I always felt Jurgen Klopp was the right man to follow Sir Alex Ferguson because of his personality and managerial ability. But Manchester United spoke to him and he didn't want to leave Dortmund at the time. How he would have done at Old Trafford is impossible to say but United's loss is very much Liverpool's gain. Transfers Alexis Sanchez and Romelu Lukaku have both moved from United to Inter Milan - the Chilean on loan, the Belgian in a permanent dealMatthew Dodd: What is the likelihood of United making signings this window? If so, who is it likely to be?Manchester United would like to make signings this month.
Real, who are second in La Liga but level on points with leaders Barca, are on a resurgent run of four wins from their last six games in all competitions and could go three points clear at the top for more than 24 hours if they beat Alaves. They have a good chance of remaining there, as Barca face a gruelling trip to fellow title rivals Atletico Madrid.
Club Brugge have won each of their last five matches against Oostende and two of their last three victories have been accompanied by clean sheets. Club Brugge have scored at least two goals against Oostende in the pairs’ last five encounters and beat Oostende 2-0 in the pairs reverse fixture in August, so you can start to see why we’ve backed the hosts to win to nil on Thursday as well.
Wolves are on an unbeaten run of seven league games. Wolves have kept six clean sheets in their last seven league matches. Aston Villa have played three games since the Premier League season resumed and haven't won any of them. They are still 19th in the table and host a confident Wolverhampton Wanderers side who are sixth.
ChelseaChelsea have lost just one of their last 11 away Champions League matches in Spain (W3, D7, L1), though it came in their most recent visit in March 2018, a 3-0 reverse at Barcelona in the last 16. Chelsea are looking to record three consecutive away Champions League victories for the first time since winning five in a row during the 2003-04 campaign. Chelsea manager Frank Lampard could become the seventh manager to win his first three away Champions League matches - the six to do so are Fabio Capello (Milan, 1993), Luis Fernandez (Paris St-Germain, 1994), Antonio Oliveira (Porto, 1996), Claudio Ranieri (Chelsea, 2003), Pep Guardiola (Barcelona, 2008) and Santiago Solari (Real Madrid, 2019).
Having looked like play-offs certs not one month ago, Peterborough now find themselves down in 10th position. They're still close to the coveted top six, two points off to be exact, but given where they were, such a position isn't great.
The hosts have scored lots of goals at home of late. Not only have they scored plenty, but they've done so against good sides such as Marseille and Rennes. In the betting, 'Monaco to Score Over 1.5 Goals' catches the eye. Not only have Monaco, who're Ligue 1's best team in terms of shots on target at home, scored two or more in seven of their last eight at home, six of which they've won, but Lille have been leaking a lot of goals on the road. Tuesday's visitors have conceded two or more in five of their last six on the road.
They made a poor start to the new season though and were down in the bottom six. Form has picked up well though and Portsmouth have only lost two of their last 22 league and cup games. Their last five games have all ended in victory and they are up to seventh in League One, only out of the promotion play-offs on goal difference.
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So we're narrowly giving the verdict to the visitors in this one and forecasting a 1-2 correct score, based around our tip for both teams to score and the fact that Betis have netted twice or more in four of their last six La Liga matches.
Pearson is not one to get carried away though even if goals by Abdoulaye Doucoure, Troy Deeney and Roberto Pereyra saw them climb into 17th place. There are so many games left I think it would be foolish to think that just because we have got out of the bottom three that the job is done," Pearson said.
However tensions in the Middle East have put paid to that, with Solskjaer saying: “We were looking at the Middle East, but that is definitely not going to happen. If there’s one thing that worries me, it’s not on the football pitch – there are other things that will worry me more than football. Paper Round’s view: Given Qatar’s miserable human rights record, this is not a country that United should be patronising in any way, however much money is offered by sponsors.
In doing so with seven games to spare, it was the earliest point in the season a team that achieved the feat. Marshalled in defence by colossal centre-back Virgil van Dijk and reliable goalkeeper Alisson, the vaunted front three of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino were allowed to flourish at the other end of the pitch. The fact they sealed the title so early may have cost them in their pursuit of a host of records they were on course to break.
