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Team Focus: Atalanta Still A Royal Pain In Serie A

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Team Focus: Atalanta Still A Royal Pain In Serie A Speaking in the build-up to this past weekend’s round of Serie A fixtures, Andrea Stramaccioni vowed not to underestimate his latest opponents, telling reporters at his pre-match press conference I have tremendous respect for Atalanta, they are doing very well and have many players of great qu...

Team Focus: Europe's Best & Worst Entertainment Value

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Team Focus: Europe's Best & Worst Entertainment Value Football is an entertainment business, and while goals cannot solely represent the quality of a game, most would agree that high-scoring affairs are the most appealing to the fans. While a 1-0 home win can bring elation to the hardened supporter, goals generally bring in the crowds, and here we look...

Team Focus: Purple Patch - Montella's Fiorentina

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Team Focus: Purple Patch - Montella's Fiorentina This past weekend in Serie A saw a number of notable events, none more so than in Turin where the incredible unbeaten streak of reigning Champions Juventus finally ended, with bitter rivals Inter cutting the run short at a staggering 49 games. There were huge stories elsewhere too as Mattia Destro f...

Team Focus: Simeone's Atletico

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Team Focus: Simeone's Atletico Atletico Madrid’s return to Copa del Rey action this week was a poignant moment of reflection for a club that, after seasons of self-doubt and underachievement, has flown on an upward curve of improvement over the past year.It was their last domestic cup game, a 1-0 home defeat to Segunda B si...

Team Focus: Is Barca's Start Superb or Suspect?

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Team Focus: Is Barca's Start Superb or Suspect? Over the summer much was made of how Barcelona would adapt to life post Pep Guardiola; the popular opinion being that while the players and the style would remain the same, the attention to small but significant details that Guardiola was famed for might start to slip.There was certainly evidence to...

Team Focus: Who Will Replace The Injured Gignac at Marseille?

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Team Focus: Who Will Replace The Injured Gignac at Marseille? After starting the season with six straight wins, Marseille’s 4-1 defeat to Valenciennes was something of a reality check for Elie Baup’s side, and defeat this weekend away at Troyes saw reality strike with an almighty crash, or possibly more a crack - the crack of Andre-Pierre Gignac&rs...

Team Focus: New Manager Impacts

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Team Focus: New Manager Impacts With almost a quarter of the season already vanishing before our very eyes across Europe's top 5 leagues, the fans of clubs who appointed new managers in the summer have started to form opinions of the men at the helm.In total there were 23 managerial changes over the course of the summer, and here ...

Match Focus: The Corsican Derby - Ajaccio vs Bastia

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Match Focus: The Corsican Derby - Ajaccio vs Bastia When Bastia won promotion back to Ligue 1 one of the most exciting prospects for this season was the return of the Corsican derby. It has been seven years since the island derby featured in the top division, and back then Mamadou Seck’s first half header was enough for Ajaccio to win the match...

Team Focus: The Secret to Everton's Success

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Team Focus: The Secret to Everton's Success There’s a very surprising side leading the ‘shots per game’ statistic across Europe’s five major leagues so far this season. Most of the contenders are guessable – there’s Manchester City and Real Madrid, both league winners last season and more direct than their ...

Team Focus: Andrea Stramaccioni’s Inter

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Team Focus: Andrea Stramaccioni’s Inter As they claimed victory in one of the most intense and ill tempered Milan derbies in memory, it was a very different looking Inter side than the one we have grown accustomed to watching over recent seasons. Only four members of the team which secured a historic treble under Jose Mourinho started the...