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League Focus: What We Know at the Halfway Point in Ligue 1 2014/15

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Dec 22 2014 11:46
League Focus: What We Know at the Halfway Point in Ligue 1 2014/15 Transfers are overratedChampions Paris Saint-Germain’s taste for eye-catching transfers in recent years has given Ligue 1 a new dimension. For a while, Monaco were joining in, counting high-end additions such as Radamel Falcao, James Rodríguez and João Moutinho as promotion prese...
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League Focus: Who Would Best Help Repair France's European Standing?

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Dec 1 2014 16:37
League Focus: Who Would Best Help Repair France's European Standing? When the final round of Champions League group fixtures comes around next week, the attentions of Ligue 1 fans are likely to have drifted from the Camp Nou, where Paris Saint-Germain take on Barcelona in a blue riband fixture as they bid to cement top spot in Group F. Instead, many will be occupied ...
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Player Focus: Playmaker Payet Takes Over the Creative Reins at Marseille

by Ben McAleer at Wednesday, Nov 26 2014 16:00
Player Focus: Playmaker Payet Takes Over the Creative Reins at Marseille After an impressive World Cup, one would have expected Marseille to fight tooth and nail to keep hold of Mathieu Valbuena. The pint-sized playmaker ranked among the 25 highest-rated players according to WhoScored (7.56) at Brazil 2014, so his departure to Russia for Dinamo Moscow was somewhat of a s...
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Team Focus: PSG - The Case for the Defence

by Ben McAleer at Friday, Aug 1 2014 16:15
Team Focus: PSG - The Case for the Defence Ligue 1 was something of a walk in the park for Paris Saint Germain last season. Laurent Blanc’s side lost only 3 times as they secured their 4th top-flight title and 2nd in as many seasons. Monaco were their closest competitors, finishing 9 points behind the Parisian side, but the sale to Rea...
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Player Focus: The Best Young Full-Backs in Ligue 1

by Ben McAleer at Tuesday, Feb 4 2014 16:00
Player Focus: The Best Young Full-Backs in Ligue 1 The modern day full-back is tasked with pressing forward and overlapping the attack-minded players as a means of providing an offensive outlet to his team, but also having the fitness levels to return to their starting position to perform defensive duties. Mathieu Debuchy and Ricardo Rodriguez, of N...
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League Focus: Can Anybody Stop Lille Finishing Third in Ligue 1?

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Jan 13 2014 17:57
League Focus: Can Anybody Stop Lille Finishing Third in Ligue 1? Having began Sunday evening knowing a win would take them into second place in Ligue 1, Lille had the opportunity to build further on a stunning first half of the campaign in which they garnered 40 points - a pre-Christmas record for a third-placed team. In the end, the surprise home defeat to an un...
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League Focus: Ligue 1 2013/14 Preview

by Nicholas McGee at Friday, Aug 9 2013 14:36
League Focus: Ligue 1 2013/14 Preview The 2012-13 Ligue 1 campaign ended with Paris Saint-Germain finally ending their drought as they secured their first Ligue 1 title since 1994. The Parisians have undergone extensive changes since that point, with manager Carlo Ancelotti leaving for Real Madrid and replaced by former France national ...
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League Focus: Differing Styles of Europe's Top 5 Leagues

by Alistair Tweedale at Monday, Jun 10 2013 16:36
League Focus: Differing Styles of Europe's Top 5 Leagues After barnstorming wins for Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund set up an all German Champions League final this season, much was made of the decline of Real Madrid and Barcelona, and indeed the rise of the Bundesliga. It was also only the second season out of the last nine without an English team i...
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League Focus: The Ligue 1 Team of the Season

by Ben McAleer at Thursday, Jun 6 2013 14:50
League Focus: The Ligue 1 Team of the Season With the domestic calendar now brought to an end following the culmination of the La Liga season last weekend, it’s the preparation for the new campaign that teams across Europe will focus on for the summer. Be it strengthening the core of the team or adding that one player to move from a Euro...
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Team Focus: New Manager Impacts

by Martin Laurence at Tuesday, Oct 23 2012 17:15
Team Focus: New Manager Impacts With almost a quarter of the season already vanishing before our very eyes across Europe's top 5 leagues, the fans of clubs who appointed new managers in the summer have started to form opinions of the men at the helm.In total there were 23 managerial changes over the course of the summer, and here ...
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