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Having been beaten in Ukraine Chelsea find themselves hosting Shakhtar in need of three points. Whilst the West London club still look likely to progress, they will need an assured performance to get through having experienced a difficult last two weeks or so in which they have only won one of their last four games.…
Glen Johnson has had a good season this year, playing both right back and left back. His form led manager Brendan Rodgers to describe him as ‘possibly the best player in the league’ and saying that he, along with Dani Alves, is the best right back in World football. But with so many fine full-backs…
Sitting bottom of their group with just 1 point, Man City’s hopes of progressing from the Champions League group stages look almost completely diminished. Ajax, who beat them two weeks ago, sit above them in third, will hope to record a good result on Tuesday to keep their own hopes of qualification alive. With their…
Darren Bent did not travel with Aston Villa to Sunderland and has slowly become a peripheral figure under Lambert. Bent moved to Villa in January 2011 for an initial fee of £18 million, scoring 9 goals in 16 games to help Villa comfortably survive relegation. The feeling at the time was that Villa were short…
Mario Balotelli has now played nine league games this season, failing to score a goal. He was brought off against West Ham after firing another blank, with that game marking his 5th start this season, more than Dzeko who has scored five goals. Balotelli has also failed to play 90 minutes in any of his…
Swansea have had a fairly good start to life without Rodgers, having won 3 Premier League games, they sit in 11th with 11 points. After a relatively good showing at Man City last week Swansea might fancy themselves against Chelsea on Saturday, having recorded a 1-1 draw at home to Chelsea last season. Chelsea came…
Sunday’s 4pm kick-off sees Newcastle travel to Anfield, with neither team having started the season as well as they would have liked, both teams will be desperate for three points. Liverpool were dumped out of the Capital One Cup mid-week and will need to bounce back and record what would be only their second home…
London, England September 13, 2012 – The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU), a leader in global payment services and new Global Partner of the UEFA Europa League, today announced it will turn every successful pass in this season’s competition into funding to provide one day’s education for young people around the world. Called PASS, the initiative…
Saturday’s early kick off sees two old foes face off for the first time this season. Arsenal and United will meet at Old Trafford having enjoyed relatively contrasting starts to the season. Despite a premature outcry that Wenger’s men were title challengers after a draw at Man City, his side have faltered in recent weeks,…
Manchester City’s trip to Upton Park on the weekend is far from an anticipated clash of great expectation. The champions have no mid-week priorities unlike fellow Premier League sides, so rest and recuperation from their earliest victory, coming at home against Swansea City, is a priority. The Citizens sit level on points with their closest…
Spain and Barcelona’s repetitive trend of football is the innovative fashion in terms of football philosophy. The short passing and movement has revolutionised football and it seems that this team has become the team to beat in the world and the entirety of football history. However, one cannot help feel that when people fell asleep…
Being in charge of a team in EPL is a much sought after job. However, any EPL manager is closely scrutinized by the press, their own fans and by their bosses. Things didn’t change this season, with QPR’s manager Mark Hughes being the favourite to become the first EPL manager to be sacked this season…
Steven Gerrard rather rudely dismissed Everton as ‘the new Stoke’ which is both disrespectful to Everton and to a hard working Stoke side (both of whom sit above Liverpool in the table. The claim is all the more odd considering Stoke have three former Liverpool players in their current squad; Adam, Crouch and Owen. However,…