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 Manchester teams and Liverpool are all targeting to sign Joshua Kimmich as it seems. He has less than 2 years left on his contract at the moment. I wonder when Bayern Munich are planning to make a contract extension offer to him. Because I believe he is still one of the most important players of the team. He is a critical player in the midfield.

His current market value is 75 million euros by the way. I don't think Bayern Munich would drop down from this level. Are those teams really willing to sign him still? Especially Manchester United would make use of a solid defensive midfielder transfer while their defense is in bad shape.

I don't think that the red card was the only reason for Napoli's loss to Roma. This is because Napoli was a total shadow of themselves and didn't show much zeal to win the game. They dominated ball possession had just seven shots which a mere two were on target compared to Roma which had seventeen shots and four on target. We shouldn't always skip the fact that the first red card was in the 66th minute and the second card came in the 86th, which shows that Napoli has sufficient time to at least get a goal but the attack didn't live up to expectations.

Lukaku has been proving both Inter Milan, Chelsea and Juventus wrong. The Belgian striker had several difficulties at the beginning of the season when his future in several clubs was in doubt. Jose Mourinho just believed in him and gave him a lifeline in Roma and the striker has not disappointed the Portuguese tactician. Roma will be considering a permanent deal from the striker.

PSG is a great club with great potentials to achieve great things though luck has not been on their side for some time now as they haven't been lucky enough to win any European title since they were taken over by the Qatari owners some decades ago but I think with Luis Enrique in charge as coach and with his philosophy and style of play we do hope that PSG will get it right this time and break the jinx and bring the UCL to Paris.

Barcelona have lost so many points recently. Their form in their last 5 league games is really poor which caused them to be left behind by Girona and Real Madrid more in points. In addition to that Atletico Madrid also have  got ahead of them. Barcelona really need to make a big improvement in this form if they want to be a part of the title competition.

They can start by beating Las Palmas away next week. But I must admit that this isn't an easy task for them. Because if you remember Las Palmas beat Atletico Madrid home before. They have a potential to surprise Barcelona as well.

What was exactly on Sterling's head, he could pass to Jackson or Mudryk since both of them are in better position, but Sterling choose to shot by himself. If he's not egoist, Chelsea will able to get 2 points and the match will end in draw.

Right now Chelsea have so many attacking midfielders: Chukwuemeka, Nkunku, Palmer and Gallagher, they need to sell two players and then get a new striker.

This is some very interesting scenario that I would like to see become true - Zidane as the coach of a team that is not fully developed. But yes, he wouldn't do it. However, I think developing a team is what really makes a great coach. I never really knew what to think of Zidane. Guardiola and Klopp both introduced a very unique style to the game, Zidane didn't really do that and neither did Enrique. Mourinho once did it as well although I am not a fan of his style.

Hansi Flick actually won 6 titles in 8 months. Bundesliga, DFB Cup, Champions League, German Supercup, UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup. That was impressive of course. So I think as you said judging based on what was going on with the national team would not be appropriate. But I am not fully convinced that he is the right man for this. When he came to Bayern, he really didn't have a lot to lose, but only to win. His second season didn't go very well. But from the ones we mentioned here, Flick might be the closest match.

Arsenal are most likely to end this year at the first position. Because they are going to play a home game against West Ham next time. I don't think they would lose points in this game. I expected them to lose against Liverpool at Anfield but they still got one point at least. I think this will be a more comfortable one for Arsenal to win.

West Ham newly beat Manchester United though but there is a big difference between Arsenal and the Red Devils these days. Arsenal would probably show the difference clearly in this game.    In the same way I expect Liverpool to beat Burnley as well.

Real Sociedad are a really unpredictable team indeed. Finishing a group including Inter in itself as the leader isn't an easy task to perform at all. In the end there is technically a big strength gap between these teams on paper. But team effort can upset the balances quite much. I can say that Real Sociedad have played really well as a team until now.

I wonder how successful they will be against PSG as well. I don't find PSG better than Inter first of all. PSG are just not like in the Ligue 1 here.

They are much more inconsistent and they could have even been in the Europa League now. If they keep this up Real Sociedad can really punish them for that weakness.

You have mentioned a few important aspects here when it comes to letting ten Hag go now. Zidane would never go to Manchester United. He isn't a developer. He wants the best team right off the bat and compete for the Champions League title. If he knows he can't do it with the team that's there, he won't go there, so he is out. Flick, good analysis and I agree, I think his performance with national team from Germany has revealed some issues about his approach as well although I have to say that the national team isn't the same as it was in 2014 in terms of the player material. Guardiola would do better, I am quite sure about that, but he wouldn't go there as there really is no incentive for him to do that.

But just let the mess continue and wait? As much as I agree that finding a suitable replacement seems to be impossible, letting it continue is also not an option. They have some tough times to walk through.

