Tag: attack

Chelsea: Where Estevao Willian fits in all-star attack
9 September 2026 Off

Chelsea: Where Estevao Willian fits in all-star attack

By Total Football News

Some of Chelsea‘s other young attackers have also struggled to start matches, with Palmer and Rogers beginning every game.

Joao Pedro has started all three league matches, while experienced striker Danny Welbeck led the line against Luton. That has limited Emmanuel Emegha, who joined from Strasbourg in the summer, to only one appearance on the bench.

Similarly, defender Aaron Anselmino is also yet to play and was only included

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Stoke City: ”Work to do in attack for the Potters’ – analysis
10 August 2026 Off

Stoke City: ”Work to do in attack for the Potters’ – analysis

By Total Football News

Stoke did what they had to do against an Oldham side that acquitted themselves well throughout in their Carabao Cup tie.

Viktor Johansson made several good saves behind a back four still coming together as a unit following Luke Graham’s arrival to replace Ashley Phillips and in the absence of injured Junior Tchamadeu and Aaron Cresswell.

The midfield has seen three new arrivals and remains a work in progress too,

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Mohamed Salah: Liverpool star’s public attack piles pressure on Arne Slot
7 December 2025 Off

Mohamed Salah: Liverpool star’s public attack piles pressure on Arne Slot

By Total Football News

Slot has not had to go looking for problems as Liverpool have slumped this season, despite spending almost £450m in the summer.

But the biggest landed when Salah decided to go public with obvious fury at his treatment.

Salah uses his words carefully and strategically. At most matches since arriving at Anfield from Roma in 2017, he has declined requests to talk to waiting reporters.

This only changes at Salah’s

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Tottenham tactics: Should Spurs be worried about their attack this season?
29 November 2025 Off

Tottenham tactics: Should Spurs be worried about their attack this season?

By Total Football News

Set-pieces are central to Frank’s side as they were for old club Brentford. This season Spurs have scored six times from set-pieces, the fifth most in the league.

Their 3-0 win against Everton is perhaps the best example of their quality and reliance on them.

Frank’s men ended the game with a lower xG than their opponents and 1.04 of their 1.72 xG came from set-pieces, with Spurs scoring twice

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Arsenal: Martin Keown says Gunners ‘attack like Invincibles and defend like class of 97-98’
7 November 2025 Off

Arsenal: Martin Keown says Gunners ‘attack like Invincibles and defend like class of 97-98’

By Total Football News

The teams I lifted the top-flight title with in 1998, 2002 and 2004 all have something in common with Arteta’s current side – all of them have suffered the pain of not winning something.

In 1998 we had gone six years without a title. In 2002 it came after we finished second behind Manchester United for three years in a row and again before the 2004 ‘Invincibles’ season.

This team

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Premier League: Man United & Man City to pay tribute to synagogue attack victims
3 October 2025 Off

Premier League: Man United & Man City to pay tribute to synagogue attack victims

By Total Football News

Manchester United and Manchester City will pay tribute to the victims of the Manchester synagogue attack before their Premier League fixtures this weekend.

But tributes will not be routinely held across the Premier League or English Football League over Thursday’s incident in which two people died and three others were injured.

United players will wear black armbands and hold a minute’s silence before their match against Sunderland at Old

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Guido Burgstaller skull fractured in attack in Vienna
16 December 2024 Off

Guido Burgstaller skull fractured in attack in Vienna

By Total Football News

Austria striker Guido Burgstaller had his skull fractured when he was attacked in the centre of the country’s capital city, his club Rapid Vienna have said.

Rapid said the 35-year-old is expected to be out of action for several months after suffering the “serious head injury” at the weekend.

They say the former Cardiff City forward was attacked by an “unknown man” and fractured his skull as he fell following

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Omer Riza: Cardiff City temporary boss goes on the attack in bid to land job
26 September 2024 Off

Omer Riza: Cardiff City temporary boss goes on the attack in bid to land job

By Total Football News

Riza joined Cardiff in the summer after spending almost six years at Watford, where he had been promoted to assistant first-team coach after several years in the club’s academy.

Asked if the potential opportunity to manage Cardiff in the event they sacked Bulut had been part of his motivation to take the job, Riza added: “I never like to go into any environment thinking this would happen.

“I gave my

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