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Keira Walsh X Lia Wälti: Manchester City’s Young Livewire Against Arsenal’s Flamboyant Veteran
The world of football can be as cruel as it is beautiful. Oftentimes, it’s the forwards who find themselves on the front page of the daily newspaper, because they might’ve scored four goals in a 4-0 victory for their team. However, it’s almost criminal the way that zero in the scoreline is overlooked. The…
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Lorenzo Pellegrini: The Giallorossi’s Creative Maestro
If you were asked to name some of the top midfield creators of the last 5 years or so, chances are that, unless you were a Roma superfan, Lorenzo Pellegrini would not make your list (and even then, it’s doubtful). But the Giallorossi youth product has quietly turned into one of the continent’s most productive…
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Brian Brobbey’s Breakthrough in Amsterdam
He’s unstoppable, has an insatiable appetite for goals, and wants a move away from Amsterdam. In the 2018/19 season, Brian Brobbey scored 49 goals for the Ajax youth teams. He was playing against players up to four years older than him. It’s fair to say he turned a few heads, even back then. Now 18,…
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İlkay Gündoğan’s Movement in the Final Third
İlkay Gündoğan began his career at VFL Bochum, breaking through their youth academy. He began playing for the club’s reserve team in 2008 before securing a move to FC Nürnberg the following season. His first big move came when Borussia Dortmund acquired him in 2011; he helped Dortmund win the Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal double in…
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Lewis Dunk: Graham Potter’s Very Own Brighton Rock
Through the winding cobbled alleys. Past the idyllic Victorian curvature, of the pier front, whose grace and charisma reach out beyond the water’s edge. Lewis Dunk sets himself. Rising and crashing, stretching and diverting, the coursing symmetry of boot hitting ball and wave hitting wood. So simple, so swift and yet its impression so unmistakable. …
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Tactical Analysis: Milan 2020/21
After a tumultuous decade for AC Milan, which saw them suffer their longest trophy drought since the 1940’s and go through 11 different managers, things are looking up for the Rossoneri. Stefano Pioli’s side currently sit atop the Serie A table with 43 points — just two points above Inter — whilst they are set…
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Player Analysis: Nicolas Pépé vs. Southampton
It’s fair to say that Nicolas Pépé’s sequel season at Arsenal has hardly set the Premier League alight, managing only four starts (prior to Southampton) with the majority of minutes played as a substitute. Whilst, his league minutes dwindled Pépé continued to graft in the Europa League, contributing with two goals and two assists in…
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Player Analysis: Charles De Ketelaere
Perhaps the biggest surprise package of the 2020/21 UEFA Champions League group stage was Club Brugge, who finished third in Group F with 8 points. The Belgian side came within one game of advancing to the Champions League knockout round, only to draw to Lazio at the Stadio Olimpico, and they will instead face off…
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Player Analysis: Darwin Núñez
On the origin of species, in footballing terms at least; tall, aerially shrewd strikers would serve such purpose: stay central, saunter into dangerous areas, score and assist goals. Since the turn of the century, Didier Drogba and Robert Lewandowski have both mastered that purpose, phasing it into the modern game so proficiently. But in the…
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Manchester United’s Struggles in Set-Pieces
On January 6, Manchester City eliminated Manchester United from the EFL Cup semi-finals, taking a 2-0 victory at Old Trafford via two goals from set-pieces which were converted by John Stones and Fernandinho, and booking their ticket for the Final at Wembley against Tottenham Hotspur. Three weeks later, Manchester United lost at home to bottom-dwellers…
