14 h. ago Dean Smith makes blunt Aston Villa claim after Premier League struggles

Aston Villa are the only team in the top four divisions yet to score a goal this season and Dean Smith believes the club are still playing catch-up from their relegation to the Championship in 2016

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44 h. ago Brit ditches Manchester United to travel 500 miles and support foreign club instead

Ryan Williams made the decision as he became so "fed up" of Manchester United, who have struggled so far this Premier League season and lost in the Manchester Derby yesterday

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64 h. ago Man City v Man United live: Struggling rivals meet in Manchester derby with Premier League debut expected

City and United have made struggling starts as they meet in an early season Manchester derby

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1 week ago Mikel Arteta should have heeded a lesson from Fabian Hürzeler and seized the moment | Jonathan Wilson

It’s hard to avoid the feeling that, after Brighton boldly took their chance, Mikel Arteta let one slip against LiverpoolLast Sunday, Fabian Hürzeler made a quadruple substitution an hour into Brighton’s Premier League game against Manchester City. Brighton had been scratchy, had struggled to create and were a goal down, but the changes transformed the game and they won 2-1. Hürzeler explained he had been guided by “a feeling that comes from inside In some moments my body says something to me. Not just in football but generally in life you need to have the courage to take the decisions you want to.”Hürzeler had spent most of his press conference trying to deflect or at least share out the praise. He talked of his players and how important their energy and belief had been, and he stressed that the substitutions had been a collective decision made with his coaching staff. Management these days is a world of data and analysis, of careful programming and meticulous plans. But ultimately...

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3 w. ago Sheffield Wednesday vs Leeds United EFL Cup prediction, odds and betting offer

Premier League Leeds United face Championship strugglers Sheffield Wednesday in the Carabao Cup second round this week

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4 w. ago Rangers collapse early against Club Brugge to leave Martin facing fans’ wrath

Russell Martin’s eighth match of a Rangers reign already riddled with doubts proved close to a living nightmare. Championship promotion races and playoffs, the ill winds of struggling in the Premier League have nothing on the fever-dream pressures of failing to turn around one of Glasgow’s giants.Martin may be a believer in his own processes but in an environment where snap decisions are often sustained, he does not have long to set them in place. The chances of Rangers playing Champions League football rather than the Europa League are an outside chance after a first-half performance of rank ineptitude, the tone and probably the two-legged tie set by a horrible opening 20 minutes in which three soft goals were conceded. So early in his stewardship, Martin is still in the experimental phase and until a revival in the second half the experiment looked likely to be abandoned some time soon. Continue reading...

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