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Bundesliga Top 10 Key Passers

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Bundesliga Top 10 Key Passers Today we take a look at the Bundesliga top ten Key Passers for last season and the stats again demonstrate how much more open the matches in Germany’s top division tend to be- whereas only three of Serie A’s top ten key passers made more than 1 Successful Dribble per match, as many as ei...

La Liga Top 10 Key Passers

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La Liga Top 10 Key Passers Our round up of the top ten Key Passers for each of Europe’s main five leagues last season continues as we turn our attentions to La Liga. Despite finishing as top for assists in the division, there’s no place for Lionel Messi here, though Xavi make it with some outstanding passing displ...

Serie A Top 10 Key Passers

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Serie A Top 10 Key Passers Our series of article on Key Passers continues with a look at Serie A. Italy’s top division is renowned for its defensive solidity and, in comparison to the Premier League Key Passers, our top ten found it harder, on average, to make assists here. Our lists contains players who saw promising s...

Premier League Top 10 Key Passers

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Premier League Top 10 Key Passers For our next series of articles on Europe’s main five leagues, we take a look at the ten top players for Key Passes from each league. These are the players who, week after week, set up goal scoring chances aplenty for their team mates during the course of a match. Whether the opportunity leads...

Bundesliga Top Ten Talismen for Season 2010/11

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Bundesliga Top Ten Talismen for Season 2010/11 Our final talismen article focuses on the Bundesliga and has no players from the top two teams, due to a more even spread of goals throughout their players. This means no room for Dortmund’s Lucas Barrios, with 16 goals and 2 assists, as three team mates contributed a combined total of 14 or m...

What Gervinho’s Game Would Bring to Arsenal

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What Gervinho’s Game Would Bring to Arsenal French champions Lille continued their summer of restructuring last night with the capture of Dimitri Payet from Saint Etienne in a four-year deal rumoured to be in the region of 10m Euros. The move means it’s more than likely Gervinho will be following Yohan Cabaye out of the club as Rudi Gar...

Top Ten Ligue 1 Talismen

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Top Ten Ligue 1 Talismen Breaking into our list of Top Ten Ligue 1 Talismen proved a hard task for some, with the likes of Gervinho -scoring 15 goals and 10 assists- just missing out on a place. His Lille team mate Eden Hazard also failed to find a slot, as did Sochaux’s Marvin Martin, despite his 19 assists being the...

Serie A Top 10 Talismen

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Serie A Top 10 Talismen Our look at the top ten talismen for each of Europe’s main five leagues turns to Italy, with Serie A next under the microscope. While La Liga and the Premier League had five players contributing to 50% or more of their team’s goals when on the pitch, Serie A has as many as seven, suggest...

What Stewart Downing’s Game Would Give Liverpool

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What Stewart Downing’s Game Would Give Liverpool Having recently been linked with moves for Ashley Young and Sylvain Marveaux only to lose out to Manchester United and Newcastle United respectively, Liverpool are now strong favourites to land Stewart Downing from Aston Villa as the club scour the market for more creativity on the wings this close ...

Top Ten Talismen for La Liga, 2010/11

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Top Ten Talismen for La Liga, 2010/11 Having yesterday established our concept of “a talisman” and picked out the top ten for last season’s Premier League, we move our attention to sunnier climes and focus on La Liga. With a combined goals and assists tally of 100 between them , Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo would...