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Team Focus: The Problem With Tottenham's Attack

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Team Focus: The Problem With Tottenham's Attack There is no side in the Premier League whose attack has so failed to live up to expectations this season as Tottenham’s. Only Crystal Palace and Sunderland have scored fewer than Spurs’ nine goals in 12 games so far, and that figure becomes even more worrying when it’s considered t...

Team Focus: Inexperienced Hoffenheim - Europe's Most Exciting Team

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Team Focus: Inexperienced Hoffenheim - Europe's Most Exciting Team In the 108 Bundesliga games so far this season, there have been only two 0-0 draws. If the neutral football fan was to follow a league on entertainment value alone, Germany’s top tier would be it. With a total of 348 goals scored over those games, an average of 3.2 goals per game reinforces th...

Team Focus: The Evolution of Liverpool Ahead of Merseyside Derby

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Team Focus: The Evolution of Liverpool Ahead of Merseyside Derby Brendan Rodgers, the theory went, was the king of possession, a manager who prioritised having the ball almost above all else. There was even talk at times last season that he cared more about possession than goals, and that his side was great at moving the ball sideways but not so good at putting i...

Team Focus: Not at the World Cup XI

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Team Focus: Not at the World Cup XI Whether a nation failed to navigate their way past the group stage or saw their dreams of international glory dashed through the medium of a playoff, missing out on the opportunity of performing at the World Cup is always a tough pill to swallow. Bar a minor miracle in Montevideo that would see Urug...

Team Focus: All Change for France as they Chase the Impossible Dream

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Team Focus: All Change for France as they Chase the Impossible Dream “We’re ready to die on the pitch to get there.” So said Olivier Giroud, speaking of how “angry” he was at France’s World Cup play-off defeat to Ukraine on Friday. Something probably already died on the pitch at the Olympiyskiy that night – France’s hop...

Team Focus: Real Salt Lake - MLS Cup Champions in Waiting?

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Team Focus: Real Salt Lake - MLS Cup Champions in Waiting? With the Portland Timbers coming into the Western Conference final on the back of a convincing two-leg victory over the Seattle Sounders in the previous round few predicted what happened next.Real Salt Lake dismantled the Timbers, beating Caleb Porter’s side 4-2. Only a stoppage time goal by F...

Team Focus: Explaining Ajax's Style Under De Boer

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Team Focus: Explaining Ajax's Style Under De Boer The secret of long-term success lies in cultivating a distinctive set of values, as Jim Collins put forward in his bestseller Good to Great. This usually means promoting from within and laying down deep local roots. It’s advice that has been followed in Amsterdam; next month Frank de Boer will...

Team Focus: Manchester City's Troubles on the Road

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Team Focus: Manchester City's Troubles on the Road Sometimes football is so wrapped in its own conventions that we take for granted things that actually defy explanation. It’s a given that the vast majority of teams will be better at home than away, and soit’s accepted that some teams will, for reasons that are never quite explained, suf...

Team Focus: How to Win a Derby the Olympique Lyonnais Way

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Team Focus: How to Win a Derby the Olympique Lyonnais Way “We’re at home without actually being at home.” The way Lyon’s Samuel Umtiti described how his team feels about playing at local rivals Saint Etienne’s Stade Geoffroy Guichard (‘Le Chaudron’, or ‘The Cauldron’, no less) must hurt Les Verts almost...

Team Focus: Postseason Specialists Houston At It Again

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Team Focus: Postseason Specialists Houston At It Again There’s not much you can count on in Major League Soccer. Its erratic nature makes it one of the most difficult leagues to predict in world football. However, there is one thing that bucks the trend: the Houston Dynamo making a postseason charge.The Dynamo have made an appearance in four of th...