Manchester City-Arsenal is boiling, Bayern-Dortmund heated up

. England: Forest in red, scarlet Sunday
Two stadiums, two atmospheres, this weekend for the resumption of the Premier League.

In Nottingham Forest, there is a soup of grimaces before Crystal Palace welcome on Saturday (4pm). The Midlands club begin the 30th day in first place in the relegation zone after being sanctioned with a withdrawal of four points for financial misconduct and find themselves one point behind Luton (17th, 22 points), first non-relegation away on Saturday to Tottenham .

Far from these cold sweats, an intense match threatens at the Etihad stadium, Sunday (17:30) between Manchester City (63 points), three-time defending champion, and the current leader Arsenal (64 points).

Just before this summit, second-placed Liverpool (64 points) will look to put pressure on their rivals on Sunday (3pm) at Anfield by hosting a Brighton side who have been consistent this season.

Manchester United, number six, will try to strengthen their chances of European qualification on Saturday (21:00) at the expense of Brentford, fifteenth after the last four unsuccessful months in the league (12 defeats in 16 games since the beginning of December) .

. Spain: second place at stake and potential return of Griezmann
After the international break, the 30th day must restart the battle for second place between Barça (2nd, 64 points) looking for a seventh game without defeat, and Girona (3rd, 62 points), defeated on the last day.

Both play at home, but Girona’s game against Betis Sevilla (7th, 42 points), on Friday night, should be closer than Barça against Las Palmas (11th, 37 points).

At Atlético Madrid (5th, 55 points), Antoine Griezmann’s return to collective training this week may be reassuring. His potential return should reassure the Colchoneros who travel to Villarreal (9th, 38 points) this Monday.

The weekend’s only big poster concerns the leader Real Madrid (72 points) who welcomes Athletic Bilbao (4th, 56 points) on Sunday evening.

. Italy: highly exposed premiere for Tudor
For his debut in charge of Lazio Roma, Igor Tudor is spoiled: Saturday (18:00) he returns to Juventus Torino, the club where he spent a good part of his playing career and which he briefly coached.

The former Marseille coach inherited a group (9th) that lost its footing in March with three defeats in four games. Juve, who face Lazio in the Italian Cup semi-finals in April, have picked up just seven points from their last eight games and have been relegated to third place, 17 points behind Inter and three lengths behind AC Milan. Milan travel to Florence on Saturday (8.45pm) to face Fiorentina (8th), mourning the sudden death of their general manager.

Day 30 kicks off with Napoli (7th) hosting Atalanta (6th) on Saturday (12.30pm) for a duel of European contenders.

Easter obliges, no games are played on Sunday. We have to wait until Monday night (20:45) before Inter will host Empoli (17th): after the draw against Napoli (1-1) and the Acerbi case, the manager can take a further step towards the 20 title. champion of his history.

. Germany: Classic without taste?
The classic of German football between Bayern and Borussia Dortmund dominates the 27th day of the German championship on Saturday (18:30), with a little less flavor than previous seasons, as for the first time since the 2009-2010 behemoths, neither of the two occupy the first place in Bundesliga during the return resistance.

The Munich residents are ten points behind (60 against 70) the leader, Bayer Leverkusen. For a 12th German title in a row, Thomas Tuchel’s men can only hope for at least four missteps from the “Werkself” in the last nine days.

Affected in the left adductor (torn), Manuel Neuer is more than uncertain, while Harry Kane, injured in Darmstadt on March 16, has partially resumed collective training.

Dortmund, on the other hand, is just one point ahead of RB Leipzig in the battle for fourth place, qualifies for the next Champions League, and starts a hellish month of April, with four matches against teams from the top 5 in the Bundesliga and a quarter-final in C1 against Atlético Madrid.

Before this Classic, Leverkusen host Hoffenheim on Saturday (3.30pm). Xabi Alonso’s men, still unbeaten (38 games, 33 wins), begin a sequence of eight games in 29 days (including five in the league) that could lead to a first German championship title.