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League Focus: 2015/16 Premier League Opening Fixtures Analysed

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League Focus: 2015/16 Premier League Opening Fixtures Analysed The Premier League season came to a head less than a month ago and already teams are looking to the upcoming campaign after the fixture list was announced on Wednesday. Clubs up and down the country will be planning for the start to the season in the hope of hitting the ground running to boost their...

League Focus: Three Teams Thriving in the Early Madness of the Brasileirão Season

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League Focus: Three Teams Thriving in the Early Madness of the Brasileirão Season The Brazilian season is but six games old and already there is a feeling of familiarity to the proceedings. Not because the table is beginning to take shape in any predictable way - of which more in just a moment - but rather because of an all-too-familiar malaise in the divisions dugouts.It started...

League Focus: Six Key Figures of the Bundesliga in 2014/15

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League Focus: Six Key Figures of the Bundesliga in 2014/15 The Finisher – Alexander MeierDespite missing the final 7 matches of the season due to injury, Alexander Meier still managed to acquire the Torjägerkanone (Top goalscorer award), scoring an impressive 19 goals in just 24 starts for Eintracht Frankfurt. The veteran forward has been clinica...

League Focus: La Liga Round-up - The Stat Leaders from 2014/15

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League Focus: La Liga Round-up - The Stat Leaders from 2014/15 In the end Barcelona’s two point advantage over second placed Real Madrid in the final La Liga standings was a pretty fair reflection of how the Catalan side had been just about superior over the full course of the campaign.Looking back over the 38 games there is a feeling that Madrid perhaps,...

League Focus: The Six Key Figures of the 2014/15 Premier League Season

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League Focus: The Six Key Figures of the 2014/15 Premier League Season The Finisher: Sergio Agüero26 goals was enough for Sergio Agüero to end the Premier League campaign as top goalscorer, and it was something of a travesty that the brilliant Argentine was not nominated for the PFA Player of the Year award. His WhoScored rating (7.67) ranked third behind Ede...

League Focus: The Six Key Figures of Ligue 1 in 2014/15

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League Focus: The Six Key Figures of Ligue 1 in 2014/15 The finisher: Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon) The 23-year-old was voted Player of the Year by the Union Nationale des Footballeurs Professionnels (UNFP), and it was richly deserved. Lacazette hit 27 goals in just 33 Ligue 1 starts, a club record, but the local boy was about so much more than just that as...

League Focus: Analysing the Apparent Truisms of the 2014/15 Premier League Season

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League Focus: Analysing the Apparent Truisms of the 2014/15 Premier League Season Now that the season is coming to a close, it’s remarkable to reflect on some of the debates that opened throughout its course. Things that were supposedly cast-iron truth in November now seem so wrong, or so irrelevant.It is not just about the crises that always must engulf at least one gu...

League Focus: La Liga's Relegation Showdown

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League Focus: La Liga's Relegation Showdown With La Liga's title race now done and dusted, much of the focus ahead of Saturday’s final round of fixtures has turned to the battle at the bottom of the table.Cordoba have already been relegated, with their first top-flight season in 42 years having been more or less a disaster from start to...

League Focus: Monaco Well-placed to Net Ligue 1’s Coveted Third Place

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League Focus: Monaco Well-placed to Net Ligue 1’s Coveted Third Place Fans of final day suspense will probably feel let down following the 37th, and penultimate, round of Ligue 1 action. Paris Saint-Germain officially eliminated the minuscule doubts that lingered over their third straight title win by beating Montpellier. Meanwhile, last week’s subjects Evian no...

League Focus: Rotation the Name of the Game as Season Starts in Brazil

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League Focus: Rotation the Name of the Game as Season Starts in Brazil Before the football season, there is a break during which players rest, clubs dip into the transfer market and managers perfect tactics for the campaign ahead. It is something that European fans take for granted – a central tenet of the entire footballing calendar. But there is no such off-sea...