Forget about Manchester City and Barcelona for a moment and consider the Ukrainian and Turkish soccer leagues.
and both have big showdown games coming up this month that could decide the titles.in the safer western part of the country despite the constant threat of disruption from sirens alerting of Russian air raids. Somehow, the league is only one game behind schedule after 24 of 30 rounds — and second-place Dnipro-1 can use that game to close the gap on perennial champion Shakhtar Donetsk to two points.
The quality of games has fallen, Svyrydov said, since overseas players were allowed by FIFA to pause their contracts and seek loan moves to clubs elsewhere. Fourth-place Dynamo Kyiv is in a relative slump despite coach Mircea Lucescu staying. Shakhtar’s coach last year, Roberto De Zerbi, left when the war started and has excelled since taking over as coach of Brighton in the Premier League.
Galatasaray, fueled by goals from former Serie A players Mauro Icardi and Dries Mertens, leads the league by three points and still has a potentially fierce derby game to host. Panathinaikos, which hasn't won the Greek title since 2010, leads the head-to-head tiebreaker and plays at Olympiakos on Sunday. AEK will be at Aris in Thessaloniki.
The runaway leader in Poland could be a first-time league champion. Raków Częstochowa is 11 points ahead of Legia Warsaw with four games left.Red Star Belgrade dominates like no other club in any other country. Already champion again in the Serbian league, Red Star can reach 100 points for the third straight season if it wins its last four games.
Feyenoord, the 1970 European champion, leads by eight points in the Netherlands with four games left. It would be the club’s first league title since 2017 and only a second appearance in the group stage of the Champions League in 20 years.
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