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Player Focus: Are Football Fans Now Witnessing Lionel Messi at his Peak?

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Player Focus: Are Football Fans Now Witnessing Lionel Messi at his Peak? For a man surrounded by so many frantic people on Monday night in the Zurich Kongresshaus mixed zone, Leo Messi was conspicuously serene. He looked every bit like an athlete content with his latest conquest, even if he immediately insisted he still wanted more.The last year was perhaps the perfect d...

Player Focus: Fit Again Carroll Could Yet Have West Ham & England Impact

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Player Focus: Fit Again Carroll Could Yet Have West Ham & England Impact On Saturday afternoon, after issuing a mild public rebuke to Andy Carroll about his fitness history, Slaven Bilic also issued what seemed to be a rebuke to English football. The West Ham United manager, who had just watched his side beat Liverpool 2-0 partially thanks to a Carroll goal, had just bee...

Player Focus: Bony Still Yet to Convince as Stand-in Striker at City

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Player Focus: Bony Still Yet to Convince as Stand-in Striker at City It is a question that has defined many a career, and could yet decide this season - especially given the paucity of top strikers available and the amount of clubs looking to upgrade in that exact position in the January window.If a forward has a good scoring rate at a certain level, and in a certain...

Team Focus: Should Manchester United Take the Plunge for Mourinho?

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Team Focus: Should Manchester United Take the Plunge for Mourinho? On Thursday evening, shortly after Jose Mourinho was sacked by Chelsea, the Portuguese was asked by a colleague about the next step and the job he has always really wanted: Manchester United. The 52-year-old said in response there are some roles that are just impossible to turn down.The wonder, howe...

Team Focus: Downfalls of the Premier League's Top 4 Hopefuls

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Team Focus: Downfalls of the Premier League's Top 4 Hopefuls After a series of wasted chances from his side, Mauricio Pochettino attempted to portray the entire situation as an opportunity in itself.He said it was time for Tottenham’s players to “learn” from the 2-1 defeat to Newcastle United, after the team had let a 1-0 lead slip.“Yo...

Team Focus: Can Arsenal Cope Against Olympiakos Without Fundamental Core?

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Team Focus: Can Arsenal Cope Against Olympiakos Without Fundamental Core? It is a match of fundamental importance, but also one that shows a fundamental crux with Arsene Wenger’s entire management of Arsenal.When Arsenal were at their best, a few weeks before tonight’s decisive Champions League fixture away to Olympiakos, it was because the manager had impress...

Team Focus: Clueless McClaren Struggling to Fix Broken Newcastle

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Team Focus: Clueless McClaren Struggling to Fix Broken Newcastle As easy as Newcastle United were to completely pull apart, it was hard to know decide was worse about Saturday’s destruction at Selhurst Park - the hapless performance of the players at Crystal Palace on Saturday, or Steve McClaren’s deeply unimpressive attempt to talk around the logisti...

Team Focus: Barcelona & Bayern 'Super Favourites' in Duel for Supremacy

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Team Focus: Barcelona & Bayern 'Super Favourites' in Duel for Supremacy Arsene Wenger raised his eyebrows, raised a chuckle, and that showed how much the stakes had been raised.It was 2012/13, shortly before he came across the modern Bayern Munich for the first time, and the Arsenal manager was asked about his chances in that season’s Champions League. Wenger reca...

Match Focus: Special Team Spirit Leads Ireland to Euro 2016

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Match Focus: Special Team Spirit Leads Ireland to Euro 2016 After a performance of complete conviction from Ireland, on a brilliant night at Lansdowne Road, a jubilant Martin O’Neill had one caveat. He had to keep reminding myself to stop using the word “special” in his celebratory press conference.That was how he described the evening, the...

Player Focus: Old Fashioned Otamendi Approach Adds Brawn to City Backline

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Player Focus: Old Fashioned Otamendi Approach Adds Brawn to City Backline About a month after Nicolas Otamendi arrived in England, and after a few understandable initial issues adjusting, the Manchester City centre-half enthused about the nature of the Premier League.“It’s the type of football that I’ve always enjoyed and always appreciated,” the A...