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League Focus: The Premier League Opening Fixtures Analysed

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League Focus: The Premier League Opening Fixtures Analysed With the Premier League fixtures now released, planning ahead to the 2013/14 season can begin. While the new campaign may not kick off for another 59 days, excitement levels are now beginning to rise as supporters of each respective team study their opponents and plan each three points that can be w...

League Focus: Europe's Most Improved Players of the Season

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League Focus: Europe's Most Improved Players of the Season A year is a long time in football. A player can go from hero to zero and vice versa over a 12 month period, with the displays of many often not going unnoticed. Using WhoScored.com’s unique rating system, we can see which players have improved the most from 2011/12 to the 2012/13 season across...

League Focus: Differing Styles of Europe's Top 5 Leagues

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League Focus: Differing Styles of Europe's Top 5 Leagues After barnstorming wins for Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund set up an all German Champions League final this season, much was made of the decline of Real Madrid and Barcelona, and indeed the rise of the Bundesliga. It was also only the second season out of the last nine without an English team i...

League Focus: Europe's Flops of the Season

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League Focus: Europe's Flops of the Season Over the course of 12 months, a player can see his form rise significantly, making himself one of Europe’s most courted footballers, or drop markedly, seeing potential interest from big name teams cool as a result. Be it fewer goals scored, an increase in goals conceded or fewer passes complet...

League Focus: WhoScored's La Liga Team of the Season

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League Focus: WhoScored's La Liga Team of the Season With La Liga now all wrapped up, we can finally name the WhoScored Team of the Season according to our unique rating system. As you’d expect the team features a heavy presence of Barcelona and Real Madrid players, but there are a few surprise names thrown into the mix, particularly so when it ...

League Focus: The Ligue 1 Team of the Season

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League Focus: The Ligue 1 Team of the Season With the domestic calendar now brought to an end following the culmination of the La Liga season last weekend, it’s the preparation for the new campaign that teams across Europe will focus on for the summer. Be it strengthening the core of the team or adding that one player to move from a Euro...

League Focus: The Bundesliga Team of the Season

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League Focus: The Bundesliga Team of the Season In the past, a major cup final - be it domestic or European - has seen the participants resist the temptation to play an expansive, free flowing attacking game of football in the fear of being caught out by their opposite number should the encounter become that much more open.However, had there been...

League Focus: The Premier League Team of the Season

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League Focus: The Premier League Team of the Season The Premier League has finally reached its rather anticlimactic end. Manchester United have long since been crowned champions, QPR and Reading were relegated weeks ago, Arsenal pipped Spurs to Champions League football, again, and Liverpool underachieved, again. Arguably the biggest surprise was tha...

League Focus: The Relegation Battle In La Liga

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League Focus: The Relegation Battle In La Liga Relegation - one of the game’s necessities. After a long drawn out season, teams that have failed to muster an adequate number of points feel the ice cold grip of footballs’ Grim Reaper tighten around the neck of an unsuspecting club.It's happened with Reading and Queens Park Rangers in ...

League Focus: The Most Valuable Scorers in Serie A

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League Focus: The Most Valuable Scorers in Serie A With the title race over and the season nearing its end in Serie A, a period of reflection begins. Who have been the real difference makers over the current campaign and how might you measure that? One reductive yet still quite revealing method is to look at points won as a direct result of the goal...