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Player Focus: Moussa Dembele (Fulham)

by Martin Laurence at Monday, Apr 16 2012 17:36
Player Focus: Moussa Dembele (Fulham) The WhoScored Premier League player ratings leaderboard is littered with talent from the top 6, with United and City unsurprisingly dominating, with 8 of the top 13 representing the title challengers. However, rather than look into the performances of these players we have decided to analyse an indi...
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Stats Analysis: Fewest Touches per Minute

by Paul McKinnon at Thursday, Apr 12 2012 17:46
Stats Analysis: Fewest Touches per Minute The life of a forward can be wildly contrasting. Grabbing the goals and the glory will always hog the headlines, but it is all too often offset by large chunks of time waiting for a chance of involvement. WhoScored highlights the top five Premier League frontmen in terms of the least touches per min...
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Player Focus: Yohan Mollo (Nancy - On Loan)

by Andrew Gibney at Thursday, Apr 5 2012 11:32
Player Focus: Yohan Mollo (Nancy - On Loan) Going into the week 31 you might be surprised to hear that AS Nancy currently sit top of the form table in Ligue 1. Over the past few years Les Chardons relied on former Coach Pablo Correa to orchestrate a last gasp survival keeping the side from Tomblaine in the top flight. Under new boss Jean Fern...
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Player Focus: Assessing Juve’s Paolo De Ceglie

by Adam Digby at Wednesday, Apr 4 2012 16:08
Player Focus: Assessing Juve’s Paolo De Ceglie Aside from among the Serie A aficionados, the name of Juventus left-back Paolo De Ceglie is unlikely to be a familiar one to many football fans. Yet the announcement, made via the Turin club’s official website recently (March 21), that the 25 year old had signed a new contract raised an almost...
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Player Focus: Falcao (Atletico Madrid)

by Kieran Canning at Tuesday, Apr 3 2012 15:04
Player Focus: Falcao (Atletico Madrid) When Radamel Falcao made the trip across the Iberian Peninsula from Porto to Atlético Madrid for some €40m in the summer many an eyebrow was raised.Why would a player who had starred as the Portuguese side stormed to four trophies and on a personal level broke a European record by scorin...
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Player Focus: WhoScored's March Review

by Martin Laurence at Monday, Apr 2 2012 15:58
Player Focus: WhoScored's March Review A look at the WhoScored Team of the Month for March across Europe's top 5 leagues shows that there has been some stand out performers across the continent. There are 4 Serie A players in the XI, proving that there has been some superb performances in Italy this month, while there are also 3 La Liga ...
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Stats Analysis: The Premier League's Most Involved - Touches per Minute

by Martin Laurence at Thursday, Mar 29 2012 16:30
Stats Analysis: The Premier League's Most Involved - Touches per Minute It's fair to say that while some roles require less of an apparent involvement in play in terms of time spent on the ball, there are certainly a number of players who feel the need to make themselves available to a teammate at every opportunity. These are, in turn, the individuals that colleagues ar...
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Stats Analysis: Serie A's Magnificent Seventies

by Adam Digby at Thursday, Mar 29 2012 12:49
Stats Analysis: Serie A's Magnificent Seventies The prominent American novelist Tom Wolfe dubbed it ‘The Me Decade’ as many of his countrymen “abandoned communal and left wing politics to take the money and run” yet, looking purely from a Serie A stand point, the 1970’s gave birth to a generation of footballers who h...
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Player Focus: Mario Gotze (Borussia Dortmund)

by Ross Dunbar at Wednesday, Mar 28 2012 16:40
Player Focus: Mario Gotze (Borussia Dortmund) For the last three transfer windows, the name of Mario Gotze has been linked with pretty much every “elite” side in Europe. Arsenal and Manchester United were reportedly two of the biggest suitors of the 19-year-old with interest also coming from Chelsea and rivals FC Bayern Munich.Howev...
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Player Focus: Philippe Coutinho (Espanyol - On Loan)

by Kieran Canning at Tuesday, Mar 27 2012 16:28
Player Focus: Philippe Coutinho (Espanyol - On Loan) As the end of the January transfer window approached it was no surprise that one of the few clubs in Spain to make a move were Espanyol.Mauricio Pochettino’s side had surpassed expectations to enter the New Year in fifth place, but a gruelling January calendar in which they played eight times ...
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