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How Lallana established himself as a key man for Liverpool

by Jonathan Wilson at Jumatatu, Mac 6 2017 13:00
How Lallana established himself as a key man for Liverpool When Adam Lallana joined the exodus from Southampton to Liverpool for a fee of £25m in the summer of 2014, there was widespread scepticism. It was one thing to be a skilful creator for a mid-ranking side when the pressure wasn’t there to perform absolutely in every game, quite another to...
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Why Manchester United need to extend Ibrahimovic's Old Trafford stay

by Jonathan Wilson at Jumatatu, Feb 27 2017 13:00
Why Manchester United need to extend Ibrahimovic's Old Trafford stay Manchester United were poor defensively, the midfield didn’t function in the first half, but they still won the EFL Cup final. Often goalscorers win man of the match awards almost by default, because it’s the easy option, but Zlatan Ibrahimovic fully deserved his in Sunday’s victor...
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The Expert: Are Arsenal really a better team without Coquelin?

by Jonathan Wilson at Jumatatu, Feb 20 2017 13:00
The Expert: Are Arsenal really a better team without Coquelin? Anybody can make a mistake. Any goalkeeper can fumble a shot, any defender can miscue a clearance, any striker can fire over an open goal. Usually it’s a momentary lapse of concentration or an error of judgement. They happen and in time, after the initial anger has passed, most fans tend to be...
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The Expert: Are Manchester United now second best to Chelsea?

by Jonathan Wilson at Jumatatu, Feb 13 2017 16:02
The Expert: Are Manchester United now second best to Chelsea? There are two reasons why Chelsea look almost certain to win the Premier League this season. One is that they themselves are remorseless, having won 16 of their last 19 league games. Perhaps there has been a slight stutter recently, with points dropped in three of the last six games, but in that tim...
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Is Chelsea's Hazard now in the finest form of his career?

by Jonathan Wilson at Jumatatu, Feb 6 2017 13:30
Is Chelsea's Hazard now in the finest form of his career? Perhaps all players suffer the sort of expansionism that underpins modern capitalism. There must always be growth. Things must always be getting better, growing, improving. Nothing can ever simply remain the same. That Eden Hazard is paying well again this season after a largely miserable 2015/16 se...
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The Expert: Analysing whether fouls equate to dirtiness

by Jonathan Wilson at Jumanne, Jan 31 2017 13:00
The Expert: Analysing whether fouls equate to dirtiness The admission from Arsene Wenger that he has told Granit Xhaka not to tackle was startling – not just because it was an acknowledgement that a holding midfielder for whom he paid more than £30m is deficient in what is generally regarded as one of the key arts of his position - if not by ...
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The Expert: Is Liverpool's Firmino the Premier League's most complete striker?

by Jonathan Wilson at Jumatatu, Jan 23 2017 13:30
The Expert: Is Liverpool's Firmino the Premier League's most complete striker? Liverpool’s defeat to Swansea City on Saturday isn’t, of course, mathematically the end of their title challenge, but realistically it probably is. It’s not so much that the gap to the leaders Chelsea is now 10 points as the basic flaws that keep on costing them. In terms of the de...
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The Expert: Explaining the increase in Premier League goals this season

by Jonathan Wilson at Jumatatu, Jan 16 2017 14:00
The Expert: Explaining the increase in Premier League goals this season Goals. This season there have been huge numbers in the Premier League – an average of 2.86 by Sunday night, on course to set the record of 1066 for a 20-team Premier League season set in 2011/12. The pattern over time has been clear: goals are on the rise, at the top level of club football at ...
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The Expert: Battering ram Rondon is West Brom's archetypal striker

by Jonathan Wilson at Jumatatu, Jan 9 2017 12:10
The Expert: Battering ram Rondon is West Brom's archetypal striker It was at the Copa America in Argentina in 2011 that Salomon Rondon first came to prominence. There, as Venezuela reached the semi-finals, he often played as the lone front man, selflessly leading the line many miles in front of the midfield, his role to hold the ball up for Miku, the most advanced ...
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How logic defying Giroud is both unreliable and deadly

by Jonathan Wilson at Jumanne, Jan 3 2017 13:10
How logic defying Giroud is both unreliable and deadly Certain players seem to defy logic. In his four-and-a-half years at Arsenal, Olivier Giroud has regularly been criticised for his lack of deadliness in front of goal and yet this season, of players who have scored more than one goal, he is scoring at a faster rate than anybody else in the Premier Le...
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