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Team Focus: Slomka Must Restore Defensive Stability to Save Hamburg

by Ben McAleer at Thursday, Feb 20 2014 10:45
Team Focus: Slomka Must Restore Defensive Stability to Save Hamburg A little over a year ago, Hamburg secured a 1-0 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach. Following on from a 4-1 away win at Borussia Dortmund the previous week, the victory helped the club go on to secure a 7th-place finish last season, with many tipping them to land a European spot this term.Howeve...
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Team Focus: Morrison Deal Delay Highlights Harry's Concerns

by Alan Smith at Tuesday, Feb 18 2014 16:16
Team Focus: Morrison Deal Delay Highlights Harry's Concerns QPR’s eagerness to delay the loan signing of Ravel Morrison, so he would be available if Harry Redknapp’s team reach the play-off final on May 24, gives you an idea of the present mindset at Loftus Road. The 93-day limit on emergency loans means the midfielder’s move from West Ham ...
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Team Focus: Meulensteen Dismissed Just as Recovery Began at Fulham

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Feb 17 2014 14:55
Team Focus: Meulensteen Dismissed Just as Recovery Began at Fulham Perhaps the attempt is futile. Maybe we should just accept that there is no logic to what Shahid Khan has done at Fulham, that sacking two managers in a season, lurching from one style of football to another, is just a thing that rich men do and that to try to spy deeper meaning is pointless. Perhap...
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Team Focus: Crystal Palace - A Team on the Rise Under Pulis

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Feb 10 2014 15:05
Team Focus: Crystal Palace - A Team on the Rise Under Pulis When Tony Pulis took over at Crystal Palace in November, they lay bottom of the Premier League with just four points from 11 games. They seemed doomed, but Pulis nonetheless gathered the players at their Beckenham training ground and told them that he had never been relegated and had no intention of...
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Team Focus: Pragmatic Mourinho Proving Hard to Predict

by Miguel Delaney at Wednesday, Feb 5 2014 15:19
Team Focus: Pragmatic Mourinho Proving Hard to Predict Not for the first time this season, or indeed his entire career, it was a little difficult to accept that José Mourinho actually believed what he was saying. The comment about the “little horse” already looks set to become one of his more memorable quotes, as he insisted the press...
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Team Focus: Leicester Pulling Clear at the top of the Championship

by Alan Smith at Wednesday, Feb 5 2014 12:12
Team Focus: Leicester Pulling Clear at the top of the Championship “The Championship is the most unpredictable league in Europe.”It is a line often spun out to promote the league, with plenty of merit, but Leicester City’s charge to the top has led to the usual script, in the race for first place at least, being torn apart. The Foxes possess an un...
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Team Focus: Belief at Sunderland Gathering Under Poyet

by Jonathan Wilson at Tuesday, Feb 4 2014 13:24
Team Focus: Belief at Sunderland Gathering Under Poyet About 20 years ago, I was drinking in a pub in West Jesmond when I was accosted at the bar by a grey-haired, grey-stubbled man who worked on the Hoppings, an annual fair that was held on the Town Moor in Newcastle each year. Learning I was from Sunderland, he sucked through the gaps in his teeth and...
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Team Focus: Nervous Evian Drive Poor Pascal Dupraz to Distraction

by Andy Brassell at Tuesday, Feb 4 2014 10:47
Team Focus: Nervous Evian Drive Poor Pascal Dupraz to Distraction It was a true collector’s item. After a failure by the officiating team to spot an offside had led to a late Junior Tallo equaliser for Ajaccio at Evian Thonon Gaillard on Saturday evening, referee Amaury Delerue came out to face the cameras to apologise on behalf of himself and his assistants...
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Team Focus: How Will Yohan Cabaye Fit In At PSG?

by Ben McAleer at Thursday, Jan 30 2014 16:30
Team Focus: How Will Yohan Cabaye Fit In At PSG? In 2011, Paris Saint-Germain were bought byQatar Investment Authority. As is the custom with any team that is purchased, the Parisian outfit made a flurry of big name acquisitions, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Thiago Silva all arriving at the Parc des Princes. The investment paid of...
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Team Focus: Leeds' Over-Reliance on Ross McCormack

by Alan Smith at Thursday, Jan 23 2014 17:34
Team Focus: Leeds' Over-Reliance on Ross McCormack This has been a ‘problem month’ for Leeds United according to their midfielder Michael Brown. They have just two points from the last six games, with one win in nine including an FA Cup defeat to League 2 Rochdale and, once again, off-field issues are dominating the landscape. It seems m...
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