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March 31, 2020

Bolu Alabi-Hundeyin

Fantasy Premier League, Features, Player Analysis, Premier League

Ings or Calvert-Lewin? England’s most-improved striker

The 2019/2020 season began with many players harboring hopes of cementing or stealing a place in Euro 2020. As football is expected to serve its fair share of twists and turns, and up until the League’s suspension due to the Coronavirus outbreak, injuries to Harry Kane and Marcus Rashford, alongside Raheem Sterling’s struggles this season…

March 18, 2020

Bolu Alabi-Hundeyin

Features, Premier League

Top Premier League games of the season

With the suspension of major leagues across Europe due to the coronavirus pandemic, leaving football junkies like myself with the need to depend on movies for daily entertainment. We cast our minds back on the suspended 2019/2020 season as Football Castle presents our Premier League games of the season so far. Southampton 0-9 Leicester. 25…

March 5, 2020

Bolu Alabi-Hundeyin

Features, Premier League

Premier League winter break: Klopp’s scourge, Guardiola’s Spur

Manchester City were in a miserable place in early February. The defeat to Spurs, which threatened to bring Liverpool’s title coronation earlier, was memorably confirmed by Steven Bergwijn’s debut goal. Pep Guardiola had honest talks with his players thereafter, then their winter break was extended by a postponed home fixture with West Ham due to…

March 1, 2020

Bolu Alabi-Hundeyin

Features, Premier League, Tactical Analysis

Why Liverpool’s unbeaten streak came to an end

It was bound to happen at some point. Liverpool’s Unbeaten Premier League run ended with a 3-0 defeat to relegation-threatened Watford. As goals from Ismaïla Sarr and Troy Deeney ensured Jürgen Klopp’s men fell five games short of Arsenal’s 2004 ‘invincibles’ record of 49 Premier League games undefeated. A whole 422 days after their last…

February 13, 2020

Bolu Alabi-Hundeyin

Features, Premier League, Tactical Analysis

A friday night classic at the Molineux

As a boy, I often imagined who would ‘win’ irregular brawls between animals in the wild. Say between a wolf and a fox. The Premier League’s Wolves square up to the Foxes, however, in what is more than a clash of carnivores. It presents a meeting of Midlands rivals and a tantalizing return to Premier…

January 24, 2020

Babajide Adewunmi-EverBlazin

Features, Premier League, Tactical Analysis

Ole on His Final Lifeline at Old Trafford

As the clock ticks, Time seems not to be on the side of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at Old Trafford. The baby-faced assassin as he was fondly called during his playing days has indirectly stained the clean slate he had in the first few months in charge of Manchester United. For many a-time this season, Ole’s…

January 24, 2020

Bolu Alabi-Hundeyin

Features, Player Analysis, Premier League, Tactical Analysis

Liverpool’s captain fantastic

Liverpool, the narrative ceases to change doesn’t it? 16 points clear with a game in hand, the Reds keep marching on to a first Premier League title in 30 years, winning maximum points each game. A hero steps up to the plate every game, and against Wolves, it was their captain fantastic. Jordan Henderson. Following…

January 22, 2020

Bolu Alabi-Hundeyin

Fantasy Premier League, Features, Player Analysis, Premier League

Gabriel Martinelli: The Unlikely teenager inspiring the Gunners

Gabriel Martinelli helped Arsenal to a come-from-behind 2-2 draw with Chelsea as he became the first teenager since Nicolas Anelka to reach double figures for Arsenal. Martinelli is the teenager with the second-most goals in Europe’s top five leagues after Jadon Sancho with 10 goals and three assists in 21 appearances. The unknown 18-year-old joined…

December 30, 2019

Bolu Alabi-Hundeyin

Features, Premier League

The Premier League: A new decade in perspective

It’s been a fantastic decade of Premier League football, with lots of thrills, goals and special memories to keep forever. Manchester United, Chelsea, Leicester City and Manchester City all lifted the Premier League title this decade, each leading varying periods of excellence. However, the biggest change in the premier league this decade is the inclination…

December 27, 2019

Bolu Alabi-Hundeyin

Features, Player Analysis, Premier League, Tactical Analysis

How did Liverpool cope with the loss of Fabinho?

13 points clear atop the Premier League table, Club World Cup Champions and 4-nil winners over second-placed Leicester, Liverpool are flying at the moment. Jürgen Klopp’s super team, however, are playing without one of their most important players, midfield destroyer Fabinho. The Brazilian played a blinder for Liverpool in their biggest game of the season…

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