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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips The Christmas schedule brings so many games in England and a few in Italy with lot of history, but the present for the clubs involved isn't quite as bright. There should be goals in Spain and Germany, but possibly not in some of the French games.LIKELY BETSInter vs Lazio: BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE @ 1.72B...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips Marseille this weekend have the chance to not only beat Monaco's on their own turf but also establish themselves as the second team in Ligue 1 (though Bielsa will want even more than second place). Yet more importantly, it is a weekend that could put lump further pressure on Brendan Rodgers, while i...

Team Focus: Rodgers Needs to Take Frail Liverpool Back to Basics

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Team Focus: Rodgers Needs to Take Frail Liverpool Back to Basics One of the most galling aspects of Liverpool’s latest defeat was that, this time, Crystal Palace didn’t even need to be particularly rampant or raucous. This was no long night of the soul for Brendan Rodgers’s side like that famous 3-3 in May. Instead, it was a rather easy afternoo...

Match Report: Bolasie Bosses Beleaguered & Lacklustre Liverpool Defence

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Match Report: Bolasie Bosses Beleaguered & Lacklustre Liverpool Defence It was yet another miserable day at Selhurst Park for Rodgers’ Liverpool. Two goals in the last quarter of the match for Palace left an eerie resemblance to the corresponding fixure last season, in which Liverpool threw away a 3-goal lead, ultimately derailing their title challenge. Amidst rep...

Player Focus: Examining Jordan Henderson's Recent Dip in Form

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Player Focus: Examining Jordan Henderson's Recent Dip in Form England’s game against Slovenia was never going to be an easy one. There is a paradox to this qualification campaign in that England’s strength is their strength on the counter-attack, but such is the poverty of opposition in the group that they’ll rarely get the chance to sit back...

Team Focus: Making Sense of Liverpool's Shortcomings

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Team Focus: Making Sense of Liverpool's Shortcomings If you were to lay out all of Brendan Rodgers’s problems this season, the list would be as predictable for Liverpool fans as it is painful.Most obviously, there is the departure of Luis Suarez, and the loss of so many goals as well as so much devastating play. To add insult, there’s been...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips It's the French showdown - Le Classique - where the tactically astute Marcelo Bielsa takes his Marseille side to the French capital to face off against Laurent Blanc’s star-studded PSG. There is another game that could have had the same billing, but Liverpool’s current form means it woul...

Team Focus: The Trials and Tribulations of Returning to European Competition

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Team Focus: The Trials and Tribulations of Returning to European Competition As clichéd a phrase as it may be, a 'European hangover' is all too common in modern football. It’s an easy excuse for any team to use should they suffer defeat on the back of their Champions League or Europa League excursions, and one that is brought up time and time again. Tottenham wo...

Match Focus: Liverpool Face Mountainous Task Against European Champions

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Match Focus: Liverpool Face Mountainous Task Against European Champions Heading into the most high-profile game of their year this week, Liverpool will have been hoping for a simple, unremarkable and uneventful win at Loftus Road on Sunday to boost confidence in their ranks. The manner of their 3-2 win on Sunday, however, meant it could barely have buoyed fans less goin...

Match Report: Wasteful Liverpool Handed Victory at Loftus Road

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Match Report: Wasteful Liverpool Handed Victory at Loftus Road A drab game headed for a narrow Liverpool win came alive in the dying minutes as Queens Park Rangers and Liverpool shared 4 more goals in a dramatic finale at Loftus Road. A valiant fightback from the home side was not enough, however, as their centre-backs were the making of their own undoing with ...