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Team Focus: Why Spurs Should be Wary of Happy Travellers Fiorentina

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Team Focus: Why Spurs Should be Wary of Happy Travellers Fiorentina Tottenham had a visitor to their state-of-the-art Enfield training ground on Tuesday. Italy coach Antonio Conte toured the facilities and observed a session put on by Mauricio Pochettino with the first team. He’ll be in the stands for Thursday’s Europa League tie with Fiorentina and Sund...

Player Focus: The Dwindling Impact of Substitutes in The Premier League

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Player Focus: The Dwindling Impact of Substitutes in The Premier League A lackadaisical defence left Spurs adrift in the second half. Google’s example of the use of ‘lackadaisical’ refers to Tottenham’s tendency to concede goals after the interval. Mauricio Pochettino has instilled relative solidity at the back at White Hart Lane following his su...

Team Focus: Pochettino's Youthful Tottenham Built for Bright Future

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Team Focus: Pochettino's Youthful Tottenham Built for Bright Future The list of superlatives left to describe Harry Kane’s phenomenal rise over the past months is fast running out. Praise upon praise has been heaped on the man-of-the-moment, with past players and pundits alike demanding an England call-up whilst talk persists of the likes of Real Madrid sendin...

Match Report: Hurri-Kane Blows Gunners Away at the Lane

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Match Report: Hurri-Kane Blows Gunners Away at the Lane “When you have scored the number of goals that he has scored, if England don’t put him in there (the national side), somebody else will give him a passport!” Arsene Wenger joked after he was asked if Harry Kane was good enough to play for the Three Lions. It’s probably the on...

Match Focus: The North London Derby - Three Key Battles

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Match Focus: The North London Derby - Three Key Battles Only 2 points separate Tottenham and Arsenal coming into the latest instalment of the North London Derby. Saturday’s meeting between the two teams promises to be a hotly contested affair as the teams vie for Champions League football next season.Arsène Wenger appears to have found the r...

Match Report: Blades Blunt Spurs to Keep League Cup Tie in the Balance

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Match Report: Blades Blunt Spurs to Keep League Cup Tie in the Balance The Capital One Cup semi final draw had been kind to Tottenham. They have had poor records against both Liverpool and Chelsea in recent times, so to be paired with League One Sheffield United left fans expected a smooth route to the final. Perpetual giant-killers United, however, certainly didn't ma...

Player Focus: Improving Eriksen Firing Spurs Back Towards Top Four

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Player Focus: Improving Eriksen Firing Spurs Back Towards Top Four In all the discussion about Tottenham Hotspur’s recent surge of form, and amidst all the drama of so many late goals, there’s been one area that manager Mauricio Pochettino has been rather reluctant to touch on - or, rather, a series of individual areas.The Argentine doesn’t really...

Match Report: Fairytale Return for Pardew as Palace Overcome Spurs

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Match Report: Fairytale Return for Pardew as Palace Overcome Spurs Having succeeded Neil Warnock as Crystal Palace boss, Alan Pardew's return to Selhurst Park was exactly the fairytale he would have wanted. The 53-year-old spent 4 years with the south London side as a player and managed to guide the Eagles to all 3 points against Tottenham Hotspur in his first leag...

Player Focus: The Remarkable Rise of Harry Kane

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Player Focus: The Remarkable Rise of Harry Kane When Harry Kane made his first start for Tottenham Hotspur against Sunderland last April, the tendency was to dismiss him as one of Tim Sherwood’s projects. Sherwood had already brought in Nabil Bentaleb and seemed to be pursuing a deliberate policy of promoting players he knew from the youth ...

Team Focus: Premier League Clubs' Transfer Window To Do List - Part III

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Team Focus: Premier League Clubs' Transfer Window To Do List - Part III In the final part of this mini series we look at the Premier League's last 6 teams alphabetically to discuss where each may need to bolster their ranks in the January transfer window.StokeIt's been an inconsistent first half to the season for Stoke but most would also consider their continued progre...