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Player Focus: La Liga's Argentine Defenders Hoping for International Recognition

by David Cartlidge at Friday, Jan 24 2014 11:52
Player Focus: La Liga's Argentine Defenders Hoping for International Recognition The riches that Alejandro Sabella has available when it comes to Argentina’s attack are the envy of the footballing world, but as far as defensive options go their depth isn’t quite as vast. While it appears that the coach has already chosen his centre-back options, two players from La L...
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Player Focus: La Liga Signings to Catch the Eye this Summer

by David Cartlidge at Friday, Aug 23 2013 17:00
Player Focus: La Liga Signings to Catch the Eye this Summer While there has been a huge exodus of talent from La Liga, some players have remained in Spain and after forming an important part of one team have moved on to bigger and hopefully brighter things elsewhere. How these players have missed moves to England, Italy or another league which has plundered ...
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League Focus: La Liga 2013/14 Preview

by David Cartlidge at Friday, Aug 16 2013 11:45
League Focus: La Liga 2013/14 Preview Private battle at the topEveryone knows how La Liga works these days, and the foremost function is the battle between Barcelona and Real Madrid. The level of competitiveness between the two has been all consuming in recent years, brought to the boil by Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho’s ...
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League Focus: Differing Styles of Europe's Top 5 Leagues

by Alistair Tweedale at Monday, Jun 10 2013 16:36
League Focus: Differing Styles of Europe's Top 5 Leagues After barnstorming wins for Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund set up an all German Champions League final this season, much was made of the decline of Real Madrid and Barcelona, and indeed the rise of the Bundesliga. It was also only the second season out of the last nine without an English team i...
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Team Focus: Levante in Danger of Swapping Europa for Segunda Nights?

by David Cartlidge at Friday, May 3 2013 12:07
Team Focus: Levante in Danger of Swapping Europa for Segunda Nights? This time last year they were battling for Europe, but with their current state of freefall Levante are in danger of being dragged into a relegation battle. In La Liga in 2013 they’ve won just three games, and have, in total, taken 13 points from a possible 48. There exit from the Europa Leagu...
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League Focus: Is Serie A Still The Most Defensive League In Europe?

by Ben McAleer at Monday, Apr 29 2013 17:20
League Focus: Is Serie A Still The Most Defensive League In Europe? In the 1960's, Inter Milan were highly revered as the greatest defensive team in world football. At the forefront of the Nerazzurri's success was Helanio Herrara. The Argentine moved from Barcelona to Italy after two rewarding years in Spain before he was forced out of the Camp Nou following several...
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Team Focus: Espanyol Benefitting from Aguirre's Direct Approach

by Samuel Marsden at Wednesday, Mar 6 2013 11:09
Team Focus: Espanyol Benefitting from Aguirre's Direct Approach At the end of November it wasn't just the weather that was beginning to look bleak in Barcelona, but Espanyol's hopes of staying in La Liga too. 13 games had been played in the league, from which Mauricio Pochettino’s men had managed just two wins, and following a 2-0 home defeat to Getafe new...
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League Focus: Spain's Superior Passing Game A Myth?

by Martin Laurence at Wednesday, Jan 23 2013 17:22
League Focus: Spain's Superior Passing Game A Myth? Passing football is an art, and in the modern era there have been no better masters of that art than Barcelona. Their dominance at domestic level has unsurprisingly coincided with that of Spain on the international front, but is the free-flowing football so quickly associated with the nation really ...
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Player Focus: September All Star Team of the Month

by Martin Laurence at Monday, Oct 1 2012 17:18
Player Focus: September All Star Team of the Month With September now having come and gone there were a number of standout performances over the top 5 leagues during the last 30 days. Here we compile our team of the month with those with the best average WhoScored ratings since 1st September making the grade.Those to perform consistently well over t...
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Player Focus: Weekend Stats Round Up

by Martin Laurence at Monday, Sep 24 2012 17:28
Player Focus: Weekend Stats Round Up After the previous round of fixtures across Europe's top 5 leagues this weekend there were, as ever, a number of standout statistical performances to catch the eye. Here we look at the players that led the way across Europe over a number of categories, starting with those to impress in attacking are...
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