Pressure on team to take lead (7)

I believe the answer is:

preside

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'lead' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'pressure on team to' is the wordplay.
'pressure' becomes 'p' (abbreviation).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'team' becomes 'side' (both can mean a sports team).
'to' becomes 're' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'side' put after 're' is 'reside'.
'p'+'reside'='PRESIDE'

'take' is the link.

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(Other definitions for preside that I've seen before include "Be in authority (over)" , "Be chairman" , "Take the chair" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.

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