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Team Focus: Torino Rolling Back the Years Under Ventura

by James Horncastle at Wednesday, Dec 18 2013 17:33
Team Focus: Torino Rolling Back the Years Under Ventura Supporting Torino is often considered an act of remembrance. Many fans live for the past, not for the present. Most days simply don’t compare with yesteryear. Recall, for instance, the romance and the tragedy of the Grande Torino, the genius of Gigi Meroni, their last Scudetto back in 1976, an...
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Team Focus: Brave Nice Take First Steps to Recovery

by Andy Brassell at Tuesday, Dec 17 2013 16:45
Team Focus: Brave Nice Take First Steps to Recovery Nobody tends to say that Claude Puel sides lack commitment and in that sense, Nice are a case in point. “On Saturday night against Sochaux, Nice played with eleven players,” wrote Monday’s L’Equipe, “but with two players on one leg, or almost.”Their problems were ...
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Team Focus: McClaren Rebuilding Reputation with Ruthless Rams

by Martin Laurence at Tuesday, Dec 17 2013 15:58
Team Focus: McClaren Rebuilding Reputation with Ruthless Rams Steve McClaren, or the wally with the brolly as he has been less than affectionately coined, became somewhat of a laughing stock in his homeland after England failed to qualify for Euro 2008 under his stewardship. An interview whilst managing in Holland at Twente didn't do him any favours in terms e...
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Team Focus: Impressive Vitesse Asserting Themselves as Title Challengers

by Mohamed Moallim at Monday, Dec 16 2013 16:07
Team Focus: Impressive Vitesse Asserting Themselves as Title Challengers A year is a long time in football. Heading into the 2012/13 winter break PSV were winterkampioen (winter champion), with everything in place to win a 22nd championship (first since 2008), Vitesse were five points behind in fifth. PSV ultimately fell short, as runners-up to Ajax, whereas Vitesse ende...
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Team Focus: How Premier League Teams Perform Before and After the Break

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, Dec 11 2013 15:19
Team Focus: How Premier League Teams Perform Before and After the Break From Stan Collymore's stoppage-time strike to put Liverpool 4-3 up over Newcastle towards the tail end of the 1995/96 season and Michael Owen's Manchester derby winner in 2009 to Sergio Agüero's title-winning goal against QPR in May 2012, grandstand finishes is something the Premier League has ...
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Team Focus: Have Sunderland Actually Improved Under Poyet?

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Dec 9 2013 17:10
Team Focus: Have Sunderland Actually Improved Under Poyet? The nightmare run is over and Sunderland can perhaps, at last, begin to contemplate a brighter future. After facing Fulham on the opening day of the season – a game they lost after conceding to the only corner Fulham had – their next seven home games were against Arsenal, Liverpool, Manc...
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Team Focus: Homegrown Talent Key to Ajax's Chances in Milan

by Mohamed Moallim at Monday, Dec 9 2013 15:12
Team Focus: Homegrown Talent Key to Ajax's Chances in Milan There was something uplifting about Ajax's win over Barcelona. It rekindled memories of when the Amsterdammers were a force in Europe captivating their opponents and audience with spellbinding football. Outstanding, the Ajax school is very much alive, El Mundo Deportivo wrote. We beat Barcelona with...
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Team Focus: The Valverde Effect at Athletic Bilbao

by David Cartlidge at Friday, Dec 6 2013 16:02
Team Focus: The Valverde Effect at Athletic Bilbao If anything, this was meant to be a year of recovery for Athletic Bilbao. The emotional and physical strains of the Marcelo Bielsa era were deeply felt after all, and the appointment of Ernesto Valverde was seen as a perfect tonic.Instead, however, we’re seeing a resurrection in Bilbao. It cou...
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Team Focus: What is Arsenal's Best Midfield?

by Miguel Delaney at Thursday, Nov 28 2013 12:21
Team Focus: What is Arsenal's Best Midfield? On the one occasion this season when Arsene Wenger was asked the question out straight, he attempted a bit of evasion.What, exactly, is his best midfield five? The Arsenal manager waxed on about the options available, before offering a knowing smile.He and everyone else around the Emirates have cert...
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Team Focus: Simeone's Atlético Madrid Mirroring His Playing Style

by Ben McAleer at Tuesday, Nov 26 2013 16:00
Team Focus: Simeone's Atlético Madrid Mirroring His Playing Style As Diego Simeone was thrust into the air by his players at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu following Atlético Madrid’s 2-1 Copa Del Rey win over rivals Real Madrid last May, it marked a remarkable turn in fortunes for Los Rojiblancos. Neutrals would never have expected the side to build o...
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