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Team Focus: Dinamo Striking the Balance Between Defence & Attack

by Domm Norris at Wednesday, Sep 10 2014 14:08
Team Focus: Dinamo Striking the Balance Between Defence & Attack Money - a word that has seemingly become synonymous with Russian football in the 21st century. Roman Abramovich’s takeover of Chelsea popularised the idea of mega rich Russian oligarchs taking a football club from mediocrity to the pinnacle of European football. Since that point, the likes of ...
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Team Focus: Rutten With Work to Do Following Feyenoord Upheaval

by Mohamed Moallim at Tuesday, Sep 9 2014 12:06
Team Focus: Rutten With Work to Do Following Feyenoord Upheaval For some it serves as an inconvenience but in Feyenoord's case theinternational break couldn't have come at a better time.Another summer of upheaval – 14 players leaving and eight joining – has meant rebuilding, for now, is their primary objective. Such is the life of a Dutch club in tod...
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Team Focus: France Finding the Formula to Forget Ribéry

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Sep 8 2014 16:55
Team Focus: France Finding the Formula to Forget Ribéry The dust is only just settling on the international retirement of Franck Ribéry, and it will continue to wag French tongues for a while yet. “I don’t understand him,” UEFA president Michel Platini told Bild am Sonntag in an interview published this weekend. “He’s...
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Team Focus: Players to Pose a Threat to England in Switzerland

by Martin Laurence at Monday, Sep 8 2014 14:00
Team Focus: Players to Pose a Threat to England in Switzerland Most should be well aware of the threat that Switzerland carry to England on Monday and indeed the seemingly diminishing threat that the Three Lions seem to carry themselves. So here's a quick look at a handful of players that could hurt Hodgson's side.Xherdan ShaqiriUndoubtedly the poster boy of an...
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Team Focus: Fatih Terim’s Transformation of the Turkish National Team

by Emre Sarigul at Friday, Sep 5 2014 14:31
Team Focus: Fatih Terim’s Transformation of the Turkish National Team The future looked bright for Turkish football following an unprecedented third-place finish at the 2002 World Cup. The nation was gripped with a mood of optimism and just six-years later Turkey went on to reach the semi-finals of the 2008 European Championships. However, dreams of achieving regular ...
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Team Focus: Unbeaten Kuban Simple But Effective Under Goncharenko

by Domm Norris at Thursday, Sep 4 2014 14:32
Team Focus: Unbeaten Kuban Simple But Effective Under Goncharenko It is an unenviable task for a 37-year-old - with minimal playing experience - to walk into a dressing room of a major domestic club and command the respect needed to prevent a downturn that could send the club into oblivion. However, for the Kuban Krasnodar coach, Viktor Goncharenko, the move to Ru...
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Team Focus: São Paulo Buoyed by Form of Awesome Foursome

by Jack Lang at Thursday, Sep 4 2014 09:36
Team Focus: São Paulo Buoyed by Form of Awesome Foursome Of all the sides in the Campeonato Brasileiro, none contains more recognisable faces – to European football fans, at least – than São Paulo FC. There's Álvaro Pereira, the Uruguayan wing-back, on the left flank. Former Arsenal midfielder Denílson sits in front of the...
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Team Focus: Lille Still Not Pretty, but Hard to Budge

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Sep 1 2014 17:42
Team Focus: Lille Still Not Pretty, but Hard to Budge It was, as L’Equipe later wrote with some understatement, “a strange day” at the Stade Louis II. With Monaco’s late withdrawal of Radamel Falcao from their squad – and his subsequent presence next to agent Jorge Mendes and Monaco vice-president Vadim Vasilyev in the dir...
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Team Focus: Lack of Consistency in Team Selection Costing Fulham

by Alan Smith at Monday, Sep 1 2014 15:52
Team Focus: Lack of Consistency in Team Selection Costing Fulham What a difference a few months make – for both Fulham and their new striker Ross McCormack. The Scot managed his first assist of the season against Cardiff on Saturday to earn his team their first point of the season five games in but that same spark which saw him carry Leeds for most of last ...
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Team Focus: Time for England to Stop Idealising in Central Midfield

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Sep 1 2014 12:39
Team Focus: Time for England to Stop Idealising in Central Midfield What England lacked at the World Cup was a proper holding midfielder. You can talk about the failings of individual players and you can talk about the systemic failings of the English game over 50 years – and both are contributory factors – but fundamentally the lack of aball-winner alon...
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