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Match Focus: England on Alert as France Production Line Keeps Rolling

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Match Focus: England on Alert as France Production Line Keeps Rolling It has been an encouraging month or so for England's under-21s, following up qualification for Euro 2015 with Friday night's convincing win over Portugal. As an opponent that failed to make it to the Czech Republic comes into focus, it is important to retrain the thoughts on what the representative ...

Match Focus: Old Favourites Still Key for Bayern and Dortmund

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Match Focus: Old Favourites Still Key for Bayern and Dortmund That Borussia Dortmund came up short at the Allianz Arena in Der Klassiker against Bayern Munich was not the biggest surprise of the weekend. It was still to come late on Sunday, when Vladimir Darida’s penalty winner for Freiburg at Köln sealed a first win of the season for Christian Stre...

Match Focus: Marvellous Marseille Denied Again by Lyon

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Match Focus: Marvellous Marseille Denied Again by Lyon If an end had to come to Marseille’s scintillating winning run of eight matches, it was probably always destined to be at Stade de Gerland against Lyon, in the derby of the two Olympiques. Exactly the same had happened on their last such run of successes, when Bernard Lacombe’s side defe...

Match Focus: The Key Issues Ahead of El Clásico

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Match Focus: The Key Issues Ahead of El Clásico El Clásico - an encounter that attracts interest from every fan, no matter who they support. The meeting between Real Madrid and Barcelona is widely considered the biggest in football and this weekend’s installment promises to prove why.Naturally, we at WhoScored.com are excited about S...

Match Focus: Sounders vs Galaxy to decide the Supporters' Shield

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Match Focus: Sounders vs Galaxy to decide the Supporters' Shield As far as heavyweight clashes go, this is Major League Soccer’s greatest offering. The LA Galaxy and Seattle Sounders aren’t just two of the biggest clubs in North America, they’re the best two as well.The West coast sides will complete a quickfire double-header this weekend in the...

Match Focus: Make or Break for Both Sides in Turkey's Intercontinental Derby

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Match Focus: Make or Break for Both Sides in Turkey's Intercontinental Derby “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that,” Bill Shankly was famously quoted as saying. Anyone who has experienced the Intercontinental derby would probably agree.The grand Istanbul derby is older than the Turkish republic i...

Match Focus: Improving Ireland Upset the Odds to Frustrate Faltering Germany

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Match Focus: Improving Ireland Upset the Odds to Frustrate Faltering Germany For John O’Shea and Ireland, it was a “special night”. For Germany, it was the culmination of a frustrating opening to these qualifiers that left manager Jogi Loew talking about a “post-World Cup hole”.The sides' surprising 1-1 draw in Gelsenkirchen leaves Ireland joint...

Match Focus: Lyon’s Growing Stamina Catches Out PSG

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Match Focus: Lyon’s Growing Stamina Catches Out PSG Three weeks, it turns out, is a long time in the life of Ligue 1. If somebody had told you at the start of the month that after Paris Saint-Germain’s meeting with Lyon, one team would be steeling themselves for a productive winter while the other would be questioning the very direction of thei...

Match Focus: Favre Changes Fire Gladbach’s Ambition

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Match Focus: Favre Changes Fire Gladbach’s Ambition There are moments, even at such an early stage of the season, that have a sense of the pivotal about them. Perhaps Borussia Mönchengladbach and Schalke both had epiphanies of sorts when they met at Borussia Park on Saturday evening. A fixture between two of the pretenders for Champions League p...

Match Focus: Can Slaven Bilic Pull Off Another Upset in England?

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Match Focus: Can Slaven Bilic Pull Off Another Upset in England? The number 13 lived up to its unlucky reputation as Arsenal failed to extend their run of 12 consecutive UEFA Champions League play-off victories. Had Demba Ba converted his chances, it could have resulted in Arsene Wenger leaving Istanbul with a mild case of triskaidekaphobia but lady luck didn&rsq...