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WhoScored Tipster: Sunday Betting - The Merseyside Derby and More

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WhoScored Tipster: Sunday Betting - The Merseyside Derby and More Come this time in the season a weekend is always going to feature important games, and this week's clashes are as key as any. Super Sunday in the Premier League is a tasty one, while Barcelona can all but secure the Primera Division title and Napoli can do much to end Inter's dwindling hopes of Euro...

Player Focus: Is Mourinho Right to Select López Over Casillas?

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Player Focus: Is Mourinho Right to Select López Over Casillas? José Mourinho dared to do what no manger has done in the past 13 seasons. This season wasn't going as smoothly for Los Blancos as they are used to, and after a string of poor performances and plenty of goals conceded, Mourinho went and dropped Iker Casillas. He is a legend at Real Madrid, fir...

WhoScored Tipster: RVP's Return and the Madrid and Turin Derbies

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WhoScored Tipster: RVP's Return and the Madrid and Turin Derbies Whilst Bayern Munich were the first team in Europe's top 5 leagues to claim their respective title, Manchester United followed suit shortly afterwards with Monday's win over Aston Villa, and this weekend sees the possibility of Barcelona, Juventus and Paris Saint Germain going a long way to completi...

Team Focus: Arsenal's Striking Dilemma in Giroud's Absence

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Team Focus: Arsenal's Striking Dilemma in Giroud's Absence Olivier Giroud was arguably unfortunate to see red for his clumsy challenge on Fulham's Stanislav Manolev in the Gunners' win at Craven Cottage last weekend. You could even say he is yet more unlucky to have seen his 3 match ban upheld in spite of his appeal to the Football Association. The fact of ...

Player Focus: WhoScored's Player of the Year Nominees

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Player Focus: WhoScored's Player of the Year Nominees The PFA Player of the Year nominations brought about a fair amount of debate, a great deal of which surrounded Luis Suarez's temperament, whether he should be nominated given the controversy that seems to follow him and whether he even has a chance of winning, particularly after his latest attempts ...

WhoScored Tipster: Super Sunday Betting

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WhoScored Tipster: Super Sunday Betting Sunday's action could have huge consequences in the race for Champions League football in England, while Juventus could take a huge step towards securing the Serie A title at the end of the weekend. It is with these top matches that the WhoScored Tipster's attentions are focused for the best bets of...

WhoScored Tipster: Sunday Betting

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WhoScored Tipster: Sunday Betting Seeing the joy of teams progressing to the semi-finals of the Champions and Europa League this week can only serve to motivate others into working their way up the league and pushing for qualification for next season's tournaments. Domestic league action returns this weekend with some tasty looking ...

Premier League Focus: The Race for Champions League Qualification

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Premier League Focus: The Race for Champions League Qualification While the Champions League reaches its final stages in dramatic fashion, Germany and Spain can sit back and relax with at least one team from each in the semi-final, and the distinct possibility of another progressing tonight. England, meanwhile, had only Arsenal and Manchester United make it throug...

Player Focus: Europe's Hat-Trick Heroes

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Player Focus: Europe's Hat-Trick Heroes A hat-trick is a thing of rare beauty; a feat that a tiny minority of professional footballers achieve at any point in their careers. Fewer still will do so away from home, or in a 12 minute period to win a game against one of Europe's most decorated sides, as German Denis managed at San Siro agains...

League Focus: The Premier League Relegation Run-In

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League Focus: The Premier League Relegation Run-In We are now well and truly in the midst of the so-called 'run-in', a nervy time for all but the middle clump of teams in leagues across the world. The teams above the middle section chase European qualification or promotion, and while teams at the very top usually chase the title, this season, it is ...