Given their unpredictable current form, you can't even be too sure they can go past Osasuna  

I don't see any way out for Barcelona at the moment. Maybe by some miracle all the injured key players heal and start playing in by January, which we know is just a fantasy. While Real Madrid are also faced with their own injury crisis, at least they can afford to go to the market and grab a couple of mercenaries, something that Barcelona can not afford right now.

Chelsea lost again, now people even stopped making fun of them. They are so pathetic. How can a team spend so much money, build such a large squad and fail so much? I don't understand why Pochettino can't find a solution. If you can't beat Wolverhampton, which team will you beat? Mudryk and Nkunku were the positive ones for today, but they didn't bring even 1 point. The players have no soul, the team seems to have lost its integrity. They cannot recover easily anymore.

I think the solution for Manchester United is to sack Erik Ten Hag. He isn't able to do anything this season. If he is sacked now, the new manager would get the chance to rebuild the team as they have nothing to achieve this season. They are out of the Champions League, they are in the 8th position right now and they have nothing to win this season from the leagues anymore.

They are constantly losing one match after another. I don't even know how Ten Hag got the manager of the month last month. If the new manager comes now, they can achieve better things in the next season. Erik Ten hag doesn't seem to be able to solve his problem right now which is very humiliating for a club as big as Manchester United.

Chelsea problem is in 2 phases.

1. The players are not good enough and the squad is not good enough.
2. The coach is not getting the best performance out of the players

The coach needs to find a tactics that bring out the best in the players; the coach needs to ensure that only players that deserves line up gets called up. The coach needs to drop preferential treatment and use only the best of the best.

Until this happens; results won't come for coach Pochetino or chelsea

AC Mian heading to the Europa are seen as one of the favorites to win this competition judging from the way they performed and the quality of players they’ve, if they build their confidence level to match that of last season's then winning the UEL is not going to be a very big problem, despite the fact that Liverpool and Leverkusen are still in the tournament.

 They’re a team that’s quite determined and have a good experience on European football. But the issue os that they might possibly shy out when they meet with the big boys of the competition amd that’s one thing they need to work on before resumption of the competition in February. They need to fix up their injury issues so as to build a formidable squad to challenge for the Europa League else they’ll not be going far in that competition.

Bayern Munich has won the German title for the past eleven years now and There's  no doubt to the fact that it'll be very difficult for any German Bundesliga team to end Bayern Munich's dominance. Just like you rightly said,  Borussia Dortmund came very close to achieve that feat last season and needed to win their last home game to be crowned champions but unfortunately failed  to win their last game.
However,  Bayer Leverkusen that's managed by Xabi Alonso has shown that they perfectly understand what it will take to win the German league this season and one of the most important factors is to remain  consistent in their good performances of which they've been since the start of the season.  Leverkusen are currently leading the German  league table before the league went on their annual mid season break and if they can continue with the current performance when actions is resumed in the league,  then there's every possibility that they can finally  end Bayern Munich's dominance

Hasnt PSG's Ligue 1 domination become predictable? Not fair to Monaco, Nice, or Marseille. However, their spending hasnt led to European success. Losing Messi was disappointing, but their underlying issue is deeper. They're trying to balance domestic dominance and UCL success.

Also, Mbappe. He's PSG's lifeblood. I think PSG would look like other top-tier French teams without him. Who can fill those shoes? No one yet. Its about constructing a cohesive squad, not just buying stars. With the UCL dream looming, Im interested how they'll handle this. PSG needs more than vast cash to handle the rough path ahead.

Well of course him being injured is going to have an effect on his performance. But at the same time it is also true that his performance has dropped quite significantly. And it is definitely time for Manchester City to look for a replacement. Because he is already starting to get injured. Who knows for how long he will actually be able to compete?

So yes I think for long-term plans, Manchester City should start thinking about a replacement. Maybe get a young player and shape him up to be a good replacement. Or maybe just go and get a player who will be another great one. They can afford it in my opinion.

Aurelio De Laurentiis deserves to be blamed because he confidently fired Rudi Garcia midway, the appointment of a new successor Walter Mazzarri, is not an instant solution to improve the club's performance to be more stable. So it is quite reasonable to say that releasing Spalletti was a fatal mistake, it is proven that currently Napoli are having difficulty penetrating the European zone, let alone retaining the Scudetto trophy. The defeat to AS Roma was another form of player frustration, the squad mentality was in a worrying situation.

In my opinion, Napoli will have difficulty creating a positive trend in the future even though their next opponent is relatively easy, because they lost two strikers at once on the front line. It is very likely that Napoli will be fasting for a title this season, a realistic target is to pursue a ticket to the European route for next season, Walter Mazzarri is under great pressure now.

Manchester United record in ranking is shameful whether in the goals scored thus the attack line or the defence line which is taking more goals than scoring.
I do not want to criticise the strategy adopted by Eric Ten Hag but it is definitely not working especially in the attack line, it is dysfunctional and just horrible.

Whenever you recruit a player, you never know when he will worth the money spent on him or not. It is like Hazard or Bale in his latest years in Real Madrid. No one is above the club indeed, it is whether you play good or leave your place to someone better and this includes the coach..