Newcastle victory against Chelsea was deserved and they're heading to face one of the tough sides in UCL next week. Eddie Howe will prepare his men and his game pattern to become formidable to withstand such pressures, that's how to win a game. PSG should be tough time for Newcastle despite thrashing them in first leg 4-1 at St James Park stadium. Newcastle United form is unpredictable at the moment due to their inconsistent performance in matches, they will win today's game and lose tomorrow, that's how the Magpies operates.

Rumors of striker options for Real Madrid in January are increasingly widespread and these three players are strong candidates in the transfer market. There are Timo Werner, Mauro Icardi and Victor Boniface but I think the biggest possibility will fall on Timo Werner or Mauro Icardi. So far, Victor Boniface only joined Leverkusen last summer and it is unlikely he will leave Leverkusen so quickly, especially since Xabi Alonso definitely wants his striker to stay. For Timo Werner, he rarely plays as a starter at Leipzig and it seems like he has lost the competition with Lois Openda for that position. Well, Mauro Icardi is the highest choice for Real Madrid, apart from being experienced and so far he has scored 15 goals with Galatassaray. Real Madrid definitely needs a productive striker and it is possible that Mauro Icardi will be the right solution when Vinicius and Rodrygo are injured.

Guardiola did it again, not a single substitution for the whole match, I don’t know why he sometimes makes such decisions, it looks strange because Klopp made five substitutions and it is clear that Liverpool had fresher players on the field and perhaps thanks to this Liverpool were able to equalize score. It is difficult to evaluate such a match, I liked City more, but Liverpool managed to play this match to a draw, perhaps this is a fair result.

And now Arsenal will have a chance to beat Brentford and come out on top, I think their chances for this are very good. Newcastle surprise again with a 4:1 win against Chelsea.

I will say that Timo Werner is probably going to be the right move. I don't think Real Madrid will also have to spend too much to get him as well. At least not anywhere near the amount of money they will have to spend if they want to get Mbappé or someone like him.  And I believe at this point Real Madrid should be forgetting about Mbappé.  Mbappé just used the name of Real Madrid to get more money from PSG. He was never actually coming to Real Madrid. So now Real Madrid should not show any interest in him as well. Mbappé is so interested in playing for Real Madrid that he should come to the squad as a regular player. Not as the highest money spent.

Xavi Alonso's Leverkusen has been good in all their games they've played this season, they perform in an unexplainable manner and they just built their confidence in themselves and has also made the fans have confidence in them, especially the betting folks, they can now place a bet on Leverkusen and be certain that their bet would click, they've been able to score goals back to back in their games and are even seeming to be near better than Munich.

 Their strides in the domestic league and the European cup has proven them worthy of the spot they are currently, today they'll have a face off against Werder Bremen and undoubtedly, they're going to secure a win as the host have a weak defense very much prone to series of attacks, Leverkusen on the other hand won't trade their chance and they're ready to net in as many goals as they can to keep them on top.

[HT] Rayo Vallecano 1 - 0 Barcelona

Rayo Vallecano managed to take a temporary lead in the match because of a goal scored by Unai Lopez. I don't know what Barcelona was thinking at the moment that they were 1 goal behind in the first half. Even though this is an important match for them with the aim of chasing Real Madrid and Girona who are currently above them.

If they fail here, it will provide a golden opportunity especially for Real Madrid to increase their distance from Barcelona considering that their opponents in the next match will be Cadiz who are currently at the bottom of the standings.

                                      Newcastle vs Chelsea
What a way to announce his  return from injury by scoring a goal against Chelsea in a highly anticipated match. Isak has scored the opener for Newcastle united to put them ahead in the game, not that's  what so many people would never have anticipated but he did it anyway. Chelsea have gotten their self back into the game with beautiful freekick fired right over the wall into the back of the net by Raheem sterling making it 1-1 in the 23rdminute, its a thriller here.

Rumors of striker options for Real Madrid in January are increasingly widespread and these three players are strong candidates in the transfer market. There are Timo Werner, Mauro Icardi and Victor Boniface but I think the biggest possibility will fall on Timo Werner or Mauro Icardi. So far, Victor Boniface only joined Leverkusen last summer and it is unlikely he will leave Leverkusen so quickly, especially since Xabi Alonso definitely wants his striker to stay. For Timo Werner, he rarely plays as a starter at Leipzig and it seems like he has lost the competition with Lois Openda for that position. Well, Mauro Icardi is the highest choice for Real Madrid, apart from being experienced and so far he has scored 15 goals with Galatassaray. Real Madrid definitely needs a productive striker and it is possible that Mauro Icardi will be the right solution when Vinicius and Rodrygo are injured.

So far the big game between Manchester City and Liverpool has been quite a low-scoring one. Manchester City are still maintaining their lead by Haaland's only goal. It hasn't been much time since the second half started. Liverpool had better start showing some reaction to this situation. They aren't this much desperate this season.

Besides the games between these two teams have been quite enjoyable ones with lots of goals most of the time. I hope to see another example of it. But first Liverpool should answer and make it 1-1.

What do you think about Lens? Can really make it to last 16? Because they still have a pretty high chance for achieving that success. They have the same points with PSV at the moment. Despite being behind them anyway there are still 2 more matches to be played. The problem is that Lens couldn't get advantageous results against PSV.

