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League Focus: Bundesliga 2013/14 Season Review

by Andy Brassell at Monday, May 12 2014 16:09
League Focus: Bundesliga 2013/14 Season Review The Bundesliga is about so much more than its upper segment, and so it proved in a season that kept pulses racing to the end. Bayern Munich won the title with 7 games to go, a record in Europe’s top 5 leagues, but there was plenty to keep us interested. Bayern’s majesty may have been pre...
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Team Focus: Marseille Give Bielsa Reason to Dream

by Andy Brassell at Tuesday, May 6 2014 14:21
Team Focus: Marseille Give Bielsa Reason to Dream One could never suggest Olympique de Marseille are ever in a state of calm, but they certainly felt more themselves on Sunday night as they celebrated a period of damaging uncertainty coming to an end. As Marseille and Lyon took the field, a banner displaying the words “El Loco – Haznos ...
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Team Focus: Nantes are Safe in Ligue 1 – But for How Long?

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Apr 28 2014 17:07
Team Focus: Nantes are Safe in Ligue 1 – But for How Long? Some pairings just sound right. Friday night’s encounter between Nantes and Marseille was one that had – and always will have – a pleasing ring about it to Ligue 1 traditionalists. The two clubs have 17 league titles between them and even with neither side threatening to add to tha...
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Team Focus: A Good Season for PSG and Blanc – But Where Next?

by Andy Brassell at Tuesday, Apr 22 2014 11:46
Team Focus: A Good Season for PSG and Blanc – But Where Next? When Thiago Silva lifted the Coupe de la Ligue trophy, high in the main stand of the Stade de France just after 11pm on Saturday night, the Paris Saint-Germain captain and his teammates celebrated with gusto. There was no tokenism, no sense that this was a mere trinket of consolation - just roars of...
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Team Focus: Dortmund’s Perfect Week Suggests They’re Not Finished Yet

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Apr 14 2014 14:42
Team Focus: Dortmund’s Perfect Week Suggests They’re Not Finished Yet There is no such thing as a friendly between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund. Their meeting at the Westfalen last season, 20 days before the Champions League final, was ostensibly a dead rubber but contained ugly confrontations between players and coaches alike during its course.Even if it is cl...
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Team Focus: Uncertain Future for Lorient as Gourcuff Era Comes to a Close

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Apr 7 2014 17:07
Team Focus: Uncertain Future for Lorient as Gourcuff Era Comes to a Close Saturday evening’s draw with Evian Thonon Gaillard was Lorient’s season in a nutshell; not without merit but ultimately, deeply unsatisfying. “We didn’t deserve this point,” said coach Christian Gourcuff afterwards with some bluntness. “We were scared of playing i...
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Match Focus: Wily Galtier Helps St Etienne to Undo Decimated Lyon

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Mar 31 2014 14:14
Match Focus: Wily Galtier Helps St Etienne to Undo Decimated Lyon When your rival is wounded, of course, you have to go for the throat. Since 1994, Saint Etienne had won only one derby against their bitter adversaries Lyon (thanks to Dimitri Payet's fantastic free-kick at the Stade Gerland in 2010) going into Sunday's clash - the 108th between the pair. Having fou...
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League Focus: Whatever Happened to Bayern’s Bundesliga Challengers?

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Mar 24 2014 14:32
League Focus: Whatever Happened to Bayern’s Bundesliga Challengers? This week’s hot ticket is in no doubt; Hertha Berlin’s Olympiastadion will host what is sure to be Bayern Munich’s coronation. A win for Pep Guardiola’s side will mathematically clinch a second straight Bundesliga title, with 7 games to spare. There will be some regrets five ...
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Team Focus: What’s Going Wrong for Montanier at Rennes?

by Andy Brassell at Tuesday, Mar 18 2014 10:53
Team Focus: What’s Going Wrong for Montanier at Rennes? There are many variations of circumspection that the majority of footballers employ in post-match interviews, flitting between platitudes, faux humility and light boredom. One we rarely see is genuine, sunken-faced concern, but that was the mood of Rennes’ goalkeeper Benoît Costil after ...
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Team Focus: Valenciennes and Sochaux Keep Hope Alive in Relegation Battle

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Mar 10 2014 15:04
Team Focus: Valenciennes and Sochaux Keep Hope Alive in Relegation Battle It’s only Monday, but Le Dauphiné, Haute-Savoie’s regional newspaper, is already thinking ahead to a potentially pivotal moment in the season for its Ligue 1 representatives, Evian Thonon Gaillard. The sports pages make a passionate appeal for as many as possible to attend Saturda...
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