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League Focus: The Serie A Run-In

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League Focus: The Serie A Run-In The end of the season is nearly upon us in Serie A.Apart from Juventus, flush with a nine-point lead at the top of the table and poised to retain their title providing that they don't experience an unlikely post-Bayern collapse in the meantime and throw it away as controversially happened under the ...

Player Focus: Hamsik the Key to Napoli's Scudetto Challenge

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Player Focus: Hamsik the Key to Napoli's Scudetto Challenge A place in Napoli's history books awaits Marek Hamsik. At 25, he is already in the club's top 10 goalscorers of all-time, a remarkable feat for a midfield player. Up until now, I've got 68, he said, and the objective is to get to 77, where there's [Giuseppe] Savoldi. To overtake Maradona [on 115], I...

WhoScored Tipster: Sunday's Betting Specials

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WhoScored Tipster: Sunday's Betting Specials The weekly WhoScored betting tipster is back but with a slightly different angle this time around, focusing on a number of enticing tips across Europe to mull over. With the Premier League not in action this weekend due to FA Cup duties, we've looked at games from the rest of the top 5 leagues and a...

WhoScored Tipster: Napoli vs Roma & First Goalscorers

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WhoScored Tipster: Napoli vs Roma & First Goalscorers With fans having to satisfy their thirst for football over the Christmas period almost solely with English league football, La Liga and Serie A make a welcome return to action this weekend, with some tasty games in store. The FA Cup takes centre stage in England, so a top 6 clash between Napoli and ...

League Focus: Contrasting Styles In The Serie A Title Race

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League Focus: Contrasting Styles In The Serie A Title Race As referee Nicola Rizzoli blew the full time whistle at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza on Sunday evening, he did so signalling not only the end of the match but also a significant shift in the season for the home side. Having struggled in recent weeks, Inter lifted themselves to the challenge of visitor...

WhoScored Tipster: Big Match Betting

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WhoScored Tipster: Big Match Betting Sunday cooks up the best of the footballing action from across Europe this weekend, and it is two games from that day that we focus our attentions on here, with City hosting United in the Manchester derby, and Inter facing Napoli in a key game in the title race in Italy.Manchester City vs Manchester...

WhoScored Tipster: Big Match Betting

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WhoScored Tipster: Big Match Betting Saturday is set to serve up a fantastic feast of football this weekend, with a great portion of the week's top matches to be played early on. Arguably the biggest game of the weekend opens proceedings up, with Tottenham travelling a short distance to visit north London rivals Arsenal for the lunchti...

Match Focus: Midfielders At The Heart Of Juventus vs Napoli Clash

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Match Focus: Midfielders At The Heart Of Juventus vs Napoli Clash This Saturday sees the resumption of what is quickly becoming the hottest battle in Serie A as Napoli once again travel north to face off against Juventus, the team who represent everything supporters of the Partenopei despise. Seemingly their entire ethos is to rally against the establishment, pain...

Stats Analysis: Serie A’s Set-Piece Specialists

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Stats Analysis: Serie A’s Set-Piece Specialists With Milan having stumbled at home to Fiorentina last week and thus holding a title-deciding door open for Turin’s Old Lady, Juventus kicked off against Palermo last Saturday evening knowing a win would take them top of the table for the first time in over two months. The opening goal in a gam...

Player Focus: Hugo Campagnaro - From Nightmare To Neapolitan Dream

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Player Focus: Hugo Campagnaro - From Nightmare To Neapolitan Dream At first glance there was very little significance about the sixty-sixth minute goal. A defender tapping in at the far post to give a Champions League contender and title hopeful a 2-1 lead away to one of Serie A’s minnows is about as routine as it gets. Yet as Napoli’s Hugo Campagnaro w...