After a loss and a draw against them Lens are disadvantageous in head-to-heads in case there is equal points situation at the end of the group stage.

Lens' remaining matches are against Arsenal away and against Sevilla home. They had better collect 4 points at worst.

Romelu Lukaku is in an amazing form man, agreed. But he has been much more impressive when it comes to Euro 2024 qualifiers. He scored 14 goals in 8 games which is insane. I can't say that he is bad in the Serie A either as his number of goals scored is 6 in 10 games. But in the recent league games his rating was quite low.

Maybe this could be an opportunity for Lukaku to make improvement in his average rating at the same time. He has a really good chemistry with the Serie A so he should continue to show this more consistently.

Finally LaLiga is back and I can watch Valencia playing today and hopefully they will take 3 vital points and move to 7th place overall with just 1 place beneath European places. They will play against Celta Vigo , a team who forgot how it feels to win as they only have 1 victory in 13 games and this season looks kinda over for them as I don't think they can avoid relegation to LaLiga2.

Yeah, I think Valverde will replace Rodrygo position and they will be forced to let Brahim Diaz to play, the bad this is they don't have any substitute for both midfielder and striker. There's no player can play for full time in every match, so there's a big chance Real Madrid will lose even against a weak team.

Mbappe really needs to offer himself to Real Madrid if he wants his career to be more promising in Europe rather than staying in domestic competitions where only PSG is the strongest club. Mbappe abilities if he continues at PSG will not develop rapidly and will gradually sink. If you look at PSG match with Monaco before it starts PSG can be labeled as the winner both on paper and on the field. Therefore next season Mbappe needs to consider his career in Europe and the Saudi Arabian club offer is considered just entertainment for now. If Mbappe dares to continue competing in European competitions the solution is to offer himself to a club that is ready to provide this achievement.

What a beautiful finish from Halaad as he net the post stylishly on the 27th minutes. The error that led to the goal was from Liverpool goalkeeper as he wanted to play the ball inside the field but he slipped of and the ball went straight to Manchester city player who made good passes and final the ball was given to Halaad to open the score line.

Manchester city is one goal ahead of Liverpool but for on the look of things, it is possible that Liverpool might equalise the goal before half time because Nunez missed a good opportunity.

Manchester city 1-0 Liverpool

If I bet on the potential winner of the Europa League I would probably go for a team with higher odds rather than Liverpool and a team which make sense to bet on considering the way they play etc. also. But I wouldn't be in a hurry to place a bet on it already now. Because there are going to be more teams joining from the Champions League also.

Because there is especially a team that can change the way of my betting on the winner - Sevilla. 

Sevilla wouldn't have much higher odds of course so I would contradict with what I said maybe. But when it comes to the king of the Europa League it is difficult for me not to choose them.

Roberto Martinez has really improved the performance of the Portugal national since he took over the managerial position of the team and his tactical and technical abilities as the manager of Portugal has been demonstrated by the the country's perfect record during the qualifyers.

Cristiano Ronaldo who was surprisingly not picked to start Portugal's most important game of the 2022 FIFA World Cup but has regained his starting place in the team since Martinez arrived as the Italian manager's relationship with the all times men's international football  highest goalscorer has always been very great

Atalanta vs Napoli

This is debut match for Walter Mazzari as Napoli manager and the fans hopes he can able to bringing Napoli to collect first 3 points under Mazzari and when Rudi Garcia handle Napoli this team has interesting records that Napoli always be performing well when playing at their opponents home ground because from total 7 away matches in this competitions Napoli can able to gets 5 wins and still unbeatable so these records were indicated Napoli had good chances to beat Atalanta moreover Atalanta home matches records was not too impressive this season

About team condition i didn't see Osimhen name on Napoli players injured lists seems there is possibility he will be played today or at least he will be starting the match as subsitution player and although Napoli just changing their manager but they have slightly chances to win the match especially Kvaratskhelia has found his shape again because while defend Georgia national team he was scores 3 goals in the last 2 matches and Napoli has odds @2.60 although this match result is hard to predicted but i think Napoli will going to win this match

Bayern only scored only one goal, and it came early in the game from a familiar goal scorer Harry Kane. I was surprised that they were not able to score as many goals as they do normally.

One more goal to the over twenty goals he has scored for Bayern Munich.

They were lucky that the game did not end 1-1 because one goal is not a safe score to win a game with.

It was just the opposite kind of a result of what I expected from this game between PSG and Monaco. PSG demolished their opponent by 5-2. The interesting and good part is that Mbappe didn't have to carry the team by himself this time. Because the team effort was really impressive. Mbappe scored only 1 goal today.

I want to see more of this kind of performances from PSG players. They need to learn without a solo carry as well. In the end Mbappe still hasn't extended his contract so it runs out by the end of the season. They should be ready for every kind of scenario.

Does this mean we have to eliminate Newcastle here? And the chances of qualifying for the next round are between Milan, Dortmound and PSG? I think it's too early to predict Newcastle will lose. Newcastle has much better goal statistics than Chelsea with 27 goals and 13 goals conceded. They still have a chance to qualify for the next round and although I admit it will be very difficult because of the equal strength in each club from group F.