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Team Focus: Sevilla's Surprisingly Bright Start to Life After Rakitic

by Martin Laurence at Tuesday, Sep 23 2014 17:50
Team Focus: Sevilla's Surprisingly Bright Start to Life After Rakitic This summer it was the transfer of a certain Luis Suarez that stole the headlines early on in the transfer window. His arrival at Camp Nou was supplemented by the signing of Ivan Rakitic, with the Croatian's departure from Europa League victors Sevilla expected to hit Unai Emery's side hard.In allow...
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Player Focus: Rakitic Tasked With Evolving Barca Where Fabregas Failed

by Dermot Corrigan at Tuesday, Aug 12 2014 11:37
Player Focus: Rakitic Tasked With Evolving Barca Where Fabregas Failed In summer 2011 Barcelona's big midfield summer signing was supposed to add more direct passing and make the team's build-up play less predictable. Three years later the Cesc Fabregas 'experiment' has been widely deemed a failure, but Ivan Rakitic is now arriving to do more or less the very same job....
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Team Focus: How Happy Can Barcelona Be With Their Summer's Business so Far?

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Jul 24 2014 16:29
Team Focus: How Happy Can Barcelona Be With Their Summer's Business so Far? Every summer, in the one part of the year in which there is no domestic football, Barcelona and Real Madrid take their battle off the pitch, attempting to out-do each other in every aspect of the game. Spending big during the transfer season is part and parcel for these giants of European football. ...
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Match Focus: Analysing the Midfield Battle Central to World Cup Opener

by Martin Laurence at Tuesday, Jun 10 2014 15:13
Match Focus: Analysing the Midfield Battle Central to World Cup Opener It's now a matter of days away. The World Cup returns this Thursday with an exciting opening game to look forward to as host nation and tournament favourites Brazil face Croatia. It's arguably the most star-studded curtain raiser for the competition in recent memory.Fans of the Seleção...
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Player Focus: 2013 Calendar Year Stat Leaders

by Martin Laurence at Friday, Jan 3 2014 12:03
Player Focus: 2013 Calendar Year Stat Leaders With New Year hangovers subsiding it seems a relevant time to recap on the year gone by, looking at the statistical leaders of 2013 over a variety of categories in Europe's top 5 leagues.Most GoalsWe start at the business end, and Cristiano Ronaldo had a year to remember netting at least 9 more leag...
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Team Focus: World Cup Playoffs Round-Up

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, Nov 20 2013 14:57
Team Focus: World Cup Playoffs Round-Up Portugal vs Sweden (4-2 agg)A World Cup without me is nothing to watch, bold words spoken by the legend that is Zlatan Ibrahimoivic after he and his Sweden teammates' hopes of making it to next summer's World Cup were dashed by Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal. The Sweden captain of course does not ma...

Team Focus: Sevilla Struggling in Attempts to Replace Departed Stars

by David Cartlidge at Wednesday, Oct 9 2013 16:45
Team Focus: Sevilla Struggling in Attempts to Replace Departed Stars Losing two key figures in Jesús Navas and Álvaro Negredo was always going to be a significant moment in Sevilla’s history. The former a player who identified with the club more than any other, and the latter will go down as one of the best strikers in their history. Acclimatisati...
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Player Focus: Ivan Rakitic

by David Cartlidge at Thursday, Apr 11 2013 09:48
Player Focus: Ivan Rakitic During the summer there was great attention and analysis of Luka Modric’s move to Real Madrid from Tottenham Hotspur. However, it’s another Croatian who has dominated in La Liga this season and one who, at €1.5m, cost a mere fraction of his compatriot.In a season of very few consist...
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