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Team Focus: Fading Villa's Survival May Hinge on Shock Results

by Martin Laurence at Monday, Apr 28 2014 14:52
Team Focus: Fading Villa's Survival May Hinge on Shock Results We want our Villa back is a chant that has cropped up on numerous occasions since Martin O'Neill left the club in what the board clearly felt was a financially untenable state. It was aired once again as the Midlands outfit slumped to another damning defeat this weekend, with the fans anger targeted...
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Team Focus: Zenit's New Dawn Starting Brightly Under Villas-Boas

by Domm Norris at Saturday, Apr 26 2014 08:50
Team Focus: Zenit's New Dawn Starting Brightly Under Villas-Boas A new dawn is upon Zenit St Petersburg as the club seeks to reaffirm its wavering position at the fore of Russian football. The demise of Luciano Spalletti’s tenure at Zenit can be attributed to many differing factors, having initially begun in the summer of 2012 with the seemingly indulgent p...
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Team Focus: Time for Cassar to Make His Own Mark on Real Salt Lake

by Graham Ruthven at Friday, Apr 25 2014 16:15
Team Focus: Time for Cassar to Make His Own Mark on Real Salt Lake Jason Kreis was Real Salt Lake. Having been at the club since 2005 (two years as a player and six years as head coach) he came to embody RSL, with his team reflecting his personality. But now he’s the head coach of an MLS team that isn’t even playing in MLS yet.The 41-year-old was named ...
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Team Focus: Stats Show United Decline Prior to Moyes

by Jonathan Wilson at Tuesday, Apr 22 2014 16:16
Team Focus: Stats Show United Decline Prior to Moyes Nothing, perhaps, is ever the result of one man. It’s easy to pinpoint a hero or scapegoat, to believe that one great or dreadful individual has alone turned the tide of history for better or for worse, but it’s rarely, if ever, accurate. Individuals shape events, of course, and bear a r...
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Team Focus: History Maker De Boer Going Nowhere for Now

by Mohamed Moallim at Tuesday, Apr 22 2014 15:04
Team Focus: History Maker De Boer Going Nowhere for Now Béla Guttmann, the legendary Hungarian manager, hypothesised the third year for a successful coach would be fatal. Not for Frank de Boer, who is closing in on securing Ajax their 33rd Eredivisie title and the fourth in a row under his tenure.The standard-bearer of Dutch football according to ...
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Team Focus: A Good Season for PSG and Blanc – But Where Next?

by Andy Brassell at Tuesday, Apr 22 2014 11:46
Team Focus: A Good Season for PSG and Blanc – But Where Next? When Thiago Silva lifted the Coupe de la Ligue trophy, high in the main stand of the Stade de France just after 11pm on Saturday night, the Paris Saint-Germain captain and his teammates celebrated with gusto. There was no tokenism, no sense that this was a mere trinket of consolation - just roars of...
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Team Focus: Improved Fulham Dreaming of Great Escape Under Magath

by Miguel Delaney at Thursday, Apr 17 2014 12:38
Team Focus: Improved Fulham Dreaming of Great Escape Under Magath Despite a result that had offered Fulham so much new optimism, and created a genuine vibrancy around Craven Cottage, Felix Magath was striking a slightly different tone. “I am not satisfied,” the German manager simply said. What could possibly have brought such a response, after a 1-0 vi...
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Team Focus: Blackpool's Worrying Slide Towards League One

by Alan Smith at Tuesday, Apr 15 2014 17:46
Team Focus: Blackpool's Worrying Slide Towards League One On 14 September, they were perched on top of the pile. With five wins and a draw from their first six games, there were already murmurs of a potential return to the Premier League.Now, with four matches to go, Blackpool are staring down the barrel of a gun with League One inscribed on it. Two points...
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Team Focus: Mourinho's Criticism of Chelsea Strikers Warranted

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Apr 14 2014 16:36
Team Focus: Mourinho's Criticism of Chelsea Strikers Warranted Jose Mourinho’s frustration with his centre-forward options weren’t hard to discern even before the Champions League tie away to Paris Saint Germain, when he fielded Andre Schurrle as a false nine and then made his loaded post-match comments about “real forwards”. Unless he r...
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Team Focus: Dortmund’s Perfect Week Suggests They’re Not Finished Yet

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Apr 14 2014 14:42
Team Focus: Dortmund’s Perfect Week Suggests They’re Not Finished Yet There is no such thing as a friendly between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund. Their meeting at the Westfalen last season, 20 days before the Champions League final, was ostensibly a dead rubber but contained ugly confrontations between players and coaches alike during its course.Even if it is cl...
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