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Has Sarri stumbled upon perfect role for magic Mertens?

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Has Sarri stumbled upon perfect role for magic Mertens? It had still yet to sink in when Dries Mertens appeared in front of the cameras early on Sunday evening. “In order to get my head around it, I’m going to have to go home, be by myself for a bit and have a think,” he said. Like Tom Hanks in Castaway, Mertens’ only company, as ...

The Weekend In Pictures: December 16th-18th

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The Weekend In Pictures: December 16th-18th It wasn’t a great weekend to be Joe Hart. Despite Torino scoring 3 of their own, he found himself on the wrong side of a 5-3 loss in Naples. Hart handed Dries Mertens his second hat-trick in as many games - and then another goal after that. The last player to put four past Hart was Zlatan Ibra...

The smart money on this week's Champions League action

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The smart money on this week's Champions League action Basel vs Arsenal - Over 2.5 GoalsArsenal don’t make things easy for themselves or their fans. They’ve had a good Champions League campaign so far, but find themselves level on points with PSG. They will need to better the French champions' result tonight in an effort to avoid an unfavour...

Top Match Tips: The smart money on this week's biggest games

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Top Match Tips: The smart money on this week's biggest games Can Arsenal heap further misery on Spurs this weekend? November is obviously too earlyin the season to make any definitive conclusions, and, with Arsenal, nothing is clear until April, but defeating Tottenham in the North London derby could mean they are at least a more reliable contender than the r...

Top Match Tips: Juventus to continue dominance at home

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Top Match Tips: Juventus to continue dominance at home Fierce foes go head to head on Saturday night as Napoli head north to take on league leaders Juventus. While ghosts of their collective pasts have informed their rivalry in previous fixtures, it is their recent summer business that is dictating the narrative this weekend. The transfer of Gonzalo Hig...

Top Match Tips: The smart money on this week's biggest games

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Top Match Tips: The smart money on this week's biggest games It's an interesting European weekend consisting of new and old rivalries, as well as derbies. However, you cannot look any further than in Serie A, where Juventus host Napoli with Gonzalo Higuain set to face off against his former club for the first time since leaving in the summer. How will el Pipi...

Napoli vs Roma: Preview and tips from the Derby del Sole

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Napoli vs Roma: Preview and tips from the Derby del Sole There’s little doubt as to the top match as Serie A returns from the latest international break, with Napoli and Roma meeting for the seventh Derby del Sole since the start of 2014. The two have emerged as the greatest threat to Juventus’ dominance in Italy at present, and a victory for ...

How Napoli are coping just fine without hitman Higuain

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How Napoli are coping just fine without hitman Higuain It was a Freudian slip. Nothing more. But an amusing one nonetheless. Every time Gianluca Vialli discussed Maurizio Sarri on Sky Italia at the weekend, he accidentally called him Maurizio Sacchi. His colleague, the commentator, Fabio Caressa did the same. Napoli had impressed again on Saturday night...

Can Milik Fill the Higuain-sized Void Following Napoli Switch?

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Can Milik Fill the Higuain-sized Void Following Napoli Switch? Marc Overmars was as quick to rule out the sale of Arkadiusz Milik as he was running down the wing with Arsenal, Holland and Barcelona. “We don’t want to sell him,” Overmars insisted in his role as Ajax’s director of sport. The 43-year-old was reacting to the news that Napoli...

How Pogba's Sale Could Reignite Juventus' Higuain Interest

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How Pogba's Sale Could Reignite Juventus' Higuain Interest Monday was billed as judgement day in Italy. All the head honchos were expected in Milan for a meeting of the league. What it meant was Napoli and Juventus could no longer avoid each other. They would come face-to-face for the first time since the news had broken of the Old Lady making her move on G...