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Liverpool signed Thiago for occasions such as these. Jurgen Klopp has to defibrillate his team’s struggling heartbeat against Real Madrid. Thiago Alcantara tasted Premier League victory at Anfield for the first time last weekend. The Spaniard, arriving from treble-winning Bayern Munich in the summer, has featured sporadically for the Reds and hasn’t quite convinced. […]
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Sean Dyche has made 66 substitutions but not one has had a hand in a goal. Then there’s Ole Gunnar Solskjaer… 1) Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (Manchester United) – 15 goals scored or assisted by subs Games: 31 Substitutions made: 80 Goals scored by subs: 9 Assists by subs: 6 19y 192d – Mason Greenwood is […]
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Mauricio Pochettino would not quite be the youngest manager to reach the European Cup final with two different clubs. But it’s pretty close. Mauricio Pochettino would become only the tenth manager to reach a European Cup or Champions League final with two different clubs if he can guide Paris Saint-Germain past Manchester City or […]
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It has gone, the game. Football. The game. Our game. The one we loved. The one we grew up watching. It has gone. Cant believe it. I wanna run to u. Really cant believe this. @. So who’s this week’s prick then? Anyone who used the phrase “the game’s gone” unironically in response to a thing that happened on a […]
Jose Mourinho’s powers of misdirection seem to be on the wane if his attempt to shift the focus to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer parenting skills is anything to go by. But it did get us wondering: which Premier League manager would starve their kids for diving or committing other such minor footballing offences? 20) Nuno: The […]
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Jesse Lingard is on his third punditry strike. The first two seem harsh. And Harry Kane will decide whether Tottenham sell their best player. Geek like me This might be our favourite pithy description yet of the one thing that dominates football discourse like no other: from Graeme Bryce’s exclamation mark-riddled report for The Sun […]
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One of the worst byproducts of VAR is less the implementation itself and more how it dominates the discourse. The football becomes secondary. Sean Longstaff closed his eyes and hoped for the best in the Burnley six-yard box. His plunge towards the ball was a courageous decision, but sadly his head was met with […]
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Game to watch – PSG v Bayern Munich The first leg was no different to dozens of other games Bayern have played and won comfortably in the last two seasons, save for two anomalies – Kylian Mbappe and Robert Lewandowksi. If the latter was playing, Bayern would have won; if the former wasn’t playing, Bayern also […]
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Jamie Carragher described Sam Allardyce as the “master of the transfer window” before kick-off, pointing to the players he’s signed to enable relegation escapes at other clubs and those he landed in January for West Brom – who have made a massive difference. Mbaye Diagne, Ainsley Maitland-Niles and Okay Yokuslu were all outstanding in the […]
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Manchester United have finally got themselves a proper No.9. One that moves, heads footballs, scores goals and everything. Now Ole Gunnar Solskjaer just has to keep him. That won’t be as easy as it sounds. Edinson Cavani is mulling over his options, which it has to be assumed are plentiful, and selling United as the […]
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