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Team Focus: Guiltiest Culprits in Club-Wide Collapse at Chelsea

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Team Focus: Guiltiest Culprits in Club-Wide Collapse at Chelsea Chelsea’s collapse in the early part of this season has been remarkable, even if, in retrospect, the signs were there. Towards the end of last season their poor form, the way they rather stumbled over the line, was generally put down to fatigue, the result of Jose Mourinho’s insistence o...

Team Focus: Chelsea Must Go Back to Basics to Rediscover Defensive Assurance

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Team Focus: Chelsea Must Go Back to Basics to Rediscover Defensive Assurance Amid all of the controversies that Jose Mourinho has already initiated this season, and all of the targets that the Chelsea manager has taken aim at, there’s one conspicuous issue that has escaped attention.That is probably because it is one that matters most to him - the defence.Sure, the Por...

Match Focus: Four Key Battles Ahead of Man City vs Chelsea

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Match Focus: Four Key Battles Ahead of Man City vs Chelsea It’s rare for a match in gameweek 2 in any league to be so decisive, but Manchester City’s welcome of Chelsea on Sunday could be just that. The two title rivals clash at the Etihad Stadium this weekend in an encounter that has the potential to give the Citizens a real head start in the t...

Match Focus: Four Key Battles Ahead of Sunday's Community Shield

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Match Focus: Four Key Battles Ahead of Sunday's Community Shield Widely deemed as the English campaign's curtain raiser, the Community Shield takes to TV screens on Sunday as FA Cup holders Arsenal come up against domestic champions Chelsea, with the Gunners looking to secure glory for the second successive year. Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal side have been in im...

Team Focus: Champions League Team of the Season

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Team Focus: Champions League Team of the Season When news filtered through that Giorgio Chiellini was to miss the Champions League final with a calf injury, many felt that Barcelona’s precession to their fifth European championship had become that much easier. Juventus’ vice-captain is arguably the Old Lady’s best defender, so t...

You vs WhoScored: WhoScored Expert MondoGoal XI - Gameweek 36

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You vs WhoScored: WhoScored Expert MondoGoal XI - Gameweek 36 Our expert returns with the fantasy football tips for this week, laying down the gauntlet with the team to beat, if you think you're up to it, in the latest 'You vs WhoScored' contest over at MondoGoal.Though the title was wrapped up by Chelsea last weekend there is still plenty to play for and some...

Player Focus: Role of the Defensive Midfielder in State of Flux

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Player Focus: Role of the Defensive Midfielder in State of Flux For all the discussion that the game has left old-fashioned defenders behind, there is one position just in front of them that seems in a similar state of flux.It is little wonder that the majority of elite Premier League teams have issues in defensive midfield, or that as many as three of the Champ...

Player Focus: The Stats Leaders You May Not Have Seen in 2014

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Player Focus: The Stats Leaders You May Not Have Seen in 2014 With the calendar year coming to a close it is the ideal time to churn out statistical round-ups. While many are obvious - Ronaldo has scored lots of goals etc. - and perhaps lack some context we've decided to look into five statistics that you perhaps won't have come across when it comes to the top...

Player Focus: Re-signed Matic Growing in Importance at Chelsea

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Player Focus: Re-signed Matic Growing in Importance at Chelsea Imagine, for a moment, that things had gone badly. Imagine that in January Chelsea had paid £21 million to bring Nemanja Matic – a player they had let go as a makeweight in a deal that also saw them give Benfica £21million for David Luiz – back to the club, and that he had pl...

Premier League Focus: A Season of Two Halves

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Premier League Focus: A Season of Two Halves It is a game of two halves or so says the cliche used by managers to rally their players into a second half recovery after a poor showing in the first period of any given game. The nature of football means that any given match might well have two schizophrenically contrasting halves for those compet...