England. Tottenham's Salvation and Jesus' Careers
Manchester City launched a new winning streak in the English Football Championship. After Josep Guardiola's wards lost to Chelsea a week ago, they took Everton at home, whose last success in the Premier League is dated November 24th.
Guests could open an account at the 15th minute, but the Brazilian Richarlison did not hit the goal from five meters. For this mistake he was punished by a young compatriot Gabriel Jesus. City fans have been waiting for his goal since August - this season, the 21-year-old forward cannot boast of the same excellent statistics as last year. Finally, he took advantage of the double mistake of Yerri Mina, who first lost the ball in the penalty area, and then did not have time to create an offside position.
For greater self-confidence, Jesus was desirable not to slow down, and in the second half, he designed a double. Leroy Sané accurately hung on the penalty line, and the Brazilian striker again left Mina out of business. "Everton" by that time no longer shone on the field and admitted defeat, but a copy of the second goal of Jesus was created by Liverpool. Dominic Calvert-Lewin otkvital one ball, but then came to replace Rahim Sterling returned the difference in two goals.
Manchester City won 3-1 and won the lead in the standings for at least one day. On Sunday, Sir Alex will have to root for their fellow countrymen from Manchester United, who will go on a visit to Liverpool.
Tottenham is constantly following the two best clubs of the season. In a match with “Burnley”, the team from London was almost satisfied with the first draw of the season. Mauricio Pochettino gave rest to the leaders, who took the team to the playoffs of the Champions League, and it was almost worth losing a few points. “Burnley” defended very steadfastly, not allowing Tottenham, which dominated Wembley, to open an account.
In the end, the meeting had to call on the field all the best attacking players, and in compensated time, Christian Eriksen, at the suggestion of Harry Kane, still scored his first goal in the Premier League this season, which at the same time brought the victory to his own team. Tottenham Hotspur remained in third place in the standings with a lag of five and three points higher than the teams.
Spain. Real Madrid Atonement and Griezan Achievement
Real Madrid quickly recovered from the defeat of CSKA in the Champions League match. At home, the Royal Club hosted an outsider. Examples of Rayo Vallecano. Before the game, Luka Modric showed his Golden Ball to the fans at the Santiago Bernabéu, and this brought good luck to the home team.
His first escalating transfer in someone else's penalty led to a goal from the “Real”. Lucas Vazquez found Karim Benzema in the shock position, and he opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Wards Santiago Solari had many more moments to make the upcoming victory more convincing, but more they were not so lucky. At the very end of the match, Real Madrid was nearly punished for its extravagance - in compensated time Thibault Curtois had to repel two hits in a row, but he coped with his task. Madrid won a third victory in a row in La Liga.
But the lag behind Atletico could not be reduced. Wards of Diego Simeone visited “Valladolid”, with whom they last shared points more than nine years ago. Only this time the victory of Madrid was not easy. Antoine Griezmann spent a brilliant first half, during which he gave an assist to Nikola Kalinich and realized a penalty.
But all the advantage of "Atletico" was lost after the break. The hosts inflated the pace and first scored themselves, and then forced Saul with his knee to send the ball into his own net.
Ten minutes before the end of the match, the guests still took the lead. Another corner at the gate "Valladolid" did not finish long until the ball was at the feet of Griezmann. He designed a double and became the most productive legionnaire in the history of his club. For one day, Atletico caught up on points with Barcelona at the head of the Spanish championship standings.
Italy. Victory penalty Icardi and Ronaldo
Inter after an unfortunate departure from the Champions League, when the fight against Tottenham was lost due to the lack of one away goal, found solace in the Italian championship match with Udinese. Milanese opened the 16th round and took the opponent in his field. The failure in the main European Cup slightly crippled wards Luciano Spalletti, and the outsiders of Serie A tried to take advantage of this. For the entire first half at the gates of the guests there was only one dangerous moment.
Udintsy even slightly showed character after the break, but soon the initiative returned to Inter, but Milanese still had no goals. The problem was solved with the help of an arbitrator. At the 75th minute, he decided to check whether the game was a hand in the penalty “Udinese”, although the episode was played a long time ago. There was a violation, and Mauro Icardi, who was extended the contract before the match and increased his salary, realized a penalty. "Inter" this was enough to win and return to the fight for second place.
The only other Saturday match in the Italian championship was the Turin derby, held on the territory of "Torino". The home team hardly hoped to win over Juventus, who lost only two points over the entire season in Serie A.
The tactics of "Torino" with a neat game and rare attempts to beat the nerves of the opponent was almost fully implemented, until 20 minutes before the final whistle Simone Dzadzy had a catastrophic mistake. Forward in his own penalty gave an inaccurate pass to the goalkeeper, and he had to foul on Mario Mandzhukiche. The arbitrator appointed a penalty, which allowed Cristiano Ronaldo to open the second ten of his goals in the Italian Championship. Although after the goal, the initiative passed to Torino, the outcome of the meeting did not change. “Juventus” won the 15th victory, of which the last five were with a dry score.
Germany. Bayern returns to the game
Bayern are gradually regaining their lost ground in the German Championship. Wards Niko Kovacs in the 15th round defeated Hannover with a score of 4: 0, winning the first victory of the season with a difference of four goals - in past seasons, the Munich players often “mocked” their rivals.
Already in the second minute Jozua Kimmich closed the transfer of Thomas Muller through himself, and after that the home team immediately stopped resisting. This led to new goals from David Alaba, Serge Gnabri and Robert Lewandowski. "Bavaria" scored 30 points in the Bundesliga and began to share the second line with Borgenia Mengchenbach.
She, in turn, played a draw with “Hoffenheim”, which is satisfied with this result for the fourth time in a row. Only if the team from Sinsheim used to be different all season in every match, now neither has she scored herself, nor has her opponent allowed to do it. Because of the goalless draw, the Menchengladbakhts were six points behind Dortmund Borussia.
It took a little more than two hours, and the gap between the leading team in the Bundesliga increased by another three points. Dortmund confidently beat “Werder” in their field, scoring two goals by the 27th minute. True, the first goal was not counted right away - Paco Alcacer, the top scorer of the tournament, was first recorded offside, but after a video preview it turned out that there were no rules violations. But with a goal scored by Marco Royce, who scored for the tenth time this season, there were no questions.
Werder was a team that looked an order of magnitude worse than Dortmund, but with one goal she responded, and incredibly beautiful. At the 35th minute, the rare attack of the guests once again choked, but Max Cruise decided to punch for good luck from outside the penalty area and put the ball right into the goal. Borussia controlled the ball for the entire next hour of playing time and kept the winning score.
France. The only match against the protests
Due to street protests in France, the national football championship has virtually stopped. Most of the matches of the 18th round were postponed indefinitely, as well as the games of the 17th round. On Saturday, we managed to hold only one meeting between Reims and Strasbourg. Victory with a score of 2: 1 was won by the home team, for which one goal was scored by Moussa Doumbia, who once defended the colors of Rostov and Tula Arsenal.
Netherlands. The first December success of Slutsky
Vitesse Leonid Slutsky throughout December could not win the Dutch Championship. But after meeting BBB-Venlo, who didn’t have any success even longer, the Russian specialist’s players scored three points. The winning score of 2: 1 was only recorded ten minutes before the final whistle. The team from Arnhem distinguished Martin Edegor, the rights to which belong to the “Real”, and gave him an assist to Ussam Darfalu.