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Paris Saint-Germain midfielder set to leave causing Football INDEX spike

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Paris Saint-Germain midfielder set to leave causing Football INDEX spike Football INDEX is the world’s first football stock market where you can buy and sell shares in footballers with real money. Football INDEX offers fans a chance to bet on the future success of football players compared to the short-lived outcome of betting on football results. Intrigued by what...

Team Focus: Will Much Needed Win Spark New Life into Ambling Argentina?

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Team Focus: Will Much Needed Win Spark New Life into Ambling Argentina? On Tuesday night in La Serena, you would imagine, Leo Messi slept a lot more soundly. Argentina meanwhile might finally wake up. The story after their 2-2 draw against Paraguay was that Messi couldn’t rest, so frustrated was he with the manner of his team’s collapse. That could be felt t...

Team Focus: With or Without Zlatan, PSG Face a Mountain against Barcelona

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Team Focus: With or Without Zlatan, PSG Face a Mountain against Barcelona Ever since the draw was made in Monaco, Zlatan Ibrahimovic might conceivably have had this Tuesday marked in his diary in red pen. ‘8.45 pm. Prove Barcelona wrong, Parc des Princes.’ What he wouldn’t have been expecting is to have to silence a few dissenters closer to home.At first...

Zonal Marking Team Focus: PSG

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Zonal Marking Team Focus: PSG Look at the statistics from PSG’s season in relation to other Ligue 1 clubs, and it’s difficult to see exactly where they excel. They have the third-highest average possession, the fourth-highest pass completion rate, the third-most shots, and the fourth-most shots on target. All good fi...

WhoScored Ligue 1 All Star XI - Gameweek 7-8

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WhoScored Ligue 1 All Star XI - Gameweek 7-8 In a week that saw every side play two rounds of matches, PSG and Caen were the only teams to pick up all six points. The big-spenders produce three of the WhoScored XI, with Rennes supplying us with two players after a brilliant 6-2 win at Sochaux. A couple of Auxerre players feature after putting ...

Eerie Similarities Make PSG-Lyon Clash Tough to Call

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Eerie Similarities Make PSG-Lyon Clash Tough to Call Undoubtedly the biggest game in France's Ligue 1 this weekend sees the division’s top 2 sides go head-to-head in a mouth-watering encounter.After 8 games Lyon and PSG are tied at the top in every sense having won 5, drawn twice and lost once each. Not only that but both team's have an identica...

WhoScored's Top Rated Summer Signings So Far

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WhoScored's Top Rated Summer Signings So Far With all of Europe's top 5 leagues having been inoperation for at least 3 games, it seems a good timeto evaluate the new signings that have made the beststarts to their respective tenures at their newclubs.WhoScored investigates the top rated players fromeach league who were transferred during the s...

What's in Pastore for Differdange?

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What's in Pastore for Differdange? It would seem like the footballing gods are smiling on the French capital at the moment. Not only have the biggest club in Paris welcomed new Qatari owners, and eight new players but now they have what looks like a relatively easy route into the Europa League Group Stage.Differdange 03 from Luxembou...

Why Chelsea and Real Madrid are Willing to Splash Cash on Pastore

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Argentine playmaker Javier Pastore has attracted huge interest from the world's best teams, which could see his current club Palermo cash in on the 22-year-old.Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini is resigned to losing his prized asset, but has slapped an astronomical 50million euro price tag on his...

How to Spot a Show-Pony: Further Analysis on Successful Dribblers

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How to Spot a Show-Pony: Further Analysis on Successful Dribblers To football fans around the globe, there’s nothing more infuriating than the so-called “show pony”; a player full of tricks and the ability to beat an opponent but with little end product to show for his skills. Yesterday’s article on Dribblers highlighted, quite surprisingly...