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Team focus: Luxemburgo the Fall Guy as the Old World & New Austerity Collide at Flamengo

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Team focus: Luxemburgo the Fall Guy as the Old World & New Austerity Collide at Flamengo Vanderlei Luxemburgo is not a man who tends to mince his words. One of Brazilian football's truculent old guard, he has built a fine - if increasingly nomadic - career on a willingness to ruffle feathers. For example, a sample quote, delivered to an underperforming player in training: You're a s***....

Team Focus: The Correlation Between Shots Per Game and Goals Scored

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Team Focus: The Correlation Between Shots Per Game and Goals Scored One of the stranger conclusions of Charles Reep, the first man in Britain to take seriously the collation of football data was that, as teams scored, on average, with one in nine shots, they should shoot more, even if that meant taking almost indiscriminate pot-shots from 40 yards. Even if it didn&r...

Team Focus: Brilliant Benezet Sums Up Evian’s Predicament

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Team Focus: Brilliant Benezet Sums Up Evian’s Predicament There are still six points to play for, insisted Evian Thonon-Gaillard’s coach Pascal Dupraz after Saturday’s defeat to Reims. A sortie for such a cliché, inevitably laden with impending doom, only compounded a crushing loss that leaves the Annecy-based club staring relegation to ...

Team Focus: Change of Tack Sees Direct Roma Re-emerge in Race for Second

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Team Focus: Change of Tack Sees Direct Roma Re-emerge in Race for Second Paulo Roberto Falcao was crowned the Eighth King of Rome in 1983. Leading Roma to only their second ever Scudetto was behind his ascension to a throne that had been vacant since 509 BC. There has never been a succession. But the title has passed on. It is one of the nicknames Francesco Totti goes by...

Team Focus: Motivation the Key as Carver Fails to Arrest Newcastle Decline

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Team Focus: Motivation the Key as Carver Fails to Arrest Newcastle Decline It’s almost impossible not to look at John Carver and feel sad. He is a man disintegrating before the eyes of the world, a man who has woken to the realisation that he might be about to lead the club he keeps on reminding us he loves to relegation.In January, Carver was still bright-eyed. He h...

Team Focus: Calculating Van den Brom has AZ on the Right Path

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 Team Focus: Calculating Van den Brom has AZ on the Right Path To say the last few years for the club from Alkmaar have been eventful is an understatement. AZ, crowned Dutch champions in 2009, ended last season eighth, 16 points behind third-place FC Twente. With two games remaining there's a possibility they can make their highest finish since winning the titl...

Team Focus: Printant Pulls Bastia Close Towards the Great Escape

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Team Focus: Printant Pulls Bastia Close Towards the Great Escape All things come to those who wait, they say, and Ghislain Printant has been more patient than most. Having spent 25 years as a goalkeeping coach and then working in youth academies, he got his shot at the top job at Bastia in November, after Claude Makélélé was fired. It has not...

Team Focus: Ramsey Unable to Remove QPR from Perilous Relegation Position

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Team Focus: Ramsey Unable to Remove QPR from Perilous Relegation Position QPR took a real punt when they gave Chris Ramsey the managerial reins on a permanent basis. A coach who did well on Tim Sherwood's backroom staff at Tottenham, highly regarded by players and fellow staff alike, it was hoped that he could transfer his training ground skills to the helm of the club, a...

Team Focus: Ings Can Only Get Better But Not Soon Enough For Battling Burnley

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Team Focus: Ings Can Only Get Better But Not Soon Enough For Battling Burnley At such a crucial stage of the season, now is not the time to lose form. That, though, is what has happened to Burnley. The Clarets have lost 4 of their last 5 Premier League games and have scored just 1 goal in their last 8 league matches. George Boyd’s winner against Manchester City last mon...

Team Focus: Should Chelsea Really Play A More Possession-Based Game?

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Team Focus: Should Chelsea Really Play A More Possession-Based Game? The unrivalled success of Pep Guardiola's Barcelona team as well as the Spanish national team from 2008 through 2012 sparked a huge rise in the idealisation of their tika-taka style of play. Bayern Munich have become arguably the best club side on the planet, while Germany swiftly proved themselves ...