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La Liga: Matchday 18 analysis
The Spanish tournament is halfway through and it was a tough weekend for the leaders who played under difficult weather conditions, thanks to a snowstorm. Nevertheless, games were played as scheduled, except for Atletico Madrid vs. Athletic de Bilbao at Wanda Metropolitano.
Granada 0-4 Barcelona.
FC Barcelona traveled to the south of the country to play at the Nuevo Estadio de los Cármenes. The Red and White had lost only once so far this season until this game. Koeman seems to have found the line-up, the starting eleven and his players’ positions, as he has been on an eight-game unbeaten streak, with six wins and two draws.
Barcelona seems more confident and full of chemistry, especially in the new Messi-Pedri partnership. De Jong and Griezmann are also playing their best games. Although there are still many doubts when the rival team attacks, because when defending, Barca spreads out a lot. Similarly, the best version of the team is already showing and has managed to shorten the distance between the Madrid teams.
Osasuna 0-0 Real Madrid.
Real Madrid, against all odds, traveled to Pamplona on Friday because of the weather. And at the last-minute Zidane was allowed to travel with the team as he had been in contact with someone from the coaching staff who tested positive for COVID-19.
The team had Ramos and Hazard return in the starting eleven, so it seemed that despite the weather, Real Madrid would make it through. But the snow made it impossible to reach the goal. So much so that with 70% possession, Real Madrid only had one shot to score. While Osasuna, with less possession, got one more shot to score.
For the time being, Zizou won’t be worried about La Liga, as the Super Copa and Copa del Rey matches are coming up in the next few days. He will do it until January 23, when Madrid plays against Alavés.
Seville 3-2 Real Sociedad.
Andalusians and Donostians had a direct encounter since Lopetegui’s team was three points down in the table. The white-and-blue team arrived at the Sánchez Pizjuán stadium in a downward spiral, as they had been on a bad run with only one win in the last six games. And the Europa League champion took advantage of it with En-Nesyri’s hat-trick and tied the rival in points, even with three fewer games played.
Atletico remains in the lead, with 38 points, despite having three matches still to play, while Real Madrid is down by one point and Barcelona is close with 34 points. Should Atletico win their pending matches, they will have a 10-point difference with the second place, they will play the first match this Tuesday against Sevilla.
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Trump warns Hamas that they will be “eradicated” if they break the ceasefire with Israel in Gaza
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, urged Hamas again this Monday to stop the violence and take the terms of the peace plan it promotes with Israel in Gaza, warning that otherwise they could be “eradicated,” although in turn he ruled out the possible presence of soldiers from his country in the Strip.
“We have peace in the Middle East for the first time in history; we reached an agreement with Hamas for which they will be very good, they will behave well and they will be kind. And if not, we will go and we will eradicate them,” the president told the press during a meeting at the White House with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Trump clarified, however, that if that happened “there would be no American soldiers on the ground at all” because it would only be enough to ask several of the countries that supported the peace proposal to take charge of the Palestinian militant group: “Israel would intervene in two minutes,” he added.
“I could tell them to intervene (to the countries) and take care of it. But for now, we haven’t said it. We are going to give (Hamas) a small chance and, hopefully, there will be a little less violence,” said the president, whose plan received the support of Arab and European nations during a peace summit in Egypt.
The American insisted that the militant group “has been very violent, but no longer has the support of Iran. He no longer has the support of anyone. They have to behave well, and if they don’t, they will be eradicated,” he repeated.
Israel bombed several points in Gaza on Sunday and killed dozens of people, in response to what it interpreted as a “violation” of the agreement by Hamas, a week after the entry into force of the ceasefire promoted by the Trump Administration.
The bombings took place after clashes in the Rafah area, located in southern Gaza and controlled by the Israeli Army, which left two Israeli soldiers dead.
After these clashes, Israel claimed to have “resumed the application of the ceasefire”. Shortly after, Trump assured for his part that the truce “is still in force.”
The Republican president had already threatened last week to “kill” Hamas members if they did not comply with the ceasefire agreement with Israel and “continue to kill in Gaza.”
The militant group has mobilized in Gaza to regain control after the start of the ceasefire in the Strip, which has meant the withdrawal of Israeli troops from half of the territory. In the midst of this tense situation, there have also been clashes between Hamas and other local militias.
Several videos show summary executions of people whom Palestinian militants accuse of collaborating with Israel, which according to local sources, have occurred in Gaza City.
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Trump files $15 billion defamation suit against The New York Times
U.S. President Donald Trump has filed a $15 billion defamation and libel lawsuit against The New York Times, which denounced the legal move on Tuesday as an attempt to silence the press.
In this new stage of his presidency, the 79-year-old Republican leader has escalated his long-standing hostility toward traditional media, repeatedly attacking critical journalists, limiting their access, or taking them to court.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in Florida, seeks $15 billion in damages, along with additional punitive compensation “in an amount to be determined at trial.”
The New York Times had reported last week that Trump threatened legal action over articles concerning a birthday letter allegedly sent by him to financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The letter featured a typed message inside the outline of a nude woman. Trump denies that the accompanying signature is his.
“For too long, The New York Times has been allowed to lie, defame, and slander me freely — and that ends NOW!” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.
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Maduro warns Venezuela would enter armed struggle if attacked by foreign forces
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stated on Friday that if his country were attacked, it would enter a phase of armed struggle, amid his claims of “threats” from the United States, which is conducting a military deployment in Caribbean waters near Venezuela’s coast under the pretext of combating drug trafficking.
Maduro emphasized that Venezuela is currently in the non-armed phase, which he described as political, communicational, and institutional, but added that if the country were somehow aggressed, it would move to a planned, organized armed struggle involving the entire population, whether the threat is local, regional, or national.
“We would enter a stage of armed struggle, in defense of peace, territorial integrity, sovereignty, and our people,” Maduro said during an event activating citizen militias, broadcast on state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).
He also noted that Venezuela is currently in a phase of readiness and preparation to defend the country and will proceed to the deployment of defensive capacities, including training and retraining of the entire Venezuelan population.
Maduro described the Venezuelan people as pacifist yet warrior-like, asserting that “no one will enslave us, neither today nor ever.”
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