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Gabriel Sara: Norwich’s Brazilian Talent
Norwich City may have dropped back into the second division last summer, but it hasn’t curbed their ambition. The Canaries are looking to bounce back to the Premier League at the first time of asking. And with the jewel in their crown, Gabriel Sara, yet to find his feet in East Anglia, Norwich seemingly have…
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The Ten Commandments of Gegenpressing
Space is critical in football, give your opponent too much of it, and you get punished; make the best of little space or try to profit from little space, and you might get rewarded with a goal, just like at a casino. This creates a problem for every manager, irrespective of the philosophical divide: how…
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Players That Can Enhance Erik Ten Hag’s Manchester United Squad
As Manchester United look to Erik ten Hag for their revival, the squad he has still needs tweaking and additions. In his first summer window, Ten Hag was backed by the board in spending close to £216m on signings, made up of bulky costs for Antony (£85m), 5 time UCL winner Casemiro (£64m) and Lisandro…
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Joachim Andersen: The Danish Defender at the Heart of Crystal Palace’s Defence
Danish defender Joachim Andersen has been ever present for Crystal Palace since arriving at Selhurst Park in the summer of 2021. Andersen spent time in the youth systems of F.C. København, Midtjylland and FC Twente, making his senior debut in 2013 at the latter. The Dane moved to Sampdoria during the summer of 2017…
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A Look into Tactical Periodisation
I am quite a bookworm and have been reading a lot recently, two of the books I enjoyed are The European Game by Daniel Fieldsend and The Barcelona Legacy by Jonathan Wilson. Both books mention the ever-controversial Jose Mourinho and his chosen method of training, known as Tactical Periodisation. What is Tactical Periodisation? It is a training methodology developed by Sports…
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Thilo Kehrer: The German Defender Who’s Making a Name For Himself at West Ham
Born in 1996 in the small Stuttgart town of Tubingen in the canton of Baiden Wurttemberg in Germany, Thilo Kehrer knew he wanted to play football as soon as he was able to take his first steps. In 2000, he joined TSG Tubingen academy and his parents encouraged a hobby that soon become an all-consuming…
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Bruno Guimarães: Newcastle’s Midfield Linchpin
It’s no secret that Bruno Guimarães is one of the Premier League’s best midfielders. The 24-year-old, who joined Newcastle United from Lyon for £40 million in January, has flourished at the base of Eddie Howe’s 4-3-3 and finds himself on the bubble of Brazil’s World Cup squad as a result. “He’s absolutely a bargain…
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Can Cristiano Ronaldo Lead Portugal to a First-Ever World Cup in His Likely Final Tournament?
We are just three weeks away from the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and there are plenty of mouth-watering storylines and exciting clashes that look set to take place across the month-long tournament in Qatar. This is the first-ever tournament to take place in Asia and the first to take place in November-December as opposed to…
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Analyzing Ghana’s Experienced and Young Squad to the 2022 World Cup
A new inexperienced team or an exciting young team that can shock the world? The case of Ghana as the lowest-ranked team in the World Cup per the last Coca-Cola FIFA Rankings. Ghana has been drawn in Group H with Portugal, South Korea and Uruguay. The West African nation has seen loads of change in…
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Rangers’ Disappointing Treatment Of Former Club Captain Lee Wallace
Former Hearts, Rangers, Queens Park Rangers, and Scotland defender Lee Wallace has decided to retire from football at the age of 35 years old. Wallace has been without a club since being released from Queens Park Rangers at the end of last season. His wife announced the news of his retirement from her Twitter…
