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Match Focus: Wenger Needs Big Response When Arsenal Welcome United

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Match Focus: Wenger Needs Big Response When Arsenal Welcome United Arsene Wenger was dismissively talking about what he saw as an incorrect line of questioning following Arsenal’s 3-2 defeat to Olympiakos, but he used what is absolutely the correct word to describe the club’s situation.“It’s a farce,” the 65-year-old sniffed.Yes, that&...

Player Focus: Can Mata Ever Justify His Role at Manchester United?

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Player Focus: Can Mata Ever Justify His Role at Manchester United? The hysteria that followed Juan Mata’s extravagant move to Manchester United offered promise to a spectacular career for the Spanish playmaker at Old Trafford. Not even Germany captain Bastian Schweinsteiger was afforded the same Hollywoodtreatment as Mata when he touched down at United’...

Team Focus: Is this United Team Better than it Appears?

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Team Focus: Is this United Team Better than it Appears? Not for the first time this season, Louis van Gaal’s press conference on Sunday was baffling. Ronald Koeman, the Southampton manager, is habitually cautious about discussing the opposition, but he had no qualms about acknowledging Manchester United’s defensive “flaws”. But no...

Team Focus: Misfiring Midfield Holding Southampton Back

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Team Focus: Misfiring Midfield Holding Southampton Back Can Southampton class their start to the season as successful? In truth, it’s been hard to know what to make of it thus far. Their premature exit from the Europa League was a big disappointment on the south coast and while their only defeat in the Premier League has come to Everton, they have ...

WhoScored Tipster: The Top Tips Across Europe this Weekend

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WhoScored Tipster: The Top Tips Across Europe this Weekend Manchester United vs Liverpool - Over 2.5 goalsIt may not be a surprise to see such high odds on over 2.5 goals when Manchester United and Liverpool re-ignite their fierce rivalry this Saturday. Neither side enter the game in strong form going forwards but when the two have met in the past such issu...

Team Focus: Liverpool Must Show Purpose They Have Lacked Thus Far Against United

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Team Focus: Liverpool Must Show Purpose They Have Lacked Thus Far Against United A few days before Liverpool reheat the biggest rivalry in English football history, Nathaniel Clyne was striking all the right notes, making all the right noises.“We need to be at their throats from the start,” the full-back said ahead of his new team’s trip to Manchester United. &...

Player Focus: How Chris Smalling's Impressive Form is Now the Norm

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Player Focus: How Chris Smalling's Impressive Form is Now the Norm Amid all the chuntering about Louis van Gaal at Manchester United, there has been one undeniable positive: he has elevated Chris Smalling into the sort of player he looked like he might become when he moved to Old Trafford from Fulham in 2010. There was a time when the announcement that he was the s...

Player Focus: Martial Fee Obscuring Impressive Capture for United

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Player Focus: Martial Fee Obscuring Impressive Capture for United Amid all the grander storylines of the night, it was easy to overlook one of the more understated elements. Arsenal, however, should have been paying it much more attention.Because, for all the understandable focus on the London side’s collapse and Dimitar Berbatov’s return in Monaco&rsq...

WhoScored Quiz: Premier League 2015/16 Gameweek 3 Round Up

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Test your knowledge of gameweek 3's action in the Premier League in our weekly round-up quiz...

Team Focus: What is Attack and are United Failing at it?

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Team Focus: What is Attack and are United Failing at it? “What is attack?” Louis van Gaal asked abruptly after a journalist had challenged how his Netherlands side played in beating Chile at the World Cup last season. It’s the sort of fundamental with which he enjoys punctuating press conferences. After his United side had been held to a...