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WhoScored 2020 Rewind: Ramos and Van Dijk contend for best centre-backs

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WhoScored 2020 Rewind: Ramos and Van Dijk contend for best centre-backs Completing the defensive unit as we continue to build our Team of the Year from Europe's top five leagues, it's the turn of the centre-backs this time around. With two spots up for grabs in our lineup we've extended our nominees from four to six, with two titans from the continent joined by a Premie...

Could Atalanta ace dethrone Ronaldo as Serie A's best player?

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Could Atalanta ace dethrone Ronaldo as Serie A's best player? Here we run through the best WhoScored rated XI from the weekend's action in Europe's top five leagues, with additional information about their Football Index share prices. Goalkeeper: Rafal Gikiewicz (Union Berlin) - 8.97 rating Union Berlin beat Augsburg 2-0 on Saturday but their goalkeeper, Rafal...

Revealed: Huge names miss out in stunning Bayern Munich team of the decade

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Revealed: Huge names miss out in stunning Bayern Munich team of the decade Continuing our series of team of the decades of the elite clubs in Europe over the last ten years, we make our way to Munich and a quite stunning Bayern Munich XI.As with the teams featured beforehand, a minimum of 70 appearances has been set as a requirement across the league and Champions League, ...

Barcelona sensation lands individual Champions League accolade

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Barcelona sensation lands individual Champions League accolade We’re down from 32 to 16 teams in the Champions League following the culmination of Wednesday’s matches. Here, using our unique rating system, we run through the best-rated XI from the group stages.Goalkeeper - Samir Handanovic (Inter) 7.36 ratingInter may have crashed out of the Champio...

Find out which England quartet would make the Germany XI

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Find out which England quartet would make the Germany XI One of football’s great international rivalries is revived tonight, as Germany and England go head-to-head for the ninth time since the turn of the century.Despite the teams having won four apiece of the previous eight meetings, Joachim Loew’s world champions are understandably strong fa...

Match Focus: Questions Remain for Dortmund and Bayern After Der Klassiker

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Match Focus: Questions Remain for Dortmund and Bayern After Der Klassiker With over 80,000 people packed into the Signal Iduna Park and the eyes of millions of television spectators fixed on Saturday’s clash between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich, it seemed almost surreal that the result was not, perhaps, of the highest importance when they met early Saturday e...

Player Focus: Perfect Timing - Europe's Cleanest Tacklers

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Player Focus: Perfect Timing - Europe's Cleanest Tacklers A familiar sight this weekend saw Sergio Ramos receive his marching orders for the 11th time in his La Liga career. Only 11 players have committed more fouls than the Real Madrid man in Spain this season, but here we’re looking at the opposite end of the spectrum.In an attempt to collate a lis...

Euro 2012 Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs

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Euro 2012 Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs Having assessed the tournaments' leading attacking threats in yesterday's Sharp Shooters blog, today we are looking at the best centre-backs at Euro 2012, based on WhoScored ratings. Here we will analyse our top 7 across a variety of defensive categories to ascertain just why their ratings were so i...

Euro 2012 Focus: Player Stats Leaderboards

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Euro 2012 Focus: Player Stats Leaderboards With the first of the Euro 2012 quarter-finals to kick-off later tonight we thought we'd take the opportunity, having named our team of the group stages yesterday, to share a stats pack of player leaderboards over the first three matches.We start with shots at goal, where a certain Cristiano Ronaldo...

Euro 2012 Focus: WhoScored's Team of the Group Stages

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Euro 2012 Focus: WhoScored's Team of the Group Stages With the group stages now over and the quarter-finalists known, this day break from football gives us a perfect chance to analyse the best players at the tournament so far. Here we will give you a rundown of our best XI over the three group matches according to WhoScored ratings and explain just why...