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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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Player Focus: Ligue 1 Disappointments

by Andrew Gibney at Tuesday, Mar 13 2012 13:55
Player Focus: Ligue 1 Disappointments Every season in every league there are players that come from nowhere to play their best football. Emerging kids breakthrough from the youth team and give fans an exciting look into their youth set-up. Unfortunately there are always players that just fail to live up to pre-season expectations. It ca...
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Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Midfielders

by Paul McKinnon at Tuesday, Mar 13 2012 11:33
Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Midfielders WhoScored continues our series of articles focusing on the top five players per position across Europe’s top five leagues. Having run the rule over the goalkeepers, full-backs and centre-backs already, we turn our attentions to the central midfielders. Four of the top divisions are represented...
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Player Focus: The Premier League's Top January Signings

by Martin Laurence at Monday, Mar 12 2012 17:28
Player Focus: The Premier League's Top January Signings Now well into the month of March, the Premier League is hotting up and, in turn, WhoScored has deemed enough time to have passed to judge the starts made by some of the January transfer signings.Here we will look at the top 5 newcomers according to WhoScored ratings of players to have featured from ...
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Zonal Marking Team Focus: Stoke

by Michael Cox at Friday, Mar 9 2012 15:42
Zonal Marking Team Focus: Stoke You don’t really need statistics to demonstrate that Stoke are a unique team in the Premier League. While the top sides all favour a possession-based game, and even a newly-promoted club like Swansea pride themselves on keeping the ball, Stoke are fiercely committed to their own style. “...
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WhoScored Tipster: Pogrebnyak Leads List of Best Bets

by Ed Malyon at Friday, Mar 9 2012 10:59
WhoScored Tipster: Pogrebnyak Leads List of Best Bets Aston Villa vs Fulham - PreviewIt may have only been against relegation strugglers Wolves, but Fulham’s thumping victory last Sunday really made everyone aware of quite how good their current form is. Winning four of their last six games, Martin Jol’s side are taking some serious form in...
Categories: WhoScored Tipster

Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs

by Paul McKinnon at Thursday, Mar 8 2012 16:42
Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs WhoScored continues our series of articles, as we rundown the top five players per position across Europe’s main five leagues. We’ve had a look at the goalkeepers and full-backs in the past, so this time round it’s time to turn our attentions to the centre-backs. It’s a Serie...
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Player Focus: Another Hat Trick For Milan’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic?

by Adam Digby at Thursday, Mar 8 2012 14:45
Player Focus: Another Hat Trick For Milan’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic? The three midweek fixtures in Serie A on Wednesday meant that finally the league table had parity restored as all the matches cancelled due to bad weather were played at last. This provides us with, after weeks of various teams having games-in-hand, an opportunity to assess where the clubs sit with ...
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Player Focus: Does Kaká Have A Place in the Same Side as Özil?

by Kieran Canning at Wednesday, Mar 7 2012 17:17
Player Focus: Does Kaká Have A Place in the Same Side as Özil? Real Madrid's 5-0 win over Espanyol on Sunday night was unremarkable in many ways. It was Real's 12th win in 13 home league games and the 14th time they've scored four or more goals this season, but one standout point was the fabulous performance of Kaká.The Brazilian playmaker hasn't had the...
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Player Focus: Martin Harnik (Stuttgart)

by Ross Dunbar at Wednesday, Mar 7 2012 11:08
Player Focus: Martin Harnik (Stuttgart) VfB Stuttgart will be content with their season at this stage with a place in the UEFA Europa League well within their reach, if they can maintain their excellent current form in the Bundesliga.Stuttgart currently sit in eighth place after 24 matches but with a gap of just four points separating the...
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