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Team Focus: Athletic Bilbao

by Kieran Canning at Wednesday, Jan 9 2013 12:30
Team Focus: Athletic Bilbao This time last year Athletic Bilbao were embarking upon what was to prove a wonderful if ultimately fruitless journey that put their name back not only among the footballing elite in Spain, but made them one of the most admired and talked about teams in Europe last season.From the beginning of Janua...
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Player Focus: Adriano

by Kieran Canning at Wednesday, Dec 19 2012 11:30
Player Focus: Adriano In the aftermath of Pep Guardiola's departure at the end of last season having failed to win the Spanish title for the first time in his four-year managerial reign, there were plenty who believed the only way was down for Barca; that this incredible side had peaked and that Real Madrid now had their...
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Team Focus: Valencia

by Kieran Canning at Friday, Dec 7 2012 12:23
Team Focus: Valencia The waving of white hankerchiefs at the Mestalla is a familiar sight and one that doesn’t always indicate that the manager is in immediate danger of losing his job. Los Che’s fickle following also turned against Hector Cuper and Rafa Benitez at times in seasons where they delivered a Cha...
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Team Focus: Simeone's Atletico

by Kieran Canning at Thursday, Nov 1 2012 14:27
Team Focus: Simeone's Atletico Atletico Madrid’s return to Copa del Rey action this week was a poignant moment of reflection for a club that, after seasons of self-doubt and underachievement, has flown on an upward curve of improvement over the past year.It was their last domestic cup game, a 1-0 home defeat to Segunda B si...
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Team Focus: Is Barca's Start Superb or Suspect?

by Kieran Canning at Friday, Oct 26 2012 14:05
Team Focus: Is Barca's Start Superb or Suspect? Over the summer much was made of how Barcelona would adapt to life post Pep Guardiola; the popular opinion being that while the players and the style would remain the same, the attention to small but significant details that Guardiola was famed for might start to slip.There was certainly evidence to...
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Team Focus: Malaga

by Kieran Canning at Wednesday, Oct 3 2012 16:03
Team Focus: Malaga Just like the property bubble that engulfed its city and surrounding areas fuelling Spain’s economic catastrophe, it appeared this summer that Malaga’s football team had also had their Qatari-backed investment bubble burst.Just a year after investing €50m in the squad Sheikh Abdulla...
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Team Focus: Is Luck the Secret to Mallorca's Success?

by Kieran Canning at Tuesday, Sep 25 2012 15:34
Team Focus: Is Luck the Secret to Mallorca's Success? Mallorca’s 2-0 win over Valencia at the weekend continued their fantastic start to the season and propelled Joaquin Caparros’ side into second place alongside Sevilla and Malaga.Indeed the Islanders’ run is even more impressive when you consider they won four of their last five to ...
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Player Focus: Life Was Arda With Diego

by Kieran Canning at Wednesday, Sep 19 2012 14:59
Player Focus: Life Was Arda With Diego In the eulogies that followed Atletico Madrid’s run to winning the Europa League last season, most of the praise was rightly reserved for the extraordinary goalscoring feats of Radamel Falcao.The Colombian scored a remarkable 13 times in that competition alone, including two in the final, but ...
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Player Focus: Fabregas' Flop in Form

by Kieran Canning at Wednesday, Sep 5 2012 10:42
Player Focus: Fabregas' Flop in Form This time last year things could hardly have been better for Cesc Fabregas. He wasn’t even a month into his second spell at Barcelona, but he had returned home with a bang, winning as many trophies in two games with the Catalans as he had in eight years at Arsenal.He even scored in the second ...
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Team Focus: Are Real Madrid Still Too Dependent on Ronaldo?

by Kieran Canning at Wednesday, Aug 29 2012 14:52
Team Focus: Are Real Madrid Still Too Dependent on Ronaldo? A surprise defeat to Getafe at the weekend has left Real Madrid already five points off the summit of La Liga after just two games.The slow start of two defeats and a draw (if you also include the 3-2 defeat to Barcelona in the first-leg of the Spanish Super Cup) is the worst of Jose Mourinho’...
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