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So, a Christmas message. Probably won't be sending you any more of these, thank the Lord, I hear you say, before Christmas Day. I might, but it'll be if something special happens. And the Christmas message is about goals, wonderful goals. We're watching a title challenge wither on the vine at Barcelona because when Lamin Jamal doesn't play,
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a subject that I've talked with you about before, they don't win five times in La Liga. He's been absent from the starting eleven. They've taken one point. They're on a run of dreadful form, but the principal thing, even above when you look at the mistakes they made in the matches where they've been defeated
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against Laganes or Las Palmas or where they've dropped points at Betis and Celta Vigo from winning positions. Simple fact is that Lewandowski, without being in any way mean-spirited, Ebenezer Scrooge about him, when Barcelona aren't dominating a game and feeding him brilliant chances, It's as if he becomes invisible, certainly a passenger.

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Now, as the final round of La Liga fixtures before the break play out, let’s focus on the biggest shows in town. Barcelona continue to find interesting ways to lose. Atleti prove that they have the best pound-for-pound squad in the country. And Real Madrid? They’ve stopped training and started banging them in from everywhere.

What do you make of the title contenders? I’d love to know. Comments are open.