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Bundesliga Top Ten Talismen for Season 2010/11

by Paul McKinnon at Thursday, Jun 30 2011 10:52
Bundesliga Top Ten Talismen for Season 2010/11 Our final talismen article focuses on the Bundesliga and has no players from the top two teams, due to a more even spread of goals throughout their players. This means no room for Dortmund’s Lucas Barrios, with 16 goals and 2 assists, as three team mates contributed a combined total of 14 or m...
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Top Ten Ligue 1 Talismen

by Paul McKinnon at Tuesday, Jun 28 2011 10:06
Top Ten Ligue 1 Talismen Breaking into our list of Top Ten Ligue 1 Talismen proved a hard task for some, with the likes of Gervinho -scoring 15 goals and 10 assists- just missing out on a place. His Lille team mate Eden Hazard also failed to find a slot, as did Sochaux’s Marvin Martin, despite his 19 assists being the...
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Serie A Top 10 Talismen

by Paul McKinnon at Monday, Jun 27 2011 15:44
Serie A Top 10 Talismen Our look at the top ten talismen for each of Europe’s main five leagues turns to Italy, with Serie A next under the microscope. While La Liga and the Premier League had five players contributing to 50% or more of their team’s goals when on the pitch, Serie A has as many as seven, suggest...
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Top Ten Talismen for La Liga, 2010/11

by Paul McKinnon at Sunday, Jun 26 2011 15:01
Top Ten Talismen for La Liga, 2010/11 Having yesterday established our concept of “a talisman” and picked out the top ten for last season’s Premier League, we move our attention to sunnier climes and focus on La Liga. With a combined goals and assists tally of 100 between them , Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo would...
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Who Is The Best Striker In Ligue 1?

by Andrew Gibney at Saturday, Jun 25 2011 16:05
What makes a great striker? It is a question that many pundits and writers alike have asked themselves over the years. Do you look for the poacher instincts of a Romario, the power, strength and finishing of Ronaldo or do you go for the prolific goal scoring prowess of a Gerd Muller? The list of att...
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Premier League Top 10 Talismen

by Paul McKinnon at Friday, Jun 24 2011 13:08
Premier League Top 10 Talismen What makes a talisman? The phrase, bandied about with a certain regularity, tends to be applied to Carlos Tevez more than most Premier League players. Does the likes of Tevez give his team a better chance of winning, does him being on the pitch guarantee more goals or does his presence lift the side...
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Serie A All Star XI, Season 2010/11

by Paul McKinnon at Friday, Jun 3 2011 09:46
Serie A All Star XI, Season 2010/11 Our Serie A All Star Team hosts five players from the top two, with Inter contributing three to Milan’s couple. With four of those five being defensive players, only one of our more attack-minded options comes from either of the Milan sides. Lazio are the only other team to supply more than on...
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Ligue 1 All Star Team, Season 2010/11

by Paul McKinnon at Thursday, Jun 2 2011 10:11
Ligue 1 All Star Team, Season 2010/11 There’s a lot more variety to our Ligue 1 All Star XI than the previous two leagues, with as many as eight different clubs supplying players. Champions Lille have, unsurprisingly, the most players in the XI, with a total of three. The big shock is the omission of Eden Hazard, France’s Pl...
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Premier League All Star Team, Season 2010/11

by Paul McKinnon at Wednesday, Jun 1 2011 10:53
Premier League All Star Team, Season 2010/11 In the second of our Big 5 league reviews, the Premier League All Star Team from last season shows no team was overly dominant in terms of stand-out performers; Arsenal and Man City were the main suppliers, with three players apiece, though champions Man United contributed two. The rest were scatter...
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La Liga All Star XI for Season 2010/11

by Paul McKinnon at Tuesday, May 31 2011 10:25
La Liga All Star XI for Season 2010/11 With Ligue 1 finishing up last weekend, we begin our round up of the Top 5 leagues with a look at the La Liga All Star Team for 2010/11. There’s little surprise to see the vast majority of the team filled with players from Barcelona and Real Madrid; second-place Madrid finished 21 points ahead...
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