Liverpool 2-Atletico Madrid 1

I will never again a support a team where that second-rate player Alexis MacAllister plays, so it was disappointing to see him score the winner for Liverpool against Atletico Madrid. Marcos Llorente, who is usually not a big goalscorer but always scores in Liverpool, brought Atletico Madrid ahead 0-1, but soon after after Dominik Szoboszlai equalised for the locals. It was otherwise a messy match, with plenty of mistakes, and particularly Liverpool looked disorganised in the first half, but came out strongly in the second half when that guy scored the winner.

A lot of the attention was on Julian Alvarez. The young Argentine has been in a storm at Atletico Madrid after he expressed he would rather go to Barcelona; Atletico Madrid rejected the Catalan offer for the player, and he appears stuck in Madrid. Atletico fans were booing him at their last home match, and it will take a lot from him if he is to regain respect at the club. Alvarez has handled the entire thing poorly, and is in my view jeopardizing a career that at one point seemed promising, and he will have to show much more than he did today.

Liverpool in the lead

I don't have a favourite Premier League side, but over the years I have come to sympathize with Liverpool and despise Tottenham (as to the reason, that would be worth another post one day). So it was with interest that these two sides faced another in the Premier League.

A lot of people have talked about the fact that Tottenham under Ange Postecoglu (who apparently sees himself as a modern day Gladiator modeled on the very "historically accurate" Russel Crowe) are playing entertaining football; but entertaining football is not to play without defense! And we saw that yesterday as Tottenham's defense was virtually inexistant as Liverpool played around and was ahead 3-1 by halftime on goals by Luis Díaz, Alexis MacAllister and Dominik Szoboszlai, and one lucky strike for Tottenham by James Maddisson.

But not much changed in second time as Mohammed Salah scored twice to make it 5-1. In the meantime, Tottenham's tactics appeared more to be about playing so badly that Liverpool would fall asleep, and then be lucky to score; sadly it worked as Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke scored rather lucky goals before Luis Díaz fortunately closed off scoring the final 6-3 goal.

With the bad runs of Manchester City and Arsenal (not to say Manchester United who lost 0-3 at home to Bournemouth!) Liverpool arrives at Christmas securely on first spot four points ahead of Chelsea, while Tottenham are on 11th place, which is not a position too high.