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Team Focus: Written Off Foxes Turning Season Around in Survival Hunt

by Miguel Delaney at Wednesday, Apr 29 2015 10:48
Team Focus: Written Off Foxes Turning Season Around in Survival Hunt Leicester City may not be able to spoil Chelsea’s party tonight, but they can delay it, and potentially set up celebrations of their own. The challenge of facing Nigel Pearson’s team certainly can’t be dismissed in the way it might have been a few weeks ago, especially since the mi...
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Team Focus: Can Montpellier or Lille Handle a European Campaign?

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Apr 27 2015 15:13
Team Focus: Can Montpellier or Lille Handle a European Campaign? When Montpellier look back on this campaign, it is almost certain – judging four games from its climax – that they will do so with a certain satisfaction, bearing in mind their means, particularly compared to those of their Ligue 1 peers. Nevertheless, there have been a few bubbles of di...
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Team Focus: Have Jose Mourinho's Chelsea Actually Been Boring?

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Apr 27 2015 11:17
Team Focus: Have Jose Mourinho's Chelsea Actually Been Boring? Last week I wrote a piece for the Guardian in which I described Jose Mourinho as a “fallen angel”; an extraordinary number of top-level modern coaches worked at Barcelona in the nineties – not only Mourinho but also Pep Guardiola, Luis Enrique, Louis van Gaal, Julen Lopetegui, Rona...
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Team Focus: Champions PSV Have Cocu to Thank For Eredivisie Success

by Mohamed Moallim at Monday, Apr 20 2015 12:24
Team Focus: Champions PSV Have Cocu to Thank For Eredivisie Success It is often said a great player doesn't always make a good manager, which neatly brings us to events in Eindhoven where Phillip Cocu – widely regarded as one of Europe's brightest young coaching talents – is proving the old adage wrong and more importantly starting to realise his potenti...
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Team Focus: Wigan Hoping Caldwell Can Steady the Ship with Great Escape Unlikely

by Alan Smith at Tuesday, Apr 14 2015 09:56
Team Focus: Wigan Hoping Caldwell Can Steady the Ship with Great Escape Unlikely Gary Caldwell does not yet look like a manager burdened by stress but it should not take too long for the first grey hairs to appear. Malky Mackay’s replacement at Wigan, who are almost certain to be relegated from the Championship, turned 33 on Sunday, making him the youngest manager in Engli...
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Team Focus: Versatile Vancouver Put Down Early Season MLS Marker

by Graham Ruthven at Friday, Apr 10 2015 10:45
Team Focus: Versatile Vancouver Put Down Early Season MLS Marker With Saturday’s 2-0 win over the LA Galaxy, the Vancouver Whitecaps secured their longest winning streak in franchise history. Quite simply, Carl Robinson’s side are red hot at the moment, winning four games in a row before drawing against Columbus on Wednesday night, making their best e...
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Team Focus: Bosz Inspiring Resurgence at In-Form Vitesse

by Mohamed Moallim at Tuesday, Apr 7 2015 15:01
Team Focus: Bosz Inspiring Resurgence at In-Form Vitesse The mascot of Vitesse Arnhem is an eagle but it could easily be a phoenix given their recent rise from the ashes. As clichéd as it may sound, it's been a season of two halves for the men donning yellow and black: what looked destined to be a forgotten campaign has now bred a renewed sense of ...
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Team Focus: Eagles Flying Towards Champions League Thanks to Pioli Impact

by James Horncastle at Wednesday, Apr 1 2015 09:52
Team Focus: Eagles Flying Towards Champions League Thanks to Pioli Impact Honestly, they should really have been at work. It was a weekday after all. And besides many of Lazio’s best players were away on international duty. But that didn’t stop more than 2,000 supporters showing up to the club’s Formello training ground last Thursday for a training sessi...
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Team Focus: Are England U21s Euro 2015 Favourites Even Without Kane & Co?

by Martin Laurence at Tuesday, Mar 31 2015 17:39
Team Focus: Are England U21s Euro 2015 Favourites Even Without Kane & Co? England suddenly find themselves in an unfamiliar position ahead of the Under-21 Euro 2015 championships having just beaten the front-runners as they warm up ahead of this summer’s trip to the Czech Republic.They remain second favourites to Germany to lift the trophy in June but with Spain and...
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Team Focus: Striker Search Goes on as Spain Seek Revenge

by Dermot Corrigan at Tuesday, Mar 31 2015 11:34
Team Focus: Striker Search Goes on as Spain Seek Revenge Alvaro Morata’s goal in Spain’s 1-0 win over Ukraine on Friday night has led to plenty of praise in the local media, with the Juventus centre-forward’s first senior international goal featuring on the front of both AS and Marca the following morning, amid claims that Spain had fina...
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