Team Focus: Wheeler Dealer Redknapp Needs Alternatives to Austin Up Front
by Alistair Tweedale
at martedì, lug 22 2014 16:48
Harry Redknapp doesn't think of himself as a wheeler dealer, he's a football manager. At least that is what he exclaimed in an expletive-filled retort to Sky Sports' Rob Palmer at the back-end of the 2010 summer transfer window, when asked if he would be delving into the market to improve his Totten...
Player Focus: Not the Next Bale but Davies Would be a Snip for Spurs
by Alistair Tweedale
at venerdì, lug 18 2014 13:49
Player Focus: Keylor Navas Ready to Step Up to Europe's Elite
by Alistair Tweedale
at giovedì, lug 17 2014 11:56
In the largely unchartered world of football statistics, Keylor Navas was well-known before the World Cup this summer. An impressive season at Levante saw him win WhoScored's goalkeeper of the year award last season, and before the tournament we tipped him to shine in a difficult group where he was ...
Player Focus: Lionel Messi - World Cup 2014 Player of the Tournament
by Alistair Tweedale
at lunedì, lug 14 2014 16:47
It speaks volumes about the Lionel Messi's talents that the World Cup he has just enjoyed could still be considered such a catastrophic failure in so many quarters. Despite providing the strikes to all-but carry an otherwise goal-shy Argentina into the knockout stages of the 2014 World Cup, Messi st...
Match Focus: 5 Talking Points from Argentina's Stalemate with the Netherlands
by Alistair Tweedale
at giovedì, lug 10 2014 12:39
The second of the semi-finals was never going to live up to the standards set by the first, but it was not excessive to expect something mildly more exciting than the dire goalless draw and ensuing penalty shootout victory for Argentina over the Netherlands. Nonetheless, with a World Cup Final set u...
Match Focus: 5 Talking Points from Brazil's 7-1 Loss to Germany
by Alistair Tweedale
at mercoledì, lug 9 2014 15:02
A nation is in shock. The people of Brazil, a country in which social and economic problems have taken something of a backseat to the main event that is a World Cup in the home of football, have been overwhelmed by hosting the biggest football tournament on the planet. There was, before Neymar's com...
Team Focus: Can Argentina Cope Without Ángel Di María?
by Alistair Tweedale
at martedì, lug 8 2014 11:25
The biggest question for this vastly talented Argentina squad ahead of the World Cup was quite how head coach Alejandro Sabella would incorporate their great many attackers into a functional starting XI that would also remain steadfast at the back against the best sides on the planet. The South Amer...
Team Focus: Youthful Belgium Can Use World Cup to Build for Future
by Alistair Tweedale
at martedì, giu 17 2014 14:08
For Belgium, this World Cup has been billed as an opportunity for their young side, brimming with talent, to show onlookers the planet over the extent of their talents. It is no secret just how good the likes of Eden Hazard, Vincent Kompany and Romelu Lukaku are, but do they genuinely, as some have ...
Player Focus: Griezmann Ready to Step Up for France
by Alistair Tweedale
at martedì, giu 10 2014 11:34
Team Focus: Free-Scoring Bosnia Could Become Neutrals' Favourite in Brazil
by Alistair Tweedale
at venerdì, giu 6 2014 16:16
An extraordinary and somewhat surprising qualifying campaign for Bosnia and Herzegovina has seen them qualify for the World Cup for the first time in their short history. That history has been a painful one for many Bosnians and the war, quite apart from the great many atrocities that it caused, als...