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Keep your mails coming to theeditor@football365.com… Final fallout That was one of the best champions league finals, football wise, that I can remember watching. In the initial stages Man City were ready to press very high and very aggressively but weirdly they didn’t seem to win the ball high up. The Chelsea defenders looked nervous […]
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Remembering seven European finals in half a century for Chelsea… Chelsea beat Manchester City in Saturday’s Champions League final to take their record to six wins in seven major European finals. The PA news agency remembers the Blues’ past European showpiece appearances. 1971 Cup Winners’ Cup: Chelsea 2 Real Madrid 1 (replay) Chelsea’s 1970 […]
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Former Premier League striker Noel Whelan expects the presence of David Moyes in the West Ham dugout to weigh in heavily on Jesse Lingard’s decision over his future. Lingard, 28, arrived at the London Stadium in January and racked up nine goals and five assists in 16 games. With his loan spell having concluded, Lingard […]
Read More… from Pundit cites Moyes attraction as key factor in West Ham’s Lingard pursuit
A deflated Pep Guardiola defended selecting Ilkay Gundogan as a holding midfielder, despite the switch causing Manchester City clear problems in their Champions League final defeat to Chelsea. The team selection of Guardiola was a major talking point in the post-match discussion of what went wrong for the Premier League champions. Guardiola chose to go […]
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Thomas Tuchel hopes to tie up a new Chelsea contract after steering the Blues to the Champions League title in just 124 days at the helm. Tuchel revealed he enjoyed the “best moment” to meet owner Roman Abramovich for the first time – on the Estadio do Dragao pitch after Chelsea’s 1-0 win over Manchester […]
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Pep Guardiola gave Thomas Tuchel a gift before kick-off and he and Chelsea gratefully unwrapped it to win the Champions League. 1) It was so comfortable. That’s a statement you would have thought could only be made after a Manchester City win. They’ve got the best coach in the world, they’ve got the best […]
Chelsea turned a season of turmoil into the ultimate triumph as Kai Havertz’s ice-cool finish sunk Manchester City 1-0 to swipe Champions League glory in Porto. Mason Mount’s inch-perfect assist stunned domestic double-winners City at the Estadio do Dragao, as Chelsea claimed their second Champions League title to etch boss Thomas Tuchel’s name into the […]
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Well this is a first. We have 16 Conclusions on the Championship play-off final between Brentford and Swansea. Soak it in. But first read Brentford are Premier League: Moneyball and a broken jinx 1) Let’s start at the beginning. The past couple of weeks have given us the long-awaited return of fans back in stadiums. […]
Read More… from Brentford reach the Premier League: 16 Conclusions
Throw those flatcaps in the air, twang those braces and pass the beard oil – it’s victory for the hipster xG nerds. Brentford are a Premier League football team. They’ve avoided ‘La Decima’; broke their jinx to win the play-offs at the tenth time of asking. They won it in 20 devastating minutes. Freddie Woodman […]
Read More… from Brentford are Premier League: Moneyball and a broken jinx
Brentford made it 10th time lucky as they beat Swansea 2-0 in the Championship play-off final to reach the Premier League for the first time. Goals from Ivan Toney and Emiliano Marcondes saw the Bees finally break their play-off hoodoo after all nine of their previous attempts had ended in failure. It was swift redemption […]
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