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Team Focus: Newcastle's Reliance on Hatem Ben Arfa

by Jonathan Wilson at Tuesday, Oct 1 2013 16:54
Team Focus: Newcastle's Reliance on Hatem Ben Arfa As Alan Pardew reflected even before Newcastle United’s defeat to Everton on Monday, this has already been a very strange season for the club. They were excellent in beating Aston Villa and, had they beaten Hull City a week ago on Saturday, they would have gone third in the table. As it is, th...
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Team Focus: Chelsea Wobble Not Yet Reason to Worry

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Sep 16 2013 12:36
Team Focus: Chelsea Wobble Not Yet Reason to Worry Defeats happen. It’s the nature of football, far more of which than we often like to imagine is rooted in luck. In Chris Anderson and David Sally’s book The Numbers Game, they estimate that the result of any individual game is based roughly 50% in luck: talent tends to win out over the c...
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Match Focus: Efficient England Stifle Ukraine but Lack Attacking Verve

by Jonathan Wilson at Wednesday, Sep 11 2013 13:12
Match Focus: Efficient England Stifle Ukraine but Lack Attacking Verve There is something slightly mystifying about the reaction to England’s draw in Ukraine on Tuesday. It is 60 years this November since Hungary came to Wembley and thrashed England 6-3, ending once and for all any realistic assumption of English superiority, and yet still it pertains, still a st...
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Team Focus: Arsenal Win Midfield Battle in North London Derby

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Sep 2 2013 15:45
Team Focus: Arsenal Win Midfield Battle in North London Derby The story of Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur this season so far has been all about the respective central midfields. Tottenham have been powerful but not especially creative, while Arsenal had shown signs of an all too familiar flimsiness. On Sunday, when the sides met at the Emirates, though, there w...
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Team Focus: Solid Midfield the Base for Improvement at Tottenham

by Jonathan Wilson at Tuesday, Aug 27 2013 16:25
Team Focus: Solid Midfield the Base for Improvement at Tottenham There is a danger, amid the hoohah over Gareth Bale’s probable departure from Tottenham, that the excellent business they have done this summer is overlooked. On Sunday, as they produced a competent if not especially thrilling 1-0 victory over Swansea City, their startingline-up included four ...
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Team Focus: Arsenal's Transfer Failings Exposed

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Aug 19 2013 15:40
Team Focus: Arsenal's Transfer Failings Exposed Imagine you hadn’t heard the final score. You pick up the basic match facts and you see that Arsenal had 64% of possession on Saturday. You look at the pass completion rates and see that while Arsenal’s was 87%, Aston Villa’s was only 70%. At first glance it seems like a fairly sta...
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