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Player Focus: Payet Absence the Root of West Ham's Offensive Woes

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Player Focus: Payet Absence the Root of West Ham's Offensive Woes For any team, losing their best player is a blow, regardless of their seasonal goals. For West Ham United that's just what has happened with Dimitri Payet, whose injury looks to have derailed their season. At the beginning of the campaign, the Hammers were in flying form. Talk of a European finish w...

Match Report: Comprehensive Spurs Win Reinforces Top-4 Credentials

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Match Report: Comprehensive Spurs Win Reinforces Top-4 Credentials Mousa Dembele, prior to Sunday's London Derby, spoke highly of this current Tottenham team. This is the best team I've played in since I've been at Tottenham, the Belgian told SkySports. Given he was part of the Spurs side that came perilously close to securing a top-4 berth in the 2012/13 season, i...

Match Focus: Spurs Must Defend Unbeaten Run Against Happy Travellers West Ham

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Match Focus: Spurs Must Defend Unbeaten Run Against Happy Travellers West Ham In the only game on Sunday as the Premier League gets back in full swing this weekend Tottenham host West Ham, with no love lost between the two London rivals. Having fallen to three defeats to the Hammers in the 2013/14 season, the bragging rights returned to Spurs last time around, though the spoi...

Player Focus: Impressive Lanzini Quickly Becoming West Ham’s Jewel

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Player Focus: Impressive Lanzini Quickly Becoming West Ham’s Jewel The decision to replace Sam Allardyce a year before moving into the Olympic Stadium suddenly didn’t feel like the right play when West Ham were dumped out of the Europa League by Romanian side Astra Giurgiu before the Premier League had even started. Since then, however, victories away to Arse...

Match Report: West Ham Iron Out Home Form Against 10 Man Chelsea

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Match Report: West Ham Iron Out Home Form Against 10 Man Chelsea Saturday saw the final clash between West Ham and Chelsea at Upton Park and it was one to be remembered — by the home support at least. West Ham had already seen wins against Arsenal, Liverpool, and Manchester City this season. The Hammers win over Chelsea this weekend ensured that they are of...

Player Focus: West Ham's Payet Capture Proving Plaudits Right

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Player Focus: West Ham's Payet Capture Proving Plaudits Right Having seen their team become only the fourth ever to beat Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City away from home in the same season in the Premier League era, doing so in their opening three outings on the road, West Ham supporters are in dreamland right now.Despite successive home defeats to Leices...

Team Focus: Bilic Finds Solutions Where Allardyce Failed Against Arsenal

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Team Focus: Bilic Finds Solutions Where Allardyce Failed Against Arsenal After opening his West Ham United regime by claiming a spectacular three points at Arsenal, Slaven Bilic sought to close a special day by making a point of his own.“Sam Allardyce left me a good team and left me some quality in the side,” the Croatian said to media about his predecessor. ...

Player Focus: Premier League Transfer Rumour Round-Up

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Player Focus: Premier League Transfer Rumour Round-Up Alex TellesFilipe Luis’ forgettable year in England was brought to an end on Tuesday when the left-back was sold back to Atletico Madrid. The Brazilian arrived at Chelsea as one of the finest in his position in world football, yet was forced to contend with a peripheral role, with the unassumi...

Player Focus: Is Payet the Right Man to Keep West Ham in European Contention?

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Player Focus: Is Payet the Right Man to Keep West Ham in European Contention? West Ham United will start the next campaign with a man in charge without any managerial experience in the Premier League, under pressure to play an attractive brand of football, hamstrung with the burden of Europa League qualification and a brand new 54,000-capacity home on the horizon. The repercu...

League Focus: 2015/16 Premier League Opening Fixtures Analysed

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League Focus: 2015/16 Premier League Opening Fixtures Analysed The Premier League season came to a head less than a month ago and already teams are looking to the upcoming campaign after the fixture list was announced on Wednesday. Clubs up and down the country will be planning for the start to the season in the hope of hitting the ground running to boost their...