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Player Focus: How Madrid Can Cope Without Khedira

by David Cartlidge at Thursday, Nov 21 2013 17:30
Player Focus: How Madrid Can Cope Without Khedira His may not be the most glamorous name at the most glamorous club in the world, but Sami Khedira’s loss through injury for Real Madrid is likely to bring sweeping changes in Carlos Ancelotti’s style of play. It could, in fact, be the most significant occurrence of the season at the Berna...
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Player Focus: Bartra Developing Balance Between Puyol and Pique

by David Cartlidge at Saturday, Nov 16 2013 14:14
Player Focus: Bartra Developing Balance Between Puyol and Pique “Marc Bartra will become a lot better than me, because he's faster, braver and smarter. Gerard Piqué wasn’t coy when it came to talking about his new partner in the centre of Barcelona’s defence. Meanwhile Carles Puyol, as opposed to talking about, has been talking to the pl...
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Team Focus: Old Saying Rings True for Attacking Almería

by David Cartlidge at Thursday, Nov 7 2013 14:23
Team Focus: Old Saying Rings True for Attacking Almería You wait ten games for a win…then suddenly two come along at once. Almería’s season was never going to be easy, but even they probably didn’t expect to suffer quite so much so early.In their last two games however, they are showing their most promising signs yet of standing...
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Player Focus: Patrick Ebert - La Liga's Underrated Superstar

by David Cartlidge at Thursday, Oct 31 2013 15:53
Player Focus: Patrick Ebert - La Liga's Underrated Superstar His certainly isn’t one of the names La Liga uses when it advertises itself around the world - Lionel Messi, Neymar, Cristiano Ronaldo and now even Diego Costa are amongst those who possess that accolade - but Patrick Ebert is another with a penchant for the spectacular, which makes him the le...
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Player Focus: Real Madrid Find Their Angel in Di Maria

by David Cartlidge at Thursday, Oct 24 2013 14:27
Player Focus: Real Madrid Find Their Angel in Di Maria It seemed at one point he was in danger of becoming the forgotten man at Real Madrid, but so far this season the case Ángel di María has put forward is one based on being the main man.The summer arrivals of Isco and Gareth Bale, brought in to compete in an already stocked attacking mid...
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Player Focus: Bullish Negredo Rejuvenated in Red of Spain

by David Cartlidge at Wednesday, Oct 16 2013 14:08
Player Focus: Bullish Negredo Rejuvenated in Red of Spain “Negredo reclaims the number 9” was the headline in Wednesday’s issue of Spanish daily AS. Marca, meanwhile, went with “Diego Costa motivates Negredo” inside their paper. Although with regards to the former it may be dangerous to suggest he has truly claimed the coveted...
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Team Focus: Sevilla Struggling in Attempts to Replace Departed Stars

by David Cartlidge at Wednesday, Oct 9 2013 16:45
Team Focus: Sevilla Struggling in Attempts to Replace Departed Stars Losing two key figures in Jesús Navas and Álvaro Negredo was always going to be a significant moment in Sevilla’s history. The former a player who identified with the club more than any other, and the latter will go down as one of the best strikers in their history. Acclimatisati...
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Player Focus: Why Costa & Spain Could be the Right Blend

by David Cartlidge at Wednesday, Oct 2 2013 17:37
Player Focus: Why Costa & Spain Could be the Right Blend Atleti can't do without him, and now Vicente del Bosque thinks he may be the answer for the Spanish national team. As much as it may detest some to admit it, everyone right now would like a piece of Diego Costa. The striker has 8 goals in 7 games this term, 12 goals in his last 13, and he’s on...
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Player Focus: Neymar Proving the Perfect Fit for Barca

by David Cartlidge at Wednesday, Sep 25 2013 16:45
Player Focus: Neymar Proving the Perfect Fit for Barca He may have taken his time to get here, with the deal to bring him to Spain perhaps one of the most drawn out in Spanish football history, but Neymar has hit the ground running in Barcelona colours.On Tuesday evening the Brazilian opened his Barcelona goalscoring account in La Liga, the first of man...
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Team Focus: No-Nonsense Osasuna Need to Make Changes

by David Cartlidge at Thursday, Sep 19 2013 17:25
Team Focus: No-Nonsense Osasuna Need to Make Changes Could this finally be the season we say goodbye to Osasuna? It’s ludicrous to write off a team with just four games played, but early signs in Pamplona are pointing towards this being the season their 13-year spell in La Liga comes to an end.Osasuna are a team renowned in Spain for the style w...
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