BBC Sport looks at five talking points from the Premier League as the international break ends.
Top-level club football has had to stop for international breaks in September, October and November, but the next one is not until March now.BBC Sport looks at five talking points as the Premier League gets back under way.Liverpool are flying under Arne Slot and sit top of the Premier League and the Champions League table, having dropped points in just two games this season.
But City have won the last four Premier League titles and trailed the leaders by more than five points at one stage in each of those seasons. The deal was done for the Sporting manager on 1 November but his Portuguese club wanted him to wait until the international break before moving. United will hope Amorim's first Premier League game goes like his first Portuguese top-flight match as a manager - when his Braga side won 7-1 at Belenenses in January 2020.After eight games there were four teams without any wins but, three games later, Ipswich Town, Crystal Palace, Wolves and Southampton have one victory each.
Four teams have nine games in December. The Carabao Cup quarter-finals are also being played the week before Christmas - and European games continue through December as a result of the new formats.
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