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Chelsea vs Manchester United: Mourinho’s trusted lieutenant returns for visitors

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Chelsea vs Manchester United: Mourinho’s trusted lieutenant returns for visitors Jose Mourinho takes his Manchester United side to Chelsea on Sunday seeking a huge improvement on their last Premier League visit to Stamford Bridge. Chelsea tanked United 4-0 in the corresponding fixture last season and went on to lift the league title in Antonio Conte’s first season in charg...

Tottenham vs Crystal Palace: Alli misses out for hosts

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Tottenham vs Crystal Palace: Alli misses out for hosts Dele Alli has been ruled out of Tottenham’s welcome of Crystal Palace with a hamstring injury.The England international was the star man in Spurs’ 3-1 win over Real Madrid on Wednesday night, bagging a brace to land the WhoScored man of the match award.Gareth Southgate had called the 21-...

No Great Cause for Concern Despite Frustrating Results for England

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No Great Cause for Concern Despite Frustrating Results for England So what have we learned from England’s inability to top a group that is mediocre at very best? Not a lot, really.It’s a very England thing to do but that’s not to say that their performances, if not results, at this Championships have been particularly disheartening.Before I really...

Coyle Establishing Houston Dynamo as MLS Entertainers

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Coyle Establishing Houston Dynamo as MLS Entertainers For a team that plays in bright orange, the Houston Dynamo haven’t always caught the eye in Major League Soccer. With Dominic Kinnear in charge, the Texans were an outfit of sheer function, becoming something of a permanent fixture in the play-offs. Those days are gone with Owen Coyle now at t...

Team Focus: Sunderland Win Suggests Chelsea Ready to Flourish Again

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Team Focus: Sunderland Win Suggests Chelsea Ready to Flourish Again Statisticians will point out that the idea of a new manager bounce is nonsense, that the idea that a change of manager prompts an upturn in form is not borne out by facts. But what is true that there are occasions when a manager’s presence has become so oppressive that players appear liberated...

Team Focus: Fierce Competition Apparent as France Brush Aside Denmark

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Team Focus: Fierce Competition Apparent as France Brush Aside Denmark Didier Deschamps came close to his Aimé Jacquet moment but the worst, it appears, has since passed. The run of three defeats in four games that led into the last international window hadn’t put the former Juventus, Monaco and Marseille boss in any serious danger - and he hadn’t ha...