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League Focus: Set-Pieces Still Key to Success in Serie A

by James Horncastle at Thursday, Nov 13 2014 11:19
League Focus: Set-Pieces Still Key to Success in Serie A Maurizio Sarri opens a cigarette packet and lights up another one. He’d rather discuss the novel he’s reading. Empoli’s coach has a great passion for literature, particularly the works of Charles Bukowski. One wonders if he enjoys the TV show Californication. “Thanks to him I...
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WhoScored Tipster: Serie A Opening Weekend Top Tips

by Tancredi Palmeri at Friday, Aug 29 2014 17:29
WhoScored Tipster: Serie A Opening Weekend Top Tips Serie A, the last of Europe’s top 5 leagues to begin, returns this weekend. The first set of fixtures is a treat for the fans, providing us with games such as Roma vs Fiorentina and Milan vs Lazio. Serie A is struggling to recover its prestige, but the season starts without a clear favourite. ...
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Player Focus: Mehdi Benatia - The Centre-Back Worth a Small Fortune

by James Horncastle at Thursday, Aug 14 2014 11:00
Player Focus: Mehdi Benatia - The Centre-Back Worth a Small Fortune Recognition hasn’t come without sacrifice for Mehdi Benatia. Though his talent was discerned from an early age, he has had to work harder than most to get where he is today. Inducted into Clairefontaine [where he’d be asked to leave for not applying himself in school], he was also a part...
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Player Focus: Handanovic's Penalty Saving Heroics Continue

by James Horncastle at Wednesday, Apr 23 2014 12:21
Player Focus: Handanovic's Penalty Saving Heroics Continue “Son of a…!” cursed Antonio Cassano as the players went back to the dressing room at half-time. He couldn’t believe it. Moments before the interval, the Parma No.99 had been stood at the penalty spot facing his former teammate, the Inter goalkeeper Samir Handanovic. It was 0...
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Player Focus: Gervinho - From Figure of Fun to Fan Favourite

by James Horncastle at Wednesday, Jan 29 2014 17:08
Player Focus: Gervinho - From Figure of Fun to Fan Favourite Before really getting into his Tuesday column in La Repubblica back in early December, Gabriele Romagnoli had a confession to make. “I love Gervinho,” he wrote. “I will not be impartial. It’s necessary to write it with a heart between the subject and the direct object like in...
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League Focus: Foreign Defenders Taking Over in Serie A

by Adam Digby at Tuesday, Oct 8 2013 16:22
League Focus: Foreign Defenders Taking Over in Serie A Before the advent of the internet, before dedicated television channels filled their schedules with matches from the farthest corners of the planet, all football fans had was the World Cup. In the years before football truly became the global game, supporters would have to wait four years to see the...
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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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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: Fiorentina Building Toward a Title Challenge Next Season

by Michael Cox at Friday, Mar 8 2013 12:27
Team Focus: Fiorentina Building Toward a Title Challenge Next Season Pre-match warm-ups often reveal a great deal about a side’s playing style; if you’d lived under a rock for the past five years and were unsure about Barcelona’s strategy, for example, a small taster of one of their ‘rondo’ sessions would explain everything concisely.Fio...
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WhoScored Tipster: Big Match Betting

by Alistair Tweedale at Friday, Dec 7 2012 16:34
WhoScored Tipster: Big Match Betting Sunday cooks up the best of the footballing action from across Europe this weekend, and it is two games from that day that we focus our attentions on here, with City hosting United in the Manchester derby, and Inter facing Napoli in a key game in the title race in Italy.Manchester City vs Manchester...
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