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PESARO, Italy -- Argentina picked Juan Martin del Potro to play doubles against Italy in the Davis Cup quarterfinals from Friday. Cheap Swell Bottles .It will be Del Potros first tie in four years, and his first Davis Cup doubles.Wrist surgeries have limited his appearances, but hes finally sustained another comeback which included beating Stan Wawrinka en route to the third round of Wimbledon.This is his first tie since the 2012 semifinals, and though he has a 12-4 record in the cup, all in singles, he was passed over by Argentina captain Daniel Orsanic, who preferred Federico Delbonis, who will open against Andreas Seppi, and Juan Monaco, playing his first tie in 2 1/2 years, in the singles.Del Potro was paired on Thursday with Guido Pella, who made his debut in the first-round win over Poland.Italy has returned to Pesaros clay, the site of its first-round sweep of Switzerland. It hopes a six-match winning streak on home soil, going back to 2009, will help carry it to only a second semifinal in 18 years.Fabio Fognini leads the team, and will oppose his old doubles partner Monaco in the second singles.Against Del Potro and Pella, Italy has teamed Marco Cecchinato and Paolo Lorenzi, who have never played Davis Cup doubles.The winner meets Britain or Serbia in the semifinals. Swell Traveler Bottle Australia . 1 position. The Mustangs (6-0), who beat Queens 50-31 last weekend, earned 17 first-place votes and 287 points in voting by the Football Reporters of Canada. Western was last ranked first in the country in October 2011. Buy Swell Water Bottle Australia . Vancouver Whitecaps and Toronto FC failed to make the postseason while Montreal Impact fell at the first hurdle losing heavily to Houston Dynamo in the Eastern Conference Knockout Round. http:///...-wood-australia.html . 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Roberto Firmino, an attacking midfielder, started up front for Liverpool as he has for most of the season and scored in a 4-2 win at Crystal Palace.Winger Alexis Sanchez led the line again for Arsenal and scored twice in a 4-1 win at Sunderland.Eden Hazard, usually a left winger, was a goal-scorer and star player for Chelsea after starting the 2-0 win at Southampton in such an attacking position that he was often playing further forward than striker Diego Costa.Right wingers Nathan Redmond and Michail Antonio were central strikers for Southampton and West Ham, respectively.Meanwhile, for two of Tottenhams last four games, South Korea attacking midfielder Son Heung-min has started as the main striker. And Swanseas American coach, Bob Bradley, played midfield playmaker Gylfi Sigurdsson as a lone striker against Arsenal for his first game in charge.Established international strikers like Daniel Sturridge, Divock Origi, Olivier Giroud, Vincent Janssen, Shane Long, Michy Batshuayi and Fernando Llorente have often had to be content with a role as substitute at the expense of wingers or midfielders. Some of them havent even come on.Even the player widely regarded as the best striker in England has been affected. Sergio Aguero was on the bench for Manchester Citys Champions League game at Barcelona, with coach Pep Guardiola preferring playmaker Kevin De Bruyne up front so he could drop back to help his midfield.English soccer is late to the party when it comes to the converted forward or false nine, which was popularized by the successful Barcelona and Spain teams of the past decade and also in the European game by current world champion Germany on occasion.At the turn of the century, it would be rare to see a Premier League team that didnt start with two strikers. A decade later, playing with one target-man has become the vogue. Now, some teams dont even have one, or sometimes play strikers out on the wing instead.Why the change?Its been coming for a while, according to Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, who spoke last year about the lack of out-and-out strikers in Europe after a fruitless search in that years transfer window.What we produuce now are good technical players because there are nice pitches out there, Wenger said. Swell Bottle Stockists Australia. Before, you played in the park where you had to kick the ball up front and you had to fight. A boy of 12 who played against a boy of 16 had to be shrewd and push to get the ball.All those kind of things have gone.Then theres a growing preference for a high-energy pressing game, which relies on a more mobile forward line. Hence why Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp chooses Firmino over Sturridge and Origi, why Son has sometimes been preferred to Janssen as the lead forward for Tottenham in injured Harry Kanes absence, and why Sanchez looks like being the preferred choice to Giroud at Arsenal this season.The likes of Sanchez, Redmond and Antonio -- three quick, hard-working wingers -- can stretch play by making runs behind defense, allowing their teams many attacking midfielders (Mesut Ozil, Theo Walcott, Dusan Tadic, Dimitri Payet) more space to exploit.As for Hazard, relieving him of defensive duties is one of the key reasons Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has turned the Belgium winger into more of an out-and-out forward. Hazards attacking flair was stymied last season by then-coach Jose Mourinho, who made him work too hard defensively.You have a similar type now in England who looks happy to have moved from wide to center, said Wenger, who converted Thierry Henry from a winger to one of the best strikers of his generation. Most of the time, you develop a good technique on the flanks as a winger because you are against the line and you have to dribble. And when you are inside, you have a bit more room.Slowly infused into the Premier League, the false nine isnt so popular among the top teams in Europes top leagues at the moment.Strikers and speedy forwards are still the priority in Spain, with Barcelona (Luis Suarez), Real Madrid (Karim Benzema) and Atletico Madrid (Kevin Gameiro) having genuine strikers.No major team in Germany plays without a classic striker -- except for the German national team itself, and thats only the case when strikers are injured -- and the phenomenon hasnt really spread to Italy or France yet.---Associated Press writer Joseph Wilson in Barcelona, and AP Sports Writers Jerome Pugmire in Paris, Nesha Starcevic in Frankfurt, Germany, and Andrew Dampf in Rome contributed to this report. ' ' ' such problems, brushing aside Kaia Kanepi 6-3, 6-3 in the first match on centre court to reach the second round. Cheap Jordan 12 From China. Second-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka was playing Steve Darcis later Tuesday in the first round. Wawrinka had been due to play Igor Sijsling, but the Dutchman pulled out with a stomach problem. ' ' '
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