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Besiktas Primed to Assert Dominance Over Super Lig

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Besiktas Primed to Assert Dominance Over Super Lig Istanbul is a city that celebrates triumphs well. The many public spaces throughout the city provide ideal locations for a buoyant congregation and the wide availability of flares adds colour to the noise. Flags adorn balconies and windows, with the winner of the Turkish Super Lig replacing the year...

WhoScored's European Team of the Season

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WhoScored's European Team of the Season With the domestic campaign over and attention now turning to cup finals across the continent, we at WhoScored.com take a closer look at the European team of the season using our unique rating system.Keylor Navas - Real Madrid (Rating 7.12)When a dodgy fax machine prevented Real Madrid from landing n...

Misfiring Norwich All But Condemned to Relegation

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Misfiring Norwich All But Condemned to Relegation If Norwich City lose at Watford on Wednesday, or if Sunderland beat Everton at home, they will be relegated. Even if Norwich win both that game and the one at Everton next Sunday - and they’ve lost their last four - they are reliant on both Sunderland and Newcastle slipping up. An instant retu...

Has Patrick Vieira Made a Difference at NYCFC?

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Has Patrick Vieira Made a Difference at NYCFC? From the moment their expansion was announced, New York City FC were destined to steal more than their fair share of attention in Major League Soccer. The spotlight tends to follow clubs of such wealth and stature, and with Abu Dhabi-owned Manchester City behind the franchise NYCFC had both those th...

Has Benitez's Appointment Come Too Late To Shore Up Geordies

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Has Benitez's Appointment Come Too Late To Shore Up Geordies Aston Villa have lost their last 11 games in a row and even if there has been some evidence of a moderate improvement in recent away defeats to Manchester United and Watford, there is little reason to suppose their final Premier League home game of the season will bring a change of fortune. Which is...

Is Sanchez Flores Following a Trend as Watford Decline Continues?

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Is Sanchez Flores Following a Trend as Watford Decline Continues? The reaction to the news that Watford are likely to replace Quique Sanchez Flores has been one of shock. After all, their aim at the beginning of the season was to avoid relegation, a job that was effectively done with four straight wins culminating in the 3-0 victory over Liverpool in the week befo...

Testing Times for Martinez as Everton Continue to Flounder

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Testing Times for Martinez as Everton Continue to Flounder “I will get you into the Champions League,” Roberto Martinez promised Everton chairman Bill Kenwright following his appointment in 2013. In his debut season in charge of the Toffees, progression was clearly made. They secured nine more points than the previous campaign as Everton finishe...

Juve Turnaround Means Title Would be the Best of this Generation

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Juve Turnaround Means Title Would be the Best of this Generation You know what they say in Turin: It ain’t over until the Old Lady sings and contrary to what many believe she isn’t quite ready to break into song just yet. Everyone other than Juventus thinks the title race is over in Serie A. They continue to see it as anything but a formality. Look at...

Resurgent Lille Go from Cellar Dwellers to Champions League Chasers

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Resurgent Lille Go from Cellar Dwellers to Champions League Chasers If any team epitomises the haywire nature of this Ligue 1 campaign outside the bubble of Paris Saint Germain’s supremacy, then it is surely Lille. At the start of February, Les Dogues were three points above the drop zone, and had managed a miserable tally of 18 goals in 23 games. After winnin...

Fiorentina in Freefall as Sousa Speculation Mounts

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Fiorentina in Freefall as Sousa Speculation Mounts Paulo Sousa is taking tips from Edward Snowden. He wants to reclaim his privacy. In his opinion, there has been a lack of respect for it in Florence. “It’s none of your business who I go out to dinner with,” Sousa bristled on Saturday and in normal circumstances, it wouldn’t ...