Christmas Top Leagues Preview

There are some very instrguing matches in the top leagues due the week before Christmas. I'm pretty sure these matches will be nice gifts to the soccer fans.

1. Premier League

Portsmouth-Liverpool

The disappointemnt in this season Liverpool will play against Portsmouth which are at the bottom of the table and urgently need some points. The match is at Saturday 12:45 at Fratton Park.

Fulham-Manchester United

The insidious team of Fulham has a good chance to impede the champions at Craven Cottage, but If Manchester want to stay in the battle for the title, it should win the match.

2. Bundesliga

Hamburger-Werder

Interesting match between the 4th and the 5th team in the Bundesliga. I expect a lot of goals and attractive football from the two teams.

3.Italian Serie A

Fiorentina-Milan

Fiorentina is not playing convincing football ,but I assume that they can win against Milan.

Roma-Parma

Again match between the 4th and the 5th team at the table. However,as always in Serie A, I didn't expect attractive football. One of the two teams will score maybe with counterattack and that will be all fot the whole match.

Champions League's Round of 16

Sixteen teams qualified for the next stage in Champions League Tournament. The top two eams from each group go into the first knockout round in the spring.

In Group A Bordeax won the 1st place and Bayern Munich qualified as a second team. Juventus finished only 2 points after Bayern Munich. Maccabi Haifaм, as everyone expected, failed totally.

Group B was more interesting. CSKA Moscow surprisingly qualified for the next round along with Manchester United. Wolfsburg and Besiktas also played some really good matches and finish with 7 and 4 points each.

In Group C the favourites Real Madrid and Milan finish on the top but they both had a lot of weak and unconvincing plays so the the group was undecied until the last matches.

In Group D Chelsea and Porto showed great form and totally dominated over the other two teams Atletico Madrid and Apoel. Chelsea will be one of the top candidates for the Cup this year, that's for sure.

Group E was most surprising for me. Fiorentina and Lion qualified,but one of the two teams at the bottom was...Liverpool. Liverpool is in weak form in Premiership, that's right, but they always play well in Champions League. Well, that year was not like that. They fail both in Premiership and the League and I think all Liverpool fans want to forget about this year's performance as soon as possible.

Group F: Barca and Inter qualified in this group, but Rubin and Dinamo played attractive football and win some points, too.

Group G: 1st place for Sevilla and 2nd for Stuttgart. It was a great battle between the German team and Unirea for the 2nd place.The Romanian team was definite one of the surprises in this year's competition.

In Group H Arsenal and Olympiacos played good games and took their games without too much effort.

Blackburn-Chelsea

Chelsea are in a great form. They won their away game at "Emirates" with 0:3 and proved that they are the best team in England so far. Probably Carlo Anchelotti will use players that have not played a lot so far the season, but still Chelsea are going for the win. Blackburn are in the middle of the Premiership table and their only chance for participating in Europe Competitions next year is good performance in Carling Cup or FA CUP. Both teams will play without the tention of winning at every price so my pick is over 2.5.

Pick: Over 2.5
Odds: 1.9