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Premier League Under-21 Team of Season 2010/11

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Premier League Under-21 Team of Season 2010/11 In a new series of articles focusing on each of the top five leagues in Europe, we take a look at the best young performers of last season. With only players who started the previous campaign aged 21 years old or under up for consideration, we use WhoScored.com’s match rankings as the starting...

Top 5 La Liga Centre Backs for Defensive Stats Combined

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Top 5 La Liga Centre Backs for Defensive Stats Combined Concluding our feature on the world's most dominant centre-backs from last season, we analyze the purely defensive statistics of Spain's La Liga players to compile the top 5.Of the league's top 6, eventual champions Barcelona are represented on the leader board along with 6th placed Athletic Bilbao....

Top 5 Ligue 1 Centre Backs for Defensive Stats Combined

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Top 5 Ligue 1 Centre Backs for Defensive Stats Combined The penultimate instalment of a feature analyzing the best centre-backs from last season with regards to purely defensive statistics looks at the French Ligue 1's most dominant defenders.Interestingly, none of the 5 clubs who qualified for European competitions are represented in the league's top 5 ...

Top 5 Premier League Centre Backs for Defensive Stats Combined

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Top 5 Premier League Centre Backs for Defensive Stats Combined According to WhoScored.com ratings it is decipherable to see the best defender's from last season with regards to purely defensive statistics, starting with the Premier League.The likes of Manchester City, Chelsea and Everton are all represented, while pressure from opposing sides also forced the be...

Newly Appointed Managers Handed Favourable Premier League Starts

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Newly Appointed Managers Handed Favourable Premier League Starts The Premier League fixture list for next season appears to have been kind to the managers who have joined new clubs this summer, with Alex McLeish at Aston Villa, Martin Jol at Fulham and Andre Villas-Boas all receiving favourable opening matches to the 2011-12 campaign.New Aston Villa manager Alex ...

Ligue 1 Top 10 Key Passers

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Ligue 1 Top 10 Key Passers We round off the series of top ten key passers articles by taking a look at Ligue 1. Six of the top seven clubs were represented here, with Rennes the only club to miss out. Some great performances lower down the division have already resulted in some of our featured ten being snapped up by teams fu...

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...