The hosts were playing their typically free-flowing game and Samir Nasri and skipper Fabregas, back from injury, both wasted good chances inside the box.

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Shelton and his crew (which includes cinematographer Russell Boyd and the editor Paul Seydor) have put together basketball sequences that capture the free-flowing rhythms of the game.

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First Phil Dowson went on a barrelling run and then, in a passage of play that epitomised the free-flowing nature of the game, James Simpson-Daniel broke from deep for Gloucester before Saints lock Courtney Lawes stole the ball and fed Bruce Reihana.

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But in some ways Willian epitomizes the current state of flux at the highest level of the game: new money flowing in from the edges of Europe, most of the continent's nobility hunkering down in anticipation of Financial Fair Play, the rest knowing they can pick and choose in what's now a buyer's market of falling transfer prices.

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Flanagan added a third on 65 minutes before Robin Sowden-Taylor's try from a flowing counter-attacking move made the game safe five minutes from time.

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As the break loomed, neither side had put together a sustained period of flowing play, and the level scoreline was a fair reflection of the game so far.

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United grabbed the advantage for the third time just before the hour mark when Nani rounded off a flowing move only for Eden Hazard's 90th minute penalty to send the game into extra-time.

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They are the controlled, power game England used to win the World Cup, or the more open, flowing style favoured by Wales in their recent Six Nations triumph.

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