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League Focus: Possession Means Little in La Liga

by Kieran Canning at Wednesday, Aug 22 2012 12:07
League Focus: Possession Means Little in La Liga If this summer's European Championship seemed to tell us anything it was that Spanish teams and Spanish players love possession. Having the ball and being in control of the game is when they feel most comfortable.Even if it wasn't always dazzling up until the demolition of Italy in the final, it was...
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League Focus: La Liga Team of the Season

by Kieran Canning at Monday, May 21 2012 17:52
League Focus: La Liga Team of the Season An incredible last few minutes to the season which saw two goals in two minutes in two different stadiums relegate a Champions League regular in the shape of Villarreal, masked a Spanish league campaign split in two.Real Madrid and Barcelona have dominated in recent years, but this time the gap was ...
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Team Focus: Racing Santander

by Kieran Canning at Wednesday, May 2 2012 14:09
Team Focus: Racing Santander La Liga’s first casualty of the season was confirmed on Saturday as Racing Santander were handily beaten 3-0 by Real Sociedad to mathematically ensure they were relegated.Their failure isn’t much of a surprise given the unrest and instability at the club on and off the field this season....
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Player Focus: Santi Cazorla (Malaga)

by Kieran Canning at Tuesday, Mar 20 2012 15:34
Player Focus: Santi Cazorla (Malaga) As Santi Cazorla stepped up to bend in a truly sensational free-kick into Iker Casillas’ top left-hand corner late on Sunday night many would have been surprised.Xavi Hernandez, though, wouldn’t have been among them, only last week when asked about other midfielders he admired he said, &...
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Team Focus: Valencia

by Kieran Canning at Tuesday, Mar 13 2012 14:36
Team Focus: Valencia The final whistle was met by boos and waving of the white handkerchiefs at theMestallaon Sunday as Valencia squandered a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 with Mallorca. This sort of crowd discontent is usually the sign of a club in crisis and spells trouble for the manager, but at Valencia it is pretty muc...
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Team Focus: Real Madrid Success Built on Solidity on the Road

by Kieran Canning at Wednesday, Feb 29 2012 18:00
Team Focus: Real Madrid Success Built on Solidity on the Road Real Madrid's 1-0 victory at Rayo Vallecano on Sunday was Jose Mourinho's men's ninth consecutive league win on the road.It also kept up Real's amazing record of having only dropped eight points all season through 24 games (2.66 points per game), however that run has been amassed in two very differe...
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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: Sevilla Lacking Goals from All Areas

by Kieran Canning at Wednesday, Feb 8 2012 17:48
Team Focus: Sevilla Lacking Goals from All Areas Marcelino became the latest victim of the La Liga chopping block this week as just over halfway thought the season, Sevilla became the eighth side to change their manager.The decision was hardly surprising, Marcelino himself had acknowledged before Sunday’s 2-1 defeat at home to Villarreal tha...
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La Liga Team of the Season at the Halfway Stage

by Martin Laurence at Wednesday, Jan 4 2012 17:26
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...
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WhoScored's 2011 La Liga Player and Young Player of the Year

by Martin Laurence at Wednesday, Dec 21 2011 17:51
WhoScored's 2011 La Liga Player and Young Player of the Year Following on from yesterday's feature detailing the top rated players according to WhoScored in the Bundesliga for the calendar year of 2011, we analyse the best performers in the other league that is already taking a winter break.It is now 16 games through Spain's La Liga campaign and Real Madrid l...
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