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Player Focus: Can Mata Ever Justify His Role at Manchester United?

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Player Focus: Can Mata Ever Justify His Role at Manchester United? The hysteria that followed Juan Mata’s extravagant move to Manchester United offered promise to a spectacular career for the Spanish playmaker at Old Trafford. Not even Germany captain Bastian Schweinsteiger was afforded the same Hollywoodtreatment as Mata when he touched down at United’...

Player Focus: Unheralded Fernandinho Crucial to City's Flying Start

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Player Focus: Unheralded Fernandinho Crucial to City's Flying Start In the wake of Brazil’s disastrous World Cup exit, succumbing to a 7-1 defeat to eventual winners Germany at the semi-final stage, a number of the Seleção’s performers struggled to readjust to domestic football. The likes of Paulinho, Ramires and Willian were unable to hit ...

Player Focus: Amavi Rapidly Emerging as Villa Fan Favourite

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Player Focus: Amavi Rapidly Emerging as Villa Fan Favourite Three of Europe’s finest young left-backs moved on to pastures new over the summer. Baba Rahman secured a big money switch to Premier League champions Chelsea during the transfer window, while Layvin Kurzawa swapped Monaco for PSG. Then there was Jordan Amavi, who like Kurzawa departed the Fre...

Player Focus: Misfiring Alexis Hindering Arsenal

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Player Focus: Misfiring Alexis Hindering Arsenal One other problem with the kind of controversy that Diego Costa provoked at Stamford Bridge on Saturday is that discussion of it tends to obscure all other actual football issues. Some of those issues may also be far more relevant to a team’s long-term form.Take one performance at the other en...

Player Focus: West Ham's Payet Capture Proving Plaudits Right

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Player Focus: West Ham's Payet Capture Proving Plaudits Right Having seen their team become only the fourth ever to beat Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City away from home in the same season in the Premier League era, doing so in their opening three outings on the road, West Ham supporters are in dreamland right now.Despite successive home defeats to Leices...

Player Focus: Deeney and Ighalo Partnership Key to Watford's Fine Form

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Player Focus: Deeney and Ighalo Partnership Key to Watford's Fine Form Much has been made of Watford’s summer movements after their attempts in the transfer window to build a squad capable of consolidating their Premier League status. Having gone through no fewer than four managers in their promotion-attaining Championship campaign, a period of solidity is crucia...

Player Focus: Is Dier the Answer or a Temporary Solution in Spurs Midfield?

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Player Focus: Is Dier the Answer or a Temporary Solution in Spurs Midfield? As the transfer window neared its conclusion earlier this month, Tottenham fans were hopeful new faces would arrive. A striker and a central midfielder were perhaps the priorities, with the former perhaps less so following the big money arrival of Heung-min Son. In hindsight, for now at least, the l...

Player Focus: Reinvigorated Touré Leading City's Title Assault

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Player Focus: Reinvigorated Touré Leading City's Title Assault Just four games into the season one would not bet against Manchester City securing Premier League glory for only the third time since its 1992 inception. Manuel Pellegrini’s side sit pretty atop England’s top tier with four wins from four and are currently averaging 2.5 goals per game. T...

Player Focus: Recent Gabriel Outings Shows He's Ready for Regular Arsenal Spot

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Player Focus: Recent Gabriel Outings Shows He's Ready for Regular Arsenal Spot January is always a tough time to sign for a new team, regardless of the calibre of personnel. Managers already boast a settled squad and a favoured starting XI, making it difficult for new arrivals to force their way into the team. As such, players more commonly move on loan during the winter trans...

Player Focus: Soldado Rediscovering Best Form Following Return to Spain

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Player Focus: Soldado Rediscovering Best Form Following Return to Spain Roberto Soldado’s Tottenham career will forever be remembered as a failure. The Spaniard may have made a relatively bright start to life in England, but he ultimately failed to live up to expectations at White Hart Lane. His form for Valencia convinced Spurs to splash the cash on the striker i...