Chris Baker
November 1, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
Tom Heaton – Burnley Embed from Getty Images Burnley’s resilience was once again outstanding on Saturday as they held out for a point at Old Trafford, but will certainly have to give the plaudits to their goalkeeper Tom Heaton. The Clarets man ...
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Chris Baker
October 25, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Bournemouth, Chelsea, Everton, Hull, Leicester, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, Palace, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
Petr Cech – Arsenal Embed from Getty Images Once again Petr Cech pulled off some miraculous saves against Middlesbrough to spare the Gunners blushes. Cech arguably saved a point for Arsenal producing some fine saves throughout the 90 minutes, and certainly eased ...
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Oli Price-Bates
October 23, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Middlesbrough
Arsenal were far from their best as they hosted Middlesbrough on Saturday afternoon and they only managed to come away with a point, but if it wasn’t for Petr Cech they may have lost the game. Embed from Getty Images Cech had to ...
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Oli Price-Bates
October 21, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Middlesbrough
Arsenal are on a run of 7 straight wins. They are flying, but they cannot afford to underestimate Middlesbrough, who need the points and will play to frustrate the Gunners on Saturday. After playing on Wednesday, Wenger could make a few changes ...
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Oli Price-Bates
October 21, 2016
All, Betting, Burnley, Hull, Middlesbrough, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, West Brom
The season is well and truly underway and after eight games there are some teams already in desperate trouble. While there is still enough time to rectify their seasons and climb out of the relegation zone, a number of teams are not ...
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Chris Baker
October 18, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Bournemouth, Chelsea, Everton, Hull, Leicester, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, Palace, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
Maarten Stekelenburg – Everton Embed from Getty Images Well, I doubt Stekelenburg has quite had a performance like he did at the Etihad stadium in his whole career. The 34-year-old was absolutely fantastic for his club and saved two penalties which he ...
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Chris Baker
September 29, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Bournemouth, Burnley, Chelsea, Everton, Hull, Leicester, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, Palace, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
Petr Cech - Arsenal Although Cech wasn’t worked as much as others over the weekend, his professionalism shown through the whole squad on the Gunners 3-0 win over Chelsea. He made a few fantastic saves in the latter stages of the game ...
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Fresh Football
September 23, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Chelsea, Fantasy Football, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, Palace, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke, Swansea, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
As gameweek six approaches, Fantasy Premier League managers will be looking at who to transfer in ahead of the sixth instalment of Premier League action, but here are three players that we strongly advise avoiding including in your squad ahead of the ...
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Chris Baker
September 19, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Bournemouth, Chelsea, Everton, Hull, Leicester, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, Palace, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
Jordan Pickford – Sunderland Embed from Getty Images Probably the busiest keeper of the weekend having to keep out an onslaught from the Spurs attack was superb throughout and deserved to be on the winning side. The 22-year-old made more saves (8) ...
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Oli Price-Bates
September 18, 2016
All, Analysis, Everton, Middlesbrough
Twitter was full of praise for a certain Everton player after his performance helped the team come back from a goal down to win 3-1. Embed from Getty Images As a team, Everton were very impressive. They look very good under Ronald ...
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Chris Baker
September 14, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Hull, Leicester, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, Palace, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
This is the Fresh Football team of the week for Gameweek 5. Steve Mandanda – Crystal Palace Embed from Getty Images Mandanda is settling into life in the Premier League comfortably, the Frenchman made two outstanding saves from Negredo and Ben Gibson ...
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Oli Price-Bates
September 8, 2016
All, Analysis, Fantasy Football, Man City, Man Utd, Middlesbrough
So Sergio Aguero is banned for 3 matches. Can you really afford to keep such a valuable asset not scoring points for 3 weeks? We don’t think so and because of that we’ve drawn up a list of three possible replacements for ...
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Oli Price-Bates
August 24, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Burnley, Chelsea, Everton, Hull, Leicester, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, Palace, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
After each gameweek, our writers will put together a Premier League team of the week. Here’s our selection for game week 2, we’ve gone for a 3-4-3 formation. View our Team of the Week from Gameweek 1. GK - Eldin Jakupovic The Swiss ...
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Chris Baker
August 16, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Bournemouth, Chelsea, Everton, Hull, Leicester, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, Palace, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
After each gameweek, our writers will put together a Premier League team of the week. Here’s our selection for gameweek 1, we’ve gone for a 4-2-3-1 formation. GK - Maarten Stekelenburg Embed from Getty Images The Everton shot-stopper had an afternoon to ...
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Patrick Ribeiro
August 11, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Bournemouth, Burnley, Chelsea, Everton, Hull, Leicester, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, Palace, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
After weeks of gruelling preparation, the time has come for us all to second guess the form of the Premier League’s finest and compile them into our very own fantasy football team. In direct reference to the Premier League’s official instalment of ...
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Oli Price-Bates
August 2, 2016
All, Arsenal, Bournemouth, Burnley, Chelsea, Everton, Hull, Interviews, Leicester, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Palace, Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
Part one this interview can be found here Pep Guardiola is changing Manchester City, they’ve announced the signing of Leroy Sané, one of Europe’s brightest prospects and also want Gabriel Jesus, another talented youngster, how highly do you rate the two mentioned? ...
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Chris Baker
August 2, 2016
All, Arsenal, Bournemouth, Burnley, Chelsea, Everton, Hull, Interviews, Leicester, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Palace, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
Our writer Chris Baker had an exclusive chat with journalist Liam Canning, as they speak about the summer 2016 transfer activity thus far ahead of the Barclays Premier League next season. It has been widely reported Alexandre Lacazette could swap life in ...
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Chris Baker
July 26, 2016
All, Arsenal, Interviews, Liverpool, Man City, Middlesbrough
Our writer Chris Baker has had an exclusive interview with Daily Mail reporter Jonny Singer. They spoke about the summer 2016 transfer activity thus far. Karanka has already completed some very good signings for Boro, including Victor Valdes and Negredo, do you ...
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Oli Price-Bates
May 24, 2016
All, Analysis, Chelsea, Gossip Column, Middlesbrough, West Ham
With the domestic football seasons over, the transfer window has really kicked into gear and now the stories and gossip are flowing. Here at Fresh Football we will bring you the best (and worst) of it. For extended coverage please follow us ...
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