Guardiola against Arteta in the highlight of the Man City-Arsenal
European weekend
, valid for the fourth round of the Fa Cup. Among the most interesting matches there are also Real Madrid-Real Sociedad, Bayern-Frankfurt and Marseille-Monaco.
ENGLAND.
Stop the Premier League, with Arsenal +5 on Man City with one game left, the Fa Cup offers an early final with the two teams facing each other on Friday evening 27 January, and will be an appetizer of the two challenges on 15 February and of 26 April, who will probably decide the Scudetto race.
The Gunners will want to avenge last year's heavy 0-5, but that's another Arsenal, which Arteta is leading with record results.
Guardiola brings back the wild Haaland, who has already scored 25 goals.
Easy homework for Man United, Liverpool and Tottenham.
FA Cup (fourth round).
Friday: 21.00 Man City-Arsenal.
Saturdays: 19 Preston-Tottenham, 21 Man. United-Reading.
Sunday: 2.30pm Brighton-Liverpool.
SPAIN.
It's a golden age for Barcelona who won the Super Cup beating Real, are leading by +3 on their arch-rivals and hope to increase their lead playing at Girona, with their young phenomena Pedri and Gavi escorting the veterans Busquets and Lewandowski.
In fact, the two pursuers face each other, Real Madrid and Real Sociedad, which has now secured third place and plans to make life difficult for Ancelotti's team who will field Benzema and Vinicius, still in shock from his mannequin hanged by the ultras of the 'Atletico on the eve of the Copa del Rey derby. In the derby yet another mockery for Simeone, comeback and defeated by Ancelotti in extra time with a goal from Benzema. The race for fourth place between Atletico, Villarreal and Betis, who still have commitments, is interesting not complicated.
Still -1 from the relegation zone Sevilla who want to take advantage of the home round with Elche, last in the standings and still without a win.
Bench at risk for Gattuso at Valencia, eliminated in the Copa del Rey: last chance on Sunday at Valladolid.
Saturday 28 January at 16.15 Girona-Barcelona, 18.30 Seville-Elche, 21 Getafe-Betis.
Sunday 29: 14 Valladolid-Valencia, 16.15 Osasuna-Atletico, 21 Real-Real Sociedad.
Monday 30:21 Villarreal-Rayo.
15 Osasuna-Atletico, 21 Real-Real Sociedad.
Monday 30:21 Villarreal-Rayo.
15 Osasuna-Atletico, 21 Real-Real Sociedad.
Monday 30:21 Villarreal-Rayo.
GERMANY
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After the misstep with Cologne, Bayern saw their advantage over Union Berlin reduced to 3 points, which has an easy match at the penultimate Hertha.
The path of the Bavarians (still without Manè, Lucas Hernandez, Neuer and Mazraoui) is more complicated, as they host fourth-placed Frankfurt, who won last year's home match.
Among the others in the running for the Champions League, Leipzig and Freiburg (with Stuttgart and Augsburg) had an easy task, while Dortmund's at Leverkusen was more demanding.
Friday 28 January: 20.30 Leipzig-Stuttgart.
Saturday: 15.30 Freiburg-Augsburg, Hertha-Union Berlin, Bremen-Wolfsburg, 18.30 Bayern-Frankfurt.
Sunday 29: 17.30 Leverkusen-Dortmund
FRANCE
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Mbappè had fun scoring 5 goals in the Cup in PSG's 7-0 win over a sixth division team, but Ligue1 things have changed this year.
The Parisians have a tricky opponent in Lens, who trail by three points and have lost one game less than the champions.
Little should happen over the weekend because PSG and Lens are clear favorites over Reims and Troyes, while Marseille try to bring the gap on Monaco to 8, which follows them in the standings, in the match that is almost a derby and is the highlight of the 20/ per day.
Friday 27 January: 9 pm Lorient-Rennes.
Saturdays: 17 Troyes-Lens, 21 Marseille-Monaco.
Sunday 29: 13 Nice-Lille, 17.05 Ajaccio-Lyon, 20.45 Psg-Reims.
In the other European championships
, Twente-Feyenoord is the highlight in the Netherlands on Sunday at 12.15.
Crisis at Ajax, detached in fifth place, who fired coach Schreuder, after yesterday's draw with Volendam.
The 'lancers' will seek redemption on Sunday at 2.30 pm at Excelsior's home.
In Portugal, the leaders Benfica are playing at Arouca on Tuesday 31st at 8pm, while the highlight Sporting-Braga is scheduled for Wednesday 1st February at 10.15pm.
In Turkey, Icardi's pacesetter Galasataray (distracted by the soap opera with Wanda Nara on social media) plays at Giresunspor on Saturday at 5pm, while Montella's Adana, who slipped to sixth place, are away at 11.30am with Sivasspor.