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Player Focus: Does Ashley Cole Deserve His Place in the England Side?

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Player Focus: Does Ashley Cole Deserve His Place in the England Side? Never too far from controversy off the field, the on field displays of Ashley Cole this season may have helped to save his place in the England side after a mindless blast at The FA this week. The left-back was quick to grovel having lambasted England's football governing body after they had dismiss...

Player Focus: Hot Prospect Scout

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Player Focus: Hot Prospect Scout With another international break upon us we have taken the time to look at a number of youngsters to have impressed across Europe's top 5 leagues. The form of said players could potentially force themselves into the thinking of their respective national team managers in the future, even if they didn...

Player Focus: Angelo Ogbonna (Torino)

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Player Focus: Angelo Ogbonna (Torino) Angelo Ogbonna is currently one of the most in-demand defenders in Italian football with interest from Manchester United, Juventus, Arsenal, Everton, Bayern Munich and Milan being reported on a daily basis. However, very few outside of the peninsula will have heard his name, with even fewer having a...

Player Focus: September All Star Team of the Month

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Player Focus: September All Star Team of the Month With September now having come and gone there were a number of standout performances over the top 5 leagues during the last 30 days. Here we compile our team of the month with those with the best average WhoScored ratings since 1st September making the grade.Those to perform consistently well over t...

Player Focus: Hernanes, Lazio’s Improved Prophet

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Player Focus: Hernanes, Lazio’s Improved Prophet “Hernanes has been amazing,” gushed Giuseppe Biava recently as he, like most Serie A observers, was captivated by the superb form displayed by the Brazilian in the early days of this new campaign. He has led Lazio to fifth in the table, suffering their only 2 defeats to date as they lost...

Player Focus: Weekend Stats Round Up

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Player Focus: Weekend Stats Round Up After the previous round of fixtures across Europe's top 5 leagues this weekend there were, as ever, a number of standout statistical performances to catch the eye. Here we look at the players that led the way across Europe over a number of categories, starting with those to impress in attacking are...

Player Focus: Life Was Arda With Diego

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Player Focus: Life Was Arda With Diego In the eulogies that followed Atletico Madrid’s run to winning the Europa League last season, most of the praise was rightly reserved for the extraordinary goalscoring feats of Radamel Falcao.The Colombian scored a remarkable 13 times in that competition alone, including two in the final, but ...

Player Focus: Records Surpassed this Weekend

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Player Focus: Records Surpassed this Weekend After a somewhat tedious international break for club football fans, the full compliment of action returned this weekend, with a number of standout statistics. With it being so early into the new season there are more opportunities to record new campaign high figures, with a selection of players man...

Player Focus: Rio Mavuba (Lille)

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Player Focus: Rio Mavuba (Lille) Football teams are made up of all different types of characters; you have your superstars, your tricky wingers, brave-heart defenders and penalty-box strikers. However, every team has a player that never gets the plaudits, will never make the front of magazines and fans don’t jump at the chanc...

Player Focus: Are Lampard and Gerrard Too Similar?

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Player Focus: Are Lampard and Gerrard Too Similar? With Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard appearing in the same side for the first time in over two years at international level on Friday and set to do so once again this week, the debate as to whether the two can play in the same team has resurfaced. The duo haven't featured as prominently in the same...