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Euro 2012 Focus: Key Battles in the Opening Fixtures

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Jun 7 2012 16:03
Euro 2012 Focus: Key Battles in the Opening Fixtures The first round of group matches at Euro 2012 have thrown up a number of great prospective games and some intriguing key battles within those matches. While it is still unclear exactly who will start and what role they might play, there are some players who are all but guaranteed to face off in the ...
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Player Focus: Best Relegated Players

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, May 30 2012 14:01
Player Focus: Best Relegated Players With international football taking centre stage in the upcoming weeks at Euro 2012, many of the top clubs will be looking to recruit the best players from the tournament. However, for the teams lower down the rankings, the summer is an opportunity to find the bargains from across Europe. One of the ...
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Player Focus: Impact on Team - With & Without

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, May 23 2012 16:12
Player Focus: Impact on Team - With & Without Throughout a season, debates will rage amongst fans as to who exactly is responsible for their side’s peaks and troughs in form, yet it is often very difficult to ascertain exactly who should be credited. With each of Europe’s top 5 leagues now completed, hindsight gives us a frustrating...
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League Focus: Serie A Team of the Season

by Alistair Tweedale at Tuesday, May 15 2012 17:21
League Focus: Serie A Team of the Season The 2011/12 Serie A season has been dominated by Antonio Conte’s Juventus side in his first season in charge at the Turin club. It is true that no club drew more games than The Old Lady, and it is also the case that AC Milan actually won more games, but the outstanding fact remains that Juve w...
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Player Focus: Premier League Summer Imports

by Alistair Tweedale at Tuesday, May 1 2012 16:39
Player Focus: Premier League Summer Imports With the football seasons drawing to a close across Europe and Euro 2012 fast approaching, a few clubs have already begun preparation for next season by confirming fresh faces to arrive in the summer. The two biggest imports already agreed to enter the Premier League will see Lukas Podolski and Mark...
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Player Focus: Carlos Tevez (Manchester City)

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Apr 26 2012 11:15
Player Focus: Carlos Tevez (Manchester City) Carlos Tevez has not exactly won the hearts and minds of Manchester City’s fans this season after the debacle at the Allianz Arena in the Champions League. Sir Alex Ferguson refused to keep him on his books at Old Trafford, and many tipped his signing for rivals City as an accident waiting to ...
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Stats Analysis: Chance Conversion from Set Pieces

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Mar 22 2012 17:24
Stats Analysis: Chance Conversion from Set Pieces The Sam Allardyce’s of the football world have shown us the importance of creating chances at set pieces and, more importantly, making them count. The teams Allardyce built at both Blackburn and Bolton consolidated their positions in the Premier League with their game based largely on attacks ...
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Player Focus: Fernando Torres (Chelsea)

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Mar 15 2012 17:19
Player Focus: Fernando Torres (Chelsea) Twenty-three minutes after coming off the bench for Chelsea in the second-leg of their last 16 tie in the Champions League against Napoli earlier this week, Fernando Torres surpassed a rather undesirable milestone – he had reached 24 hours on the pitch since his last goal in a Chelsea shirt. B...
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Match Focus: Arsenal vs Tottenham

by Alistair Tweedale at Friday, Feb 24 2012 15:55
Match Focus: Arsenal vs Tottenham The North London derby is always a highlight of the Premier League season. Goals and cards aplenty are more than likely, and in recent years it has often been Arsenal that get the lions share of those goals. This season, though, the bitter rivals approach the meeting at the Emirates with vastly diff...
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Stats Analysis: Passing Differences - Attacking Intent

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Feb 2 2012 17:43
Stats Analysis: Passing Differences - Attacking Intent Much is often made of wasteful play or a lack of ambition in central midfield. The likes of Michael Carrick and Gareth Barry amongst others are habitually criticised for a deficiency in the attacking threat they provide, and thus their worth in the teams they play for. WhoScored.com has therefore de...
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