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Weekend Preview: A Look Ahead to this Week's Best Action in Europe

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Weekend Preview: A Look Ahead to this Week's Best Action in Europe There's plenty of crucial matches across Europe to whet the appetite this weekend, and here we summarise the best of the action by league.Premier LeagueWhile Chelsea vs Manchester United was no doubt earmarked as the top match of gameweek 25 in the Premier League at the start of the season, ther...

WhoScored Tipster: The Top Tips Across Europe this Weekend

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WhoScored Tipster: The Top Tips Across Europe this Weekend Raise your hand those who looked at the Premier League calendar at the beginning of the season and when coming across matchday 25, you backed Manchester City-Leicester in place of Chelsea-Manchester United as a title decider. In that case, you truly deserve the 5000/1 winnings on offer for Leicester...

Team Focus: Leicester's Predictable Routes to Goal Still Proving Hard to Stop

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Team Focus: Leicester's Predictable Routes to Goal Still Proving Hard to Stop It got rather lost amid everything else, but as the storm clouds burstat Chelsea, there was something fascinating Jose Mourinho said abouthis opponents in his post-match press-conference after the defeat atLeicester City that ended up being his last game in charge.I feel my work is betrayed, he said...

League Focus: How Many Points Will it Take to Win the Premier League Title?

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League Focus: How Many Points Will it Take to Win the Premier League Title? With 60% of the season played and 15 games remaining, Leicester City lead the league with 47 points. Both elements of that are surprising: since the Premier League switched to its present 20-team format in 1995, there have only been two occasions when the leaders at this stage of the season had fewe...

Player Focus: Mahrez's Dip in Form Cause for Concern in Leicester's Title Bid

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Player Focus: Mahrez's Dip in Form Cause for Concern in Leicester's Title Bid “It’s important he understands this new thing on the pitch, that everyone wants to stop him with the right way or the wrong way. He has to be clever,” Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri said of Riyad Mahrez. The Foxes boss was speaking in the wake of the 1-1 draw at Aston Villa...

Match Report: Leicester Maintain Surprise Title Quest With Win at White Hart Lane

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Match Report: Leicester Maintain Surprise Title Quest With Win at White Hart Lane Star Wars fans will testify that the Empire Strikes Back is the best of the original trilogy. A New Hope and Return of the Jedi had their moments, but it's second of the three-parter that more often than not is dubbed the superior of the first three films. The hope, therefore, was that the second in...

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...