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Contrasting Finishing Leaving Top Creators with Contrasting Figures

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Contrasting Finishing Leaving Top Creators with Contrasting Figures WhoScored has trawled through the stats once more to provide you with in depth data on the most creative players across Europe's top 5 leagues, based on key passes per game. To gain a greater understanding of the individuals who have consistently laid on chance after chance for teammates, only playe...

Balanced City Causing Power Shift in Manchester?

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Balanced City Causing Power Shift in Manchester? Going into the weekend, the game that was billed across Europe as the biggest for more reasons than one certainly lived up to the expectations in what proved to be a real classic, though Manchester United fans may well refute that.The Champions' noisy neighbours had found their voice more than ever ...

Do City Now Have Have the Edge Over United?

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Do City Now Have Have the Edge Over United? Sunday afternoon sees both Manchester clubs square up in the Premier League’s top of the table battle. Just two points separate City and United, with Roberto Mancini’s side currently edging their rivals into second place. A win would, of course, take Sir Alex Ferguson’s troops back...

WhoScored Premier League All Star XI for August

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WhoScored Premier League All Star XI for August With both Manchester clubs starting the season in such scintillating form, it’s perhaps no surprise to see their domination of the WhoScored Premier League XI for August. Champions Man United have four players in our eleven, with Man City providing two. Our team contains four new signings, wit...

WhoScored Top 5 All-Round Attackers for August 2011

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WhoScored Top 5 All-Round Attackers for August 2011 With a host of international games heralding in September, we thought we’d look back and pick out the best all-round attacking performers for the month gone by. To qualify, players had to demonstrate a consistency right across the three main areas for attacking performance- shots, key passes a...

Bale and Silva to Shine at White Hart Lane

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Bale and Silva to Shine at White Hart Lane Spurs will be looking to pick themselves up from Monday night’s 3-0 loss at Old Trafford this weekend as they play host to high-flying Man City. Roberto Mancini’s side are in scintillating form right now- six points from a possible six with seven goals thrown in sees them the top-scoring...

WhoScored Premier League Team of the Week - Matchday 2

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WhoScored Premier League Team of the Week - Matchday 2 The second weekend of the Premier League saw only 2 sides continue their winning form from the first game to lead the table, with both Wolves and Manchester City well represented in the WhoScored Team of the Week. In total the 5 defensive players in our XI, including the goalkeeper, conceded just 1 ...

Alexis Sanchez – A comparison with Manchester City’s talisman David Silva

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As the race for Alexis Sanchez enters another furlong, it has emerged Manchester City are set to pip Barcelona to the forward’s signature.The Chile international is one of Europe’s hottest properties thanks, largely, to a successful season at Udinese, although having secured the prospect...

Manchester City vs Tottenham

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Manchester City vs Tottenham Man City play host to Tottenham tonight knowing a victory would guarantee them a minimum fourth-place finish and clinch that much sought-after Champions League spot. Roberto Mancini has something of a dilemma, though; with an FA Cup Final against Stoke this weekend, does he choose to rest or rotate ...