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Manchester United were excellent but have been here before and must make this count for something. Pep Guardiola has a few thoughts to ponder. 1) “Our challenge is to finish second but I want to congratulate City for the title – because they are going to win and deservedly. They gave no chance to the […]
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Eight months ago, a plane flew over Anfield during the final home game of an extraordinary season (for multiple reasons) congratulating Liverpool for their crushing Premier League title triumph. On Sunday, another plane flew over Anfield desperately trying to rally the troops during a 1-0 home defeat to Fulham in a title defence gone horribly, spectacularly […]
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A big derby win for Manchester City would all but guarantee them the Premier League title and they would have managed it largely without the help of all-time leading goalscorer Sergio Aguero, who’ll play less than half of City’s league games this season even if he features in every remaining fixture. Here’s a side made […]
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Manchester City fans have long insisted that media holds an agenda against the club and its owners. Based on this season they have a point. On Friday, March 5, a Sky Sports team meeting would have taken place around lunchtime. Sat around in a Zoom conference with their lower half hidden away in pyjama […]
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“We have to do it game by game [now]. Not for three games, not for four, we have to constantly be like this, with this energy, this team spirit and after I am looking forward to us doing something.” That was Granit Xhaka urging Arsenal to start hitting some consistency after producing an impressive display […]
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Southampton’s 2-0 defeat to Leicester in January triggered the avalanche of losses that saw Saints plummet spectacularly from the summit of the league. Their recent draw at home to Chelsea temporarily cauterised those wounds, but with back-to-back defeats in their last two outings, the Hampshire outfit are haemorrhaging once again. Their Jekyll and Hyde campaign […]
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Winners Thomas Tuchel So this is what tactics look like. No matter your thoughts on Frank Lampard and his time at Chelsea, it’s now nigh on impossible to believe they would have been better off sticking with him over Thomas Tuchel. The German has won seven of ten games, conceding just twice with a defence […]
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Liverpool are in trouble and Jurgen Klopp looks completely out of ideas. By contrast, Thomas Tuchel has reinvigorated this Chelsea machine. 1) Hindsight is 20/20, but such a painful lack of foresight might never be more hilarious than in 2021. Bambi was bloody well asking for it. 2) This is why Roman Abramovich […]
There is a potential storm brewing over the next international break, though even a superficial look reveals that this is an international break that really should not be taking place at all for obvious reasons both important (containing global pandemic) and trivial (football). From a Premier League standpoint – and really what other standpoint matters? […]
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Dean Henderson was the only Manchester United player to do himself any favours on Wednesday night. But even that single positive from a dour draw presents Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with a problem. Hardly a new one, mind. Solskjaer has done well to avoid addressing his goalkeeping issue before now. But the United boss has a […]
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