Ronaldo, Cavani, Neymar shine in victory while Messi sadly tastes defeat

With two goals from Mario Mandzukic and Cristiano Ronaldo, coach Max Allegri's team defeated their opponents on the away field with a score of 2-0 in the most exciting match of round 12 and firmly established the top position with 34 points, maintaining a 6-point gap with the team behind, Napoli.

Despite playing away from home, the black and white striped team did not hesitate to put pressure on their opponents right from the first minutes after the referee blew the starting whistle. And their efforts were soon rewarded.

In the 8th minute, from Alex Sandro's centimeter-precise cross, Mandzukic had an extremely annoying header after a fierce aerial battle, not giving Milan goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnaruma any chance to block.

In the 81st minute, Miralem Pjanic's powerful shot after a tricky dribble forced Donnarumma to work hard to block. However, with Ronaldo's follow-up shot, "Little Buffon" could only watch the ball fly into the net in helplessness for himself and his teammates.

The second goal made AC Milan players lose their composure. In the 83rd minute, Higuain marked a bad day with a ridiculous red card for reacting to the referee after receiving a yellow card just before for a bad situation with Benatia.

Barca first home defeat

Lionel Messi's return could not help the Nou Camp team avoid a 3-4 defeat to Real Betis in round 1 yesterday, November 11.

Betis' first goal, which also opened the scoring, was the result of a classic counter-attack that started with a pass from William Carvalho in the middle of the pitch. Fourteen minutes later, after two crosses, veteran Joaquin doubled Betis' lead from close range.

Messi's return was unlucky despite scoring two goals.

The home team scored their first goal in the 68th minute after an opposing defender fouled Jordi Alba in the penalty area. Messi passed the ball to Alba, who then converted the penalty. But just three minutes after Messi's equalizer, Giovani Lo Celso restored the lead with a shot that bounced off goalkeeper Ter Stegen and into the net.

Barca's hopes were rekindled by Vidal's goal, which also came from a Messi move. But just a minute after losing a man, Barca conceded a fourth goal from Sergio Canales' close-range tap-in.

Efforts in the remaining time only helped the defending champions to score another goal. After putting the ball into the Betis net from Vidal's assist, Messi didn't even feel like celebrating because he knew time was running out.

Real won the 4th match in a row

Real Madrid beat Celta Vigo 4-2 at Balaidos in round 12 of La Liga, thereby winning their fourth consecutive victory under coach Santiago Solari.

The away match at Balaidos is also the last match that Solari will play as interim coach, before President Florentino Perez makes a decision about the position of Real Madrid captain.

The match was exciting with many dangerous opportunities. The second goal came for Real in the 56th minute. Benzema handled it skillfully, hit the post and the ball bounced off Cabral into the net.

The two teams continued to trade blows, creating a very attractive match in Galicia, until Real widened the gap to 3-1 in the 83rd minute. Ramos was the author of the goal, with a successful finishing situation from the 11-meter penalty that Odriozola brought home.

Substitute Dani Ceballos scored Real Madrid's fourth goal, after dribbling to the edge of the home team's penalty area and unleashing a powerful shot that beat goalkeeper Alvarez.

The goal party only ended in the 4th minute of injury time, when winger Mendez's shot hit an opposing player, changing the trajectory of the ball, leaving Courtois helpless.

PSG prolongs Henry's nightmare at Monaco

Yesterday's match against PSG was another example of Monaco's misfortune in terms of personnel. Henry lost a number of key players, including Kamil Glik, Danijel Subasic and Stevan Jovetic, to injury.

About 20 minutes into the match, he saw another key player, central midfielder Nacer Chadli, leave the field injured. But Chadli's replacement, young star Jordi Mboula, was also soon out of action due to injury in the 49th minute.

Monaco are now just a shadow of the 2016-2017 champions.

Edinson Cavani returned to the starting lineup for PSG after a thigh injury, and quickly scored two goals in the first 11 minutes. And in the 53rd minute, Adrien Rabiot passed through, collapsing Monaco's defense, allowing Diaby to cross for Cavani to finish the job.

Any remaining hopes for Monaco were soon extinguished when PSG made it 4-0 in the 64th minute. Sibide brought down former teammate Kylian Mbappe in the box, conceding a penalty, and Neymar easily beat Benaglio from the spot.

Arsenal escape defeat at the last minute at Emirates

Thanks to a goal from substitute Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Arsenal managed to draw 1-1 with Wolverhampton in round 12 of the Premier League.

Apart from extending their unbeaten run to 16 games in all competitions, this was a disappointing game for Arsenal. From personnel to spirit and organization.

That was truly demonstrated through the post-match statistics: controlling the ball over 70% but Arsenal only had 10 shots and 3 of them were on target, while the corresponding numbers for Wolverhampton were 13 and 5 respectively.

Wolves played a proud game and should have taken more than a point at the Emirates.

After this round, Arsenal is still in fifth place with 24 points - three points less than the team right above them, Tottenham, and eight points less than the leader, Man City. After the international break, Emery's team will play Bournemouth, Tottenham and then Man Utd.