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Stats Analysis: Premier League's Most Successful Tacklers

by Martin Laurence at Wednesday, Jan 18 2012 14:31
Stats Analysis: Premier League's Most Successful Tacklers While it takes bravery to commit to tackling as often as some of the players do in the Premier League, there is a real skill to winning the ball more often than not, with WhoScored investigating those players who not only throw themselves into tackles with superb regularity but come away with the ba...
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Stats Analysis: Premier League's Top Stoppers

by Martin Laurence at Tuesday, Jan 17 2012 10:35
Stats Analysis: Premier League's Top Stoppers When it comes to statistical analysis there are often a number of players who are overlooked - possibly to their relief - but WhoScored has taken the time to look into the efficiency of the rare breed that is goalkeepers! Studying the stoppers to have made more than 5 starts in the Premier League, w...
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Stats Analysis: Premier League's Biggest Losers - of Possession

by Paul McKinnon at Friday, Jan 13 2012 13:33
Stats Analysis: Premier League's Biggest Losers - of Possession Following on from yesterday’s Premier League piece focussing on the seven top passers in England’s top-flight, we take an entirely different approach for our next WhoScored analysis. We turn the idea on its head and analyse those players who have lost possession the most over the first h...
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The Milan Derby: City Rivals By The Numbers

by Adam Digby at Thursday, Jan 12 2012 17:25
The Milan Derby: City Rivals By The Numbers Sunday evening will see two of European football's grandest clubs meet in one of the most high profile matches of the year as Milan face Inter in the 205th Derby della Madonnina. As rivalries go it is also one of the closest; Milan have won on 72 occasions, just one more than their city cousins, wit...
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Stats Analysis: Premier Passers

by Paul McKinnon at Thursday, Jan 12 2012 12:02
Stats Analysis: Premier Passers In a series of articles focussing on a specific area of the WhoScored statistics, we turn our attentions to the top seven players for most passes per game during the first half of the Premier League season. As Arsenal and Man City are the top two teams for average possession, with 58.7% and 57.3%, i...
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Team Focus: Sunderland - The O'Neill Factor

by Martin Laurence at Wednesday, Jan 11 2012 16:03
Team Focus: Sunderland - The O'Neill Factor When looking at the form guide in the Premier League over the last 6 games it is not Manchester City, United or even Tottenham that sit top, but Sunderland. The fact that Martin O'Neill arrived at the Stadium of Light to take charge of his first match - you guessed it - six games ago is indicative o...
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Team Focus: Sochaux Must Go On

by Andrew Gibney at Tuesday, Jan 10 2012 14:45
Team Focus: Sochaux Must Go On Sochaux finished 2011 second bottom of Ligue 1 and coach Mehmet Bazdarevic would have hoped to start the New Year afresh and use the distractions of the cup to mask the league problems.Ligue 2 side Bastia had different ideas and the 4-1 win for Frederic Hantz’ side highlighted the troubled tim...
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Player Focus: Antonio Valencia Progress Report

by Martin Laurence at Monday, Jan 9 2012 17:27
Player Focus: Antonio Valencia Progress Report It is fair to say that Manchester United have been on somewhat of a roller coaster ride since the start of December. Many of the players' form has been constantly fluctuating during a spell which has seen Fergie's side look back to their imperious best as well as disastrous in defence in recent week...
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Serie A Team of the Season Up to Now

by Martin Laurence at Friday, Jan 6 2012 18:13
Serie A Team of the Season Up to Now Like La Liga in Spain, Italy's Serie A returns to action this weekend, so we take the time to analyse the league's All Star XI up to now based upon WhoScored ratings.As many as 8 sides are represented, indicating the tight nature of a league that reigning champions AC Milan top on goal difference ah...
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WhoScored Analyst: Defenders' Goals Becoming a Nice Habit

by Alistair Tweedale at Friday, Jan 6 2012 13:11
WhoScored Analyst: Defenders' Goals Becoming a Nice Habit As tactics evolve in the modern game, more often than ever we are seeing managers tinker with traditional formations of old in order to attack with as many players as possible. Barcelona are the team that springs to mind most readily here. On countless occasions this season, Pep Guardiola has fielde...
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