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Player Focus: The Best Of Sebastian Giovinco Is Yet To Come

by Adam Digby at Monday, Nov 19 2012 16:22
Player Focus: The Best Of Sebastian Giovinco Is Yet To Come “What a waste!” screamed the front page of Sunday’s Tuttosport, the Turin based sports daily bemoaning the fact an utterly dominant Juventus – the league’s leading scorers – had failed to find a single goal against Lazio the previous evening. La Gazzetta dello Spo...
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Team Focus: Atalanta Still A Royal Pain In Serie A

by Adam Digby at Monday, Nov 12 2012 14:19
Team Focus: Atalanta Still A Royal Pain In Serie A Speaking in the build-up to this past weekend’s round of Serie A fixtures, Andrea Stramaccioni vowed not to underestimate his latest opponents, telling reporters at his pre-match press conference I have tremendous respect for Atalanta, they are doing very well and have many players of great qu...
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Team Focus: Purple Patch - Montella's Fiorentina

by Adam Digby at Monday, Nov 5 2012 14:32
Team Focus: Purple Patch - Montella's Fiorentina This past weekend in Serie A saw a number of notable events, none more so than in Turin where the incredible unbeaten streak of reigning Champions Juventus finally ended, with bitter rivals Inter cutting the run short at a staggering 49 games. There were huge stories elsewhere too as Mattia Destro f...
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League Focus: Serie A Strike Rates Analysed

by Adam Digby at Tuesday, Oct 30 2012 14:50
League Focus: Serie A Strike Rates Analysed Sitting atop the Serie A table, their nearest rival already three points behind them in the title race, Juventus possess both the joint best attack and the meanest defence in the league. While many will point to Luca Maggiani’s flag as their most influential defender, it is The Old Lady’...
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League Focus: Serie A Not Just A Country For Old Men

by Adam Digby at Monday, Oct 22 2012 16:48
League Focus: Serie A Not Just A Country For Old Men Paul Pogba sensationally wrote his way into Italian football headlines this past weekend, scoring a superb goal in the top of the table clash between Napoli and Juventus. His shot completely wrong footed Morgan De Sanctis in the visitors goal but perhaps more surprising is the speed at which the you...
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Match Focus: Midfielders At The Heart Of Juventus vs Napoli Clash

by Adam Digby at Tuesday, Oct 16 2012 11:12
Match Focus: Midfielders At The Heart Of Juventus vs Napoli Clash This Saturday sees the resumption of what is quickly becoming the hottest battle in Serie A as Napoli once again travel north to face off against Juventus, the team who represent everything supporters of the Partenopei despise. Seemingly their entire ethos is to rally against the establishment, pain...
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Team Focus: Andrea Stramaccioni’s Inter

by Adam Digby at Wednesday, Oct 10 2012 11:14
Team Focus: Andrea Stramaccioni’s Inter As they claimed victory in one of the most intense and ill tempered Milan derbies in memory, it was a very different looking Inter side than the one we have grown accustomed to watching over recent seasons. Only four members of the team which secured a historic treble under Jose Mourinho started the...
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Player Focus: Angelo Ogbonna (Torino)

by Adam Digby at Tuesday, Oct 2 2012 11:22
Player Focus: Angelo Ogbonna (Torino) Angelo Ogbonna is currently one of the most in-demand defenders in Italian football with interest from Manchester United, Juventus, Arsenal, Everton, Bayern Munich and Milan being reported on a daily basis. However, very few outside of the peninsula will have heard his name, with even fewer having a...
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Player Focus: Hernanes, Lazio’s Improved Prophet

by Adam Digby at Thursday, Sep 27 2012 10:22
Player Focus: Hernanes, Lazio’s Improved Prophet “Hernanes has been amazing,” gushed Giuseppe Biava recently as he, like most Serie A observers, was captivated by the superb form displayed by the Brazilian in the early days of this new campaign. He has led Lazio to fifth in the table, suffering their only 2 defeats to date as they lost...
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League Focus: Serie A Surprises

by Adam Digby at Tuesday, Sep 18 2012 12:35
League Focus: Serie A Surprises Thanks to the recent break for World Cup Qualifiers, the Serie A season is just three weeks old and, while that is certainly not long enough for anyone other than Maurizio Zamparini to base a sound judgement on, it does give us enough data to throw up some interesting statistical surprises. Looking ...
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