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Player Focus: The Most Valuable Goal Contributors in Europe

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Player Focus: The Most Valuable Goal Contributors in Europe Lionel Messi's injury towards the tail end of the season rather upset Barcelona's canter towards the title in La Liga. Whilst not solely responsible for their Champions League drubbing at the hands of Bayern Munich (who were simply brilliant and should not be discredited), Messi's absence from the f...

Player Focus: Premier League Single Game Stat Records XI

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Player Focus: Premier League Single Game Stat Records XI The Premier League season may have ended some weeks ago but WhoScored.com has taken the chance to look back at some outstanding contributions from players in certain games over the course of the 2012/13 campaign.In turn they have compiled an XI of single game stat leaders - those who picked up seaso...

WhoScored Tipster: RVP's Return and the Madrid and Turin Derbies

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WhoScored Tipster: RVP's Return and the Madrid and Turin Derbies Whilst Bayern Munich were the first team in Europe's top 5 leagues to claim their respective title, Manchester United followed suit shortly afterwards with Monday's win over Aston Villa, and this weekend sees the possibility of Barcelona, Juventus and Paris Saint Germain going a long way to completi...

Player Focus: Robin van Persie - Title Decider

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Player Focus: Robin van Persie - Title Decider When Wayne Rooney's inch perfect pass dropped over the shoulder of Robin van Persie against Aston Villa there was a real feeling that the Old Trafford crowd were about to witness something special. There are very few players who you would expect to score from such a position, and even fewer capable ...

Player Focus: WhoScored's Player of the Year Nominees

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Player Focus: WhoScored's Player of the Year Nominees The PFA Player of the Year nominations brought about a fair amount of debate, a great deal of which surrounded Luis Suarez's temperament, whether he should be nominated given the controversy that seems to follow him and whether he even has a chance of winning, particularly after his latest attempts ...

Fantasy Football Tipster: Gameweek 33

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Fantasy Football Tipster: Gameweek 33 Match Week 32 Round-upAll 20 Premier League sides were in action in match week 32 of the Premier League, with no shortage of standout performances.One man who continued his scintillating form since a loan move to QPR, however, was Andros Townsend, and he picked up the best WhoScored rating of the ro...

Team Focus: Manchester United's Defensive Shift

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Team Focus: Manchester United's Defensive Shift There was no question about it in Robin van Persie's mind that he had ended his goalscoring drought with the winning goal at the Stadium of Light on Saturday. The powers that be begged to differ, though, with the goal shortly afterwards adjudged to be yet another own goal for Titus Bramble. So van P...

Player Focus: Scorers of the Most Valuable Goals

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Player Focus: Scorers of the Most Valuable Goals Gareth Bale's 90th minute wondergoal against West Ham on Monday night drew, in amongst the praise, a surprising amount of criticism for Tottenham, with claims abound that Spurs are too reliant on their superstar, with Bale, quite aptly, having bailed them out in each of their last 4 Premier League g...

Fantasy Football Tipster: Gameweek 27

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Fantasy Football Tipster: Gameweek 27 It was Gareth Bale who stole the show in the previous round of Premier League fixtures, picking up the best WhoScored rating (9.82) following 2 decisive goals against Newcastle. The likes of Michu, who also bagged a brace to end a barren run, Daniel Sturridge, Santi Cazorla and penalty saving Ben Fo...

Premier League Focus: The Season of the New Signing

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Premier League Focus: The Season of the New Signing With another transfer window having passed the January recruits in the Premier League certainly have a lot to live up to this season. There have been some major award ceremonies of late, though the winner of the Premier League's best newcomer remains in the balance. Votes have been cast, counted, re...