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League Focus: Does Anybody Have the Nerve to Win Ligue 1?

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League Focus: Does Anybody Have the Nerve to Win Ligue 1? Finally, in the penultimate match of Ligue 1’s first weekend of 2015, we had a title contender that looked like one. Lyon’s authoritative 3-0 win over Toulouse on Sunday afternoon saw Hubert Fournier’s side sweep to the top of the table, after the other two teams comprising the win...

League Focus: Analysing the Threat Premier League Teams Pose at Corners

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League Focus: Analysing the Threat Premier League Teams Pose at Corners The first half we were battered, and we couldn’t handle Charlie Adam, his corner kicks are worth £10m. Those were the words of Sir Alex Ferguson after Manchester United’s 3-2 league win over Blackpool back in 2011. At the interval, Blackpool held a 2-goal advantage, with Adam cruci...

League Focus: Five Serie A Transfers to Watch Out For

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League Focus: Five Serie A Transfers to Watch Out For Wesley SneijderAs a member of Inter’s treble-winning team in 2010 and a fan favourite at San Siro, it sure would be strange to see Wesley Sneijder in a Juventus shirt. One of the principal reasons the Dutchman has entered the hearts of the Nerazzurri is the number of occasions he has inflicted...

League Focus: What Worked and What Didn’t in the First Half of the Bundesliga Season

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League Focus: What Worked and What Didn’t in the First Half of the Bundesliga Season Bayern's all round threatThat Bayern Munich are in a league of their own is simultaneously the headline of the Bundesliga’s first half, and no news at all of course. With 17 games gone, Pep Guardiola’s side are top scorers (41), have the best defence (4 conceded) and are yet to lose, hav...

League Focus: Premier League Half-Season Statistical Review

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League Focus: Premier League Half-Season Statistical Review With the season now at the halfway point, the Premier League table has a familiar feel to it. Title favourites Chelsea currently lead the way having lost just the once so far, while defending champions Manchester City are hot on their heels. Manchester United have shown remarkable consistency of lat...

League Focus: La Liga 2014/15 Winter Break Statistical Roundup

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League Focus: La Liga 2014/15 Winter Break Statistical Roundup A look around the statistics as La Liga heads into its winter break shows the expected big stars right at the top of the most important areas, while also highlighting the displays of some of the more low-profile players who have impressed through the first five months of the 2014/15 season.Cristiano...

League Focus: What We Know at the Halfway Point in Ligue 1 2014/15

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League Focus: What We Know at the Halfway Point in Ligue 1 2014/15 Transfers are overratedChampions Paris Saint-Germain’s taste for eye-catching transfers in recent years has given Ligue 1 a new dimension. For a while, Monaco were joining in, counting high-end additions such as Radamel Falcao, James Rodríguez and João Moutinho as promotion prese...

League Focus: Should English Football be Open to a More Direct Approach?

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League Focus: Should English Football be Open to a More Direct Approach? Tony Pulis’ name has more or less become synonymous with a style of football widely maligned in this country. Few children will aspire to be players that thrive in his teams and fewer still fans will yearn for their club to play his kind of football. He was thought to have reached a ceiling at...

League Focus: Questioning the Importance of the Goals Against Column

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League Focus: Questioning the Importance of the Goals Against Column Who’s got the worst defence in the Premier League? In some ways, that’s an easy question to answer. Look at the table and you see Queen’s Park Rangers have let in 27, Leicester City 26 and Burnley 24. They lie, respectively, 17th, 20th and 19th in the table. In fact, as you’d...

League Focus: MLS 2014 Team of the Season

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League Focus: MLS 2014 Team of the Season It was somewhat fitting that the 2014 Major League Soccer MVP scored the goal to decide the 2014 Major League Soccer season. Robbie Keane’s extra-time goal in Sunday’s MLS Cup clash against the New England Revolution gave the LA Galaxy the MLS Cup title for the third time in four years, ...