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League Focus: How the Super Lig's Big Summer Signings are Settling In

by Emre Sarigul at Ijumaa, Nov 27 2015 17:00
League Focus: How the Super Lig's Big Summer Signings are Settling In The relaxation of the foreign player ruling over the summer resulted in an influx of non-Turkish players to the Super Lig this summer. The most high profile names came in the form of forwards with the likes of former Manchester United duo Luis Nani and Robin van Persie joining Fenerbahçe. Luk...
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League Focus: Premier League Core has Helped Hull to Championship Summit

by Alan Smith at Jumatano, Nov 11 2015 10:30
League Focus: Premier League Core has Helped Hull to Championship Summit For all the Championship's promise of the unpredictable, the expected names are sitting near the top of the table and those predicted to suffer are finding things difficult. The pair of financially-stable teams relegated from last season's Premier League occupy two of the top three places, but Brigh...
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League Focus: Analysing the Correlation of Shots and League Standings

by Jonathan Wilson at Jumanne, Okt 20 2015 17:04
League Focus: Analysing the Correlation of Shots and League Standings When Egil Olsen was manager of Norway, he would insist that fans and journalists paid attention not only to the score, but to shots on goal. You couldn’t, he reasoned, trust a 1-0 win if you’d had one shot and the opposition had had 10, and equally you couldn’t get too down over a ...
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League Focus: How Premier League Teams Fare When Falling Behind

by Martin Laurence at Jumatatu, Okt 19 2015 16:47
League Focus: How Premier League Teams Fare When Falling Behind There were some contrasting but equally unsurprising outcomes from the weekend's Premier League action. Leicester came from two goals behind to steal a point against Southampton while Aston Villa, having fallen behind for the 8th successive league match, failed to salvage anything after gifting Chel...
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League Focus: Reading the Championship's Surprise Package So Far

by Alan Smith at Jumatano, Okt 7 2015 10:45
League Focus: Reading the Championship's Surprise Package So Far Embryonic stages these may still be, but if there is a major surprise package this season; then Reading appear the most likely. They have won five of their last six games and Steve Clarke, courtesy of 13 summer signings, has brought the Berkshire side from mid-table obscurity last campaign to a genu...
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League Focus: Who Will Win the Race for MLS Supporters' Shield?

by Graham Ruthven at Ijumaa, Sep 18 2015 11:58
League Focus: Who Will Win the Race for MLS Supporters' Shield? To the outsider, the Supporters’ Shield is a peculiar accolade. Awarded to the team with the best regular season record (essentially, whichever team finishes atop the league standings) it would be Major League Soccer’s crowning achievement, were it not for the play-offs. And so in the gr...
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League Focus: Brighton Lead Way in Typically Unpredictable Championship Start

by Alan Smith at Jumatano, Sep 2 2015 14:18
League Focus: Brighton Lead Way in Typically Unpredictable Championship Start Five games in and already the Championship has shown its inherent dislike for predictors and tipsters, vainly attempting to figure out the most unpredictable division of all. Everybody laughed on 3 August when Brighton tweeted that vine of Bobby Zamora saying “I’m back” while clutc...
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League Focus: Where Serie A's Big Hitters Need to Strengthen this Week

by James Horncastle at Jumanne, Ago 25 2015 16:12
League Focus: Where Serie A's Big Hitters Need to Strengthen this Week “The league is a marathon, not a 100m sprint,” Max Allegri reflected after Juventus’ false start on Sunday evening. As the calciomercato enters its final week, however, a mad dash is beginning. The front page of Tuesday’s La Gazzetta dello Sport gave the impression that panic...
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League Focus: Serie A Team-by-Team Guide to the Season

by James Horncastle at Ijumaa, Ago 21 2015 15:38
League Focus: Serie A Team-by-Team Guide to the Season Juventus Favourites for a fifth straight title for first time since the 30s, it’ll be a challenge to win without Pirlo, Vidal and Tevez. If Llorente follows Juventus will have lost the players behind 114 of the 210 goals they scored in the last two years. The club has bought well, spending &eu...
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League Focus: WhoScored Staff Premier League Predictions

by WhoScored.com at Ijumaa, Ago 7 2015 13:49
League Focus: WhoScored Staff Premier League Predictions CHAMPIONSMartin Laurence: Chelsea The Blues' may have had a quiet summer so far but you couldn't really expect much from them in the window after such a dominant season last time out. It will be much tighter this time around, with little to choose between City, Arsenal and United, but I expect Hazar...
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