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Bundesliga Roundup: Week 2
Two weeks down in the German top tier, so let’s recap what happened! – Schalke 1-1 Bayern Munich The champs were held to one point by the miners. Playing in a warped 4-2-2-2 (cheers, Pep), Bayern struck first behind new boy Robert Lewandowski; his 10th minute strike opened his Munich scoring account. Just after the hour,…
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Ligue 1 Roundup: Week 4
We kick off this week’s edition of the Ligue 1 roundup with Olympic Lyonnais’ 2-1 defeat to newly promoted side Metz. Lyon only have 3 points in their first four games which, you know… is a bit of a problem. This is a team that’s supposed to be making a charge for a European spot…
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European Roundtable
Can Napoli or Roma unseat Juve this year? If so, who? Ahmad: This says more about Juventus than the other two, quite frankly, and with good reason. Antonio Conte is gone, replaced by AC Milan whipping boy Max Allegri. As soon as he left, Juventus lost out on signing Juan Iturbe to Roma, and the…
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Squad Depth and Title Challenges: The Arsène Quandary
Alexis Sanchez, winger/”striker”: £30 million. Calum Chambers, right back/centre back/defensive midfielder: £16 million. David Ospina, goalkeeper: £3 million. Mathieu Debuchy, right back: £12 million. In total, Arsene Wenger has spent £61 million this transfer window alone. Here’s the sad part: it may not be enough to put up a successful league title challenge this season.…
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Champions League Group Stage Power Rankings
The Champions League group stage was drawn today. 32 teams from 18 nations have been drawn into eight groups of four. But you already know that. Let’s rank the groups for how interesting, competitive and fun they’ll be. 1. GROUP E (FC Bayern München, Manchester City FC, PFC CSKA Moskva, AS Roma) This is the…
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Van Gaaled
My mother once dated a man I didn’t much care for (sorry mom, if you are reading this.) Still, she was my mother, and I couldn’t really say anything while it was going on. When they finally split, I told her my sister and I had never much liked the gentleman. She said she knew…
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Marseille and the Bielsa Equation
It’s only been only three games into Marcelo Bielsa’s tenure with Olympique Marseille, so jumping to conclusions on many levels is ridiculous, even bordering on stupid. Bielsa had his issues in domestic league play over his two seasons with Athletic Bilbao, but he did good things in tournament play during the 2011-12 season with Bilbao’s…
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Manchester City 2, Liverpool 1: A State Of Change
Fernando and Yaya Toure’s midfield relationship from Newcastle carried over against Liverpool. Fernando’s main job was to be apply pressure on whoever had the ball in the midfield, not allowing the trio of Gerrard, Allen and Henderson to have much time to feed their threatening attacking options. Fernando wasted no time doing this, as just…
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Bundesliga Round Up: Week 1
Robben Saves the Day Bayern Munich opened up the Bundesliga season on Friday against a strong Wolfsburg side, and it was a mostly pedestrian effort. Pep again went with a three man defense, with Lahm on the back line and Alaba in the midfield. While Bayern were the stronger side, it wasn’t the typical level…
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