Ronaldo in or out, Al-Nassr can be winning SPL matches. Al Hilal is the strongest, no argument about that statement, it's a facts this season. Al Nassr and other top clubs can only try but they won't succeed because Al Hilal have built a solid foundation and there players are united and play together as if they already know what to do on the matches and following strictly what their coach tells them from the dressing room. Al Hilal might not have the high ranking of stars other clubs are in possession but they're strong and don't welcome defeats as a results, instead they will settle for draw tie.

The fixture build up over the festive period really separates the contenders from the pretenders doesn’t it. So many games in such a short space of time, very little recovery time, the injuries build up. It’s cold, gets dark early. I always think this upcoming period shows who will fight for the title and who won’t.

We move to the next round of fixtures. Liverpool go away to Crystal Palace, Aston Villa host leaders Arsenal and out of form Man City go to Luton. It’s going to be a weekend full of drama.

Come on Liverpool.

Our guys played well, I liked their game tonight.
This win was good for us, we have Copenhagen next week and it boosted our morale.
Icardi's goal was even better because he needed a morale boost and he scored tonight.

Benafica Vs Farense
The Estadio da Luz is expected to be a fortress for Benfica and they will be keen to maintain their strong home form. With a chance to overtake Sporting at the top of the table, they are desperate to secure a win in this crucial fixture. Meanwhile, Farense struggles will be a concern, especially against the likes of Benfica. Farense may have a solid defence, but Benfica will be keen to bounce back from their disappointing draw and prove themselves to their supporters. Home advantage and Benfica are expected to come out on top in this match. It looks like Benafica will win 3-0.

what a win by Partizan last night
Olimpia was up 15 points (45-60) near the end of 3rd quarter, and we made 29-4 series to reach 74-64, atmosphere was simply great

with these two connected home wins, Partizan is now first time in positive score on the table (7-6)
but it had a price, and Avramovic will be out for a not that short time, hopefully he will be back on time for a season finish

Real won second match in Athens, after OLY, PAO is down too, and Efes won in Berlin

Yesterday two not so big teams make some big victories, Damac against Al ittihad and Al hazem against Al Fateh, so maybe this is the round of the surprises and we can see another big teams losing some points. Until now Al Hilal keeps winning lets see how it ended.

We all didn't expect Tottenham to be beaten at home because previously I thought the two teams would only draw or Tottenham would win but what happened was the opposite Tottenham were defeated for the 4th time, previously they were at the top of the standings but today only in 5th position we clearly see something different and I don't know what the main problem is.

There are a lot of jokes going on in Brazil because of Botafogo, in fact many influencers (Youtubers etc) said that Botafogo was going to be champions, that no one would take the title away from the team, and now they have to deal with the mockery because it was one of the worst title losses I've ever seen in the Brazilian championship  
I think many people lost money betting in Botafogo in the last matches, I'm included   I lost 3 or 4 bets in a row and I gave up betting in Botafogo

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Tomorrow I'll find the list I made trying to predict the position of all table, but in advance I can say I win the long bet of the champion 

Guys, did you make any money from betting on the Brasileirao or did you lose?

I predicted Everton to be able to win today. However a 3-0 score wasn't an expected result even for me. By the way the number of people who thought Everton would win was low and this made me surprised. If Everton won by 2-1 instead of 3-0 maybe I was going to win the yellow cap this week.

Everton 2:0 Newcastle United

Finally Everton has given one of the informed team in the Premier league Newcastle united a humbling defeat. I bet no one saw this one coming as Everton got their sixth premier league wins with a superb performance against a Newcastle team that has defeated most of the big teams in the league such as Manchester united, Chelsea and others, the most surprising thing about the win for Everton is that they played with so much pressure yet they were anle to get a second goal even when I thought the game was going to end in a 1:1 draw.

The win tonight will increase their chances of getting out of the relegation zone while they also need more wins to increase their points and to move out from the relegation zone completely.

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I can't stand him. Sure, he gets into chances, I don't even mind that he misses so many.
But he's the epitome of a player I hate the most - a brainless idiot who doesn't understand anything about football and just runs into empty space and shoots with his eyes closed.

I cannot fathom that these people nowadays go for 60, 70, 80 mil euros. I live for the day we sell him.

Everton v Newcastle United

🍬 Everton XI: Pickford; Coleman, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko; Harrison, Gueye, Young, Doucouré, NcNeil; Calvert-Lewin.

