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Peter Odemwingie On His Way To West Brom

Nigerian attacker Peter Odemwingie has been rumored with moves to the English Premier League for some time.  Last year, he was prominently linked with Fulham, though he would stay another season in Moscow, remaining one of Lokomotiv’s most recognizable players.

Now, Odemwingie’s finally set to move, this time to West Brom.  He still has visa issues [...]

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UEFA Champions League Playoffs: Links on Tuesday’s Matches

Luciano Spalletti is right to think Zenit should have had more. When I looked at the last decade’s worth of numbers, a 1-0 home win usually portends to a club going through; however, Zenit had a chance to put this tie away, and between this performance and the preceding round’s 1-0 aggregate victory over [...]

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Ronald Koeman Interested In Aston Villa Job

Of course he is.

Legendary Dutch defender/midfielder Ronald Koeman wants to move to Aston Villa, and with coaching stops at PSV, Benifica and Ajax he certainly has a pedigree.  That in addition to being a truly classic player and Villa could do worse, right?

Remembering the state of Valencia at the end of Koeman’s reign there, I’m not [...]

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Barcelona-Inter Milan: Preview and Minute-By-Minute

Sorry I didn’t get the preview up earlier, it just showed up in my feed.  If you’re DVRing the game and watching later, it’s still very useful to you.  You can find the match preview here and the minute by minute here, both from Set Piece Analysts.

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EPL Talk - Interview with Mike Forde

The most recent edition of the EPL Talk podcast is an interview with Mike Forde, who holds the title of Performance Director at Chelsea.  Him and Richard discuss performance analysis in football and what football clubs can learn from the analytical approach that lots of teams take in Major League Baseball.  Listen to the interview [...]

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Lyon 0:3 Bayern Munich: Match Review and Player Ratings

Richard’s round-ups of the Lyon-Bayern tie are up at Set Piece Analysts.  You can find his match report here and his player ratings here.  I loved the insane first comment on the player ratings article, check it out.

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UEFA Champions League - Minute by Minute

Hey everyone, Richard is doing the live minute by minute thing again today for the Bayern-Lyon match.  Check it out over at Set Piece Analysts.

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All Things Footy - Episode 7

On this edition of All Things Footy, Kevin McCauley and Richard Farley go all around the world as is custom on the show.  They start by reviewing the weekend’s action in England, Italy, Germany, and Spain.  After that, the discussion moves to the Champions League ties.  They close out the show [...]

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Lyon-Bayern Munich: UEFA Champions League Preview

There is a contingent of people that consider Frank Ribèry amongst the best players in the world.  They persist in this view despite the match-to-match evidence from Bayern’s opposite flank, showing a tangible difference between greatness and elite.

Frank Ribèry is great, but it is the slightly erroneous notion that he is [...]

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Dominic Fifield Interview: EPL Talk Show

Dominic Fifield is the London football correspondent for the Guardian. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, Dominic and I talk about the five London-based clubs in the Premiership, putting their season’s performance in the context of how their managers have performed. Along the way, Dominic gives his [...]

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