We’re confident that both teams will score and over 2.5 goals will be produced in Wednesday’s match and we have predicted a final scoreline of 2-1 in favour of Bayern. The visitors head into the game as the form favourites and with an excellent recent record against their hosts. Freiburg have been good at home this season so we’re certainly not expecting a big win for Bayern but we do believe the visitors’ extra quality going forward will see them through to all three points.
Media playback is not supported on this device FA Cup: Leicester City 1-0 Birmingham City highlights The Foxes have not been in great form themselves but their boss Brendan Rodgers picked a strong team on Wednesday night against Birmingham, and got the result he wanted. I am going with Leicester to win again here, too. Wilfried Ndidi is back from injury and makes a big difference in midfield while, up front, Jamie Vardy should be fit to return too.
Slavia had gone four league and cup games without a win before getting a 3-2 win at Vitebsk at the weekend. They led in the first half but found themselves 2-1 down with three minutes remaining. Slavia then shocked the home side by equalizing from the penalty spot and then taking the lead a minute later.
Kaiserslautern will be meeting with the away team Duisburg and this game we have given it an over of 0.5 total goals as this two teams they are very good when it comes to scoring and so this game we can be very sure that they will continue with the same trend on this game
I never said he was going to be ready to play on Monday, he'll be involved with us and he will travel down with us," Solskjaer told a news conference. Now he's out of that two week period, precaution and just a precaution. We've kept in touch with him and we've done our own programme, he's done his. He's probably pinching himself at times at his favourite club at the age of 30 but he's earned that one.
Leganes picked up a point at home to Real Betis to pile the pressure on fourth-bottom Celta, who faced table toppers Real Madrid in weekend’s final game. The Galician outfit pulled off the result of the weekend as they claimed an invaluable 2-2 draw at the Bernabeu. The four sides are separated by just two points and any small slip up at this stage could prove fatal.
FRIDAY'S BIG HEADLINES Liverpool gon' Liverpool Did you ever in your life, in your wildest, most fevered dreams or nightmares, even remotely consider that you might witness something like what Liverpool are doing in the Premier League this season. That you would ever, could ever, see a team get to the end of January having dropped *two points from 23 league matches*.
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Swansea head coach Steve Cooper:"We felt comfortable in the game. They probably had a couple more clear chances than we did, but I thought we got into as many good areas as them. We're really disappointed to concede like we did that late on. It's a tough one to take, but we've quickly got to get over it. There are still points to play for. Whether we had drawn or won today, we still would have had to pick up points in the remaining games.
Today is going to be a very exciting football match. Two teams are facing each other in this Ligue 1 match in France: Bordeaux vs Marysia. Both teams have played recently with results to follow, so the outcome of this game can be unpredictable. However, I find it interesting to place a bet on 1 dnb. Bordeaux are on 12 place with a total of 29 points. In last 5 match made 1 win and 4 losses. The guest are in good form. In last 5 match made 3 wins, 2 draws. I think that this match finish over 2.5 goals. I think, that away team to win this match 2:1.
It's better to speak about things that make me laugh. While Son Heung-min has performed admirably as a striker in Kane's previous injury lay-offs, Mourinho said he will effectively be without a recognised forward against Liverpool. We don't have another one. There is not a striker in the squad. We have only one, he is not fit, we don't have another one," Mourinho said.
Veteran winger Joaquin went round Courtois and looked to be slipping the ball into an empty net but was denied by Luka Modric's goal-saving interception on the line. The Belgium international goalkeeper also made a stunning save to tip Nabil Fekir's thunderous, first-time strike over the crossbar. After taking the lead through Sidnei's superb effort, the goalscorer went from hero to villain by bringing down Marcelo inside the area and allowing Benzema to equalise.
A poll last month of 1,396 adults who regularly watch Premier League football found that 67% felt matches were now less enjoyable since the introduction of VAR. Neil Swarbrick, who oversees the system for Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), rated VAR at seven out of 10 earlier this season during an interview with BBC Sport. Only 15% of those surveyed wanted the system to be scrapped altogether with 74% saying it should be kept, but modified.
