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Team Focus: The Correlation Between Shots Per Game and Goals Scored

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, May 18 2015 13:00
Team Focus: The Correlation Between Shots Per Game and Goals Scored One of the stranger conclusions of Charles Reep, the first man in Britain to take seriously the collation of football data was that, as teams scored, on average, with one in nine shots, they should shoot more, even if that meant taking almost indiscriminate pot-shots from 40 yards. Even if it didn&r...
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League Focus: The Battle to Stave Off Relegation

by Ben McAleer at Saturday, May 9 2015 08:20
League Focus: The Battle to Stave Off Relegation May is always a month to look forward to for the British public. The days are longer, the evenings brighter and the weather warmer with summer just around the corner. For teams at the wrong end of the Premier League table, however, May can be a month of despair in a battle to secure top-flight safet...
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Player Focus: Grealish the Creative Link Villa Have Been Crying Out For

by Martin Laurence at Monday, Apr 27 2015 17:14
Player Focus: Grealish the Creative Link Villa Have Been Crying Out For Aston Villa may have had a troubling weekend, with results before their meeting with Manchester City on Saturday evening not going their way, but there were again more positives to take from an eventual 3-2 defeat than negatives.Their's was a performance plagued by an opening period not uncommon of ...
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Match Report: Liverpool Fail to Find Answers to Problems Posed by Revitalised Villa

by Martin Laurence at Sunday, Apr 19 2015 21:30
Match Report: Liverpool Fail to Find Answers to Problems Posed by Revitalised Villa It was Tim Sherwood’s Aston Villa who saved a date for May 30th, very much acting as party poopers to what was ‘destined’ to be Steven Gerrard’s big day. The Liverpool captain was recalled to the starting line-up by Brendan Rodgers and if there was any sentiment in the decisi...
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Match Report: Benteke Fires Villa to Deserved Victory at The Lane

by Martin Laurence at Saturday, Apr 11 2015 20:09
Match Report: Benteke Fires Villa to Deserved Victory at The Lane It was any Tottenham fan's worst nightmare. The return of Tim Sherwood to White Hart Lane was one that many will have dreaded for this exact reason.Aston Villa deservedly ran out 1-0 winners in the capital and their manager, not renowned for masking his emotions, was not about to act restrained in v...
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Player Focus: Why Benteke Being 'Back' Should be No Great Surprise

by Martin Laurence at Thursday, Apr 9 2015 14:43
Player Focus: Why Benteke Being 'Back' Should be No Great Surprise Tuesday night's clash between Aston Villa and QPR was a timely reminder that the Midlands outfit, to all extents and purposes, possess the best player of the sides still frantically fighting the drop. In truth they have done for the last three seasons.Christian Benteke's hat-trick ensured that Tim S...
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Team Focus: Is Tim Sherwood the Man to Keep Villa in the Premier League?

by Jonathan Wilson at Tuesday, Feb 17 2015 15:32
Team Focus: Is Tim Sherwood the Man to Keep Villa in the Premier League? It’s not hard to see where the problems at Aston Villa lie. Their lack of goals have become a standing joke: Jasper Carrott did a gag in the eighties about his club, Birmingham City having a Month of the Goal competition, and when Aston Villa had to cancel their Goal of the Month award in Octo...
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Player Focus: The Dwindling Impact of Substitutes in The Premier League

by Ben McAleer at Friday, Feb 13 2015 12:30
Player Focus: The Dwindling Impact of Substitutes in The Premier League A lackadaisical defence left Spurs adrift in the second half. Google’s example of the use of ‘lackadaisical’ refers to Tottenham’s tendency to concede goals after the interval. Mauricio Pochettino has instilled relative solidity at the back at White Hart Lane following his su...
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Team Focus: Assessing the Premier League Relegation Run-in

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, Feb 4 2015 10:56
Team Focus: Assessing the Premier League Relegation Run-in At this stage of the season the Premier League table has rather satisfyingly split into three sections: the big-hitting European hopefuls in the top 8, the no-hopers in mid-table - lacking in ambition and almost certain to end the season drifting aimlessly amidst mediocrity - and the precariously pl...
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Match Report: Arsenal Execute 5-Star Gameplan to Despatch of Hapless Villa

by Martin Laurence at Sunday, Feb 1 2015 20:33
Match Report: Arsenal Execute 5-Star Gameplan to Despatch of Hapless Villa After a 5-0 thumping at the hands of Arsenal in the early kick-off on Sunday Paul Lambert suggested that it was a strange game and one that he didn't think was reflected in the scoreline. On the face of it the Villa boss had a point but in truth it was a result that looked eminently possible from th...
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