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Team Focus: Sunderland Win Suggests Chelsea Ready to Flourish Again

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Dec 21 2015 11:20
Team Focus: Sunderland Win Suggests Chelsea Ready to Flourish Again Statisticians will point out that the idea of a new manager bounce is nonsense, that the idea that a change of manager prompts an upturn in form is not borne out by facts. But what is true that there are occasions when a manager’s presence has become so oppressive that players appear liberated...
Categories: Team News

Player Focus: Prevailing Inconsistency Preventing Oscar’s Rise to the Top

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Jan 22 2015 15:24
Player Focus: Prevailing Inconsistency Preventing Oscar’s Rise to the Top It is difficult to disagree with Jose Mourinho's assertion that his Chelsea side had put on the “perfect game” to beat Swansea so convincingly at the weekend. Everything clicked for them, perhaps even more perfectly than before in what has thus far been a vastly successful season for the...
Categories: Player Focus

Player Focus: The Ongoing Effect of Brazil's Catastrophic Defeat to Germany

by Miguel Delaney at Wednesday, Dec 17 2014 12:06
Player Focus: The Ongoing Effect of Brazil's Catastrophic Defeat to Germany For all the relentlessness of the Premier League machine, and all that the accumulation of games and results eradicate the effect of previous ones, there are some matches that aren't so easy to minimise or just wave away. Sometimes, a player can’t be as good as his last game because one specif...
Categories: Player Focus

Match Report: Oscar Inspires Stronger Chelsea to Victory at Selhurst Park

by Jenny Brown at Sunday, Oct 19 2014 10:15
Match Report: Oscar Inspires Stronger Chelsea to Victory at Selhurst Park Towards the end of last season, Chelsea had become accustomed to dropping points in matches that they were expected to win. After the defeat at Selhurst Park in March, Jose Mourinho noted on a journalist's pad what Chelsea were missing most were balls. Seven months on and they headed into Saturday's...
Categories: Match Report

Player Focus: Oscar Happy with Supporting Role to Chelsea's Stellar Cast

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Oct 13 2014 11:19
Player Focus: Oscar Happy with Supporting Role to Chelsea's Stellar Cast Everywhere you went in Brazil during the World Cup, you saw Brazil players on advertising posters. There were pictures of Neymar hawking everything from headphones to boots. There was the – frankly disturbing – image of David Luiz dressed as a pilot standing in front of a plane. And ther...
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Team Focus: Highest Rated World Cup Group Stages XI

by Ben McAleer at Friday, Jun 27 2014 17:15
Team Focus: Highest Rated World Cup Group Stages XI 136 goals were scored in the group stages of the 2014 World Cup, a significant improvement on South Africa 2010 where the ball hit the net 101 times in the opening 48 games. European giants Spain, Portugal, Italy and England all crashed out at the first hurdle, while Brazil, Colombia, Chile and Arge...
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Match Focus: Lessons Learned From Brazil's Win Over Croatia

by Ben McAleer at Friday, Jun 13 2014 16:15
Match Focus: Lessons Learned From Brazil's Win Over Croatia After years of planning, the 2014 World Cup kicked off in dramatic fashion on Thursday night as hosts Brazil overcame Group A rivals Croatia 3-1. A Neymar brace and late Oscar strike was enough for A Seleção to secure three points, after Marcelo had inadvertently turned into his own ne...
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Match Focus: Analysing the Midfield Battle Central to World Cup Opener

by Martin Laurence at Tuesday, Jun 10 2014 15:13
Match Focus: Analysing the Midfield Battle Central to World Cup Opener It's now a matter of days away. The World Cup returns this Thursday with an exciting opening game to look forward to as host nation and tournament favourites Brazil face Croatia. It's arguably the most star-studded curtain raiser for the competition in recent memory.Fans of the Seleção...
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League Focus: 3 Conclusions from the Premier League Season So Far

by Jonathan Wilson at Tuesday, Dec 31 2013 11:00
League Focus: 3 Conclusions from the Premier League Season So Far Proactivity and reactivitySince the success of Barcelona and Spain and their approach based on radical possession, teams seem to have become more aware of the advantages – and disadvantages – of holding possession. Although it’s true that, at the very highest level, the most succes...
Categories: League Focus

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...
Categories: Player Focus