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Player Focus: Koulibaly Defying Critics to Draw Comparisons With Serie A Greats

by James Horncastle at Wednesday, Feb 10 2016 15:15
Player Focus: Koulibaly Defying Critics to Draw Comparisons With Serie A Greats Kalidou Koulibaly made headlines throughout the world last week. Unfortunately it was not for his performances, which is how he would have preferred it. Instead it was because he was the victim of racist abuse when his Napoli side went to play Lazio at the Stadio Olimpico. Either you do something or...
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Weekend Preview: A Look Ahead to this Week's Best Action in Europe

by Martin Laurence at Friday, Feb 5 2016 17:22
Weekend Preview: A Look Ahead to this Week's Best Action in Europe There's plenty of crucial matches across Europe to whet the appetite this weekend, and here we summarise the best of the action by league.Premier LeagueWhile Chelsea vs Manchester United was no doubt earmarked as the top match of gameweek 25 in the Premier League at the start of the season, ther...
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Player Focus: Saponara Keeping the Traditional Number 10 Role Alive

by James Horncastle at Tuesday, Jan 26 2016 17:30
Player Focus: Saponara Keeping the Traditional Number 10 Role Alive All Riccardo Saponara ever dreamed of was to play in the red and black of AC Milan. For that, his father Luciano is to blame. A passionate fan of the club, he’s the one who passed it onto his son. As a boy, Saponara’s first football memory was of Milan winning the Scudetto in 1999. Only ...
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Player Focus: Can Higuain Buck Scorer Trend & Lead Napoli to the Title?

by James Horncastle at Thursday, Jan 14 2016 09:57
Player Focus: Can Higuain Buck Scorer Trend & Lead Napoli to the Title? To get the measure of Maurizio Sarri, consider this for a moment. He turned 57 on Sunday. Until last season, he had never coached in Serie A. He never played professionally. And yet upon being confronted with Gonzalo Higuain, the striker Napoli paid €38m for a couple of years ago, the second hi...
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League Focus: Why the Headed Goal is a Dying Art in Serie A

by James Horncastle at Tuesday, Jan 5 2016 17:01
League Focus: Why the Headed Goal is a Dying Art in Serie A No one has scored more headed goals in the history of Serie A than Alberto Gilardino and so when Palermo sold Paulo Dybala to Juventus last summer and signed him as a replacement, it was evident that how they attacked would have to change. A little less interplay between the lines and players taking...
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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips Across Europe

by Tancredi Palmeri at Friday, Dec 11 2015 10:47
WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips Across Europe Serie A’s evening fixtures forbids you from going out for Christmas shopping. Two of the fiercest Italian rivalries will take centre stage and this time, it won't solely focus on the history of the fixtures, as all four teams are involved in the battle for maximum points this season. Napoli vs...
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Player Focus: Jorginho the Conductor of Sarri's Napoli Orchestra

by James Horncastle at Thursday, Dec 3 2015 14:10
Player Focus: Jorginho the Conductor of Sarri's Napoli Orchestra As Christmas approaches in Serie A, Napoli are top of the tree. Unbeaten in 18 games in all competitions, it’s the first time they have been in this position at this stage of a season for quarter of a century. Not even Diego Maradona’s Scudetto-winning vintages in `86-87 and `89-90 had a...
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Player Focus: Higuain Primed to Fire Napoli to Serie A Summit

by Ben McAleer at Friday, Nov 27 2015 16:25
Player Focus: Higuain Primed to Fire Napoli to Serie A Summit “The contract will be respected. He’ll only go if a madman offers the buy-out clause. However, Gonzalo still belongs to Napoli,” the club’s charismatic chairman Aurelio De Laurentiis said of his star striker over the summer. Gonzalo Higuain’s current release clause is s...
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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips in Europe

by Tancredi Palmeri at Friday, Nov 27 2015 12:20
WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips in Europe With European competitions done and dusted for another fortnight, attention now returns to the domestic scene, where there are a series of tantalising fixtures across the continent, including top of the table clashes in Serie A and the Premier League and big matches in Germany and Spain, too.Napoli ...

WhoScored Tipster: Napoli, Derby d'Italia and Klopp Among this Week's Top Tips

by Tancredi Palmeri at Friday, Oct 16 2015 12:43
WhoScored Tipster: Napoli, Derby d'Italia and Klopp Among this Week's Top Tips Old and new prestige takes centre stage in the top 5 leagues this weekend. The classic of the Derby d’Italia contrasted against the new autumn wave at the top in Spain, and not forgetting the clash between the teams playing the best football in Serie A at the moment (not Inter-Juve). However, ...
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