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Player Focus: Improving Eriksen Firing Spurs Back Towards Top Four

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Player Focus: Improving Eriksen Firing Spurs Back Towards Top Four In all the discussion about Tottenham Hotspur’s recent surge of form, and amidst all the drama of so many late goals, there’s been one area that manager Mauricio Pochettino has been rather reluctant to touch on - or, rather, a series of individual areas.The Argentine doesn’t really...

Player Focus: Could Wilfried Bony Sway the Title Race in Man City's Favour?

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Player Focus: Could Wilfried Bony Sway the Title Race in Man City's Favour? It could be the decision, albeit a double-sided one, that settles the title race. Back in August, as Jose Mourinho could finally contemplate replacing the hapless Fernando Torres, the Chelsea manager was very interested in a potential deal for Swansea City’s Wilfried Bony. The Portuguese is sa...

Player Focus: Should Chelsea Regret Letting Frank Lampard Go?

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Player Focus: Should Chelsea Regret Letting Frank Lampard Go? For all that Jose Mourinho has tried to quell any controversy in the media this campaign, and all the usual “issues” he’s so far managed to generally evade, there’s been one question that’s guaranteed to get a reaction. It will at the least make his facial expression ch...

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

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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...

Team Focus: Can Man City Keep Momentum Up Without Agüero?

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Team Focus: Can Man City Keep Momentum Up Without Agüero? So, this is what it all comes down to for Manchester City in the Champions League, except they’ll have to do without the man that has brought them up to the highest peaks. It was finally confirmed on Monday that the sensational Sergio Agüero will miss a month of football, and is thereby o...

Match Focus: How Will Chelsea Fare Without Costa Against Spurs?

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 Match Focus: How Will Chelsea Fare Without Costa Against Spurs? It was the big question ahead of Chelsea’s home match against Tottenham Hotspur, given that Diego Costa has had a bigger impact on their attack than anyone else this season.How - for just the second big game in this campaign - will Jose Mourinho’s side cope without their top-scoring stri...

Team Focus: Rodgers Needs to Take Frail Liverpool Back to Basics

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Team Focus: Rodgers Needs to Take Frail Liverpool Back to Basics One of the most galling aspects of Liverpool’s latest defeat was that, this time, Crystal Palace didn’t even need to be particularly rampant or raucous. This was no long night of the soul for Brendan Rodgers’s side like that famous 3-3 in May. Instead, it was a rather easy afternoo...

Team Focus: Chelsea's Supporting Cast Playing Key Role in Fast Start

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Team Focus: Chelsea's Supporting Cast Playing Key Role in Fast Start As Chelsea sit four points ahead of second-place at the top of the Premier League, and eight ahead of defending champions Manchester City, it seems far easier to list the reasons for that high positioning than it is to actually haul them back.Most obviously, as Jamie Carragher argued last week, ther...

Team Focus: Making Sense of Liverpool's Shortcomings

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Team Focus: Making Sense of Liverpool's Shortcomings If you were to lay out all of Brendan Rodgers’s problems this season, the list would be as predictable for Liverpool fans as it is painful.Most obviously, there is the departure of Luis Suarez, and the loss of so many goals as well as so much devastating play. To add insult, there’s been...

Team Focus: Problems Less Widespread For Van Gaal's Underperforming United

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Team Focus: Problems Less Widespread For Van Gaal's Underperforming United It’s just as well that Louis van Gaal has near total tunnel vision about his management because, depending on which of the many perspectives you look at Manchester United’s season from so far, it would be difficult not to greatly doubt any one opinion.Take the aftermath of the 1-0 defeat...