Oli Price-Bates
November 6, 2016
All, Analysis, Liverpool, Reaction, Watford
Liverpool moved to the top of the Premier League with an emphatic 6-1 win over Watford on Sunday afternoon. Embed from Getty Images Jurgen Klopp’s men kept up their stunning form of late and they had Philippe Coutinho to thank for much ...
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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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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
October 5, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Hull, Leicester, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Palace, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
Lee Grant – Stoke City Embed from Getty Images Not often will a goalkeeper go to Old Trafford and have one of the games of their lives, but that’s exactly what Lee Grant done on Sunday against the Red Devils and saved ...
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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, Everton, Fantasy Football, Hull, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
As values of players increase and prolific consistent points-scoring players start to become clearer to Fantasy Premier League players, managers may have to save a little money in the midfield area in order to sufficiently strengthen the defence or the attack and ...
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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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Tom Cobbing
September 19, 2016
All, Analysis, Man Utd, Watford
Watford secured their first win against Manchester United for 30 years, in an emphatic 3-1 win. But, how did the players individually get on? Embed from Getty Images Heurelho Gomes – 7 Started off very shaky, but as the game wore on ...
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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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Patrick Ribeiro
September 15, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Burnley, Chelsea, Everton, Fantasy Football, Leicester, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Palace, QPR, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
The Premier League comes early this week and, as always, Fresh Football will be here to try and second guess the professionals in aid of your Fantasy Teams. Here are our picks for this weekend: 1 - Kyle Walker Embed from Getty ...
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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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Patrick Ribeiro
September 8, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Bournemouth, Watford
As two of the most free-spending managers in football history, José Mourinho and Pep Guardiola, paved way for the arrival of more high-profile managerial switch-a-rounds, it’s perhaps no surprise to see Premier League clubs shatter the records of expenditure once more with ...
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Tom Cobbing
September 4, 2016
All, Analysis, Watford
We’ve been asking the fans who they think have been the best signings of the summer. This is your list and this, is your number 9. Watford secured a massive deal for Juventus midfielder Roberto Pereyra during the summer, for only £13.5 ...
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Tom Cobbing
September 2, 2016
All, Analysis, Watford
Watford had a very busy summer transfer window, lots of ins and lots of outs. In this article I’m going to round up all of Watford’s business and analyse each signing and then give my overall opinion on their transfer window. Isaac ...
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Oli Price-Bates
August 29, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Watford
It was an afternoon to remember for Arsenal’s summer signing Granit Xhaka as his new club picked up their first win of the season and he put in a memorable performance. Embed from Getty Images Xhaka had failed to really make an ...
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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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Oli Price-Bates
August 19, 2016
All, Analysis, Chelsea, Watford
Antonio Conte kicked off his Premier League adventure with a vital 3 points against a tough West Ham United side. Now they travel to Watford, a team also under new management and one that is playing in the hipster formation of this ...
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Patrick Ribeiro
August 18, 2016
All, Analysis, Arsenal, Bournemouth, Chelsea, Everton, Fantasy Football, Hull, Leicester, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Palace, Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
Matchday 1 of the Premier League has come and gone and, if you’re anything like me, you’ll most likely have a fantasy team in need of recalibration. Just a tad, honestly! In an attempt to second guess the professionals, here are three ...
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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 25, 2016
All, Analysis, Watford
Watford will play another season in the Premier League next season after avoiding the drop zone quite comfortably. Quique Sanchez Flores left Watford after finishing in a very respectable 13th position. Walter Mazzarri will be the new manager next season for Watford ...
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Chris Baker
June 22, 2016
All, Analysis, Watford
Leicester City are ready to spend in the region of £30million to sign Watford captain Troy Deeney. This comes after the Foxes had a second bid of around £25 million rejected for the Hornets star player. Embed from Getty Images Leicester City ...
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Chris Baker
June 19, 2016
All, Analysis, Leicester, Watford
Premier League champions Leicester City look set to secure four transfers in the coming weeks as they look to add to their squad ahead of the new season which will include the Champions League, we take a look at four deals that ...
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Chris Baker
June 6, 2016
All, Analysis, Watford
Watford will play another season in the Premier League next season after beating the drop zone quite comfortably after promotion the season before. Quique Flores left Watford after securing them top flight football next season finishing 13th, Walter Mazzarri will be the ...
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Oli Price-Bates
September 16, 2015
Analysis, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Bournemouth, Chelsea, Everton, Leicester, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Newcastle, Palace, Southampton, Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, Swansea, Watford, West Brom, West Ham
We may have only played five games, but the Premier League is beginning to take shape, and with that, star performers are becoming prominent. View image | gettyimages.com It seems a little silly to analyse the Premier League’s best players just 13% ...
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Taylor Cornish
September 9, 2015
Bournemouth, Burnley, Championship, Chelsea, Hull, Leicester, Liverpool, Marseille, Palace, QPR, Southampton, Spurs, Swansea, Watford, West Ham
Deals were flying backwards and forwards all the way up to the transfer deadline last week with big deals including Bradley Johnson to Derby and Michael Hector joining Chelsea making it a deadline day to remember. I round up each clubs activity ...
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Taylor Cornish
September 2, 2015
Aston Villa, Championship, Chelsea, QPR, Uncategorized, Watford, West Ham
With the English transfer window officially closed I take a look back at the Championship’s biggest deadline day deals. View image | gettyimages.com Bradley Johnson – Derby County (£6m) Derby delivered plenty of excitement to their fans on deadline day as the ...
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