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Player Focus: Stephane Sessegnon Progress Report

by Paul McKinnon at Thursday, Jan 26 2012 17:39
Player Focus: Stephane Sessegnon Progress Report As Sunderland reap the benefits from Martin O’Neill’s arrival and continue to climb the table, one player in particular has proved pivotal to their recent upturn in form; Stephane Sessegnon. Despite his undoubted talents, the Benin international had mainly flattered to deceive under the ...
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Team Focus: The Same But Different: What's Behind Inter's Revival?

by Adam Digby at Thursday, Jan 26 2012 16:01
Team Focus: The Same But Different: What's Behind Inter's Revival? During the early 1960's, New York Yankees legend Yogi Berra watched two other greats - Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris - repeatedly hit back-to-back home runs and commented; it's déjà vu all over again. While Inter's black and blue shirts could never be confused with the Bronx Bombers fa...
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Stats Analysis: Striking Differences - Touches per Goal

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Jan 26 2012 15:15
Stats Analysis: Striking Differences - Touches per Goal When we talk about strike partnerships, you often used to hear about combinations of ‘little and large’ – Owen and Heskey, Baros and Kollar, Phillips and Quinn to name but a few. Playing with this kind of forward line would allow for long balls to be flicked on with the quicker mem...
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Player Focus: Juan Arango - Gladbach’s Venezuelan King

by Ross Dunbar at Wednesday, Jan 25 2012 13:23
Player Focus: Juan Arango - Gladbach’s Venezuelan King In the calendar year of 2011, nobody in European Football can boast such a dramatic change in form as Borussia Monchengladbach who started the year rock bottom of the Bundesliga and now find themselves locked in a Championship battle.At the heart of their impressive form from February onwards is the...
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Player Focus: Will Lille Roux their Latest Signing?

by Andrew Gibney at Wednesday, Jan 25 2012 12:11
Player Focus: Will Lille Roux their Latest Signing? This January’s transfer window has been quite quiet en France. League leaders PSG have been linked with nearly everyone in the footballing world. Apart from defender Maxwell the main goal for Leonardo and co. was to equip Carlo Ancelotti with a new attacking option. David Beckham, Alexandre Pa...
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Stats Analysis: Foul Play - The Lucky and Not So Lucky

by Martin Laurence at Tuesday, Jan 24 2012 16:59
Stats Analysis: Foul Play - The Lucky and Not So Lucky With tough tackling being clamped down on and perhaps even stamped out to some extent (not by Mario Balotelli), players are going into the referee's little black book more often and do well to avoid cautions.Gone are the days when a footballer could go through an entire career without picking up a b...
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Stats Analysis: Europe's Most Accurate Finishers

by Martin Laurence at Monday, Jan 23 2012 17:22
Stats Analysis: Europe's Most Accurate Finishers The art of finishing is one that has been flaunted to the fullest over Europe's top 5 leagues this season, with 22 players having already scored more than 10 goals thus far. WhoScored has decided to look at a facet to the top scorers shooting that has not yet been analysed - accuracy - as well as re...
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Match Focus: Spurs Out for Revenge at the Etihad

by Paul McKinnon at Friday, Jan 20 2012 12:53
Match Focus: Spurs Out for Revenge at the Etihad This weekend sees Tottenham afforded the chance to avenge their early season humiliation at the hands of Manchester City as Harry Redknapp takes his side to the Etihad Stadium. Spurs’ 5-1 home defeat at the hands of Roberto Mancini’s league leaders was, unsurprisingly, their heaviest def...
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Player Focus: If in Doubt, you can Count on Ibisevic

by Ross Dunbar at Thursday, Jan 19 2012 14:10
Player Focus: If in Doubt, you can Count on Ibisevic Hoffenheim are well-known for their footballing philosophy which was implemented originally by former head coach Ralf Rangnick as the blue steam-train stormed its way into the German Bundesliga.Bankrolled by Dietmar Hopp, Hoffenheim earned promotion to the Bundesliga in 2008 and have since held thei...
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Player Focus: Loic Has Been the Remy-d for Marseille

by Andrew Gibney at Wednesday, Jan 18 2012 16:32
Player Focus: Loic Has Been the Remy-d for Marseille The summer of 2010 saw a young Loic Remy linked with a number of English clubs. Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs all seemed to be interested in bringing the former Lyon forward to the Premier League. Bizarrely Remy actually turned up at Stoke City’s training ground ready to do a deal with the Pott...
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