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Team Focus: Tenable Palace Plight Typical of Pardew Profile

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Team Focus: Tenable Palace Plight Typical of Pardew Profile Christmas Day 2015 was one to celebrate with extra cheer for Crystal Palace fans. With 29 points after 17 league matches of the season the Eagles sat sixth but importantly they were level with both Tottenham and Manchester United in the race for a Champions League finish.At the time the manager was ...

Team Focus: Has Klopp Failed to Have the Desired Effect at Liverpool?

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Team Focus: Has Klopp Failed to Have the Desired Effect at Liverpool? The hysteria surrounding Liverpool upon the appointment of Jurgen Klopp in October was understandable. Here was a manager revered in the game not only for his man management skills but his ability to come up trumps tactically in big matches. On both counts the German has been success at Anfield thus...

Team Focus: Reims Rally With New Attacking Formula

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Team Focus: Reims Rally With New Attacking Formula “I’m maintaining all my confidence (in him),” said Stade de Reims president Jean-Pierre Caillot of his coach, Olivier Guégan. “But I’m not giving unlimited credit.” This ‘backing’ of Guégan, in the immediate aftermath of the damaging home...

Team Focus: Resurgent Milan Beginning to Bubble to the Surface

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Team Focus: Resurgent Milan Beginning to Bubble to the Surface Milan are yet to play champagne football, but Sinisa Mihajlovic believes they have the making of a “fine sparkling wine” after a flat start to the season. “We took six points from our first four games and suffered a lot.” There is a fizz about Milan. “We’ve taken ...

Team Focus: Is this Just a Wobble or a Typical Arsenal Capitulation?

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Team Focus: Is this Just a Wobble or a Typical Arsenal Capitulation? It was an exchange that involved just 32 words, but still said so much. As has already become notorious, Arsene Wenger approached referee Lee Mason after Arsenal's 0-0 draw with Southampton, complaining about decisions.It's always the same with you, the French manager accused. So, his opposite numbe...

Team Focus: Leicester's Predictable Routes to Goal Still Proving Hard to Stop

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Team Focus: Leicester's Predictable Routes to Goal Still Proving Hard to Stop It got rather lost amid everything else, but as the storm clouds burstat Chelsea, there was something fascinating Jose Mourinho said abouthis opponents in his post-match press-conference after the defeat atLeicester City that ended up being his last game in charge.I feel my work is betrayed, he said...

Team Focus: Hantz Return Worth the Wait for Montpellier

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Team Focus: Hantz Return Worth the Wait for Montpellier All things come to those who wait. The 2015/2016 season has been, thus far, the season of the coaching comeback in France. Following the return of the popular Frédéric Antonetti to Ligue 1 with Lille after a two-and-a-half year absence, it was the turn of another much-missed entra&icir...

Team Focus: Boring Boring Baggies Overlook Berahino Despite Attacking Woes

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Team Focus: Boring Boring Baggies Overlook Berahino Despite Attacking Woes Last time out, and for the fourth time this season, West Brom didn't to have a single shot on target in a Premier League match. The fact that their failure to test the keeper last weekend came in a match against local rivals and bottom club Aston Villa was even more depressing for the home support a...

Team Focus: Ongoing Defensive Concerns Limiting Everton Progress Under Martinez

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Team Focus: Ongoing Defensive Concerns Limiting Everton Progress Under Martinez A chorus of boos greeted the Everton team upon the culmination of their 2-1 defeat to Swansea on Sunday. Against a team that had won just one of their 10 league games away from home in the Premier League this season, the Toffees were overwhelming favourites coming into the encounter, so the defeat w...

Team Focus: Manchester City Epitomise Inconsistency of this Premier League

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Team Focus: Manchester City Epitomise Inconsistency of this Premier League After a big win, Pablo Zabaleta was back in bullish mood. “We have a big period coming up,” the Manchester City full-back said after his side’s 4-0 demolition of Crystal Palace. “Four months, and we are in four competitions… we need to perform well week in, week out, a...