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Yahoo! Fantasy Football: More away day woes for Mourinho’s Manchester United

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Yahoo! Fantasy Football: More away day woes for Mourinho’s Manchester United Congratulations are in order for Jeremy, who won the WhoScored.com contest last weekend and took home the biggest slice of the £200 prize pool. This weekend the prizes are even bigger! We are playing for a share of £4,000 this Saturday so don’t miss out! For first time users, why ...

Yahoo! Fantasy Football: Arsenal to gun down sorry Swansea

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Yahoo! Fantasy Football: Arsenal to gun down sorry Swansea WhoScored.com have partnered up with Yahoo! Fantasy Football to provide fans with the ultimate tipping guide ahead of Saturday’s fixtures in Gameweek 10 in the Premier League. Before running through our team, in which our Twitter fans voted for Mohamed Salah to fill the final position, we must...

Alexis at the double as Arsenal maintain top-4 pursuit

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Alexis at the double as Arsenal maintain top-4 pursuit There was a pre-season feel to Arsenal’s penultimate home game of the season. With the Emirates far from a sell out on a warm, dry Tuesday evening, there was more to this fixture than match fitness. While Sunderland were relegated at the end of April, the Gunners needed a win in front of their...

Tottenham vs Arsenal: Eriksen to usurp Ozil as North London's creator-in-chief

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Tottenham vs Arsenal: Eriksen to usurp Ozil as North London's creator-in-chief Sunday’s North London Derby has the potential to live long in the memory for Tottenham fans. For 21 years, they have been forced to bear witness to ‘St. Totteringham’s’ day by Arsenal, when it becomes mathematically impossible for the former to catch the latter. A win for Spu...

REVEALED: Tottenham man leads the way for chance creation

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REVEALED: Tottenham man leads the way for chance creation Despite leaving West Ham in January, Dimitri Payet is still the Premier League’s third most effective creator this season. The France international left the Hammers for Marseille at the turn of the year despite only leaving the Ligue 1 outfit for east London 18 months previously. Indeed, he ha...

Find out which England quartet would make the Germany XI

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Find out which England quartet would make the Germany XI One of football’s great international rivalries is revived tonight, as Germany and England go head-to-head for the ninth time since the turn of the century.Despite the teams having won four apiece of the previous eight meetings, Joachim Loew’s world champions are understandably strong fa...

Is Mesut Ozil being unfairly scapegoated by Arsenal fans?

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Is Mesut Ozil being unfairly scapegoated by Arsenal fans? “They are using him as a scapegoat for the team after bad results,” agent Dr Erkut Sogut said of his client. He was, of course, referring to Mesut Ozil in the wake of Arsenal’s 5-1 thrashing at hands of Bayern Munich in the Champions League. The Germany international was widely cri...

Form Guide: Arsenal lack quality - the time for 'Wenger Out' has come

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Form Guide: Arsenal lack quality - the time for 'Wenger Out' has come Was this the final nail in the coffin? All the talk at Arsenal has surrounded Arsene Wenger, and whether he will extend his stay beyond the end of his contract, which expires in the summer.The Frenchman has been subject of criticism from his own fans on countless occasions over the years but this ti...

Does Ozil deserve criticism for role in Arsenal loss to City?

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Does Ozil deserve criticism for role in Arsenal loss to City? There could be few things more Arsenal than getting through a difficult November, looking as though they might actually be able to challenge for the title, and then losing two games in a row in which they’d taken the lead. And there could be few things more predictable than the fact that in de...

Newfound goal threat elevating Özil and Arsenal to next level

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Newfound goal threat elevating Özil and Arsenal to next level Were it not for a moment of sheer genius from Mesut Özil, we were just minutes away from yet another ‘typical Arsenal’ scoreline. As it is, the German’s exquisite solo effort against Ludogorets will no doubt spark the equally familiar question as to whether this Arsenal side h...