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Top 10: Europe’s guiltiest culprits in front of goal

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Top 10: Europe’s guiltiest culprits in front of goal While goals are what clubs spend big to bring in and fans pay to see, for some they prove hard to come by at the start of a campaign. Here, WhoScored.com run through the players to have had the most shots that are yet to score in Europe’s top five leagues this season.Andreas Pereira – Gr...

Do Arsenal boast the Premier League's best centre-back partnership?

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Do Arsenal boast the Premier League's best centre-back partnership? For any major team in football, the need for a solid centre-back partnership is vital. Gerard Pique and Carles Puyol was perhaps the best in Spain’s history, while the duo of Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand, and John Terry and Ricardo Carvalho, for Manchester United and Chelsea, respectively, ...

Chadli providing much-needed creative spark for blunt Baggies

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Chadli providing much-needed creative spark for blunt Baggies On the back of a record breaking summer transfer window, in which over £1bn was spent to sign new players, 13 teams broke their club record in order to improve the squad. With the vast financial windfall that came with the £5.16bn TV deal brokered between Sky and BT, Premier League sides...

Progressive Pochettino has Spurs primed for title assault

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Progressive Pochettino has Spurs primed for title assault Having suffered title heartbreak and forfeited second spot to heated rivals Arsenal on the final day of last season, Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino spoke of his frustration with his players. “I wanted to kill all of them,” the Argentine said on the eve of the current campaign. The ca...

Terry absence set to be felt when Arsenal face Chelsea

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Terry absence set to be felt when Arsenal face Chelsea “(I will) find him one day outside a football pitch and I will break his face.” Jose Mourinho, it’s safe to say, is not a fan of Arsene Wenger. Even now in charge of Manchester United, the former Blues boss has stoked the flames ahead of Arsenal’s welcome of Chelsea this week...

Promising Pickford Sunderland's saving grace in slow start

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Promising Pickford Sunderland's saving grace in slow start It seemed like it would be one of those days for Tottenham at White Hart Lane last Sunday. Spurs laid siege to Sunderland’s goal in the opening 45 minutes, firing off 19 shots; an average of one every 2 minutes and 37 seconds. They huffed and they puffed, but no matter what, they couldn’...

Impressive Iwobi more than capable of realising potential

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Impressive Iwobi more than capable of realising potential When a young player breaks onto the scene, the watching masses often demand to see more. However, it’s vital they are managed properly or they run the risk of their careers being prematurely cut short. Michael Owen was run into the ground during his teenage years having starred for Liverpool a...

Stoke's defensive struggles has Hughes under pressure

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Stoke's defensive struggles has Hughes under pressure And then there were two. Southampton’s 1-0 win over Swansea on Sunday afternoon means Stoke and Sunderland are the only teams yet to win a Premier League game this season. The top-flight’s bottom two have very much struggled in the opening weeks of the campaign having taken a point apiec...

Will Conte's Late Subs Affect Chelsea in the Long Run?

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Will Conte's Late Subs Affect Chelsea in the Long Run? As Chelsea fell to a 2-1 home defeat to old adversaries Liverpool on Friday night, the main gripe from home fans came in Antonio Conte’s late subs. It took until the 83rd minute for the Italian to make changes to his side, a decision he defended once the match had ended. “We scored the g...

Lack of Substantial Rest Impacting Kane's Game

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Lack of Substantial Rest Impacting Kane's Game There was a moment in Tottenham’s 2-1 defeat to Monaco on Wednesday night where Harry Kane was presented with the ideal chance to pull his side level. Vincent Janssen had broken away down the right and played in his English teammate. Kane took a decent first touch but fired straight at Danijel...