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Match Report: Hazard Impresses as Title Winners Chelsea Reaffirm Champions Tag against Sunderland

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Match Report: Hazard Impresses as Title Winners Chelsea Reaffirm Champions Tag against Sunderland Chelsea received their third guard of honour of the campaign at Stamford Bridge on the final day of the season as Sunderland were welcomed to the home of the 2014/15 Premier League champions. The Black Cats avoided the furore of 'Survival Sunday' after drawing 0-0 with Arsenal on Wednesday night, a ...

Player Focus: Pantilimon the Premier League's Goalkeeping MVP Over De Gea & Co.

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Player Focus: Pantilimon the Premier League's Goalkeeping MVP Over De Gea & Co. It wasn't quite the great escape we witnessed last season but Sunderland have done it again, avoiding the drop ahead of the final day of the season after what looked likely to be a troubling end to the campaign. The Wearsiders certainly have Dick Advocaat to thank for arresting their slump of just 1...

Team Focus: The Correlation Between Shots Per Game and Goals Scored

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Team Focus: The Correlation Between Shots Per Game and Goals Scored One of the stranger conclusions of Charles Reep, the first man in Britain to take seriously the collation of football data was that, as teams scored, on average, with one in nine shots, they should shoot more, even if that meant taking almost indiscriminate pot-shots from 40 yards. Even if it didn&r...

Player Focus: Sunderland Profit from Infectious Defoe Enthusiasm

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Player Focus: Sunderland Profit from Infectious Defoe Enthusiasm After Jermain Defoe scored what turned out to be Sunderland’s winner against Newcastle last month, he wept. He broke down again in the post-match interview. At the time it all seemed a little odd – after all, it’s not as though Defoe was brought up in the north-east or has Sunderla...

League Focus: The Battle to Stave Off Relegation

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League Focus: The Battle to Stave Off Relegation May is always a month to look forward to for the British public. The days are longer, the evenings brighter and the weather warmer with summer just around the corner. For teams at the wrong end of the Premier League table, however, May can be a month of despair in a battle to secure top-flight safet...

Team Focus: The Unenviable Task of Keeping Up Sorry Sunderland for Advocaat

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Team Focus: The Unenviable Task of Keeping Up Sorry Sunderland for Advocaat After conceding 4 first half goals to a Villa side that had netted just 4 goals all season on the road before last weekend's drubbing, Gus Poyet's fate at Sunderland was sealed. Many of the home fans left before the interval, with some taking the opportunity to volley abuse towards the Black Cats be...

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: Assessing the Premier League Relegation Run-in

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Team Focus: Assessing the Premier League Relegation Run-in At this stage of the season the Premier League table has rather satisfyingly split into three sections: the big-hitting European hopefuls in the top 8, the no-hopers in mid-table - lacking in ambition and almost certain to end the season drifting aimlessly amidst mediocrity - and the precariously pl...

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...

Team Focus: What Will Defeat at Southampton Mean for Sunderland's Season?

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Team Focus: What Will Defeat at Southampton Mean for Sunderland's Season? There aren’t many ways of looking at an 8-0 defeat that see anything other than an unmitigated disaster, which is right and logical. Sunderland were terrible in losing to Southampton on Saturday, a pitiful showing by a team who, by the second half, seemed to have given up. That is inexcusable ...