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League Focus: Premier League Halfway Point Stats Round-up

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League Focus: Premier League Halfway Point Stats Round-up The conclusion of Liverpool’s 1-0 win over Sunderland on Wednesday night signalled the halfway point of the current Premier League season. There have been plenty of shocks over the last six months, notably Leicester’s impressive rise up the table, and here WhoScored looks at the current ...

Match Focus: Arsenal Gunning for Glory on Unhappy Hunting Ground

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Match Focus: Arsenal Gunning for Glory on Unhappy Hunting Ground Boxing Day’s full fixture list ends at St. Mary’s when Southampton host Arsenal. The two teams come into the encounter in contrasting form. Saints have failed to win any of their last five league matches, with the 2-0 defeat to Tottenham their fourth defeat in that run. Conversely, the G...

Player Focus: Assessing the Early Premier League Player of the Season Candidates

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Player Focus: Assessing the Early Premier League Player of the Season Candidates Fifteen games into the Premier League season and all set for the hectic winter schedule, no-one would have imagined that Leicester would be top of the pile this late into the season. Nor would any have predicted the players that have taken this campaign by storm to now.This time last year Chelse...

Player Focus: Record Breaker Özil Holds the Key to Arsenal's Title Hopes

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Player Focus: Record Breaker Özil Holds the Key to Arsenal's Title Hopes Back in July, we wrote that a well-rested Mesut Özil is set to make a substantial impact for Arsenal this season. After a summer away from football, the onus was on the Germany international to take the Premier League by storm. After two years to settle in England, the 27-year-old had been expe...

Match Report: Five Observations From Arsenal's Win Over Bayern

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Match Report: Five Observations From Arsenal's Win Over Bayern All goalkeepers make mistakesOne of the main topics ahead of Arsenal’s welcome of Bayern was the return of Petr Cech after Arsene Wenger had opted to field David Ospina against Dinamo Zagreb and Olympiakos with calamitous results. While the change of tack was enforced as the Colombian sat out ...

You vs WhoScored: WhoScored Expert MondoGoal XI – Gameweek 5

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You vs WhoScored: WhoScored Expert MondoGoal XI – Gameweek 5 The international break is over and the WhoScored expert has returned with their XI for gameweek 5 of the Premier League. The aim of this game is to create the best possible team from a designated £100m budget over on MondoGoal to be in with a chance of winning cash prizes. It’s a small ...

Match Focus: Four Key Battles Ahead of Sunday's Community Shield

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Match Focus: Four Key Battles Ahead of Sunday's Community Shield Widely deemed as the English campaign's curtain raiser, the Community Shield takes to TV screens on Sunday as FA Cup holders Arsenal come up against domestic champions Chelsea, with the Gunners looking to secure glory for the second successive year. Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal side have been in im...

Player Focus: Well Rested Özil Set to Make Substanstial Impact for Arsenal

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Player Focus: Well Rested Özil Set to Make Substanstial Impact for Arsenal It was a wry grin that effectively let the cat out of the bag in 2013. In the wake of Arsenal’s 1-0 win over north London rivals Tottenham almost 24 months ago, Arsene Wenger, when quizzed on whether there would be any more arrivals before the transfer window slammed shut, simply replied: Mayb...

Player Focus: Mesut Özil Working Hard to Make Arsenal Time a Success

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Player Focus: Mesut Özil Working Hard to Make Arsenal Time a Success There’s something about languid players that seems to divide opinion. Effort, industry, passion: these are the eternal virtues of English football, the sense that players need not merely to be trying but also have to be visibly trying so they end the game red-faced and sweat-soaked when perhap...

Team Focus: Trying to Make Sense of Arsenal's Latest Injury Crisis

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Team Focus: Trying to Make Sense of Arsenal's Latest Injury Crisis In truth, there is no sense to be made of Arsenal's latest injury problems. Reinforced after a summer of spending, they are already, just seven games into the new Premier League season, facing a fresh crisis. That this is far from the first time we have seen this happen to the Gunners in recent year...