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Team Focus: Input of Leicester Support Cast Just as Vital as Vardy Goals

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Team Focus: Input of Leicester Support Cast Just as Vital as Vardy Goals Goals help. When a club assumed to be mid-rank at best is bothering the top of the table at the beginning of December, it tends to have a goalscorer in great form. Sunderland in 1999-2000 had Kevin Phillips, who went on to score 30 goals in the season and was the last Englishman to win the European ...

Team Focus: Barcelona & Bayern 'Super Favourites' in Duel for Supremacy

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Team Focus: Barcelona & Bayern 'Super Favourites' in Duel for Supremacy Arsene Wenger raised his eyebrows, raised a chuckle, and that showed how much the stakes had been raised.It was 2012/13, shortly before he came across the modern Bayern Munich for the first time, and the Arsenal manager was asked about his chances in that season’s Champions League. Wenger reca...

Team Focus: Is Pardew Being Found Out After Positive Palace Start?

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Team Focus: Is Pardew Being Found Out After Positive Palace Start? We got a lot of the ball, a lot of possession, (but) unfortunately we could not create a sweet moment and things went the wrong way for us,” Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew said in the wake of Monday night’s 1-0 defeat to Sunderland. It was a frustrating evening for the Eagles on home...

Team Focus: Corinthians Enjoy Derby to Remember After Sealing Sixth Title

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Team Focus: Corinthians Enjoy Derby to Remember After Sealing Sixth Title As victory laps go, this will take some beating - a comprehensive derby win against your most bitter, most ideological rivals. Two goals in the space of three first-half minutes, then another before the interval. A laughable, playground-kick-about fourth that left opposition defenders slumped inside...

Team Focus: New Found Spurs Resilience Built on Belgian Backbone

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Team Focus: New Found Spurs Resilience Built on Belgian Backbone Of the Premier League’s top seven teams at present, five have at least one Belgian player in the ranks. Maximising the immense footballing talent of this small European nation has become the latest trend among England’s elite, with no fewer than nine Premier League performers called up t...

Team Focus: City Win Highlights Benefits of Coutinho & Firmino Understanding

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Team Focus: City Win Highlights Benefits of Coutinho & Firmino Understanding Three managers, to an extent, played a part in Liverpool’s 4-1 win at Manchester City on Saturday. There was Jurgen Klopp, of course, now going through a phase of public understatement, but clearly delighted at how his influence is beginning to be seen. There was Manuel Pellegrini who, not for...

Team Focus: PSG Show Versatility On Tough Weekend

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Team Focus: PSG Show Versatility On Tough Weekend “We would have liked to do something else (other than playing),” said Paris Saint-Germain coach Laurent Blanc after Saturday’s win at Lorient. Despite that, he was at a loss to know what that something was. “We represent Paris, the team of the capital. We have to do what we k...

Team Focus: Sousa's Winning Mentality has Fiorentina Pushing for Glory

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Team Focus: Sousa's Winning Mentality has Fiorentina Pushing for Glory As Borja Valero drove out of the Artemio Franchi one night last May, his car was kicked and spat at by supporters. Insults were hurled his way. “This is football,” he acknowledged. “It’s more or less like the Colosseum.” The crowd had turned on him and the other Fiorent...

Team Focus: Belgium Not Yet Transcendent but Among Euro Favourites

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Team Focus: Belgium Not Yet Transcendent but Among Euro Favourites Plenty still claim that international friendlies are meaningless, but you’d have had a job on your hands telling that to Belgium fans last week. The King Baudouin Stadium has been the venue for significant outpourings of joy in the past few years - most recently after the 3-1 victory over Isra...

Team Focus: Under Pressure Mourinho Facing Decisive Double Header

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Team Focus: Under Pressure Mourinho Facing Decisive Double Header Much was made of Jose Mourinho’s flash interview after the 3-1 defeat to Liverpool, but, for all he sought to avoid confronting the reality of that latest reversal, it probably revealed more of the truth than he would have done by actually trying to talk.This really was a man with “nothi...