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Player Focus: Forward Thinking Rose a Useful Option for Spurs and England

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Player Focus: Forward Thinking Rose a Useful Option for Spurs and England It’s hard to remember a time quite like this for the England national team. After the stasis of the so-called golden generation, when half a dozen big names were assured of their place on the teamsheet, almost irrespective of form or whether they could play together or not, Roy Hodgson finds h...

Player Focus: Toure Finally Fitting the Bill in Deeper Midfield Role at City

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Player Focus: Toure Finally Fitting the Bill in Deeper Midfield Role at City All season the question for Manchester City has been how to get the best out of Yaya Toure. That he is a hugely talented player remains obvious. He has a capacity to score remarkable goals – such as the one he got in the 2-1 defeat at Arsenal – but he has also over the past year or so be...

Player Focus: Palace Attempt to Get the Best from Potentially Prolific Adebayor

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Player Focus: Palace Attempt to Get the Best from Potentially Prolific Adebayor The first time I saw Emmanuel Adebayor was in Cairo in 2006. He’d just joined Arsenal and had scored 11 goals as Togo qualified for the World Cup for the first time. Everybody wanted a look at this 21-year-old rising star, but he was mysteriously left out of Togo’s opening game of the 20...

Player Focus: Revitalised Dembele at the Heart of Spurs Success

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Player Focus: Revitalised Dembele at the Heart of Spurs Success Whatever outrage Manchester City felt about the penalty decision that gave Tottenham their opening goal on Sunday, what they could not deny was that for long portions of the game, the away side were on top. In midfield, Spurs were simply sharper, more energetic, smarter than City. Eric Dier and Dele...

Player Focus: Mikel Key in Chelsea's Rebuilding Process

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Player Focus: Mikel Key in Chelsea's Rebuilding Process The single biggest change that Guus Hiddink has made to Chelsea’s line-up since his arrival to replace Jose Mourinho in December has been the elevation of John Obi Mikel to the starting XI. Mikel has been a bit-part player for most of his 10-year Chelsea career, but Hiddink has started him in ...

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: Was Van Gaal Right to Downplay De Gea Display?

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Player Focus: Was Van Gaal Right to Downplay De Gea Display? At first, it just seemed like Louis van Gaal was being wilfully obtuse – as he so often is. In the press-conference after Manchester United’s win at Liverpool on Sunday he was asked how important David de Gea had been to his side’s win. Essentially it was: one of your players playe...

Team Focus: What Hope of a Great Escape from Sorry Villa?

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Team Focus: What Hope of a Great Escape from Sorry Villa? What used to be impossible isn’t so any more. After Sunderland had taken 13 points from five games – including wins at Chelsea and Manchester United – to avoid relegation the season before last, their manager Gus Poyet spoke of how in future people would remember their great escape...

Player Focus: Too Soon to Write Off Out of Form Benteke's Liverpool Chances

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Player Focus: Too Soon to Write Off Out of Form Benteke's Liverpool Chances Something very weird has happened to Christian Benteke since Christmas. Over that period, he has scored the winning goal twice and yet his confidence seems to have evaporated. His misses in injury-time against both Leicester City and Sunderland were troubling, while his performance in the 2-0 defeat...