• Liga: the Merengues skate, Messi and Griezmann offer themselves a double
On a ground stained with white, due to a snowstorm that hit Spain this weekend, the Merengues were hung 0-0 by the penultimate of La Liga, Osasuna.
The Madrileños experienced the worst difficulties to land in Pamplona on Friday evening due to the weather conditions, with a delay of almost three hours.
On Saturday, they largely dominated, but came up against the impermeability of the Navarre curtain.
Despite a possession of 70%, the Madrilenians only managed to frame a single shot.
This point of the draw is not good because it allows Atletico to keep one point ahead of the Madrilenians with three games less.
The Barcelona have also returned to three points of Real Madrid after their victory (4-0), Saturday in Granada.
The duo Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann shone during this meeting.
With an opportunistic goal (12th) and a perfectly balanced recovery (64th), the French world champion played nothing better with his Argentinian captain, also a double scorer, on a pass from Griezmann (35th) and on a free kick direct millimeter (43rd), three days after his double against Bilbao (3-2).
In the duel of contenders for C1, Sevilla FC won 3-2 against Real Sociedad thanks to a hat-trick from Moroccan center-forward Youssef En-Nesyri (4th, 7th, 46th), after a start completely crazy match with four goals in the first quarter of an hour.
👔🎙️ #Zidane: "We did what we could on the pitch, but it was not a football match. The conditions were very difficult.
We don't know when we will be back, if tomorrow or the day after. This are complicated conditions. "
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- Real Madrid CF 🇫🇷 (@realmadridfra) January 9, 2021
• Ligue 1: Lyon draws a draw, Pochettino scores his first victory
Led 2-0 in Rennes, Olympique Lyonnais snatched an unexpected draw (2-2) on Saturday to take the lead in the middle of the championship.
While Rennes led thanks to Clément Grenier (20th) and Benjamin Bourigeaud (55th), OL saved their unbeaten streak established since mid-September thanks to Memphis Depay, scorer of a splendid sequence (79th) then passer for Jason Denayer (82nd).
The Lyonnais can continue to believe in their destiny in this L1, even if being the autumn champion does not guarantee anything.
In 2008-2009, OL finished third in the spring.
Just behind in the standings, PSG is its dolphin after its victory (3-0) against Brest.
His new coach Mauricio Pochettino notched his first success at the head of the team of the capital.
In the absence of Neymar, Kylian Mbappe did not score but sent an assist.
The goals of Moise Kean (16th), Mauro Icardi (81st) and Pablo Sarabia (83rd) did not necessarily reflect the face of a meeting that Paris struggled to master.
✅ 11 wins
🤝 7 draws
❌ 1 defeat
With 40 points in 19 days, @ OL finished 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿 this first leg 🦁🏆!
👏 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒐 👏 pic.twitter.com/PF8cozS8P7
- Ligue 1 Uber Eats (@ Ligue1UberEats) January 9, 2021
• Bundesliga: Bayern beaten, but still in the lead
Despite their defeat at Mönchengladbach (3-2), Bayern Munich are still leaders in the Bundesliga with 33 points.
Leipzig had the opportunity to regain the lead, but Julian Nagelsmann's men lost in the shock against Dortmund (3-1).
The Englishman Jadon Sancho opened the scoring (55th) and the Norwegian Erling Haaland scored a brace (71st, 84th).
Alexander Sorloth saved the honor of RB at the end of the match (90th).
The defense of Leipzig, who had conceded only nine goals in 14 Bundesliga games (including three against Bayern), this time shattered against the individual talent of the young yellow and black strikers.
For Dortmund, who were 8 points behind leader Munich at kick-off, this match was already the last chance.
After the dismissal of Lucien Favre in mid-December, the team did not seem truly liberated, and its game remained difficult, despite three wins and one loss before this meeting.
A few hours earlier, Union Berlin and Wolfsburg, in the fight to integrate the leading square, separated in a 2-2 draw which leaves them both in fifth position.
😌 Feierabend.
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- Borussia Dortmund (@BVB) January 9, 2021
Serie A: Juventus suffers, but wins
Juventus struggled on Sunday to dominate a beautiful team from Sassuolo (3-1) who, reduced to ten, long believed they could bring back a point from Turin before giving in in the last ten minutes.
Outnumbered throughout the second period after the exclusion of midfielder Pedro Obiang (45 + 2nd) for a tight tackle on Federico Chiesa's left ankle, the Neroverdi offered themselves the luxury of scoring by Grégoire Delfrel (58th ), just after the opening of the Turin score of Danilo (51st).
They then continued to circulate the ball as soon as they could and rounded back.
But they had to surrender on a recovery from Aaron Ramsey (82nd) then in added time on a final acceleration from Cristiano Ronaldo (90 + 2nd), for his 15th goal of the season in the league.
Thanks to this success, Andrea Pirlo's men returned to one point on the podium.
The week turned out to be bad for Inter, however.
After the surprise defeat of the Nerazzurri against Sampdoria (1-2) on Wednesday, the draw conceded at the end of the game on Sunday against Roma (2-2) broke the momentum of the end of 2020 and put them under pressure before receiving next week a revived Juve.
Roma preserved their third place six points behind AC Milan, which is the big winner of the draw between two immediate pursuers after their success on Saturday over Torino (2-0).
𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕡 𝕓𝕪 𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕡
Buonanotte, bianconeri! #JuveSassuolo pic.twitter.com/xXH41p9iLv
- JuventusFC (@juventusfc) January 10, 2021
With AFP and Reuters
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