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Player Focus: Reformed Pepe Tamed by Ancelotti's Calming Influence

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Player Focus: Reformed Pepe Tamed by Ancelotti's Calming Influence Real Madrid and Portugal centre-back Pepe is widely regarded as one of world football’s most infamous pantomime villains - with a reputation stemming from a long rap sheet of incidents over the last decade in both La Liga and international football. Most notoriously, Pepe received a 10 game La...

Player Focus: Ramos' Real Performances Show He's Matching Ancelotti's Needs

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Player Focus: Ramos' Real Performances Show He's Matching Ancelotti's Needs Prior to Real Madrid’s 4-0 thumping of Osasuna last month, Sergio Ramos had netted just 1 goal in 43 appearances in all competitions this season. Fast-forward to the present day and the defender has 5 in his last 6, including a brace against Bayern to cement Los Blancos’ place in the Cha...

League Focus: WhoScored's La Liga Team of the Season

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League Focus: WhoScored's La Liga Team of the Season With La Liga now all wrapped up, we can finally name the WhoScored Team of the Season according to our unique rating system. As you’d expect the team features a heavy presence of Barcelona and Real Madrid players, but there are a few surprise names thrown into the mix, particularly so when it ...

Player Focus: Europe's Most Trigger Happy Defenders

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Player Focus: Europe's Most Trigger Happy Defenders This week WhoScored.com takes a look at the most adventurous defenders in terms of overall shot tallies in Europe’s top 5 leagues this season. The top 5 here combines a mixture of indirect set-piece threats with long range specialists and the Premier League is particularly well-represented, wi...

Euro 2012 Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs

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Euro 2012 Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs Having assessed the tournaments' leading attacking threats in yesterday's Sharp Shooters blog, today we are looking at the best centre-backs at Euro 2012, based on WhoScored ratings. Here we will analyse our top 7 across a variety of defensive categories to ascertain just why their ratings were so i...

Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs

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Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs WhoScored continues our series of articles, as we rundown the top five players per position across Europe’s main five leagues. We’ve had a look at the goalkeepers and full-backs in the past, so this time round it’s time to turn our attentions to the centre-backs. It’s a Serie...

La Liga Team of the Season at the Halfway Stage

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La Liga Team of the Season at the Halfway Stage After a well-earned winter break, teams from the Serie A and La Liga are readying themselves for action again this weekend so we take the chance to analyse each of the league's best XIs of the season thus far, starting in Spain.It will come as no surprise to learn that the best possible side accordi...

WhoScored La Liga Team of the Week - Matchday 1

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WhoScored La Liga Team of the Week - Matchday 1 The players’ strike is over and the first round of La Liga matches are now complete. Barcelona and Real Madrid already top the table, with hammerings dished out to Villarreal and Real Zaragoza respectively, and there’s no surprise to see their players dominate the WhoScored ratings. Havi...

How Mourinho Could Implement 4-3-3 at Madrid

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How Mourinho Could Implement 4-3-3 at Madrid For those Real Madrid fans with expectations of immediate success, Jose Mourinho preached caution upon his arrival last summer; the second season, the Special One explained, would be the true test of his side. With time to assess his playing staff and weigh up his new La Liga surroundings, Mourinho ...

Barca On their Way to Wembley

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Barca On their Way to Wembley OverviewPlenty controversy still hung over this fixture following last week’s ill-tempered Bernabéu clash, as Madrid looked to overcome a two-goal deficit at the home of their arch-rivals. Barcelona welcomed back Andres Iniesta in their only change from the first leg, as the visitors ha...