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Player Focus: The Longest Player Scoring Streaks Revealed

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Player Focus: The Longest Player Scoring Streaks Revealed As far as remarkable starts to the season are concerned, from an individual perspective at least, one need look no further than the Bundesliga and indeed the weekend's showdown between big hitters Bayern and Borussia Dortmund. Pep Guardiola's side may have secured what is becoming an increasingly fa...

Team Focus: Ability to Adapt Key to Bournemouth's Survival in Absence of Wilson

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Team Focus: Ability to Adapt Key to Bournemouth's Survival in Absence of Wilson If the late defeat to Stoke last weekend was not tough enough to take, the news after the game that Bournemouth's top scorer Callum Wilson would be out for at least 6 months with torn knee ligaments has left plenty of sour Cherries on the south coast. The blow comes a matter of weeks after the club'...

Player Focus: Nolito Continues to Improve as Barca Interest Mounts

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Player Focus: Nolito Continues to Improve as Barca Interest Mounts Arguably the most remarkable scoreline of the season across Europe thus far, Celta Vigo's 4-1 rout over Barcelona highlighted the fact that the blaugrana have most certainly regressed after ending the previous campaign in spectacular fashion.The game also showcased just what confidence can do for a ...

Player Focus: West Ham's Payet Capture Proving Plaudits Right

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Player Focus: West Ham's Payet Capture Proving Plaudits Right Having seen their team become only the fourth ever to beat Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City away from home in the same season in the Premier League era, doing so in their opening three outings on the road, West Ham supporters are in dreamland right now.Despite successive home defeats to Leices...

Team Focus: New Look Stoke Lacking Identity and Direction

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Team Focus: New Look Stoke Lacking Identity and Direction Though their 2-0 defeat to Arsenal was not unexpected, and Mark Hughes' side have had to endure a tricky start to the campaign, the early signs for this new look Stoke side aren’t as encouraging as anticipated.The manner of Saturday's defeat to the Gunners was not befitting of a club that has ...

WhoScored Tipster: The Top Tips Across Europe this Weekend

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WhoScored Tipster: The Top Tips Across Europe this Weekend Manchester United vs Liverpool - Over 2.5 goalsIt may not be a surprise to see such high odds on over 2.5 goals when Manchester United and Liverpool re-ignite their fierce rivalry this Saturday. Neither side enter the game in strong form going forwards but when the two have met in the past such issu...

Team Focus: Upcoming Qualifiers Allow England to Experiment in Midfield

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Team Focus: Upcoming Qualifiers Allow England to Experiment in Midfield There has been one constant throughout England's Euro 2016 qualifying campaign beyond winning each of their 6 group matches thus far. Roy Hodgson has fielded a midfield trio in every game, with the most common combination seeing Jack Wilshere start at the base, with Jordan Henderson and Fabian Delph...

Player Focus: Chelsea Lacking Alternatives to Faltering Fabregas

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Player Focus: Chelsea Lacking Alternatives to Faltering Fabregas It's been a terrible start to the season for Chelsea, who sit 8 points adrift of pace-setters Manchester City after just four matches, with a gap in goal difference of 13 away from last season's runners-up. Throw in what most would consider to have been a thoroughly underwhelming transfer window for...

WhoScored Tipster: 5 Tempting Tips Ahead of the Weekend's Action

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WhoScored Tipster: 5 Tempting Tips Ahead of the Weekend's Action Ahead of a full weekend of action across Europe's top 5 leagues heading into the international break, WhoScored.com bring you some tempting odds from a number of the big clashes on the continent.NEWCASTLE vs ARSENAL - Arsenal to win by 1Starting with Saturday's early kick-off in the Premier League, ...

Player Focus: United Would be Mad Not to Demand Navas in Any Deal for De Gea

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Player Focus: United Would be Mad Not to Demand Navas in Any Deal for De Gea While uncertainty still remains over whether the Spaniard will leave this summer or next, one thing for certain is that David de Gea's time at Old Trafford is coming to an end. Last year's PFA Player of the Season nominee has been omitted from the matchday squad for the first two fixtures of the cam...