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League Focus: 2013/14 Bundesliga Preview

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League Focus: 2013/14 Bundesliga Preview When the last season ended on May 18th, Bayern were still two weeks away from winning the Bundesliga, Champions League and DFB Pokal treble. The champions from Bavaria travelled to Mönchengladbach on the final day, manager Jupp Heynckes’ home town, to win an open game with 4-3 – a v...

Player Focus: Does An Impassioned Individual Decrease The Likelihood Of Team Success?

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Player Focus: Does An Impassioned Individual Decrease The Likelihood Of Team Success? Football is a passionate sport. Wayne Rooney exhibited this in his foul mouthed tirade down the camera in 2011 during Manchester United’s 4-2 win over West Ham, with the striker netting a hat-trick. A two-match ban quickly followed and as Rooney hastily explained: “I didn’t realise...

Team Focus: How Bayern Munich Could Line Up Under Pep Guardiola

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Team Focus: How Bayern Munich Could Line Up Under Pep Guardiola When Bayern Munich head coach Pep Guardiola confirmed he only wanted to sign Thiago Alcántarathis summerduring his press conference last week, it all but derailed Manchester United’s pursuit of the Spaniard. David Moyes’ side had been courting the 22-year-old and appeared set to s...

League Focus: Differing Styles of Europe's Top 5 Leagues

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League Focus: Differing Styles of Europe's Top 5 Leagues After barnstorming wins for Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund set up an all German Champions League final this season, much was made of the decline of Real Madrid and Barcelona, and indeed the rise of the Bundesliga. It was also only the second season out of the last nine without an English team i...

Dortmund vs Bayern: Will Götze Or Kroos Be The Bigger Loss?

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Dortmund vs Bayern: Will Götze Or Kroos Be The Bigger Loss? “It was like a heart attack,” Borussia Dortmund head coach Jürgen Klopp told The Guardian when speaking of the moment he heard that Mario Götze had agreed to move to Bayern Munich over the summer. The young Germany international has become a pivotal member of Die Schwarzgelben&...

WhoScored Tipster: Champions League Final Bets

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WhoScored Tipster: Champions League Final Bets A German side will win the Champions League for the third time on Saturday night after two of the most impressive and interesting teams in European football have done battle for the 5th time this season. Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich have each won the competition once before, and whoever is ev...

Dortmund vs Bayern: Where the Champions League Final will be Won and Lost

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Dortmund vs Bayern: Where the Champions League Final will be Won and Lost Bayern Munich fans mockingly sang football's coming home as they watched their side cruise to a 3-1 victory at the Emirates Stadium in the second round of this season's Champions League. Dortmund fans may well join them this weekend when the two sides meet at the same location (albeit at a rebuilt s...

Player Focus: Is It Problematic Being A One-Man Team?

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Player Focus: Is It Problematic Being A One-Man Team? Picking up a man of the match award is an honour that any player will happily receive in football, regardless of the result of their team. The award highlights the input and display of said performer in a game and the more a player picks up, the more highly revered they tend to be.Naturally, any pla...

Team Focus: Does Hitting The Woodwork More Equate To Success?

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Team Focus: Does Hitting The Woodwork More Equate To Success? The scene was perfectly set in Jamie Carragher’s 737th, and last ever, appearance in a Liverpool shirt. The defender, who has scored as many own goals for Tottenham Hotspur (3) than strikes at the right end for the Reds in the Premier League, saw his 30 yard effort cannon off the post in what ...

WhoScored Tipster: Champions League Semi-Final Betting

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WhoScored Tipster: Champions League Semi-Final Betting Real Madrid and Barcelona embark on what most believe will be missions that prove to be impossible, even with the talent at their disposal this week. Jose Mourinho's side are looking to become only the second ever team to overturn a 4-1 first leg deficit in the knockout stages of the Champions Leagu...