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Player Focus: Newcomers Impress on the Premier League's Opening Weekend

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Player Focus: Newcomers Impress on the Premier League's Opening Weekend England’s top tier is regarded by many as the best in world football, so the chance for any player to ply their trade in the Premier League is often too hard to turn down. A number of performers were handed their league debuts this weekend, and while adjusting to the rigours of English footbal...

Player Focus: Will Sánchez Struggle on Premier League Away Days?

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Player Focus: Will Sánchez Struggle on Premier League Away Days? The acid test for footballers arriving in the Premier League from foreign shores is, more often than not, ‘can he do it on a wet, windy Tuesday night in Stoke?’ The Potters are famed for their roughhouse approach, so the work of Mother Nature would make a midweek trip to the Britannia St...

Player Focus: Sánchez The First Star to Fall from Brazil 2014

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Player Focus: Sánchez The First Star to Fall from Brazil 2014 Without question, Chile quickly became supporters' second team at the World Cup. Having knocked Spain out of the competition and gone toe-to-toe with Brazil, La Roja’s brand of high-intensity, attacking football won them the plaudits they rightly deserved. However, it wasn’t to be their ...

Team Focus: Chile's Bid to Become the World & People's Champion

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Team Focus: Chile's Bid to Become the World & People's Champion Chile have no right to be as good as they are. That may be a sweeping statement but look at the individual components of their team and most are hardly world-beaters, despite recently becoming world champion beaters after a convincing 2-0 win over Spain.The likes of Arturo Vidal and Alexis Sanchez w...

Team Focus: Chile Expected to be the Top Entertainers in Brazil

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Team Focus: Chile Expected to be the Top Entertainers in Brazil In November last year, Chile repeated their 2-0 win over England at Wembley from 1998. A Marcelo Salas double secured victory for the South American outfit before the turn of the Millennium, but it was Alexis Sánchez who put the England backline to the sword in their most recent clash, scorin...

Player Focus: Europe's Top Rated Players in January

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Player Focus: Europe's Top Rated Players in January With the New Year back in full swing, all of Europe's top 5 leagues are back in action and the sides now have to make do with what they've got after the transfer window slammed shut on Friday. With January having come to an end then, here is a rundown of the top players of the month based on WhoScor...

Match Focus: Something Has to Give in Atlético vs Barcelona

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Match Focus: Something Has to Give in Atlético vs Barcelona On the surface it brings forth an old cliché, of the best attack versus the best defence. Barcelona against Atlético Madrid on this occasion, however, is so much more than that. It’s an early title decider. Using that term in the same breath as Atleti’s name has been, putti...

Player Focus: Alexis Sánchez Exhibiting His Importance To Barcelona

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Player Focus: Alexis Sánchez Exhibiting His Importance To Barcelona In the summer of 2011, Alexis Sánchez was a player in demand amongst Europe’s elite. The Chilean had enjoyed a blistering final season with Udinese, netting 12 and helping himself to a further 6 assists as the Zebrette secured a 4th place finish. The attacker was pivotal in this and it ...

Team Focus: Barcelona's Failings

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Team Focus: Barcelona's Failings In just four days Barcelona have kissed goodbye to the two major trophies they won last year and whilst their first home defeat since September 2010 to Real Madrid, followed by a barely believable elimination by Chelsea from the Champions League 3-2 on aggregate, came as a shock, some of the factors...

Udinese’s Losses See Them Become A Cliché

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Udinese’s Losses See Them Become A Cliché Lazy stereotypes. Admit it, we've all done it. Writing about German football without using the word efficient is the journalistic equivalent of eating a doughnut without licking your lips. Italian football is slow, dull and built on playing not to lose rather than going for the win. England's player...