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Team Focus: Montpellier - Giroud's Supporting Cast

by Andrew Gibney at Jumatano, Feb 15 2012 12:30
Team Focus: Montpellier - Giroud's Supporting Cast Ok, hands up if you had Paris Saint Germain vs Montpellier in week 24 of Ligue 1 as a top of the table clash when the fixtures were announced in the summer. No? Neither did we. It's about time that Montpellier got the credit their superb play deserves. With 23 games gone La Paillade have only tasted...
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Team Focus: Werder Bremen - A One Man Team?

by Ross Dunbar at Jumanne, Feb 14 2012 15:58
Team Focus: Werder Bremen - A One Man Team? Werder Bremen slumped to a lacklustre home draw against Hoffenheim on Saturday and many pointed at the omission of Peruvian striker Claudio Pizarro as a reason for their disappointing performance. Hoffenheim were under new stewardship with Markus Babbel taking charge of the club for the first time h...
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Zonal Marking: Team Analysis - AC Milan

by Michael Cox at Ijumaa, Feb 10 2012 14:35
Zonal Marking: Team Analysis - AC Milan Milan might not have been the best football team during the middle of the last decade, but they were probably the most sophisticated. Think back to the successful sides of 2004-06 – Greece, Porto, Liverpool (and at a stretch, Italy). They were all great stories, but extremely functional, large...
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Team Focus: Sevilla Lacking Goals from All Areas

by Kieran Canning at Jumatano, Feb 8 2012 17:48
Team Focus: Sevilla Lacking Goals from All Areas Marcelino became the latest victim of the La Liga chopping block this week as just over halfway thought the season, Sevilla became the eighth side to change their manager.The decision was hardly surprising, Marcelino himself had acknowledged before Sunday’s 2-1 defeat at home to Villarreal tha...
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Team Focus: Have Evian Got the Bottle to Stay in Ligue 1?

by Andrew Gibney at Jumatano, Feb 8 2012 14:11
Team Focus: Have Evian Got the Bottle to Stay in Ligue 1? During their first ever season in Ligue 1 it is fair to say that Evian Thonon Gaillard have gone through the varying motions of success and failure. The recent 3-1 defeat at Dijon was probably their worst performance but the stunning 4-2 win over Montpellier showed they have what it takes to stay in...
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Team Focus: Purple Patch - Fiorentina's Surprising Defence

by Adam Digby at Ijumaa, Feb 3 2012 15:34
Team Focus: Purple Patch - Fiorentina's Surprising Defence When looking at Fiorentina from afar, good news is seemingly hard to find. For a club with a history as storied as theirs, Viola heroes such as Giancarlo Antognoni, Gabriel Batistuta and Manuel Rui Costa have never felt so far away. The club appear to be the living embodiment of Murphy's Law; the ow...
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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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Stats Analysis: Goals Key in Ligue 1 Relegation Battle

by Andrew Gibney at Jumatano, Feb 1 2012 14:54
Stats Analysis: Goals Key in Ligue 1 Relegation Battle Last season the relegation places in Ligue 1 weren't decided until the last day of the season. On that day no fewer than seven clubs could have made the drop to Ligue 2. Even Monaco who finished the season in 18th place could have finished 10th if results had gone their way. This season it looks lik...
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Team Focus: Dortmund Making Strong Defence of Bundesliga Crown

by Ross Dunbar at Jumatano, Feb 1 2012 11:56
Team Focus: Dortmund Making Strong Defence of Bundesliga Crown German champions Borussia Dortmund are on a rich vein of form in the Bundesliga at the moment, having gone 13 games without losing since they surrendered a 1-0 lead against Hannover in the last five minutes to lose 2-1, back in October.It’s an impressive record which has cemented their place i...
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Team Focus: Barca's Away Day Blues

by Kieran Canning at Jumanne, Jan 31 2012 16:20
Team Focus: Barca's Away Day Blues Barcelona’s latest failure on the road this weekend in the 0-0 draw with Villarreal saw them fall seven points behind Real Madrid and even with 18 games to go the task of replicating Johann Cruyff’s dream team’s achievement of four successful titles already appears beyond them.So w...
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