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Team Focus: Just What Has Gone Wrong for Sigi Schmid's Sounders Side?

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Team Focus: Just What Has Gone Wrong for Sigi Schmid's Sounders Side? It’s somewhat difficult to comprehend the turmoil the Seattle Sounders now find themselves in, given the swagger with which they started the 2015 Major League Soccer season. As recently as May, they were the team to beat in the West. Now they are the team that everyone can beat.Indeed, Sigi Sc...

Player Focus: MLS Superstars Set to Light Up Conference Finals

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Player Focus: MLS Superstars Set to Light Up Conference Finals As far as MLS Conference finals go, 2014’s lineup counts as all-star. The league’s best four teams have made it into the East and West showpiece games, with a place in next month’s MLS Cup final up for grabs in each conference.The LA Galaxy, New York Red Bulls, New England Revoluti...

Match Focus: Sounders vs Galaxy to decide the Supporters' Shield

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Match Focus: Sounders vs Galaxy to decide the Supporters' Shield As far as heavyweight clashes go, this is Major League Soccer’s greatest offering. The LA Galaxy and Seattle Sounders aren’t just two of the biggest clubs in North America, they’re the best two as well.The West coast sides will complete a quickfire double-header this weekend in the...

League Focus: MLS 2014 - Five Things to Look Out For

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League Focus: MLS 2014 - Five Things to Look Out For The 2013 MLS season ended in dramatic fashion, with Sporting Kansas City claiming the championship title on penalties against Real Salt Lake. It was a fitting conclusion for what had been one of the best seasons in the league’s history.The off-season was a busy one, with a number of high profi...

Team Focus: Attacking Onus on Dempsey in New Look Sounders Midfield

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Team Focus: Attacking Onus on Dempsey in New Look Sounders Midfield When the Seattle Sounders signed Clint Dempsey for a league-record fee they made a very clear statement of intent. The league’s biggest club now had the league’s biggest player and only the league’s biggest prize will validate the season. Anything short of winning the MLS Cup will ...

Player Focus: What Dempsey's Signing Means for the Sounders

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Player Focus: What Dempsey's Signing Means for the Sounders Such was the delirium across the Pacific Northwest when rumours of Clint Dempsey’s potential return to the States surfaced that a crowd of Seattle Sounders supporters camped out at the city’s airport, hoping to get the scoop on their alleged new signing. There was even a trending hashtag...

Player Focus: Europe's Set Piece Specialists

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Player Focus: Europe's Set Piece Specialists The art of the free kick has become one so practised in the modern game that the poses of the likes of David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo as they line up a shot are now instantly recognisable. Ronaldo’s routine puff of his chest and is more iconic than Jonny Wilkinson’s stance before a ...

League Focus: Alternative Premier League Team of the Season

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League Focus: Alternative Premier League Team of the Season We have decided to take a look at what would be a worthy, if unlikely, team of the season come the end of the campaign. With the Premier League players currently wracking their brains as to who to vote for in the PFA awards, we at WhoScored thought it best to give them a little advice over players w...

Player Focus: Clint Dempsey - A One Man Team?

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Player Focus: Clint Dempsey - A One Man Team? As football becomes more of a squad game with every passing season, it seems as if the idea of a “talisman” is lessening by the year. With rest and rotation key to ensuring optimum fitness, and with the vast majority of the bigger clubs hosting bloated squads packed with several top-clas...

Premier League's Top Rated Bottom Half Players

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Premier League's Top Rated Bottom Half Players As the rest of Europe goes into hibernation over the festive period, there’s no let-up in the Premier League. As the fixtures come thick and fast, WhoScored looks beyond the upper echelons for this particular article and, analysing the bottom ten clubs, pinpoints a selection of outfield player...