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Manchester clubs dominate most improved Premier League XI

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Manchester clubs dominate most improved Premier League XI If you ever played competitive amateur football at any level, you would know that any award for the 'most improved player' isn't necessarily seen or taken as a compliment! A somewhat glorified participation acknowledgement in many cases, that's certainly not true of the following lineup.With an inde...

Liverpool star Alexander-Arnold the shock exclusion from U21 Team of the Season

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Liverpool star Alexander-Arnold the shock exclusion from U21 Team of the Season Here we run through the best WhoScored rated U21 XI from Europe's top five leagues for the 2019/20 campaign. Players aged 21 and under at the start of their respective league campaigns are eligible for selection, while goalkeepers must have been 23 and under. Furthermore, players must have featured ...

Salah pips Messi to spot in latest stat-themed European XI

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Salah pips Messi to spot in latest stat-themed European XI In the latest in our series of stat-themed XIs we reveal a lineup of the players to have attempted the most shots by playing position across Europe's top five leagues this season.In the interest of fairness - having done the same for our key pass XI - we're excluding set pieces, so in this instance ...

Ronaldo misses out on #7 in best 1-11 shirt number lineup

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Ronaldo misses out on #7 in best 1-11 shirt number lineup Teamsheet announcements over tannoys at football matches aren't what they used to be. Gone are the days when players are reeled off from 1 to 11 in terms of their squad numbers. In fact, your lucky to get past the third player in a starting lineup before reaching some ridiculously obscure numbers, a...

The only Premier League star to make Champions League best XI revealed

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The only Premier League star to make Champions League best XI revealed With football postponed for the foreseeable future, we turn our attention to the Champions League team of the season so far. Manchester United dominate our Europa League best XI of the campaign, while it's Bundesliga powerhouse Bayern Munich who are the best represented in the top performing team fr...

Serie A title challenging titans dominate Italy's best XI

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Serie A title challenging titans dominate Italy's best XI With all leagues currently suspended to help combat the coronavirus outbreak, the likelihood of any football being played anytime soon is slim. As such, we've decided to see how the WhoScored.com Serie A team of the season would look should the campaign end now, with title challenging Juventus and L...

Manchester United dominate Europa League Team of the Season so far

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Manchester United dominate Europa League Team of the Season so far Here we run through the best WhoScored rated XI from the 2019/20 Europa League campaign up until this point, considering only those who have made six appearances in the competition. Goalkeeper: Giedrius Arlauskis (CFR Cluj) - 7.05 rating CFR Cluj were eventually eliminated by Europa League specialis...

Messi streaks ahead of Ronaldo and the rest in MOTM XI

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Messi streaks ahead of Ronaldo and the rest in MOTM XI Having kicked off our Stats XI series with key passes and dribbles, we turn our attention to the WhoScored man of the match award top XI in Europe's top five leagues this season.Some big names miss out in this side, with no Liverpool players in particular making the grade, but there remains a number...

Sancho and Ronaldo fall well short of ultimate dribble XI

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Sancho and Ronaldo fall well short of ultimate dribble XI Following our Stats XI series opener taking key passes into account, today's sequel focuses on successful dribbles, building a lineup of the players to have completed the most in Europe's top five leagues this season.There are, once again, some big name omissions in the likes of Jadon Sancho and Cri...

Alexander-Arnold and Messi miss out on Europe's most creative XI!

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Alexander-Arnold and Messi miss out on Europe's most creative XI! With Europe's top five leagues forced out of action by the Coronavirus outbreak, we're reflecting on the season so far with a new series of statistic-based XIs. The first in the series takes a look at key passes - as voted by our Twitter followers - while we took the decision to exclude set pieces f...