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Player Focus: Schweinsteiger Not Offering United Enough Thrust From Deep

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Player Focus: Schweinsteiger Not Offering United Enough Thrust From Deep Nobody touched the ball more in Manchester United’s goalless draw with Chelsea than Bastian Schweinsteiger. He was at the centre of everything and, given how he has come to embody the “process” of which Louis van Gaal is so proud that, at the moment, may be part of the problem.On t...

Team Focus: Sunderland Win Suggests Chelsea Ready to Flourish Again

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Team Focus: Sunderland Win Suggests Chelsea Ready to Flourish Again Statisticians will point out that the idea of a new manager bounce is nonsense, that the idea that a change of manager prompts an upturn in form is not borne out by facts. But what is true that there are occasions when a manager’s presence has become so oppressive that players appear liberated...

Player Focus: Ramsey Enjoying Central Limelight Once Again

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Player Focus: Ramsey Enjoying Central Limelight Once Again Aaron Ramsey’s goal against Aston Villa on Sunday could hardly have offered a better snapshot both of his performance in that game and of his wider qualities as a footballer. He won possession back with a tackle on Idrissa Gueye then surged 60 yards forward to be a few yards to Mesut Ozil&rsqu...

Player Focus: Jack Colback - Not Pirlo or Cattermole but Somewhere In Between

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Player Focus: Jack Colback - Not Pirlo or Cattermole but Somewhere In Between Who’s the most booked player in the Premier League since summer 2013? If you said Lee Cattermole then there’s no prizes for originality and he’s only second anyway. Gareth Barry is third, Branislav Ivanovic fourth and Fernandinho fifth but, thanks to a needless foul on Roberto Firm...

Team Focus: Input of Leicester Support Cast Just as Vital as Vardy Goals

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Team Focus: Input of Leicester Support Cast Just as Vital as Vardy Goals Goals help. When a club assumed to be mid-rank at best is bothering the top of the table at the beginning of December, it tends to have a goalscorer in great form. Sunderland in 1999-2000 had Kevin Phillips, who went on to score 30 goals in the season and was the last Englishman to win the European ...

Team Focus: City Win Highlights Benefits of Coutinho & Firmino Understanding

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Team Focus: City Win Highlights Benefits of Coutinho & Firmino Understanding Three managers, to an extent, played a part in Liverpool’s 4-1 win at Manchester City on Saturday. There was Jurgen Klopp, of course, now going through a phase of public understatement, but clearly delighted at how his influence is beginning to be seen. There was Manuel Pellegrini who, not for...

Player Focus: Kleinheisler an Unlikely Hero as Hungary Return to the Big Time

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Player Focus: Kleinheisler an Unlikely Hero as Hungary Return to the Big Time Around an hour and a half after the final whistle at the Groupama Arena on Sunday, Laszlo Kleinheisler, his bag slung over his shoulder, paused to answer his phone. For a few minutes he stood in the light by the main entrance between the two huge statues, one of the great forward Florian Albert, the...

Player Focus: Committed Lamela Finding His Feet After Slow Start at Spurs

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Player Focus: Committed Lamela Finding His Feet After Slow Start at Spurs There was something almost comic about the frenzy with which Erik Lamela played Sunday’s North London derby. Mauricio Pochettino didn’t say it, but there was a suspicion that when he was substituted with 16 minutes remaining it was for his own protection. He’d already been booked f...

League Focus: Analysing the Correlation of Shots and League Standings

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League Focus: Analysing the Correlation of Shots and League Standings When Egil Olsen was manager of Norway, he would insist that fans and journalists paid attention not only to the score, but to shots on goal. You couldn’t, he reasoned, trust a 1-0 win if you’d had one shot and the opposition had had 10, and equally you couldn’t get too down over a ...

Team Focus: Pragmatic Allardyce Approach Needed for Sunderland to Progress

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Team Focus: Pragmatic Allardyce Approach Needed for Sunderland to Progress Sometimes teams near the bottom of the table can be in a false position. Leicester City last season, for instance, were a puzzle for a long time as they limped along in the relegation zone. They had more shots than many of those around them and conceded fewer; watching them it was very hard to under...