The trip to Milan came just four days after Leeds' classic 4-3 victory over Liverpool in the Premier League, a result which, Bakke admits, was celebrated with "a good night out". Focus was quickly regained for the chance to secure second-round qualification on one of European football's grandest stages. I remember watching Paul Gascoigne when he played in Italy. You get to AC Milan, the San Siro, and it's unbelievable to be playing on that pitch," Harte says.
They are the best side in this country, in Europe and possibly the world, with four of the top seven players in the voting for Monday's Ballon d'Or currently plying their trade at Anfield - a testimony to the recruitment and training work at Anfield that has been sorely absent at Goodison. When majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri arrived at Everton in 2016, he had publicly stated ambitions of putting the club at the heart of what he called 'the Hollywood of football' in the north-west," says BBC Sport chief football writer Phil McNulty.
BELLS AND WHISTLES Prior to 2013 a handful of large global syndicates operated "with all the bells and whistles of an organised crime syndicate," said Brodkin. It was a different scenario today. With key figures being imprisoned or disrupted and very high-profile cases being discussed in the media, match-fixing over the last five years has become much more fragmented," he explained.
Talk about a hospital pass!'Former Premier League striker Chris Sutton on BBC Radio 5 Live:I have so much sympathy for Hayden Mullins. Talk about being handed a hospital pass. Of course he wants the job, but facing Manchester City after they have just lost a semi-final - it is a nightmare situation. He has it all to do and I think it is actually unfair on him to take over in this situation. Was he going to get a real response out of the players? I think they will be shell-shocked with what has gone on at the club, not just this week but the whole season.
They are also the side with the least goals scored (17) and will have a daunting task against the league leaders, who hit them 4-0 in the first leg. Two of their three wins in the season have come at home; perhaps this would give Portimonense some impetus. However, looked on the background of two home wins in 12 matches, it doesn’t paint a very good picture.
When I first interviewed him he came across as very confident. He compared himself to Boro legend Juninho and said fans would be 'in for a treat'. That did not pan out - the Dane scored nine goals in 40 appearances and asked to leave twice. He was one of several big-money signings in the summer of 2017 - for a reported £9m from French side Toulouse - as Championship club Middlesbrough looked to bounce back to the Premier League.
Of course, this performance came against continued speculation about Vidal’s future at the club. On this basis, they simply can’t allow him to leave in January. He gives them something different. MAN OF THE MATCH - Luis Suarez (Barcelona) Remarkably, Suarez has had a hand in Barcelona’s last 10 La Liga goals, contributing four goals and six assists.
St Etienne had a disappointing weekend after giving away that lead at Rennes. They are still only two points off third place so another season in the Europa League could be on the cards. They have been struggling for goals at home though but not conceding that many either. Nice have lost five away league games already and only scored seven goals in seven games. A bet on under 2.5 goals to be scored in this game looks a good wager to make.
Meanwhile, after an average season last term which ended with a mid table finish, not a huge amount was expected of Cheltenham this term. Nonetheless, the visitors have thus far performed reasonably well and head into the New Year just 1 point and 1 place outside of the play-offs.
We never thought that this was going to hit us so hard. On occasions we have held joint video conferences to speak, hardly ever about football. I am sure I don't always get it right, but as coach and the person with the most experience at the club it is my responsibility to encourage not just my players but also my assistants, technical staff and all the employees and try to ensure that the mood doesn't drop so we can return in the best possible frame of mind.
Trezeguet's injury-time winner fired Aston Villa into the Carabao Cup final with victory over Leicester City on a dramatic night at Villa Park. The game had entered four minutes of stoppage time and penalties were looming when substitute Ahmed Elmohamedy sent over a superb cross for Trezeguet to drill a far-post finish across Leicester keeper Kasper Schmeichel. It sparked wild scenes of joy and a pitch invasion at Villa Park, as the hosts reached their first showpiece final since the FA Cup in 2015, when they lost 4-0 to Arsenal.
