Atletico and Atalanta top the tree, plus our 2024 highlights

Jimbo’s got his festive friends alongside him as Julien Laurens, James Horncastle and Pol Ballús bring the pre-Christmas cheer and reflect on all the action from across the continent. 

There was late, late drama in La Liga as Alexander Sørloth’s 96th minute goal made it 12 wins in a row for new league leaders Atleti following a 2-1 victory over Barcelona - who are down to third and in their worst run of form for over 20 years. Elsewhere, a certain Kylian Mbappé’s starting to look pretty good for Real Madrid… 

It was all about the Coupe de France in, well, France - including humiliation for Montpellier at the hands of fourth tier Le Puy Foot, memorable penalty saves and disappointment for Andy Carroll. 

Meanwhile in the Bundesliga it looks like we’ve got a two-horse race on our hands for the title, as Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen both registered big 5-1 wins to keep things nicely poised heading into die Winterpause.

And it’s even tighter in Serie A, with Napoli just two points behind Atalanta -  the leaders having extended their winning run to 11 straight games in a tight 3-2 victory at Empoli. 

Plus, we say goodbye to 2024 with some… potentially unconventional picks for our best moments of the past 12 months. 

Produced by Lucy Oliva.

RUNNING ORDER: 

• PART 1: Moment of the weekend, festive plans and Christmas food (00.40)

• PART 2: La Liga review - Sorloth stuns Barca and Mbappe finds his form (08.45)

• PART 3: Ligue 1 review - damaged Donnarumma and Coupe de France upsets (21.25)

• PART 4: Bundesliga review - Bayern and Leverkusen bag five before die Winterpause (31.10)

• PART 5: Serie A review - De Ketelaere stars as Napoli keep up the pace (34.55)

• PART 6: Moments of 2024 - judo, comebacks and Knights (45.15)

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