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.

Edit 3:0.

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.

Arsenal have beaten Wolves in the last four meetings... Three points are now very much needed for Arsenal to try and maintain their lead... But I'm not sure they can keep it for the rest of the season... Man City are still very strong... If Arsenal don't widen the gap, Man City will take the first place...

In the upcoming week, there are two exciting PL matches:
Newcastle vs Man United
Man City vs Tottenham.


Newcastle convincingly defeated Man United 3-0 in the EFL Cup just a month ago. In that game, Man United had decent ball possession but struggled to construct meaningful attacks. I was quite disappointed with Man United's performance as they couldn't manage the ball well enough to produce effective attacks.  It's entirely reasonable for Newcastle to be favored in tomorrow's match. However, Manchester United is a team with a rich history, so I believe the legendary mentality still resonates with the Red Devils.

The Man City vs Tottenham match is the most anticipated Big Match. Although the odds favor Man City, it would be thrilling and add excitement to the league if they stumble against Spurs. Spurs have had a poor recent performance, but I believe surprises from players like Son can happen at any time.

Juventus now have a real opportunity to become the leaders of the standings... They have an absolute lead in the game and I hope that the second half for Juventus will be no worse than the first... However, Monza have not lost their last five home matches...

In the second half it had to be 3 goals and it was a difficult thing while we know how resilient Al Nassr is but this time they seemed a little emotional and their defense was quite careless especially when Mitrovic in the 89th - 90+2nd minute was really unfortunate for Al Nassr.

At the start of this match it was fierce and I thought they would reply to each other's goals but that didn't happen, with this result Al Nassr had to submit and now the point difference is getting farther and farther with Al Hilal who topped the SPL standings.

On paper, Man City has a better chance than Tottenham. I think that with the background of performance, condition of the squad, and will act as hosts, City is really superior. Tottenham are in difficult times, with a storm of injuries coming their way, 10 of their players have had to go into the treatment room. Ange was required to find the right strategy in an effort to reduce the ferocity of Pep squad at the Etihad.

Actually, if both clubs had complete squads, this match would be quite interesting. However, we have seen how Ange dominated his squad at the start of last season so that in 10 matches they were unbeaten. Until we assume beforehand, that Tottenham deserves to be on the list of title contenders this season. But now the situation is different, but I don't think they will lose easily and just give up 3 points to City.

However, that doesn't mean the opposite can't happen, I mean who knows, Tottenham will make a surprise, I think it's also very possible. When we are quite sure that a match can be won easily, based on experience, many people often lose. This season we have seen City lose to Wolves, a mediocre club that has greater luck.

Goal has been ranked the teams based on their power

https://www.goal.com/en/lists/champions-league-2023-24-power-rankings/

1. Real madrid
2. Manchester city
3. Arsenal
4. Bayern
5. Intermilan

To be honest, i would value intermilan far stronger compared with arsenal and it shall be in the third place. Seeing intermilan was able reaching UCL final last season but arsenal was not even entering into the UCL. In my opinion, the author's assessment of Arsenal's score seems somewhat unusual.

The thing that surprises me that if author has been placing manchester united as the weakest team in the UCL so far. It's only above braga which is a shame. I fully agreed with the author regarding the position of manchester united.

United is now a mediocre team in UCL. It's finished now and united has probably 10% chance to qualify for the knock out stage. It shows that how garbage manchester united under ten hag.

Roma got a draw vs Servette in today's game.. Epic fail and they gave the first spot for Slavia Praha. Both of these teams will qualify either directly to the next round or go through play-offs.
There is only Group C and H were the qualified / play-offs teams are still to be declared apart from Bayer Leverkusen in Group H. Qarabag should follow since Molde will face Leverkusen in the last match.
In Group C, Real Betis, Rangers and Sparta Prague have the chance to pass. Since Real Betis will face Rangers then if Sparta Prague win then they will guarantee qualification