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Europa League Round Of 32: 2nd Leg Predictions

There was one game on Tuesday as Benfica advanced to the Round of 16 with a 4-0 win over Hertha Berlin. I was impressed to see that all of teams competing took the tournament seriously fielding full strength teams. This

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Europa League Round Of 32: Preview And Predictions

The Champions League is back and the Europa League provides some good match-ups. They may not have the biggest teams in Europe, but there are a lot of intriguing match-ups in the Europa League among some of the big name

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The Two Bayerns: A Look At The Bundesliga Leaders

With the FA Cup not exciting me this weekend, I took this weekend as an opportunity to catch up on some other leagues around the world (In retrospect, the games in England were exciting to watch). The main one I

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Weekend Watch List: Test For The German Leaders And Barcelona Faces Its Bogey Team

With the FA Cup going on this weekend, England is not producing a whole lot of great match-ups but the rest of Europe have some good games. Germany especially has some good matches at the top of the table. So

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My Thoughts On The Wolfsburg-Manchester United Game

Heading into the game, there was great worry about the United’s defense which was likely to feature at least 2 midfielders and possibly a debut for a player who has only played nine times for the United reserve squad. United

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Thoughts On Manchester United-Wolfsburg game

Manchester United completed a 2-1 come from behind victory over German champions Wolfsburg at Old Trafford. It took United a while to get settled in the match but they controlled much of the play and after Wolfsburg took the lead

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