By Walter Broeckx Lots of changes at the start but that was to be expected of course. In fact it was the team that was expected at the start of the match. Well the team I expected anyway. Starting XI: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Ramsey, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ozil, Alexis, Giroud On the beach: Ospina, …
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Barcelona – things to look out for. By Tim Charlesworth We’re all rather wracked with anxiety about tonight’s game. I find a nice way to deal with football tension is to think about some aspects of the game to look out for (other than the ‘who scores the most goals’ question). Matches like this define …
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By Bulldog Drummond We’ve said it before, but it is worth saying again. Look at the Spanish league table. The top four go into the Champs League, 5th and 6th go into Europa. And what do you know – Sevilla in fifth are closer to relegation than they are to catching Barcelona. Which …
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By Bulldog Drummond. If you have read my match previews from time to time you’ll know that I sometimes quote Whoscored.com – an interesting source of statistics. Unfortunately today that site doesn’t seem to like my login and thus I’m being barred from seeing some of the more exciting bits of the site. So instead …
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