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League Focus: Premier League Half-Season Statistical Review

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League Focus: Premier League Half-Season Statistical Review With the season now at the halfway point, the Premier League table has a familiar feel to it. Title favourites Chelsea currently lead the way having lost just the once so far, while defending champions Manchester City are hot on their heels. Manchester United have shown remarkable consistency of lat...

Match Report: Impressive Goalkeeping Ensures Spoils Shared at White Hart Lane

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Match Report: Impressive Goalkeeping Ensures Spoils Shared at White Hart Lane Despite their traditionally poor record against Manchester United, Tottenham came into this meeting on the back of a 4-game unbeaten run against their Premier League rivals, two of which they had won at Old Trafford. However, it was United who looked more likely to break the deadlock in the opening ...

Player Focus: Christian Eriksen Fulfilling his Potential for Spurs

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Player Focus: Christian Eriksen Fulfilling his Potential for Spurs Christian Eriksen can be indirectly attributed with the assist for Harry Kane’s opener in Tottenham’s 2-1 win over Burnley on Saturday. Michael Keane had just been penalised for a contentious handball and Kane, who wanted to instantly re-start play, took a quick free kick. He spotted Eri...

Match Report: Spurs Brush Aside Home Woes to Dispatch of Burnley

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Match Report: Spurs Brush Aside Home Woes to Dispatch of Burnley Before Saturday's meeting at White Hart Lane, the last 6 competitive meetings between Tottenham and Burnley had yielded 27 goals, so this fixture promised action at either end. Each of those 6 games saw at least 3 goals scored and both teams played their part in maintaining that impressive return as...

League Focus: Should English Football be Open to a More Direct Approach?

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League Focus: Should English Football be Open to a More Direct Approach? Tony Pulis’ name has more or less become synonymous with a style of football widely maligned in this country. Few children will aspire to be players that thrive in his teams and fewer still fans will yearn for their club to play his kind of football. He was thought to have reached a ceiling at...

Player Focus: Cazorla's Return to the Number 10 Role Benefitting Arsenal

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Player Focus: Cazorla's Return to the Number 10 Role Benefitting Arsenal Arsenal were dealt a huge blow last week as manager Arsène Wenger confirmed midfielder Aaron Ramsey would miss the festive period due to a hamstring injury. The news followed what was a blistering 45-minute performance by the 23-year-old in the 4-1 win over Galatasaray. The Welshman bagged a ...

Match Report: Chelsea Maintain Impressive Home Form Despite Fàbregas Absence

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Match Report: Chelsea Maintain Impressive Home Form Despite Fàbregas Absence Any doubts over whether Chelsea could bounce back from their demoralising defeat at Newcastle last weekend were brushed aside as they dispatched of an out of sorts Hull. The home side were not at their best, but did enough to make it 8 home wins from 8 in the Premier League this season.Chelsea opene...

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...