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Player Analysis: Anfernee Dijksteel
To quote Dominic Shaw, Middlesbrough Editor for Teesside Live, in November 2020: ‘Anfernee Dijksteel is getting better by the week. His game is maturing by the week. He’s growing in confidence by the week. Imagine what he’ll be at the end of this season, never mind in a couple of years.’ Fifteen months of…
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Manchester United – The Rudderless Ship
Manchester United have been longing for domestic success ever since Sir Alex Ferguson decided to step away from the bricked dugouts of Old Trafford. They became the most domestically decorated club in England and one of the most feared teams on the continent under Ferguson, with players and managers alike fearful of taking the…
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Tactical Analysis: Leonardo Jardim’s Monaco
Leonardo Jardim’s career has been defined by scouting and enhancing the resources at a club in order to push it to greater heights and achieve milestones that the club would never have thought about. The Portuguese coach never played professional football. He entered this arena as an enthusiast who decided to learn the craft…
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Niklas Süle: Analyzing Dortmund’s First Signing of 2022
Niklas Süle’s football education had started at Eintracht Frankfurt’s youth academy which preceded a short stint at minnows SV Darmstadt. He joined Hoffenheim’s academy in 2010 while current Manchester United manager, Ralf Rangnick was manager. This was a few years after German businessman and SAP co-founder, Dietmar Hopp decided to invest into the club from Sinsheim…
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Player Analysis: Domenico Berardi
Domenico Berardi has arguably been one of the most exciting players Italy has produced in the last decade or so. Despite a period in his career when he was struggling with injuries, the 27-year-old has become a talisman for provincial club Sassuolo since it first played in Serie A back in 2013/14. Although Juventus…
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Keane Lewis-Potter: The Young Hull City Attacker Tipped For Premier League Greatness
After bursting onto the scene with Hull City as a young and exciting attacker, natural comparisons were bound to happen. Keane Lewis-Potter might well be the new Jarrod Bowen for Hull, a tricky player for opponents to handle with pace, an unpredictability to his game and an eye for goal. Scoring for fun…
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Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds: An Unforgettable Journey
“A man with new ideas is a madman, until his ideas triumph.” – Marcelo Bielsa. A mentor to coaches, a professor to players, a hero to fans. A saviour for a club. Principled and humble, his perfectionist approach, coupled with an arsenal of quirky idiosyncrasies and radical approach, made Bielsa more than just…
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Player Analysis: Marc Guehi
“I knew I was good enough; I just needed a platform…obviously it has come this season, and I have took it well.” These were the words of Trevoh Chalobah ahead of Chelsea’s trip to Luton in the FA Cup. The 22-year-old has been a revelation at the heart of Chelsea’s backline this season, but…
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Online Betting and Online Casino: New Ways to Make Money in the Gambling Industry
Online casinos and betting on sports are among the most common phrases that you have heard in the last few years. These both are forms of gambling, and millions of players wager money in such activities for fun or to earn more. Sometimes gambling and betting are mixed up, but you have to understand…
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Revisiting Ajax’s Shock Victory over Real Madrid in 2019
In September 2010, a Martin Jol-led Ajax took on Real Madrid in a group stage match in the Champions League at the Santiago Bernabéu. This wasn’t the strongest Ajax side – recent times had suggested they weren’t strong enough to compete with the top level of Dutch football, let alone European football, yet here…
