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Match Focus: Arsenal vs Tottenham

by Alistair Tweedale at Friday, Feb 24 2012 15:55
Match Focus: Arsenal vs Tottenham The North London derby is always a highlight of the Premier League season. Goals and cards aplenty are more than likely, and in recent years it has often been Arsenal that get the lions share of those goals. This season, though, the bitter rivals approach the meeting at the Emirates with vastly diff...
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Zonal Marking Team Focus: Athletic Bilbao

by Michael Cox at Thursday, Feb 23 2012 14:55
Zonal Marking Team Focus: Athletic Bilbao Marcelo Bielsa’s arrival at Athletic Bilbao was the most exciting managerial appointment of last summer. A notoriously eccentric yet highly intelligent figure, his work with Argentina and Chile had elevated him into the enviable position of being both the neutral’s favourite, and a highl...
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Team Focus: Borussia MGladbach have Favre Fever

by Ross Dunbar at Thursday, Feb 23 2012 12:17
Team Focus: Borussia MGladbach have Favre Fever On February 14th people’s thoughts often lay elsewhere, however, for Borussia Monchengladbach it marked a year since Lucien Favre was appointed as head coach of The Foals since they sat rock bottom of the Bundesliga.Just over twelve months on, Gladbach are in second place in the league and are...
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Team Focus: Inter - Problems Much More Serious Than Schoolboy Errors

by Adam Digby at Wednesday, Feb 22 2012 12:12
Team Focus: Inter - Problems Much More Serious Than Schoolboy Errors Now famous across Italy, young Inter fan Filippo recently held up a placard at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, begging his heroes to play well so he wasn’t made fun of at school. Sadly for the kid, whose sad fate has not only been broadcast to the nation but is now the ridicule of Milan fans, ligh...
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Team Focus: Rayo Vallecano Bucking La Liga Trends

by Kieran Canning at Wednesday, Feb 22 2012 11:06
Team Focus: Rayo Vallecano Bucking La Liga Trends In a league season troubled by its predictability, Rayo Vallecano are La Liga’s great unknowns; the unpredictable package that bucks the trend and do so whilst playing fantastically entertaining football.Football is often a copycat game, whatever is successful becomes “the way” to ...
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Team Focus: Bordeaux

by Andrew Gibney at Tuesday, Feb 21 2012 15:38
Team Focus: Bordeaux Bordeaux’s 1-0 win over Lyon at the Stade Chaban Delmas may not have been the most exciting game in France this weekend, however it did cement Les Girondins place as one of the in-form teams in Ligue 1.After moving from his impressive managerial stint at Sochaux to the wine country of South-We...
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Team Focus: Europe's Youngest Squads

by Martin Laurence at Monday, Feb 20 2012 18:12
Team Focus: Europe's Youngest Squads We at WhoScored have decided to investigate the clubs in Europe's top 5 leagues who are most willing to rely on their younger stars by accumulating the average age of each squad. Only players to have played a part in at least 5 league games were considered to filter out the odd sub appearance from a...
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Team Focus: Remarkable Robur - Assessing Giuseppe Sannino's Siena

by Adam Digby at Monday, Feb 20 2012 13:03
Team Focus: Remarkable Robur - Assessing Giuseppe Sannino's Siena At first glance, newly promoted Siena seemingly offer very little in the way of talking points, sitting in sixteenth place in Serie A and just five points outside the relegation places. They also have none of the big name players seeing out their playing days lower down the table that some of the si...
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Stats Analysis: Differing Tactics from Villas-Boas & Villa's Boss

by Martin Laurence at Thursday, Feb 16 2012 10:38
Stats Analysis: Differing Tactics from Villas-Boas & Villa's Boss With managers nowadays more open to attempting to find new solutions to problems on the pitch by tinkering with line-ups and formations, versatility is increasingly becoming a key trait to have in the modern game. However, if you take a straw poll of football fans from around the country the vast ma...
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Team Focus: Villarreal - Borja Leading the Revival

by Kieran Canning at Wednesday, Feb 15 2012 13:40
Team Focus: Villarreal - Borja Leading the Revival Amongst a crazily congested La Liga table there is a great potential for fluidity. As Villarreal are finding out, even If you are only halfway up you can still go either up or down.Four weeks ago it appeared the Yellow Submarine were sinking, a lifeless 3-0 defeat to Atletico Madrid on January 15 sa...
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