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Player Focus: Is In-form Vitolo Unlikely to Last with La Roja?

by Dermot Corrigan at Tuesday, Mar 24 2015 12:28
Player Focus: Is In-form Vitolo Unlikely to Last with La Roja? Amid all the drama of Champions League ties and La Liga clasicos, the announcement of Spain’s squad for this week’s international break went very much under the radar. For those paying attention there were, however, some interesting calls in the 24-man squad named last week for this Frid...
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Player Focus: Settled and Scoring Suarez Focused on Enjoying Time at Barcelona

by Dermot Corrigan at Tuesday, Mar 17 2015 12:45
Player Focus: Settled and Scoring Suarez Focused on Enjoying Time at Barcelona After joining Barcelona for 80 million euros last summer it took three months for Luis Suarez to make his debut, and another three months to find his feet, but the former Liverpool man is now playing with the verve, efficiency and intensity of his best Anfield days.Suarez has come bang into form ove...
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Player Focus: Vietto's Villarreal Form Attracting Attention of the Biggest and Best

by Dermot Corrigan at Tuesday, Mar 10 2015 12:46
Player Focus: Vietto's Villarreal Form Attracting Attention of the Biggest and Best As breakout seasons go, Luciano Vietto’s 2014/15 campaign has been pretty spectacular. There was little media noise as the young Argentine forward joined Villarreal last summer, but there is now huge interest in what the fast emerging star is going to do next.Vietto’s latest clinical fin...
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Player Focus: Reformed Pepe Tamed by Ancelotti's Calming Influence

by Dermot Corrigan at Tuesday, Mar 3 2015 12:31
Player Focus: Reformed Pepe Tamed by Ancelotti's Calming Influence Real Madrid and Portugal centre-back Pepe is widely regarded as one of world football’s most infamous pantomime villains - with a reputation stemming from a long rap sheet of incidents over the last decade in both La Liga and international football. Most notoriously, Pepe received a 10 game La...
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Player Focus: José Gayá - The Latest Valencia Left-Back Set to Become the Real Deal

by Dermot Corrigan at Tuesday, Feb 24 2015 16:19
Player Focus: José Gayá - The Latest Valencia Left-Back Set to Become the Real Deal Valencia fans got a shock on Saturday morning, with Los Che left-back José Gayá smiling out from the cover of AS, and inside a detailed story saying Real Madrid had made contact with his agents, eager to pay his €18m release clause this summer. The piece also claimed that Madrid s...
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Player Focus: Neymar Shining as Second Fiddle in Messi's Shadow

by Dermot Corrigan at Tuesday, Feb 17 2015 17:21
Player Focus: Neymar Shining as Second Fiddle in Messi's Shadow The ‘man of the match’ award has long been seen as a worthwhile recognition of one player’s excellent contribution to a game. Whether chosen by a former player turned media pundit, TV viewers’ text poll or [even] more scientifically via WhoScored.com’s detailed statisti...
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Team Focus: Passing Atletico Show Another String to Their Bow in Derby Win

by Dermot Corrigan at Tuesday, Feb 10 2015 15:26
Team Focus: Passing Atletico Show Another String to Their Bow in Derby Win The 4-0 scoreline was probably not even the most startling thing about Atletico Madrid’s embarrassment of their bigger, richer neighbours in Saturday’s ‘derbi’ meeting at the Estadio Vicente Calderon. Even more surprising was the realisation that, even on the biggest occasion...
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Team Focus: The Reliance on Teams' Top Goalscorers in La Liga

by Dermot Corrigan at Tuesday, Feb 3 2015 16:09
Team Focus: The Reliance on Teams' Top Goalscorers in La Liga Much of the Madrid media last week was focused on one issue - what length of ban Cristiano Ronaldo would get for his red card at Cordoba the previous weekend. La Liga’s disciplinary committee opted to be generous, to say the least, imposing just a two game punishment, meaning Ronaldo is free t...
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Player Focus: First Team Football In Question as Form of Old Evades Iniesta

by Dermot Corrigan at Tuesday, Jan 27 2015 13:07
Player Focus: First Team Football In Question as Form of Old Evades Iniesta It seems almost heresy to say it, but should Andrés Iniesta really still be an automatic starter for club and country? The statistics suggest that so far this season the World Cup, double European Championship, three-time Champions League and six-time La Liga winner has fallen some distance f...
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Team Focus: Could Goal-Shy Athletic be Dragged into a Relegation Battle?

by Dermot Corrigan at Tuesday, Jan 20 2015 15:41
Team Focus: Could Goal-Shy Athletic be Dragged into a Relegation Battle? Although it is not unusual for the team which finishes fourth in La Liga to have difficulties handling Champions League commitments the following year, Athletic Club’s struggles this season are still quite startling.Things seemed really rosy for Athletic just last August when they made good on...
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