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So Nicolas Jover gets a goal bonus? Welcome to the age of the set piece

Nicolas Jover has a goal bonus as part of his Arsenal contract Alex Pantling/Getty Images It now makes complete sense why Nicolas Jover has been frequently spotted smoking expensive cigars, wearing ...
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Set-piece goals just the latest overblown moral panic for the Premier League content machine

After a brief midweek hiatus for some lighthearted fun in the Carabao and the ongoing distraction of the Liverpool crisis, one that is in language-mangling fashion somehow both deepening and ...
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Liverpool have become a set-piece team. And that’s OK

Virgil van Dijk scores against West Ham from a corner Dan Mullan/Getty Images If somebody had told you that, this season, a team would break a Premier League record by scoring seven successive ...
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Inside Liverpool set-piece woes and how Anfield chiefs plan to fix Reds' 'killer' problem

Those fortunate to have spent any time in the company of Arne Slot this season will have noticed the Liverpool head coach has developed a bugbear for set-pieces. Rarely has a press conference passed ...