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Team Focus: Efficient Eibar Enjoying First Foray in La Liga

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Team Focus: Efficient Eibar Enjoying First Foray in La Liga Eibar began the 2014/15 La Liga season as many fans' second side, due to the tiny Basque club’s fairytale rise through the divisions in recent years, and their successful campaign to raise the funds needed to meet Spanish football’s skewed financial wellbeing regulations.There were fears...

Team Focus: Daunting Task Ahead for Lennon at Rock Bottom Bolton

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Team Focus: Daunting Task Ahead for Lennon at Rock Bottom Bolton Usually the international break is a time to take stock and prepare for what lies ahead. Not quite a period of relaxation but still a time for reflection where the pressure valve is loosened a little. In one particular corner of the north-west, however, the gauge has continued to ascend.These are wo...

Team Focus: France Flexibility the Key as Les Bleus Look to 2016

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Team Focus: France Flexibility the Key as Les Bleus Look to 2016 It is beginning to look like a model case study in perfect preparation. France is limbering up for Euro 2016, and things are looking good. If you thought getting set to host a tournament was all about an unseemly last-minute scramble of infrastructure tightening and agonising over selection, think a...

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...

Team Focus: Young Samp Side Defying the Odds with Strong Serie A Start

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Team Focus: Young Samp Side Defying the Odds with Strong Serie A Start No longer in the same state of dishevelment and delirium as at Marassi on Sunday when, with his top button undone and tie unknotted, he hopped, skipped and danced on the pitch, twirling a blue, white and red handkerchief in the air to celebrate Sampdoria’s 1-0 win against Atalanta, their new o...

Team Focus: Midfield Signings of 2013 Coming Good Under Pochettino

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Team Focus: Midfield Signings of 2013 Coming Good Under Pochettino Back in early June, as Mauricio Pochettino was just getting accustomed to his new job at Tottenham Hotspur, one of his first pieces of business was dealing with a player who was rightfully concerned about his first impressions. The Argentine had a heart-to-heart with his compatriot Erik Lamela.Juven...

Team Focus: Midfield Trio Central to Valencia's Early Season Success

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Team Focus: Midfield Trio Central to Valencia's Early Season Success Saturday’s clash with Atletico Madrid was seen as a real test of this season’s new-look Valencia and particularly its previously impressive three-man midfield of Dani Parejo, Javi Fuego and Andre Gomes. Both the team, and its central unit, came through really well as Atletico were beaten...

Team Focus: Cesare Prandelli - 99 Problems and 3-5-2 is One

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Team Focus: Cesare Prandelli - 99 Problems and 3-5-2 is One “There is nothing wrong with the tactics,” Cesare Prandelli stressed following Galatasaray’s humiliating 4-1 defeat against Arsenal in the Champions League.Prandelli had already used a 4-3-2-1, 4-3-1-2 and 4-2-3-1 before his latest eureka moment - a 3-5-2 setup against Arsenal. The...

Team Focus: Athletic Floundering in the Wake of Herrera's Departure

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Team Focus: Athletic Floundering in the Wake of Herrera's Departure Losing your best player will always have an adverse effect on a team. Liverpool have struggled this season following the sale of Luis Suarez to Barcelona, while Tottenham failed to sufficiently replace Gareth Bale after his record breaking move to Real Madrid. Athletic Club are following suit having...

Team Focus: Canaries Flying High Thanks to New Found Firepower

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Team Focus: Canaries Flying High Thanks to New Found Firepower When Neil Adams replaced Chris Hughton at the end of Norwich City’s doomed Premier League campaign there were, understandably, question marks raised. Anybody looking in from the outside at Carrow Road could have been forgiven for asking ‘Neil who?’It didn’t help Adams’ ...