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Team Focus: Newcastle's Reliance on Hatem Ben Arfa

by Jonathan Wilson at Tuesday, Oct 1 2013 16:54
Team Focus: Newcastle's Reliance on Hatem Ben Arfa As Alan Pardew reflected even before Newcastle United’s defeat to Everton on Monday, this has already been a very strange season for the club. They were excellent in beating Aston Villa and, had they beaten Hull City a week ago on Saturday, they would have gone third in the table. As it is, th...
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Team Focus: What Robert Lewandowski Can Bring To Bayern Munich

by Ben McAleer at Monday, Sep 30 2013 18:00
Team Focus: What Robert Lewandowski Can Bring To Bayern Munich Bayern Munich were irresistible last season, of that there is no doubt. The Bavarian giants dropped points on 5 occasions over the duration of their league campaign, losing just the once. On their way to securing an unprecedented treble - the Bundesliga, the Champions League and the DFB-Pokal, becom...
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Team Focus: Southampton's Lack of Goals - The Lambert & Osvaldo Dilemma

by Alistair Tweedale at Tuesday, Sep 24 2013 11:16
Team Focus: Southampton's Lack of Goals - The Lambert & Osvaldo Dilemma When Mauricio Pochettino was appointed Southampton boss back in January, feelings of Nigel Adkins' mistreatment aside, fans were optimistic that the Argentine could bring a style of football that is both attractive and successful to St Mary's. A 14th-placed and lacklustre finish to last season meant...
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Team Focus: Second Would Still be a Major Achievement for Improving Botafogo

by Jack Lang at Friday, Sep 20 2013 11:14
Team Focus: Second Would Still be a Major Achievement for Improving Botafogo The Brazilian championship used to be decided by a final. Every season ended with the kind of play-off system that would be immediately familiar to fans of American sports, meaning a team that finished as low as eighth in the actual league stage could walk away with the title.That system lasted unti...
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Team Focus: No-Nonsense Osasuna Need to Make Changes

by David Cartlidge at Thursday, Sep 19 2013 17:25
Team Focus: No-Nonsense Osasuna Need to Make Changes Could this finally be the season we say goodbye to Osasuna? It’s ludicrous to write off a team with just four games played, but early signs in Pamplona are pointing towards this being the season their 13-year spell in La Liga comes to an end.Osasuna are a team renowned in Spain for the style w...
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Team Focus: Same Stoke, New Style Under Hughes

by Martin Laurence at Wednesday, Sep 18 2013 18:07
Team Focus: Same Stoke, New Style Under Hughes It was the opinion of many that Stoke had somewhat sucked the life out of the game by the time of Tony Pulis' departure and it was a theory that even some Potters fans were beginning to concede. It's hard to argue that their former boss didn't do an exceptional job on the face of it. He established ...
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Team Focus: Everton's New Identity

by Ben McAleer at Tuesday, Sep 17 2013 17:00
Team Focus: Everton's New Identity When a team changes manager, the likelihood is the gameplan will alter. Take, for example, Tottenham Hotspur, who saw their open, free-flowing game adopted under Harry Redknapp altered to a more patient approach under André Villas-Boas. Stoke City have undergone a similar transformation, with...
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Team Focus: Team Effort Sees Saint Etienne Flying High

by Andy Brassell at Tuesday, Sep 17 2013 11:58
Team Focus: Team Effort Sees Saint Etienne Flying High Whenever Brandão scored for Saint Etienne last season, he would usually dust down the same celebration, running off and miming taking snaps with an imaginary camera. He is not just a footballer, but also a music impresario and songwriter - the goal choreography mimicked the “flashy flas...
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Team Focus: Verbeek Ready to Lead AZ to Europe

by Mohamed Moallim at Monday, Sep 16 2013 15:45
Team Focus: Verbeek Ready to Lead AZ to Europe It takes a lot to dampen the spirits of Gertjan Verbeek. His AZ side finished 10th – 37 points behind the champions – last season. A poor start, with three wins from 16 games, sealed their fate. It would have driven a lesser manager to insanity and closer to the exit, but not Verbeek. He...
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Team Focus: Chelsea Wobble Not Yet Reason to Worry

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Sep 16 2013 12:36
Team Focus: Chelsea Wobble Not Yet Reason to Worry Defeats happen. It’s the nature of football, far more of which than we often like to imagine is rooted in luck. In Chris Anderson and David Sally’s book The Numbers Game, they estimate that the result of any individual game is based roughly 50% in luck: talent tends to win out over the c...
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