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Player Focus: Five Premier League Fantasy Football Tips to Consider

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Player Focus: Five Premier League Fantasy Football Tips to Consider With three weeks to go before the return of the Premier League, now is very much the time to be setting out the initial plans for your fantasy football teams, with plenty of newcomers to the league to consider.Here are a handful of summer signings ahead of the upcoming campaign that could represent ...

Player Focus: Flamboyant Firmino Will Bring Carnival Atmosphere to Liverpool

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Player Focus: Flamboyant Firmino Will Bring Carnival Atmosphere to Liverpool A little after a week from Roger Wittmann confirming that his client would be transferring to an English club, Liverpool confirmed they had agreed a deal with Hoffenheim for Roberto Firmino. The reported fee, with all the trimmings, would be the most expensive transfer in Bundesliga history, but the...

Player Focus: Who Liverpool Could Target to Replace Wantaway Sterling

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Player Focus: Who Liverpool Could Target to Replace Wantaway Sterling Raheem Sterling is now public enemy number one in England, with ill-advised interviews and statements from his agent having sullied his reputation to the degree that he is now being booed at international, as well as club level.It's a lot for a 20-year old to have to deal with and you could forgive ...

Match Focus: In-Form Firmino the Player to Exploit Lahm's Absence

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Match Focus: In-Form Firmino the Player to Exploit Lahm's Absence On Tuesday evening, Roberto Firmino opened his Brazil account in spectacular style, rifling past Ramazan Özcan from 25 yards as the Seleção secured a 2-1 win over Austria. Having been in fine form for club side Hoffenheim, Firmino made his mark on the international stage, finally ...

Team Focus: Defensive Improvements Have Maturing Hoffenheim Flying High

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Team Focus: Defensive Improvements Have Maturing Hoffenheim Flying High At first glance it may seem as though not much has changed in football over the past 14 years. In 2000 Bayern Munich were the reigning Bundesliga champions while Real Madrid were the conquerors of Europe. For some, however, the changes in fortunes have been drastic. In a small village in Baden-Wurtt...

Player Focus: The Best Players Not Selected for the World Cup

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Player Focus: The Best Players Not Selected for the World Cup With the announcement of every national squad ahead of this summer's World Cup, we have been ceremoniously presented on social media with the players considered most unfortunate to miss out. Brazil's current strength in depth was exhibited to the masses with an unbelievably impressive starting XI of...

Player Focus: Players of the Month for March

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Player Focus: Players of the Month for March March is the kind of time that fatigue really starts to set in for players that have endured long, tiring seasons, and it isn't unfair to say that this is the month that best sets apart the good from the great. Those who can maintain top level performances right the way through to this stage of the ...

Player Focus: Golden Boy Firmino Awaiting International Call

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Player Focus: Golden Boy Firmino Awaiting International Call In a squad that contains just three players based in Brazil there remains one stationed in Europe that continues to be overlooked by the Seleção. There are 6 Premier League players in Felipe Scolari's thin squad to face South Africa and three apiece from La Liga and the Bundesliga. If ...

Player Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Under-21 XI

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Player Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Under-21 XI International breaks are a time for reflection, as well as moaning that there is no domestic action to look forward to. The tables are taking shape across Europe's top 5 leagues and in turn those playing have had sufficient time to impress their respective national coaches.With a World Cup year appr...

Player Focus: Golden Displays Could Yet See Firmino Earn Brazil Call

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Player Focus: Golden Displays Could Yet See Firmino Earn Brazil Call Having only secured their Bundesliga status with a 2-1 away win at Dortmund on the final match day of the 2012/2013 season and two further victories over Kaiserslautern in the relegation play-off, Hoffenheim do not want to face another relegation battle in the new campaign. Quite the contrary, manag...