Team Focus: CSKA Failings Down to Lack of Firepower
by Domm Norris
at mercredi, oct. 16 2013 16:00
It’s an old adage in football that retaining a league title is even more difficult than winning it the first time round. Whether such a notion holds true is frankly up for debate, however you can look towards CSKA Moscow as a team who appear intent on adding fuel to the proverbial fire. The Ru...
Team Focus: Colorado Rapids' Crucial Appetite for the Big Occasion
by Graham Ruthven
at vendredi, oct. 11 2013 14:00
Team Focus: England's Problematic Left Side
by Alistair Tweedale
at jeudi, oct. 10 2013 13:30
The touting of Adnan Januzaj as a potential future England player raised an interesting debate about the national team, and not, incidentally, that which Jack Wilshere felt necessary to pass comment on earlier this week.The Manchester United youngster put in man of the match performance from the lef...
Team Focus: Garcia Brings Defensive Resolve to Reconstructed Roma
by James Horncastle
at mercredi, oct. 9 2013 17:28
Rudi Garcia was on a break in Marrakech when he got the call. Could he fly to Milan the next day for a meeting with Roma? There was a job at the Stadio Olimpico going and they wanted to sound him out about it. The timing was right. Reflecting on his future after five years at Lille and sensing that ...
Team Focus: Sevilla Struggling in Attempts to Replace Departed Stars
by David Cartlidge
at mercredi, oct. 9 2013 16:45
Team Focus: Pochettino's Positive Effect at Southampton
by Jonathan Wilson
at mardi, oct. 8 2013 14:25
In their book The Numbers Game, Chris Anderson and David Sally, while evangelising for the use of statistical analysis in football, acknowledge that the use of data in football is in its infancy: if the discipline were medicine, they say, we would still be at the stage of leeches. While statistics h...
Team Focus: Bastia, Ligue 1’s Low-Key Entertainers, Rebuild in Style
by Andy Brassell
at mardi, oct. 8 2013 11:45
Team Focus: Cocu Hoping to Prove You Can Win With Kids
by Mohamed Moallim
at lundi, oct. 7 2013 16:13
It's fitting in the year PSV celebrate their centenary that one of their great icons was appointed manager. This Wednesday Phillip Cocu will have presided over the Eindhoven giants for 100 days and the atmosphere at the club is in contrast to the past five seasons. PSV's workmanlike ethic has always...
Team Focus: Caps Locked in Battle for Play-Off Place
by Graham Ruthven
at vendredi, oct. 4 2013 16:46
Team Focus: Hull Proving Their Doubters Wrong
by Alistair Tweedale
at jeudi, oct. 3 2013 14:45
The surprise package of the Premier League season so far is surely Hull City. They were hardly the most entertaining team last season, winning promotion as the Championship's 14th highest scoring team out of 24. Relegated Bristol City scored only 2 goals fewer than Steve Bruce's team, who became ren...