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You vs WhoScored: WhoScored Expert MondoGoal XI - Gameweek 33

by Martin Laurence at Thursday, Apr 16 2015 11:04
You vs WhoScored: WhoScored Expert MondoGoal XI - Gameweek 33 We have another free-to-enter 'You vs WhoScored' contest to get our teeth into this weekend courtesy of MondoGoal, so it's over to you to beat our expert's XI from the seven Premier League fixtures this time around.If you can better our man's score this week you'll be granted entry into our exclusiv...
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You vs WhoScored: Premier League Form Rankings Ahead of Gameweek 33

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, Apr 15 2015 10:44
You vs WhoScored: Premier League Form Rankings Ahead of Gameweek 33 WhoScored.com are always bringing you new features, and here we continue with another one – in association with MondoGoal we present the Premier League’s most in-form players according to our ratings.On Thursday you’ll be able to see who the WhoScored Expert has picked in our fanta...
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Player Focus: Why Has Juan Mata Fallen Out of Favour?

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Sep 15 2014 11:21
Player Focus: Why Has Juan Mata Fallen Out of Favour? Poor Juan Mata. When he arrived in the Premier League, he seemed the ideal overseas star. He not merely settled in to life in London without fuss, but did so with all the zeal of an enthusiastic gap year student, forever updating his blog with photographs of him posing in front of national landmarks...
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Team Focus: Van Gaal Must Shoulder Blame for System Stubborness

by Martin Laurence at Tuesday, Aug 19 2014 09:39
Team Focus: Van Gaal Must Shoulder Blame for System Stubborness Football is an unpredictable game and the Premier League is certainly no different. As much was evident in the very first game of the 2014/15 campaign, where a United side rejuvenated by the appointment of Louis van Gaal were expected to brush aside a Swansea outfit that have endured a summer of uph...
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Player Focus: Nothing the Mata with Juan's United Performances

by Ben McAleer at Friday, May 16 2014 11:20
Player Focus: Nothing the Mata with Juan's United Performances While the signing of Juan Mata in January did not pave over the cracks that were showing at Manchester United, the arrival of the Spaniard certainly excited fans. His acquisition for a club record £37.1m was not, however, able to save David Moyes from the sack and Mata'sperceived drop in form ...
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Player Focus: Players of the Month for April

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, Apr 30 2014 22:50
Player Focus: Players of the Month for April As the season reaches its climax across Europe, strength in depth is vitally important for any team. A manager able to rotate and keep his players fresh so they can maintain fitness and form right through to this crucial part of the season can be the difference between success and failure, and it ma...
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Player Focus: January Signings Struggling to Solve Problems

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, Mar 26 2014 16:35
Player Focus: January Signings Struggling to Solve Problems The sight of Mohamed Salah netting a sixth goal for Chelsea against Arsenal at the weekend gave the first slightest of hints that the £11m Chelsea invested in the Egyptian may have been wise. Given that in his first two months in England he has spent just 36 Premier League minutes on the pitch...
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Player Focus: Is Juan Mata a Mourinho Player?

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Jan 6 2014 14:53
Player Focus: Is Juan Mata a Mourinho Player? Juan Mata, it seems generally agreed, is not a Mourinho type of player. That is all but self-evident: why else, after all, would the player who was Chelsea’s player of the year in each of the last two seasons find himself so on the periphery? It’s true that he has made 11 Premier League ...
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Player Focus: Oscar's Winning Performances Deserve Credit

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, Nov 27 2013 10:47
Player Focus: Oscar's Winning Performances Deserve Credit You have to feel slightly for Oscar. Barely has the Brazilian put a foot wrong since moving to London from Internacional 16 months ago, and yet the vast majority of any focus surrounding the Chelsea 'number 10' role has been on Juan Mata's astonishing absence rather than Oscar's presence. It is much...
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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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