🏁 Newcastle United XI: Dúbravka; Trippier, Schär, Lascelles, Livramento; Miley, Guimaraes, Joelinton; Almirón, Isak, Gordon.

Newcastle united are is really good form now as well as Everton too just that they have effected by points deduction, I can't even guarantee the win of Everton because they have less performance at home than away, they absolute do well in away than home, while Newcastle United home performance is far far better than their away game because they only won one away and that was against Sheffield United with 8 goals to nothing.

This match is very important to both teams, Everton really need the win because it the home and to be out of relegation zone live behind luton town with one point ahead while Newcastle United will like to win to move to number five position only if Tottenham Hotspur loss.

Partizan - Monaco was amazing game, but some referee decisions were questionable, like when they didn't called 8 seconds volation for Partizan in overtime.
All games yesterday were so close. Though, Real were leading most part of game against Oly and got deserved win.
Zalgiris is pathetic - leading for 39 minutes against worst team in Euroleague which don't have half of players and you still lose it. Ulanovas - what a captain, he basically drowned Zalgiris in the end with mistakes and brick shots.
Now at halftime everything is so close in all games except Virtus - Barca where Barca have 12 points lead.

We had some very amazing games to see this round, if you are neutral everyone were pretty good to see.

What a goal from Mc Allister on Liverpools game.

What a bad score for Aston Villa, they have the gold chance to took over some positions and become the second team in the tabble. But they only reach a last minute draw against Bournemouth, who i have to say its defendin pretty well his home games.

Galatasaray won easily tonight, their opponents were weak.
Pendikspor is not a team of this league.
Hakim Ziyech scored a beautiful goal again. The race for the leadership continues.

Fenerbahçe will play Sivasspor on Monday, they might lose points.

Stuttgart were in full control of the match with the many opportunities they had, they should have scored more than 1 goal, that's quite a shame, now the second half is underway and Stuttgart is still 1 goal ahead but it's still very risky for them and I hope they can score again. goal to maintain the lead.
Meanwhile, Bremen is still as usual, there is no improvement in their performance in this match and also in terms of the quality of the team and the squad in this team, it is indeed a quite difficult match for Bremen.

Arsenal getting the job done again with a 2-1 win against Wolves. I don’t like to admit it but they have the look of Champions don’t they. They keep winning despite not playing well. Mind you, I thought that last season, tgey are the masters of choking but will it be different this season?

Hopefully Liverpool do the job tomorrow and beat Fulham, we need to stay close to Arsenal. We play them at Anfield on 23rd December. I have tickets for the game, we are very, very difficult to beat at home.

I think it doesn't matter if Al Nassr lost but what is surprising is that Al Nassr didn't manage to score at all in this match. Also, Al Nassr lost with a huge score of 3-0, somehow it can be a team that is in the top two positions in the table, but the result is like this or like when the favorite team plays against a mediocre team. But indeed, basically I am also not entirely sure that Al Nassr will win because in my consideration, it is clear that Al Hilal is still better at this moment. Not only in this match or at this moment I recognize Al Hilal is better, because when Al Hilal and Al Nassr played in the Arab Club Champions Cup final at that time which Al Nassr won. But yes, I personally still consider that Al Hilal has a better performance too.

But unfortunately, Heidenheim managed to provide a pretty good resistance in this match, at least it was proven because Heidenheim was also able to score a goal in this match. The score is still 2-1 and the match has entered the last minute, if Leipzig only wins with a thin score like this. Then ya, I think there will be many who are disappointed including me, because I think Leipzig will be able to win with a difference of 2 goals but in reality, it still seems not easy for Leipzig to make another goal in this second half. Although yes, of course Leipzig has good dominance in this match, and it should be Leipzig managed to win at least with a difference of 2 goals and not just win with a thin score like this.

That is why the odds for Juventus are quite high in the range @ 1.9x, because in reality Juventus almost failed to win this match. But yes, apart from that of course there will still be doubts for Juventus this season, because Juventus still looks weak. Even though it is true that Juventus this season is only focused on Serie A, but if we look at the way Juventus has get points so far this season, in fact it has never been easy for Juventus to get full points even though the opponents they are facing are only mediocre teams. So yes, with results like this I would still doubt Juventus to get the Scudetto this season, because Juventus still looks weak.