanks to its good defense. They are conceding easy goals this season. In attack, players other than Lewandowski contribute very little. If they score more goals, the problem will be solved.
Neither of them are insurmountable problems. Xavi can fix these if he wants. Mentally, Barcelona needs to be stronger. If they improve mentally, the results will also improve.

The goal from nkuku means nothing for chelsea but at least nkuku has showed that he is far better from jackson. Im very happy caused by chelsea is losing again. If pochettino will be putting jackson as starting line up and there must be a problem with pochettino.
Even some fans were yelling him to go out from chelsea. Pochettino keeps do another stupid thing like putting the player not in their actual position. It was also affecting the performance from chelsea. This is another bad result from chelsea.
Im wondering that what step is going to be taken by pochettino to solve this problem. I can't even see chelsea to get another bad result like this. The gameplay of chelsea is really hurting my eyes.
Nkuku has a lot of burden caused by he was the only guy that is fully working to score while sterling is always wasting opportunity with being so selfish when he got the ball. Chelsea shall terminate him.
Sterling is very often giving negative impact to the club.

the situation might be different when Napoli's performance is like last season, with the same players and coach. but the situation is different, Xavi and the Barcelona squad will be more favored to win in advancing to the next round.

The tightest competition is probably Inter's match against Atletico Madrid. and there is a possibility that the last 8 rounds will bring together strong European teams who are favorites in the Champions League.

That's really bad, they don't have any option except put their B class players to play since Sterling and Palmer are injured. Despite Nkunku suffer a long injury, he can still able to prove himself if he's a good player, but this is football, one good player will not able to change the whole team lol.

I think Chelsea wasn't make a mistake to sign many players, as you can see there are a lot players that currently injured or suspended.

Roma will try to get into the top 4 of the Serie A standings. This will help them get Lukaku permanently, which is said to be one of the conditions for Roma if they want to get Lukaku permanently. It's still quite confusing why not let Lukaku go permanently if Chelsea doesn't really need his services.
Even though Roma's current performance is not consistent enough, I am sure they can get a place in the UCL next season by finishing in the top 4 of the standings.

It's strange why this man often gambles and often goes to gambling houses even though his mental state is not good. Even if I was there, I might not be able to stop him because who knows, he might already be addicted to gambling, so no one can stop him, not even an officer at the gambling house. don't forbid him, after all what right do we have to forbid him from wanting to gamble, isn't he gambling using his own money, not our money, I think if we forbid him it will invade his privacy, it's better to just let him gamble and maybe advise him a little, I think that's better