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Match Focus: Championship Play-offs - Second Leg Previews

by Alan Smith at Monday, May 11 2015 15:26
Match Focus: Championship Play-offs - Second Leg Previews Middlesbrough (2) vs Brentford (1) – Friday 7.45pmMark Warburton has insisted this tie is not over and considering the unpredictable season Brentford have endured, you would not put it past them to overturn the deficit at the most difficult Championship ground to get a result this season but i...
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Match Focus: Rivalry to Develop in MLS Battle of the Big Apple

by Graham Ruthven at Friday, May 8 2015 14:52
Match Focus: Rivalry to Develop in MLS Battle of the Big Apple Many claim that it cannot, and never will, be called a derby. After all, how can there be rivalry between two teams that have never played each other before? But despite such scepticism the Major League Soccer community awaits Sunday’s first ever clash between the New York Red Bulls and New Yo...
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Match Focus: Masterful Messi Leaves Guardiola & Bayern Hopes in Tatters

by Miguel Delaney at Thursday, May 7 2015 10:35
Match Focus: Masterful Messi Leaves Guardiola & Bayern Hopes in Tatters By now, there are no new words to describe him, apparently no new ways to stop him and - as a consequence of all that - no realistic hope for Bayern Munich.Leo Messi levelled the Germans, somehow lifting himself up to even greater heights at the same time. After all the build-up, all the history, al...
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Match Focus: Attack the Best Form of Defence for Pep on Return to Camp Nou

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, May 6 2015 14:29
Match Focus: Attack the Best Form of Defence for Pep on Return to Camp Nou 'Unstoppable' is the way Pep Guardiola has described his former striker Lionel Messi ahead of a return to Camp Nou for tonight's Champions League semi-final. If there were a manager who knew how to stop the irrepressible Argentine, it should surely be the man who mentored him towards legendary statu...
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Match Focus: Disciplined Attacking Trio Crucial in Juventus Win Over Real Madrid

by Ben McAleer at Wednesday, May 6 2015 12:30
Match Focus: Disciplined Attacking Trio Crucial in Juventus Win Over Real Madrid Juventus’ welcome of Real Madrid on Tuesday night could well have been considered the curtain raiser for tonight’s main event, where European giants Barcelona host Bayern Munich. The focus of the fixture between the top teams in Spain and Germany will see Pep Guardiola return to the Camp...
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Match Focus: Old Guard Red Bulls and LA Galaxy Fight for MLS Supremacy

by Graham Ruthven at Friday, Apr 24 2015 11:22
Match Focus: Old Guard Red Bulls and LA Galaxy Fight for MLS Supremacy In Major League Soccer 3.0 places in the established order are up for grabs. The big-name signings don’t go where they used to go, the television cameras no longer visit the same grounds week after week and the unpredictability of North American football’s top-flight has only been accent...
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Match Focus: Bayern Respond in Style to Punish Porto

by Miguel Delaney at Wednesday, Apr 22 2015 10:21
Match Focus: Bayern Respond in Style to Punish Porto Whatever has been said about coming apart at the seams, or doctor’s orders, it was one throwaway line from a thrilled Pep Guardiola that summed up the mood around Bayern Munich now better than anything. “We can play even better!”That may be true of the second half against FC Porto,...
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Match Focus: Fekir’s Magic Not Enough to Seal Electric Rhone-Alpes Derby

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Apr 20 2015 15:30
Match Focus: Fekir’s Magic Not Enough to Seal Electric Rhone-Alpes Derby “I’ve nothing to reproach my players for,” said Saint Etienne coach Christophe Galtier after Sunday night’s draw at Lyon. “It’s me that should feel bad, because the strategy (I) adopted allowed Lyon to create lots of (dangerous) situations.”A year in the Rho...
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Match Focus: Ancelotti Frustrated as Madrid Champions League Tie Remains in Balance

by Miguel Delaney at Wednesday, Apr 15 2015 11:45
Match Focus: Ancelotti Frustrated as Madrid Champions League Tie Remains in Balance There were no goals at the Vicente Calderon, but that left one big question following this Champions League quarter-final first leg: who does the 0-0 actually favour?The answers given to that question revealed a lot. Carlo Ancelotti leant towards the negative. He described it as “not so good&r...
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Match Focus: Questions Remain for Dortmund and Bayern After Der Klassiker

by Andy Brassell at Tuesday, Apr 7 2015 11:44
Match Focus: Questions Remain for Dortmund and Bayern After Der Klassiker With over 80,000 people packed into the Signal Iduna Park and the eyes of millions of television spectators fixed on Saturday’s clash between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich, it seemed almost surreal that the result was not, perhaps, of the highest importance when they met early Saturday e...
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