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Match Analysis: PSG & City Slip Up at the Top

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Match Analysis: PSG & City Slip Up at the Top WhoScored’s regular weekly round-up of those significant streaks that have ended across Europe’s top five leagues sees us pay visit to England and France this time round. In the Premier League, Manchester City dropped points at home for the first time this season in a six-goal thriller w...

Zonal Marking Team Focus: PSG

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Zonal Marking Team Focus: PSG Look at the statistics from PSG’s season in relation to other Ligue 1 clubs, and it’s difficult to see exactly where they excel. They have the third-highest average possession, the fourth-highest pass completion rate, the third-most shots, and the fourth-most shots on target. All good fi...

Match Analysis: MGladbach & Palermo Home Runs Halted

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Match Analysis: MGladbach & Palermo Home Runs Halted WhoScored’s regular weekly look at those significant streaks that have come to an end over the past weekend sees us focus on the Bundesliga and Serie A this time round. In Germany’s top-flight, MGladbach suffered a home defeat for the first time this season, going down 2-1 at the hands o...

Team Focus: AC Milan Going the Distance - Long Balls per Game

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Team Focus: AC Milan Going the Distance - Long Balls per Game An interesting statistic from the current season's passing distribution shows that AC Milan are the team with most long passes per game in Italy, and rank second in the top-five European leagues, just behind Bayern Munich. That is quite surprising, as Milan's recent history has been built on prolong...

Stats Analysis: Chance Conversion from Set Pieces

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Stats Analysis: Chance Conversion from Set Pieces The Sam Allardyce’s of the football world have shown us the importance of creating chances at set pieces and, more importantly, making them count. The teams Allardyce built at both Blackburn and Bolton consolidated their positions in the Premier League with their game based largely on attacks ...

Team Focus: Bayern Munich

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Team Focus: Bayern Munich Less than a month ago, the carnival of chaos that is the FC Bayern boardroom was in full swing with the Bavarians dropping eight points behind Borussia Dortmund and trailing FC Basel in their Champions League Last 16 clash.Uli Hoeness and Karl-Heinz Ruminnegge had apparently addressed the players in...

Team Focus: Elephants Of Catania Marching Into Europe?

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Team Focus: Elephants Of Catania Marching Into Europe? A team currently in eighth place in the league would rarely catch the attention of many and, when the side is a tiny club that has rarely left an impression on Italian football the likelihood of them catching the eye falls even further. Yet there sit Catania, a club only founded in 1946 as the game ...

Match Analysis: Ending Streaks - Madrid & Montpellier

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Match Analysis: Ending Streaks - Madrid & Montpellier WhoScored’s regular look at the significant streaks that have come to an end over the previous weekend sees us focus on La Liga and Ligue 1 this time round. Over in Spain, Real Madrid’s winning run of eleven straight matches was unexpectedly brought to an end by Malaga in a 1-1 stalemate...

Player Focus: Fernando Torres (Chelsea)

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Player Focus: Fernando Torres (Chelsea) Twenty-three minutes after coming off the bench for Chelsea in the second-leg of their last 16 tie in the Champions League against Napoli earlier this week, Fernando Torres surpassed a rather undesirable milestone – he had reached 24 hours on the pitch since his last goal in a Chelsea shirt. B...

Match Analysis: Dortmund Finally Falter while Inter Win

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Match Analysis: Dortmund Finally Falter while Inter Win WhoScored’s usual round up of those significant streaks that have come to an end the previous weekend sees us take in Serie A and the Bundesliga this time round. In Italy, Inter’s win at Chievo saw Claudio Ranieri’s side pick up the three points for the first time in eight attempts...