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  • The best of the best!

    The 2022 UEFA Champions League final has thrown up two very familiar teams. Liverpool have won the competition six times while Real Madrid are the record-holders with 13. Moreover, it will be the third meeting of these sides at this stage. Liverpool won in 1981 (at Parc des Princes too!), while Los Blancos took home the […]

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  • Zani(g)o(a)lo!

    AS Roma became the first ever winners of the UEFA Europa Conference League as they beat Feyenoord 1-0 in Tirana, Albania thanks to a solitary first-half goal from Nicolo Zaniolo.   Congratulations Roma, 2021/22 Europa Conference League champions! 👏🏆#UECLfinal pic.twitter.com/LECvXSr31e — UEFA Europa Conference League (@europacnfleague) May 25, 2022   Both sides came out of […]

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  • The low-block explained

    Terms like ‘Park the bus’ , ‘all 11 defending’ or ‘every man behind the ball’ actually have immense tactical significance in football. Managers like Sean Dyche, Jose Mourinho and Diego Simeone have actually been very successful deploying such tactics. Technically, this tactic is referred to as a ‘low- block’ and has a very storied history […]

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  • Karim of the crop

    There are some things in football which are never said out loud but are accepted as the norm. At Valencia or a West Ham United, if a player does well, it’s an underwritten pact that he will look to move on to a “bigger” club, even if that club might not be doing so well […]

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  • Jose Mourinho 2.0

    Roma making their return to the final of a European competition with Jose Mourinho as a manager? The scriptwriters are having a field day. The Giallorossi are into the showpiece match of the UEFA Europa Conference League. It has been 31 years since Roma has reached a match of this magnitude, losing to Inter in […]

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  • Been three years!

    History does repeat itself in football. Real Madrid and Liverpool meet again in the final of the UEFA Champions League. These familiar foes clashed in the quarter-finals last season, with Madrid running out 3-1 winners on aggregate. The result and scoreline would have given Liverpool flashes of deja vu. Los Blancos sealed their Champions League treble in […]

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