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Player Focus: Can Vardy Reproduce Stunning First Half Season Form?

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Player Focus: Can Vardy Reproduce Stunning First Half Season Form? By the time Jamie Vardy next steps onto a football pitch, it’s likely it will have been a month since he last scored in the Premier League. This isn’t something that would normally cause particular shock considering he was only playing non-league football three years ago, but such the st...

Player Focus: Albrighton As Important to Leicester as Vardy, Mahrez And Co.

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Player Focus: Albrighton As Important to Leicester as Vardy, Mahrez And Co. As the games come thick and fast over the festive period, any team can string a number of results together to improve their seasonal goals. Take Swansea for example, a three-game unbeaten run has helped them move out of the relegation zone, instead swapping places with Newcastle, whose back-to-back ...

League Focus: Five Premier League Musings this Christmas

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League Focus: Five Premier League Musings this Christmas Can Leicester win the league?No doubt the shock of the season so far is that of Leicester City, with a success story greater than any demise in our books. Having spent last Christmas drowning their sorrows at the bottom of the league Foxes fans have reason for cheer and then some this time around.Le...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips Across Europe

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips Across Europe Serie A’s evening fixtures forbids you from going out for Christmas shopping. Two of the fiercest Italian rivalries will take centre stage and this time, it won't solely focus on the history of the fixtures, as all four teams are involved in the battle for maximum points this season. Napoli vs...

Player Focus: Unheralded Kante Leicester's Unsung Hero

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Player Focus: Unheralded Kante Leicester's Unsung Hero Leicester City’s start to the season has been nothing short of spectacular. The Foxes are indeed the surprise package this campaign, currently atop the Premier League and Claudio Ranieri deserves ample credit for the club’s stunning form. The Italian has continued Nigel Pearson’s g...

Team Focus: Input of Leicester Support Cast Just as Vital as Vardy Goals

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Team Focus: Input of Leicester Support Cast Just as Vital as Vardy Goals Goals help. When a club assumed to be mid-rank at best is bothering the top of the table at the beginning of December, it tends to have a goalscorer in great form. Sunderland in 1999-2000 had Kevin Phillips, who went on to score 30 goals in the season and was the last Englishman to win the European ...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips in Europe

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips in Europe With European competitions done and dusted for another fortnight, attention now returns to the domestic scene, where there are a series of tantalising fixtures across the continent, including top of the table clashes in Serie A and the Premier League and big matches in Germany and Spain, too.Napoli ...

Match Focus: Leicester Host United in Intriguing Top Two Battle

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Match Focus: Leicester Host United in Intriguing Top Two Battle If you would have told a Manchester United fan their side, after 13 games of the season, would be behind Leicester in the league table they would have assumed it had been a disastrous start to the campaign. It’s far from it though, with the Foxes the only team above Van Gaal’s side in th...

League Focus: How Premier League Teams Fare When Falling Behind

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League Focus: How Premier League Teams Fare When Falling Behind There were some contrasting but equally unsurprising outcomes from the weekend's Premier League action. Leicester came from two goals behind to steal a point against Southampton while Aston Villa, having fallen behind for the 8th successive league match, failed to salvage anything after gifting Chel...

Player Focus: In-form Vardy Warranting England Recognition

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Player Focus: In-form Vardy Warranting England Recognition As the upcoming international break nears, much of the focus will be on Jack Grealish. The Aston Villa attacker this week confirmed his allegiance to England, stating that he opted to play for his country of birth, rather than Republic of Ireland. The player’s father is Irish but despite actin...