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The year 2018 has brought a lot of memories to the beautiful game in defining moments whether it brought joy, heartbreak, controversy, anger, etc. There's so much to choose from so here is The Fußball Chatter's 10 highlights of 2018 City's Century Season PSG won Ligue 1 and Bayern Munich won the Bundesliga with little ease. Juventus won Serie A after a tough title challenge from Napoli. Barcelona could have been on the list if they remained unbeaten but Manchester City starts this list for their record breaking season. Pep Guardiola won his first Premier League title with some style. They won 32 games, a PL record, scored the most games in a PL season and accumulated 100 points in the 2017/18 season. The most ever in the British top flight. Pep is building a dynasty at City and despite the competition, City are the team to beat and it will take a long time for their record to be broken. Mohamed Salah's record breaking debut season If there's anyone asi

2018 is about to go past us as it has been an eventful year in the game. The Premier League and Serie A continued their league season with the final league matches of 2018 as the Serie A will have their winter break. Here are the highlights from the final weekend of 2018. Arsenal annihilated at Anfield Liverpool capped off their final league game of the year with a resounding 5-1 win against Arsenal at Anfield. Anfield was stunned when the Gunners opened the scoring from Ainsley Maitland-Niles but after five minutes, they were 2-1 down. Arsenal couldn't handle the speed of Liverpool plus the comical defending from Arsenal which made things a lot easier for Liverpool to exploit as they were awarded two penalties. Liverpool remain unbeaten after 20 games and now face their biggest test in this title race, playing Manchester City at the Etihad on Thursday. Milik's brace downs Bologna Napoli made it four wins in their last five and remain unbeaten at the San Paolo aft

Hope you all had a great Christmas day. The football season continues to go on with the Premier League and the Serie A as they had the Boxing Day matches yesterday. Here's a recap of that Liverpool consolidate their lead Liverpool stayed top of the Premier League table extending their lead from Manchester City to seven points after beating Newcastle United 4-0 at Anfield. The Reds went in front from Dejan Lovren scoring from a strong volley. After that it was smooth sailing with Mohamed Salah scoring from the penalty spot, Xherdan Shaqiri scoring and Fabinho scoring his first Liverpool goal off the bench. Liverpool remain unbeaten and have won their last eight games. Now they have tough clashes against Arsenal at home and a very big clash with Manchester City at the Etihad on January 3rd. Ronaldo keeps Juventus unbeaten Cristiano Ronaldo played his role as a super-sub scoring as Juventus drew against Atalanta 2-2. Maxi Allegri dropped the Portuguese for the game with

Merry Christmas to you all 🎄🎄🎄. The football doesn't stop with the last weekend's action as we are now the halfway point as the winter break approaches. Here are the highlights from the weekend. The Eagles silence the Etihad With Liverpool beating Wolves on Friday to go four points clear off the top of the Premier League, Manchester City had to cut the deficit to a point when they faced Crystal Palace at the Etihad. However, Crystal Palace earned a shock 3-2 win with goals Jeremy Schlupp, Luka Milivojević and a wondrous strike from Andros Townsend. It was City's first home defeat in the league this season as they played without Fernandinho and David Silva highlighting their importance. They would have to hope that Liverpool drop points before facing them on January 3rd which could be important in the title race. Ole, Ole United Manchester United's caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær earned a perfect start as Manchester United thrashed Cardiff City

Ajax Amsterdam are famed for not only being one of the most popular football clubs in Europe but their rich production of talented players over the years from football great Johan Cruyff, Marco van Basten, Patrick Kluivert, Edger Davids, Edwin van der Sar, Dennis Bergkamp, Rafael van der Vaart and Wesley Sneijder. Now, they have another academy graduate that the likes of Barcelona and Manchester City have been keeping an eye on. His name is Matthjis de Ligt. Matthjis de Ligt is a 19-year old Dutch centre-back playing for Ajax Amsterdam in the Eredivise (Dutch League). He was recently awarded the Golden Boy award which is given to the best young player under the age of 21 by Italian publication Tuttosport. He beat out the likes of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Justin Kluivert, Patrick Cutrone and Vinicius Jr. becoming the first defender to win the award. De Ligt made his debut for Ajax on 21st September, 2016 in a KNVB Cup game against Willem II, scoring after 25 minutes becoming Aj

Unless you have been living under a rock or with no internet over the past 24 hours, you would have heard that Manchester United have sacked José Mourinho yesterday and have already appointed former Manchester United player Ole Gunnar Solskjær as their interim manager for the rest of the season. Now, the search for the next permanent manager has begun with some managers like Zinedine Zidane, Leonardo Jardim, Antonio Conte, Laurent Blanc and Maxi Allegri as the top picks to succeed Mourinho. However, one person that has been talked about a lot to take the Old Trafford job is Spurs Manager Mauricio Pochettino. When speaking on SkySports yesterday, Gary Neville spoke on Pochettino as 'the best candidate' for the United job for the following reasons. His promotion of youth, attractive brand of football and his ability to win games. These are good reasons for getting the Argentine particularly to develop a side that will compete for the coming years. While many would say that

It was expected given the troubles Manchester United have had this season that José Mourinho will the managerial job at Old Trafford. Now after 17 games in the league season so far with 19 points off the top of the table, 11 points off the final UCL, 8 points off fifth place and a Round of 16 draw against PSG in February, Manchester United finally gave Mourinho the sack and now have to go back to phase one. For Mourinho, this will hurt a lot given how bad his second stint with Chelsea ended after winning the Premier League title the previous year. Going to Manchester United was still as a coup for both manager and the club to return to their glory days despite many questioning the appointment. While Mourinho is responsible for United's decline, it's not entirely on him. The Manchester United hierarchy should share the responsibility given how poor that have matters from Mourinho to their transfer dealings. Giving Mourinho a new contract after his second season was bad ju

The draw for the Round of 16 in the Champions League was held today at Nyon, Switzerland as we are now in the knockout stages of the competition. The 16 teams finally knew who they will face and will now prepare for the tie which will take in February with the second leg in early March. Here are the matches: AS Roma V FC Porto The least fancy fixture but still both teams will believe they have a chance of going through. Roma, who have struggled in Serie A this season, will be the happier side as they avoided better teams and are the favourites to go through. Porto will hope for a better showing as they knocked out by Liverpool last season 5-0 on aggregate with all five coming at home turf. Likely winners: AS Roma Olympique Lyonnais V FC Barcelona Barcelona are one of the favourites to win the competition this season and will fancy their chances against Lyon. Barça aren't dominating La Liga but their aim is winning the Champions League with Lionel Messi already on

We are now approaching the festive period of games and the halfway point of the season which can help where teams are likely to finish and see what they can improve by the new year. Here are the highlights from the weekend. Shaqiri scores twice to thump United Liverpool returned to the summit of the Premier League table after beating archrivals Manchester United 3-1 at Anfield. Liverpool clearly domainted with 36 shots against the Red Devils, the most amount of shots from Liverpool this season. With United getting a goal from an error from Alisson, Liverpool needed to find something different which Xherdan Shaqiri answered by scoring a brace from the bench to seal a first win in eight from the Reds and Jürgen Klopp's first victory against United. Still unbeaten. Austin ends Arsenal's unbeaten streak Charlie Austin scored his fifth goal in five games against Arsenal to inflict Arsenal's first defeat since August losing to Southampton 3-2 at St. Mary's. Dann