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Six of the Best: Loanees impressing in Europe's top 5 leagues

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Six of the Best: Loanees impressing in Europe's top 5 leagues Allan Saint-Maximin (Bastia from Monaco)He may need to work on his end product, with modest returns of 3 goals and 2 assists, but 19-year old Saint-Maximin has shown great promise this season. Joining Bastia on loan from Monaco following an unfruitful spell with Hannover in the Bundesliga, the teena...

Countdown: The most in form players ahead of Champions League return

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Countdown: The most in form players ahead of Champions League return A countdown of WhoScored.com's ten highest rated players of 2017 to be taking part in the Champions League knockout phase....

Messi leads the way in best Champions League group stage XI

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Messi leads the way in best Champions League group stage XI And thus, the Champions League group stage came to an end as Wednesday night’s games confirmed those progressing to the next round and the teams dropping into the Europa League. Here, we analyse the team of the group stage using our unique rating system of players to start at least three of th...

Liga NOS 2016/17 Preview

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Liga NOS 2016/17 Preview It is inevitable in any Liga NOS campaign that os três grandes of Benfica, Sporting Clube de Portugal and Porto will lead the way. Only twice in the competition’s history has a club outside this trio won the title. Benfica have become used to defying the odds in recent seasons - they wer...

Player Focus: Why European Teams Should be Moving on Llorente this Summer

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Player Focus: Why European Teams Should be Moving on Llorente this Summer We will not sell our best players, our top assets, unless the players themselves ask us to leave, Juventus director Giuseppe Marotta said earlier this week. The Italian’s words seemingly rule out potential exits of Paul Pogba and Arturo Vidal, who have both been linked with moves away from the...

Match Focus: Bayern Respond in Style to Punish Porto

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Match Focus: Bayern Respond in Style to Punish Porto Whatever has been said about coming apart at the seams, or doctor’s orders, it was one throwaway line from a thrilled Pep Guardiola that summed up the mood around Bayern Munich now better than anything. “We can play even better!”That may be true of the second half against FC Porto,...

Player Focus: Quintero - Serie A's Loss is Porto's Gain

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Player Focus: Quintero - Serie A's Loss is Porto's Gain When Porto sold James Rodriguez to Monaco for €45m in May, fans of the Dragões needn’t have worried. Knowing the club’s general manager, Antero Henrique, they were presumably confident that his network of some 250 scouts around the world would have identified a replacement.Af...