Tag: teams

Man City 0-2 Liverpool: Why are Premier League teams struggling to win at home?
24 February 2025 Off

Man City 0-2 Liverpool: Why are Premier League teams struggling to win at home?

By Total Football News

The Covid-19 era showed fans likely had a positive impact on how home teams performed – but can home supporters have a negative effect too?

Some might say the Goodison Park grumbles which accompanied Sean Dyche’s final days as Everton boss are in stark contrast to the partisan passion on show under David Moyes’ resurgent side. Have fans had an influence there?

Some of this season’s struggling teams have seen

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Champions League: How a fifth place for English teams is likely based on Uefa coefficient rankings
20 February 2025 Off

Champions League: How a fifth place for English teams is likely based on Uefa coefficient rankings

By Total Football News

Each country’s league earns a coefficient ranking based on how their teams perform in UEFA’s three men’s club competitions: the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League.

Coefficient points are earned through match results – two for a win and one for a draw.

The points earned by clubs from the same domestic league are added up and divided by the number of clubs the league has in Europe.

For

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Why are teams struggling to score goals in the Championship?
21 November 2024 Off

Why are teams struggling to score goals in the Championship?

By Total Football News

The Championship is so often the home of thrills, spills and goals – and plenty of them. But not so much this season.

After 15 rounds there have been 435 goals in 180 matches, which is 57 fewer than we had at this stage last season.

It’s a four-year low – so where have all the goals gone?

“We have to keep this in context because we’re comparing it to

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Tom Cleverley: Watford boss impressed by team’s improved ‘resilience’
25 September 2024 Off

Tom Cleverley: Watford boss impressed by team’s improved ‘resilience’

By Total Football News

“There were a lot of technical defensive mistakes at Norwich, we don’t value the art of defending enough.

“That was the key message and structurally we were disciplined, hard-working, and when we did get our structure broken, we put our bodies on the line, so big respect to the lads,” he said.

The former Manchester United and Everton midfielder admitted Watford’s last two performances in the league had been under

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How Premier League’s worst teams have fared after relegation
6 August 2024 Off

How Premier League’s worst teams have fared after relegation

By Total Football News

What happened next?

The Rams kept faith with Paul Jewell, who had led Bradford and Wigan to promotion from the second tier, despite his minimal impact having taken over from Davies the previous November.

After a slow start to the season, three wins and a draw from five league games in October were enough for Jewell to be nominated for the Championship manager of the month award but that was

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Daniel Farke: Leeds United boss surprised at team’s progress
20 May 2024 Off

Daniel Farke: Leeds United boss surprised at team’s progress

By Total Football News

After a large turnover of players in the summer Leeds won just three of their opening nine league matches of the campaign.

However, their form improved thereon and a 10-match winning run at the start of this calendar year propelled them into automatic promotion contention.

Although they tailed off with just one win in their final six games to finish third behind Leicester City and Ipswich Town they are now

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Manchester United one of ‘most entertaining’ Premier League teams, says Erik ten Hag
28 April 2024 0

Manchester United one of ‘most entertaining’ Premier League teams, says Erik ten Hag

By Total Football News

United remain in sixth spot, one point ahead of Newcastle, in the battle for a place in next season’s Europa League.

Ten Hag defended his decision to take off Rasmus Hojlund and Kobbie Mainoo after 65 minutes, which sparked boos from home supporters, and warned fans need to show patience after the Red Devils targeted younger players last summer.

“It was a high intensity game, our third in quick succession,

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