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League Focus: Scorers of the Premier League's Most Valuable Goals

by Martin Laurence at Alhamisi, Feb 18 2016 15:25
League Focus: Scorers of the Premier League's Most Valuable Goals When Jamie Vardy and Harry Kane opened the scoring for their respective sides from the spot last weekend, the goals looked likely to prove decisive in the title race. It came to pass that Vardy's penalty would count for nothing as Arsenal came from behind to snatch all three points but while it was ...
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League Focus: Winners and Losers of the January Transfer Window

by Josh Wright at Jumanne, Feb 2 2016 17:15
League Focus: Winners and Losers of the January Transfer Window It goes without saying that this transfer window has been one of the dullest in recent memory, but despite there being little action from any of the elite clubs in the Premier League, spending still managed to finish at a five-year high of £175m.Here, WhoScored.com looks at the teams that can ...
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League Focus: How Many Points Will it Take to Win the Premier League Title?

by Jonathan Wilson at Jumatatu, Jan 25 2016 17:29
League Focus: How Many Points Will it Take to Win the Premier League Title? With 60% of the season played and 15 games remaining, Leicester City lead the league with 47 points. Both elements of that are surprising: since the Premier League switched to its present 20-team format in 1995, there have only been two occasions when the leaders at this stage of the season had fewe...
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League Focus: Bundesliga 2015/16 Mid-Season Review

by Martin Laurence at Ijumaa, Jan 22 2016 15:57
League Focus: Bundesliga 2015/16 Mid-Season Review It's been a long wait for fans of the Bundesliga to get stuck into the action comparatively to the rest of Europe, with the Ruckrunde in Germany's top-flight kicking off tonight. Runaway league leaders Bayern get proceedings back underway with a trip to Hamburg as Pep Guardiola's three-year stint in...
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League Focus: Relegation Battle Warms Up French Winter

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Jan 11 2016 14:30
League Focus: Relegation Battle Warms Up French Winter One of the most curious, and most-quoted, statistics of the first half of the Ligue 1 season was a by-product of Paris Saint-Germain’s growing dominance of French football. Going into Christmas, second-placed Monaco were closer to the bottom three (13 points away) than they were to Laurent Bla...
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League Focus: Why the Headed Goal is a Dying Art in Serie A

by James Horncastle at Jumanne, 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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League Focus: Premier League Halfway Point Stats Round-up

by Ben McAleer at Alhamisi, Des 31 2015 12:35
League Focus: Premier League Halfway Point Stats Round-up The conclusion of Liverpool’s 1-0 win over Sunderland on Wednesday night signalled the halfway point of the current Premier League season. There have been plenty of shocks over the last six months, notably Leicester’s impressive rise up the table, and here WhoScored looks at the current ...
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League Focus: Five Premier League Musings this Christmas

by Martin Laurence at Jumatano, Des 23 2015 11:33
League Focus: Five Premier League Musings this Christmas Can Leicester win the league?No doubt the shock of the season so far is that of Leicester City, with a success story greater than any demise in our books. Having spent last Christmas drowning their sorrows at the bottom of the league Foxes fans have reason for cheer and then some this time around.Le...
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League Focus: Five Observations From the First Half of Ligue 1 2015/16

by Andy Brassell at Jumanne, Des 22 2015 09:40
League Focus: Five Observations From the First Half of Ligue 1 2015/16 PSG's history boysThough the neutral might regret that the Ligue 1 title race is effectively over at the halfway stage, there is no getting around Paris Saint-Germain’s excellence. Laurent Blanc’s team are so much better than last season, in which they gave their rivals a proper sniff of...
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League Focus: Brasileirão 2015 Season Review

by Jack Lang at Alhamisi, Des 17 2015 15:01
League Focus: Brasileirão 2015 Season Review For British football fans, Christmas is a time for joyously abandoning oneself to the vagaries of the fixture list. For our more cultured continental cohorts, it’s time for forty winks, a holiday and – heaven forbid – spending time with one’s family. Such are the rhythms of f...
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