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Manchester United target among our Football INDEX buy tips

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Manchester United target among our Football INDEX buy tips Football INDEX is the world’s first football stock market where you can buy and sell shares in footballers with real money. Football INDEX offers fans a chance to bet on the future success of football players compared to the short-lived outcome of betting on football results. Intrigued by what...

Reimagined Mandzukic can make the difference in Sunday's Derby d'Italia

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Reimagined Mandzukic can make the difference in Sunday's Derby d'Italia So much of the focus in the build-up to Sunday’s Derby d’Italia will be on the Argentine tango up front. Gonzalo Higuain has scored in each of his last six games for Juventus. The last Bianconero to go on such a run, believe it or not, was David Trezeguet more than a decade ago. El Pipit...

Team Focus: Fifth Successive Title No Longer Mission Impossible for Juventus

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Team Focus: Fifth Successive Title No Longer Mission Impossible for Juventus There is a plaque outside the Alberto Braglia commemorating the first of Fausto Coppi’s wins in the Giro d’Italia in 1940. On Sunday it was the latest stage for Juventus in what has been an uphill season in Serie A. The topography in Modena? Flat with one or two bumps. In other words, ma...

Team Focus: Atlético Neither Stronger nor Weaker Following Recent Summer Activity

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Team Focus: Atlético Neither Stronger nor Weaker Following Recent Summer Activity The pillaging of Southampton highlights the dangers of a team performing above the standards expected of them. Mauricio Pochettino, Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana, Luke Shaw, Dejan Lovren and Calum Chambers have all left the club, while Morgan Schneiderlin and Jay Rodriguez are tipped to follow suit.S...

World Cup Focus: Free-scoring France Dominate Team of the Round

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World Cup Focus: Free-scoring France Dominate Team of the Round The second round of group fixtures came to a close on Sunday, with six teams assuring their progression to the round of 16 and five seeing their World Cup hopes come to a premature end. Among them, most notably, were holders Spain, while Roy Hodgson's England side were also dumped out after back-to-...

Match Focus: Lessons Learned From Brazil's Win Over Croatia

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Match Focus: Lessons Learned From Brazil's Win Over Croatia After years of planning, the 2014 World Cup kicked off in dramatic fashion on Thursday night as hosts Brazil overcame Group A rivals Croatia 3-1. A Neymar brace and late Oscar strike was enough for A Seleção to secure three points, after Marcelo had inadvertently turned into his own ne...

Player Focus: Europe's Top Rated Players in February

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Player Focus: Europe's Top Rated Players in February A month is an awfully long time in the world of football, and even in the shortest one of the year there was plenty of drama and change across Europe's top 5 leagues. Three of the titles look all but decided while La Liga and the Premier League are as open as they possibly could be, and February's s...

Player Focus: Should Lewandowski Instantly Displace Mandzukic?

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Player Focus: Should Lewandowski Instantly Displace Mandzukic? At the beginning of the year, the worst kept secret in football was announced as Bayern Munich confirmed that striker Robert Lewandowski would join them at the end of the season. The news will have come as a blow to Borussia Dortmund, who 6 months earlier had lost Mario Götze to their rivals fo...

Player Focus: Europe's Most Potent Poachers

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Player Focus: Europe's Most Potent Poachers The poacher. The fox in the box. The super sub.The primary job of a striker is to score goals, and each of these three terms is coined from players that tend to do so but rarely offer much else. Whilst Luis Suarez is a goalscorer who drops deep for possession and is thus very involved in Liverpool's...

Player Focus: Most Common Assist-Goal Combinations

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Player Focus: Most Common Assist-Goal Combinations When a player signs for a new club, it can more often that not take them a while to settle in. Sometimes players never find their feet with new teammates, with partnerships failing to form. Sometimes, though, players simply click, and form lethal duos in their new surroundings. More likely, however,...