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League Focus: Bundesliga’s Top Creators

by Ross Dunbar at Jumatano, Mac 14 2012 15:34
League Focus: Bundesliga’s Top Creators Over the last decade, the Bundesliga has been a perfect platform for the ever-changing world of football tactics. In the more pragmatic days of German football, 4-5-1 was very popular and under the likes of Ottmar Hitzfeld, German clubs dominated on the continental stage using the ‘traditional...
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Player Focus: The Premier League's Top January Signings

by Martin Laurence at Jumatatu, Mac 12 2012 17:28
Player Focus: The Premier League's Top January Signings Now well into the month of March, the Premier League is hotting up and, in turn, WhoScored has deemed enough time to have passed to judge the starts made by some of the January transfer signings.Here we will look at the top 5 newcomers according to WhoScored ratings of players to have featured from ...
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Stats Analysis: Premier League's Gulitiest Culprits - Big Chances Missed

by Martin Laurence at Jumanne, Mac 6 2012 16:35
Stats Analysis: Premier League's Gulitiest Culprits - Big Chances Missed In the Premier League this weekend we may have witnessed one of the misses of the season as QPR's Akos Buszaky struck a post with the goal gaping from all of 5 yards. At WhoScored we don't like to heap misery on any one player who has had the misfortune to make such a gaffe, so we have focused on 6 ...
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Stats Analysis: Premier League Penalty Woes - Keepers on Top

by Martin Laurence at Jumatatu, Mac 5 2012 17:39
Stats Analysis: Premier League Penalty Woes - Keepers on Top In the Premier League this weekend there were two crucial penalties misses, or, if you're of an Arsenal or Sunderland persuasion, crucial penalties saves in huge games for the respective sides. Wojciech Szczesny's double save to deny Dirk Kuyt would eventually help earn Arsenal a win at Anfield, whi...
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League Focus: Serie A Squad Rotation

by Jacopo Piotto at Alhamisi, Mac 1 2012 11:45
League Focus: Serie A Squad Rotation After the reformatting of UEFA-competitions in the 90s saw more teams playing in the European Cups and increased the number of games in those tournaments, top-leagues' teams changed the way they managed their squads. As most of the leagues now have 20 clubs, 44 matches per season is the lightest pos...
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League Focus: Serie A's Midfield Evolution

by Jacopo Piotto at Alhamisi, Feb 16 2012 10:59
League Focus: Serie A's Midfield Evolution Italian football is facing a crisis that started at the end of the 90s. After reaching 9 Champions League finals in 10 years as of the 1988/89 season, the big clubs haven't dominated as they had before. Tactics have always been the key for Italian teams to win all over Europe. However, thanks to mor...
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Stats Analysis: Misfiring Strikers - Worst Accuracy

by Martin Laurence at Alhamisi, Feb 9 2012 17:19
Stats Analysis: Misfiring Strikers - Worst Accuracy There have been some incredible performances from the Premier League’s leading marksmen this season. Robin van Persie has already surpassed the 20 goal mark that earned Tevez and Berbatov the golden boot last season and Ba, Aguero and Rooney all well on their way to joining him. In fact, only ...
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Stats Analysis: More Serie A Surprises - Aerial Superiority

by Adam Digby at Alhamisi, Feb 9 2012 13:03
Stats Analysis: More Serie A Surprises - Aerial Superiority Unlike other leagues, Serie A is not commonly associated with great headers of the ball, even among its defenders. While England and English football bring to mind classic number nines and lumbering central defenders, Italy is more readily thought of for bringing culture to the game and beyond the a...
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OptaJoe Analysis: Creator Supreme

by OptaJoe at Jumanne, Feb 7 2012 15:12
OptaJoe Analysis: Creator Supreme Who leads the way in terms of Minutes per Chance Created in the Premier League since August 2007?...
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Stats Analysis: Teams Whose Games Lack Goals

by Martin Laurence at Alhamisi, Feb 2 2012 16:29
Stats Analysis: Teams Whose Games Lack Goals Having analysed Europe's most entertaining sides to watch in terms of goals per game (both scored and conceded), WhoScored has decided to take a look at the other side of the coin and the teams whose games have been considerably less goal-filled.While the entertainment of a game does not solely bala...
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