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Team Focus: Lens Refuse to Lie Down and Accept Fate

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Dec 15 2014 17:17
Team Focus: Lens Refuse to Lie Down and Accept Fate It’s not often that a team waking up in 19th place in Ligue 1 on a mid-December morning can feel pleased with itself, but Racing Club de Lens is an exception. One of the more evocative names in the French game have been a welcome re-addition to the top-flight since their promotion; all the mor...
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Team Focus: Avcı's Anti-Football Gives Başakşehir Best Süper Lig Defence

by Emre Sarigul at Friday, Dec 12 2014 15:31
Team Focus: Avcı's Anti-Football Gives Başakşehir Best Süper Lig Defence “Attack wins games, defence wins titles,” is a popular saying in the world of football. Başakşehir are not quite of championship-winning calibre yet but they do boast a defensive record only surpassed by Bayern Munich in Europe, with just 5 goals conceded all season. Başakşehir may have ...
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Team Focus: Sought After Weinzierl Defying Odds with Industrious Augsburg

by Dinesh Hardayal at Friday, Dec 12 2014 12:36
Team Focus: Sought After Weinzierl Defying Odds with Industrious Augsburg Henry Ford famously once said Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” It’s a quote befitting of the cohesion of an Augsburg side currently lying in 3rd place in the Bundesliga. The man behind the wheel of their success is Markus Weinzie...
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Team Focus: West Ham Reaping Rewards of Pragmatic Allardyce’s Versatility

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Dec 11 2014 15:14
Team Focus: West Ham Reaping Rewards of Pragmatic Allardyce’s Versatility Sam Allardyce has always gone by the nickname ‘Big Sam’; the thought of him being known as anything else almost seems perverse. To say that he might indeed be given a new pseudonym isn’t for a second to imply that he is not a big person and a big character, anything but. The point ...
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Team Focus: Continuity the Key as Cruzeiro Win Second Successive Brazilian Title

by Jack Lang at Wednesday, Dec 10 2014 14:18
Team Focus: Continuity the Key as Cruzeiro Win Second Successive Brazilian Title The Campeonato Brasileiro, to bastardise that neat Gary Lineker aphorism, is a simple championship. 20 teams slog away for the best part of a year and in the end, Cruzeiro win.It wasn’t always thus, of course: the Belo Horizonte side’s dominance is a relatively unusual phenomenon for a l...
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Team Focus: Can Man City Keep Momentum Up Without Agüero?

by Miguel Delaney at Wednesday, Dec 10 2014 10:54
Team Focus: Can Man City Keep Momentum Up Without Agüero? So, this is what it all comes down to for Manchester City in the Champions League, except they’ll have to do without the man that has brought them up to the highest peaks. It was finally confirmed on Monday that the sensational Sergio Agüero will miss a month of football, and is thereby o...
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Team Focus: Ipswich Strike Partnership Leading the Promotion Charge

by Alan Smith at Monday, Dec 8 2014 14:22
Team Focus: Ipswich Strike Partnership Leading the Promotion Charge If money, as we are led to believe, is the key to success in football, Ipswich should be nowhere near the top. Bereft of a transfer kitty, Mick McCarthy relies on free acquisitions and loans while others around them spend big in pursuit of elevation.Yet the bandwagon continues to roll, a 4-1 win ove...
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Team Focus: Gasperini Has Versatile Genoa Dreaming of Europe

by James Horncastle at Thursday, Dec 4 2014 14:13
Team Focus: Gasperini Has Versatile Genoa Dreaming of Europe Gian Piero Gasperini is a calculating coach but something doesn’t add up. He is not a numbers man and it’s probably best not to get him started on statistics. “I can’t bear them,” he huffed in La Gazzetta dello Sport. “If I read them, I don’t understand how ...
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Team Focus: Have Pochettino's Tottenham Reached a Turning Point?

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Dec 1 2014 12:31
Team Focus: Have Pochettino's Tottenham Reached a Turning Point? Seasons probably never hang on a single moment, but sometimes they can seem to. There are too many factors at play, psychological and tactical, to do with mental and physical fitness, with luck and with design, ever to say decisively at what point a season turned, but there can be incidents when a p...
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Team Focus: Laptop Man Yanal Off to a Flying Start Back at Trabzonspor

by Emre Sarigul at Friday, Nov 28 2014 16:12
Team Focus: Laptop Man Yanal Off to a Flying Start Back at Trabzonspor Managers last an average of seven months in the Süper Lig. That may not seem very long but perhaps you haven’t heard of Trabzonspor. There have been five coaches over a span of one-and-a-half years at the Black Sea Storm. The latest head to role was the straight talking Vahid Halilhodzic....
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