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League Focus: Questioning the Importance of the Goals Against Column

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League Focus: Questioning the Importance of the Goals Against Column Who’s got the worst defence in the Premier League? In some ways, that’s an easy question to answer. Look at the table and you see Queen’s Park Rangers have let in 27, Leicester City 26 and Burnley 24. They lie, respectively, 17th, 20th and 19th in the table. In fact, as you’d...

Player Focus: Is James McCarthy Now Everton's Most Valuable Player?

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Player Focus: Is James McCarthy Now Everton's Most Valuable Player? Last summer, Everton hired Roberto Martínez as David Moyes’ replacement. As with any manager switching teams, the Spaniard took a number of his former players with him to Goodison Park. Arouna Koné departed the DW Stadium for Goodison, Joel Robles also followed Martínez to...

Player Focus: Kane's Spurs Displays Giving Pochettino Selection Headache

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Player Focus: Kane's Spurs Displays Giving Pochettino Selection Headache For me, with his attitude, he can be one of the best centre-forwards in the world one day. He has a spirit you can compare to (Cristiano) Ronaldo and he works every day. The quote of a professional footballer complimenting a teammate. Was this player referring to Zlatan Ibrahimovic? Luis Suarez? Die...

Team Focus: Wasteful Arsenal Made to Rue More Missed Chances

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Team Focus: Wasteful Arsenal Made to Rue More Missed Chances In some games you sense the pattern early. Arsenal missed a couple of early chances and then a third and there was a strange inevitability about the fact that they would go on missing chances and that Manchester United would then score with their first clear chance of the game. As it turned out, it ...

Player Focus: Blind's Absence Likely to Dent United's Top 4 Hopes

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Player Focus: Blind's Absence Likely to Dent United's Top 4 Hopes He (Daley Blind) plays far too many square passes and takes the easy option, Gary Neville said of Manchester United’s summer signing earlier this month. The former United right-back believes Blind needs to take more risks in midfield in order to provide better service for strikers Wayne Rooney...

WhoScored Tipster: Football Fanager Explained...

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Fantasy Football Fanager is a new fantasy football concept that you play for a single week, with some fantastic prizes on offer, even for those that choose to only play the free games! It has gotten the attention of punters and fantasy football players, so we went and checked it out and were so impr...

Player Focus: Hodgson Wrong to Ignore Austin's Powers

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Player Focus: Hodgson Wrong to Ignore Austin's Powers When the England squad was announced last week, the usual debate raged on social media channels. ‘Player X should be in instead of Player Y’ is always the crux of each argument, with questions asked of Roy Hodgson as to why a certain performer was not included. When the FA released the 2...

Team Focus: First Win a False Dawn For Beleaguered Burnley

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Team Focus: First Win a False Dawn For Beleaguered Burnley The gulf in class between the Premier League and the Championship continues to grow with each passing season and shows no signs of shortening, especially if the first 11 games of the campaign are anything to go by. Heading into the November international break, Leicester City, QPR and Burnley - last...

Match Report: City Rely on Unstoppable Agüero to Save Point at QPR

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Match Report: City Rely on Unstoppable Agüero to Save Point at QPR For just the second time this season, Manchester City started with a centre-back pairing of Martín Demichelis and Eliaquim Mangala, with captain and key defender Vincent Kompany missing the trip to QPR through injur. The lack of leadership and composure at the back was telling. After a disapp...

Player Focus: Lukasz Fabianski Proving His Doubters Wrong for Swansea

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Player Focus: Lukasz Fabianski Proving His Doubters Wrong for Swansea The 2014/15 Premier League season has been one of surprise packages. Stewart Downing has been like a clichéd new signing for West Ham after Sam Allardyce's decision to deploy a 4-3-1-2 formation. Elsewhere, Victor Moses is proving his worth for Stoke City, while Craig Gardner has gone about h...