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PSG's welcome of Marseille among those to watch on Derby weekend

by Ben McAleer at Friday, Oct 25 2019 17:10
PSG's welcome of Marseille among those to watch on Derby weekend El Clasico may have been postponed, but while Barcelona's welcome of Real Madrid has been pushed back to December, there are plenty of 'classic' encounters across Europe this weekend. Exeter vs Plymouth Argyle - League TwoNot the most glamourous of the derbies on the continent, but Exeter host Plymo...
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Season Review: Assessing the Russian Premier League before long winter break

by Eliot Rothwell at Wednesday, Dec 21 2016 16:32
Season Review: Assessing the Russian Premier League before long winter break Winter, in Russia, generally means cold. The temperatures vary, from above zero in the areas around Krasnodar to around minus forty in Yakutsk, but, either way, the conditions are not conducive to professional football. So, each winter, a familiar debate appears in Russia around the scheduling of th...
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Promes taking on star status in Russia following Hulk departure

by Eliot Rothwell at Thursday, Sep 29 2016 15:44
Promes taking on star status in Russia following Hulk departure As Hulk said goodbye to Zenit Saint Petersburg this summer, Russian football was hurting. The national side had returned from Euro 2016 humiliated, with coach Leonid Slutskiy despondent. On Slutskiy’s return to CSKA Moscow, Ahmed Musa, the club’s main striker, let it be known that he was...
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Team Focus: Typically Inconsistent Spartak Struggling at Either End

by Domm Norris at Thursday, Oct 30 2014 13:47
Team Focus: Typically Inconsistent Spartak Struggling at Either End For the past decade, since their last league victory in 2001, Spartak Moscow are a club who have been bedevilled by inconsistency. The club’s recruitment of players and coaches has been decidedly sketchy since their legendary coach Oleg Romantsev, the man who won 8 league titles while at Spart...
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Player Focus: Homegrown Forwards Rightly Making Headlines in Russia

by Domm Norris at Wednesday, Aug 13 2014 15:19
Player Focus: Homegrown Forwards Rightly Making Headlines in Russia The recent World Cup in Brazil is being viewed as something of a tipping point for Russian football - as the old guard, who have been so prominent since Euro 2008, are faded out to be replaced by younger, fresher talent in anticipation for when the tournament is held on native soil in 2018. National...
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Team Focus: Managerless Spartak's Possession Football Not Paying Off

by Domm Norris at Monday, Apr 7 2014 17:49
Team Focus: Managerless Spartak's Possession Football Not Paying Off It’s difficult to imagine a club so unstable that within the space of a few weeks they can go from title challengers to mid-table fodder. That’s the situation that Spartak Moscow currently find themselves in, as they head towards the season’s end deeply embroiled in a crisis that s...
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League Focus: Russian Premier League - Post Winter Preview

by Domm Norris at Monday, Mar 3 2014 12:47
League Focus: Russian Premier League - Post Winter Preview As the snow begins to thaw across the world’s largest nation, the Russian Premier League once again cranks into action following a break of almost three months in order to offset the damaging effects of the winter’s sub zero temperatures. To many people such a sizeable gap in playing tim...
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Team Focus: Could This Be Spartak's Year?

by Domm Norris at Friday, Aug 16 2013 16:00
Team Focus: Could This Be Spartak's Year? It seems incredibly odd for a new Russian football season to begin with Spartak Moscow not suffering from some kind of internal crisis. The capital club have all too often been the focus of a raging debate about how the once perennial Premier League champions could collapse to the point where Europe...
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