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League Focus: Premier League Season Preview

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League Focus: Premier League Season Preview It's finally upon us. The new Premier League season kicks off this weekend and we at WhoScored cannot wait. Here we will take a look at the sides who could be fighting at either end of the table come May, and a couple of surprise packages along the way.Tighter at the TopWe start at the top, and we'r...

Opta League Focus: Premier League Opening Day Records

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Opta League Focus: Premier League Opening Day Records The 2011-12 Premier League season will kick off on Saturday, with the reigning Champions Manchester City beginning their campaign with a home game against newly-promoted side Southampton. At the start of their title-winning campaign last term, Manchester City faced a newly-promoted Swansea City side...

League Focus: 7 Key Ligue 1 Signings

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League Focus: 7 Key Ligue 1 Signings As we await the beginning of the 2012/13 season across the rest of Europe, France gets a head start with Ligue 1 reopening this weekend. With that in mind we take a look at some of the new signings that could help their clubs to success. With Paris Saint Germain's wealth of additions already analyse...

Premier League Focus: Most / Least Difficult Opening Fixtures

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Premier League Focus: Most / Least Difficult Opening Fixtures As the new Premier League season approaches, we take a look at the opening matches on the fixture list to gauge which teams have been handed the toughest starts, as well as those who appear to have been dealt a favourable hand. To attempt to establish the difficulty of each side's start to the 2012/...

League Focus: Premier League Free-Transfer XI

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League Focus: Premier League Free-Transfer XI At the end of every season Premier League clubs have a clearout of players deemed surplus to requirements, as well as those they simply cannot afford any longer. Relegated teams are often forced to rid themselves of their more expensive players, due to the loss in cash that comes with demotion to th...

League Focus: Ligue 1's Best Attacking Players

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League Focus: Ligue 1's Best Attacking Players Now to continue picking Ligue 1’s team of the year, after selecting the back four and goalkeeper last week (click here) it is time to push forward into the midfield and attack. The following are six players from four different clubs producing some outstanding performances in what was an amazin...

Premier League Focus: Most Improved XI

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Premier League Focus: Most Improved XI It is fair to say that there were some real success stories in this year's Premier League, with a number of players outdoing themselves from their previous season's performances to ensure that they starred this time around. There were also a handful that went on to bigger and better things despite i...

League Focus: La Liga Team of the Season

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League Focus: La Liga Team of the Season An incredible last few minutes to the season which saw two goals in two minutes in two different stadiums relegate a Champions League regular in the shape of Villarreal, masked a Spanish league campaign split in two.Real Madrid and Barcelona have dominated in recent years, but this time the gap was ...

League Focus: Serie A 2011-12 By Numbers

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League Focus: Serie A 2011-12 By Numbers Italian football has always been home to some of the world’s biggest names and, while many factors have contributed to the lure of the peninsula losing some of its former sheen, there are still many top players plying their trade in the Bel Paese. Many of these – including Gigi Buffon, Z...

League Focus: Ligue 1's Top Defence

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League Focus: Ligue 1's Top Defence Last night the stars of Ligue 1 assembled in Paris for the annual awards ceremony to honour France’s brightest and best. With such a fantastic season just about to end it is always very difficult to pick just eleven players to make up the “best” team. Ask ten people and you will ge...