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Player Focus: Contrasting Conversion Rates of the Premier League's Top Strikers

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Player Focus: Contrasting Conversion Rates of the Premier League's Top Strikers Last week, discussing Cardiff CityCharles Reep and Egil Olsen's theory that it takes roughly nine chances to score a goal was highlighted. In the Premier League this season, it’s been taking 9.91: or, to put it another way, 10.03% of all shots go in. Cardiff, as a team, fall short of that aver...

Player Focus: Top Rated Players of the Season So Far

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Player Focus: Top Rated Players of the Season So Far As 2013 draws to a close, Luis Suárez ends the year at the halfway point in the season as WhoScored’s highest rated player in Europe’s top 5 leagues. The Liverpool frontman currently boasts an average rating of 8.73 following a blistering return to domestic action having missed th...

Player Focus: Unstoppable Luis Suárez

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Player Focus: Unstoppable Luis Suárez There’s simply no stopping Luis Suárez at present. The Uruguayan has netted 10 times in December thus far and has either scored or assisted 14 of Liverpool’s last 17 goals in the Premier League. The 26-year-old has picked up 4 successive WhoScored man of the match awards in their ...

Team Focus: The Evolution of Liverpool Ahead of Merseyside Derby

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Team Focus: The Evolution of Liverpool Ahead of Merseyside Derby Brendan Rodgers, the theory went, was the king of possession, a manager who prioritised having the ball almost above all else. There was even talk at times last season that he cared more about possession than goals, and that his side was great at moving the ball sideways but not so good at putting i...

Match Report: Fluid Arsenal Midfield Too Much for Liverpool

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Match Report: Fluid Arsenal Midfield Too Much for Liverpool This game was billed as the first real test of this title-chasing Arsenal side. Prior to today, the Gunners had only faced Tottenham of all teams in the top half of the Premier League table, and if there was one criticism of them it was that they hadn’t yet proved themselves against the league...

Player Focus: October Stats Roundup

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Player Focus: October Stats Roundup The blistering return to action of Luis Suárez has stopped any potential slide in form that Liverpool had hinted at with successive games without a win towards the end of September. In 3 games in October, Brendan Rodgers' side have scored 9 goals, with Suárez scoring 4 and setting up t...

Team Focus: Luis Suárez And Why Arsenal Are Ready To Spend Big On The Striker

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Team Focus: Luis Suárez And Why Arsenal Are Ready To Spend Big On The Striker Swath aside the on-field petulance, the allegations of racial abuse aimed towards Patrice Evra and the cannibalistic traits Branislav Ivanovic was on the receiving end of and you have Luis Suárez stripped down to his purest form - a stupendous footballer. However, there are some who believe h...

Player Focus: Why Liverpool Should Add Hatem Ben Arfa To The Attack

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Player Focus: Why Liverpool Should Add Hatem Ben Arfa To The Attack As Liverpool prepare for the potential departure of talismanic striker Luis Suárez, manager Brendan Rodgers has looked to soften the blow of the Uruguayan’s expected exit by bringing in Iago Aspas and Luis Alberto, from Celta Vigo and Barcelona respectively. Replacing the 26-year-old wo...

Player Focus: Diego Leading Europe's Top Dribblers

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Player Focus: Diego Leading Europe's Top Dribblers Regardless of the stature of the team you play for, there is always that one player who perceives himself to be the pick of bunch, or the one that possesses that natural ability to brush past an opponent with minimal ease, no matter the level of the football being played.In the modern game, while th...

Player Focus: WhoScored's Player of the Year Nominees

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Player Focus: WhoScored's Player of the Year Nominees The PFA Player of the Year nominations brought about a fair amount of debate, a great deal of which surrounded Luis Suarez's temperament, whether he should be nominated given the controversy that seems to follow him and whether he even has a chance of winning, particularly after his latest attempts ...