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League Focus: The Most Valuable Scorers in Serie A

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League Focus: The Most Valuable Scorers in Serie A With the title race over and the season nearing its end in Serie A, a period of reflection begins. Who have been the real difference makers over the current campaign and how might you measure that? One reductive yet still quite revealing method is to look at points won as a direct result of the goal...

Player Focus: Europe's Hat-Trick Heroes

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Player Focus: Europe's Hat-Trick Heroes A hat-trick is a thing of rare beauty; a feat that a tiny minority of professional footballers achieve at any point in their careers. Fewer still will do so away from home, or in a 12 minute period to win a game against one of Europe's most decorated sides, as German Denis managed at San Siro agains...

Team Focus: Atalanta Still A Royal Pain In Serie A

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Team Focus: Atalanta Still A Royal Pain In Serie A Speaking in the build-up to this past weekend’s round of Serie A fixtures, Andrea Stramaccioni vowed not to underestimate his latest opponents, telling reporters at his pre-match press conference I have tremendous respect for Atalanta, they are doing very well and have many players of great qu...

Stats Analysis: More Serie A Surprises - Aerial Superiority

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Stats Analysis: More Serie A Surprises - Aerial Superiority Unlike other leagues, Serie A is not commonly associated with great headers of the ball, even among its defenders. While England and English football bring to mind classic number nines and lumbering central defenders, Italy is more readily thought of for bringing culture to the game and beyond the a...

Hot Shots: Serie A's Magnificent Seven

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Hot Shots: Serie A's Magnificent Seven Serie A has long been famed for it's defensive abilities and tactical organisation, it's gifts to the world deemed to be tacticians such as Giovanni Trapattoni and Arrigo Sacchi, breeding defenders the likes of which other countries could only look on in envy of. Yet, as a byproduct of coming up aga...