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Premier League
Is Bruno Fernandes a Manchester United legend?
Is Bruno Fernandes a Manchester United legend? It is the kind of question that only really gets asked when the answer is already leaning one way. Nobody debates legends in their first hot streak, and nobody bothers once a player has faded quietly out of view. The question arrives in…
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Soccer
Champions League MW6 Review – Perfect Arsenal, Relieved Liverpool, and Lennart Karl
Champions League Matchday 6 had everything: comeback chaos, teenage stardom, a brewing crisis (that to me seems overblown) in Madrid, and one very loud audition for a World Cup ticket from Marseille. Here is how it all fits together. Our Champions League Team Of The Week is in with some…
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Champions League
Biggest Tactical Trends in the Champions League this season
The Champions League has never felt more like a travelling tactics convention than it does this season. The old comfort blanket of tidy four-team groups is gone. In its place sits the new 36-team league phase, a rolling carousel of heavyweight clashes that looks more like a supercharged regular season…
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Soccer
The Evolution of Barcelona’s Playing Style – from Cruyff to Flick
Camp Nou has always been a kind of football laboratory. Great coaches walk in, scribble on the whiteboard, and the sport walks out slightly changed. From Johan Cruyff turning Barça into a school of positional play to Hansi Flick arriving with German intensity and a high line that has TV…
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Premier League
Chelsea vs Arsenal Preview – an early Premier League title decider
Late November, West London, under the lights at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea vs Arsenal usually sells itself, but this one comes with extra weight. It is first vs second in the Premier League, with Arsenal leading the pack and Chelsea six points behind heading into Matchweek 13. That gap makes Sunday…
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Premier League
Can anyone stop Arsenal from winning the Premier League?
Arsenal did not so much creep to the top of the table this season as slam the door behind them and twist the key. Twelve games in, they are first, they have the best defence, they have one solitary league defeat and they have turned Sunday afternoons into a kind…
