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Throwback Thursday: When Inter icon Lucio ruled Serie A

by Ben McAleer at Alhamisi, Apr 23 2020 09:00
Throwback Thursday: When Inter icon Lucio ruled Serie A Between 2009 and 2011, Serie A was graced with ample attacking talent. Household names Ronaldinho, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Edinson Cavani and Francesco Totti, among others, were all in fine form in Italy's top tier over the two seasons, though it shouldn't come as a surprise in a league that has routine...
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Player focus: Five Men Who Could Shape Brazil’s Relegation Battle

by Jack Lang at Alhamisi, Sep 18 2014 11:39
Player focus: Five Men Who Could Shape Brazil’s Relegation Battle Finally, after over a year of utter dominance, it looked as though Cruzeiro may have company at the top of the Campeonato Brasileiro table. The reigning champions were defeated 2-0 at the weekend by São Paulo, who then proceeded to lose to relegation candidates Coritiba, moving back to seven ...
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League Focus: Serie A's Top 5 Summer Transfers

by Adam Digby at Jumanne, Ago 21 2012 10:58
League Focus: Serie A's Top 5 Summer Transfers The start of the new Serie A season is almost upon us, with Italy’s top flight set to return to action this coming weekend. In a summer transfer window which has seen six of the previous campaign's top twenty performers (according to our own WhoScored.com ranking system) changing clubs, we dec...
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Stats Analysis: Serie A's Magnificent Seventies

by Adam Digby at Alhamisi, Mac 29 2012 12:49
Stats Analysis: Serie A's Magnificent Seventies The prominent American novelist Tom Wolfe dubbed it ‘The Me Decade’ as many of his countrymen “abandoned communal and left wing politics to take the money and run” yet, looking purely from a Serie A stand point, the 1970’s gave birth to a generation of footballers who h...
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Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs

by Paul McKinnon at Alhamisi, Mac 8 2012 16:42
Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs WhoScored continues our series of articles, as we rundown the top five players per position across Europe’s main five leagues. We’ve had a look at the goalkeepers and full-backs in the past, so this time round it’s time to turn our attentions to the centre-backs. It’s a Serie...
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Stats Analysis: Europe's Best All-Round Defenders

by Martin Laurence at Alhamisi, Mac 1 2012 17:51
Stats Analysis: Europe's Best All-Round Defenders The art of defending can come in many forms. It can be made into a simple one, as it is at clubs such as Stoke, with the 'put head/body in way' approach paying dividends in the most part, though the classic all-round defender is lost to many these days. With defensive partnerships meaning that one p...
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Team Focus: The Same But Different: What's Behind Inter's Revival?

by Adam Digby at Alhamisi, Jan 26 2012 16:01
Team Focus: The Same But Different: What's Behind Inter's Revival? During the early 1960's, New York Yankees legend Yogi Berra watched two other greats - Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris - repeatedly hit back-to-back home runs and commented; it's déjà vu all over again. While Inter's black and blue shirts could never be confused with the Bronx Bombers fa...
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Match Analysis: AC Milan & Lille Streaks End

by Paul McKinnon at Jumanne, Jan 17 2012 13:54
Match Analysis: AC Milan & Lille Streaks End Milan tasted defeat at the San Siro for the first time this season as Inter made it six straight wins and climbed up to fifth in Serie A. A 2-0 loss at Marseille saw Lille beaten for the first time since early August as the champions dropped 7 points behind Carlo Ancelotti’s PSG at the top of ...

The Milan Derby: City Rivals By The Numbers

by Adam Digby at Alhamisi, Jan 12 2012 17:25
The Milan Derby: City Rivals By The Numbers Sunday evening will see two of European football's grandest clubs meet in one of the most high profile matches of the year as Milan face Inter in the 205th Derby della Madonnina. As rivalries go it is also one of the closest; Milan have won on 72 occasions, just one more than their city cousins, wit...
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It's In The Script: Serie A's Best Readers Of The Game

by Adam Digby at Alhamisi, Des 15 2011 12:39
It's In The Script: Serie A's Best Readers Of The Game Thanks to the 2006 Calciopoli scandal, saying the word ‘interception’ to most fans of Serie A instantly conjures up transcripts Luciano Moggi’s conversations on a Swiss mobile phone, undoubtedly one telling someone on the other end how he alone was responsible for Massimo Moratti&r...
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