This Sunday The World Cup in Qatar 2022 ends with the final between Argentina and France. Once the champion is crowned (this will be the third title for both the albiceleste and ‘bleus’) the leagues and cups will gradually restart at club level.
In England, before the traditional Boxing Day (December 26), the round of 16 of the Carabao Cup, the English League Cup, arrives on Tuesday the 20th, which on Thursday offers at least one rivalry between Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City and Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool. The second round of the Copa del Rey in Spain begins on Tuesday.
Serie A returns on January 4 and Napoli is the outstanding leader, with 8 points ahead of Milan, the champion, while the Bundesliga has the longest break: It doesn’t resume until January 20 and it does so in a Leipzig-Bayern. The men from Munich came first, with 4 points more than Freiburg.
On the other hand. Ligue 1, where PSG leads with 5 points more than Lens, it starts on December 28. On January 6, the Eredivisie returns (Feyenoord, leading, with 3 more than champions Ajax and PSV). In Portugal, the League Cup is played and this Friday, Porto-Vizela.
ENGLAND
CARABAO CUP (8th final)
December 20th
Milton Keynes Dons (3rd)-Leicester 20.45
Wolves-Gillingham (4th) 20.45
December 21
Blackburn (2nd)-Nottingham Forest 20.45
Charlton (3rd)-Brighton 20.45
Southampton-Lincoln (3rd) 20.5
Newcastle-Bournemouth 20.45
Manchester United-Burnley (2nd) 21-00
December 22nd
Manchester City-Liverpool 21.00
ITALY
SERIES A (16th day)
January 4
Salerno-Milan 12.30
Sassuolo-Sampdoria 12.30
Spezia-Atalanta 14.30
Torino-Verona 14.30
Lecce-Lazio 16.30
Rome-Bologna 16.30
Cremonese-Juventus 18.30
Fiorentina-Monza 18.30
Inter-Naples 20.45
Udinese-Empoli 20.45
BUNDESLIGA (matchday 16)
January 20
Leipzig-Bayern 20.30
January 21st
Bochum-Hertha Berlin 15.30
Eintracht Frankfurt-Schalke 15.30
Union Berlin-Hoffenheim 15.30
Stuttgart-Mainz 15.30
Wolfsburg-Freiburg 15.30
Cologne-Werder Bremen 18.30
January 22
Borussia Dortmund-Augsburg 15.30
Borussia M’gladbach-Bayern Leverkusen 17.30
LIGUE 1 (16th day)
December 28th
Ajaccio-Angers 15.00
Troyes-Nantes 15.00
Auxerre-Monaco 17.00
Clermont Foot-Lille 19.00
Brest-Lyon 21.00
PSG-Strasbourg 21.00
December 29
Lorient-Montpellier 17.00
Reims-Rennes 19.00
Marseille-Toulouse 21.00
Nice-Lens 21.00
Source: La Verdad
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