Tag: Rory

Enzo Maresca: Rory Delap training with Chelsea but Marc Guiu in line to face Sunderland
24 October 2025 Off

Enzo Maresca: Rory Delap training with Chelsea but Marc Guiu in line to face Sunderland

By Total Football News

Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca believes being ruthless with Marc Guiu has changed the teenage striker for the better after telling him he was unhappy “in all the ways” with his training efforts.

Maresca has summer signing Liam Delap back in training, albeit not quite ready to return to first-team action after a hamstring injury lay-off.

Delap has been sidelined since August, and it was his blow that prompted Chelsea to

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Football tactics: Corner chicken & Rory Delap 2.0 – what’s the future?
14 April 2025 Off

Football tactics: Corner chicken & Rory Delap 2.0 – what’s the future?

By Total Football News

There isn’t enough deception in football tactics.

There are the ‘dark arts’ of defending, the dummy and the no-look pass. But where are the Trojan horses, the tactical decoys?

Players are getting more versatile all the time and (most) managers are too, regularly changing formation between matches and within them. In fact, a lot of managers these days would reject the idea of the formation.

But there are still basic

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Premier League predictions: Chris Sutton v Bank of Dave 2 stars Rory Kinnear and Dave Fishwick
13 January 2025 Off

Premier League predictions: Chris Sutton v Bank of Dave 2 stars Rory Kinnear and Dave Fishwick

By Total Football News

Old Trafford, 20:00 GMT

I have a lot of admiration for Manchester United’s performance in their FA Cup win against Arsenal, especially to grind it out with 10 men for an hour after Diogo Dalot was sent off.

But these next three games, at home against Southampton, Brighton and then Rangers, are a very different test for them compared to their trips to the Emirates Stadium and Anfield in the

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