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Player Focus: Bonucci Ability Taking Pressure Off Pirlo

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Player Focus: Bonucci Ability Taking Pressure Off Pirlo “You might have mistaken me for Pirlo if I had long hair, but I don’t,” joked Leonardo Bonucci after Juventus’ 4-1 win against Lazio at the end of last month. Let’s just say there was a ‘passing’ resemblance between teammates. Not everyone saw it. La Gazzett...

WhoScored Tipster: Top Picks of the Weekend

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WhoScored Tipster: Top Picks of the Weekend There’s a very interesting football weekend ahead, where much the attention will centre around the Derby d’Italia between Inter and Juventus. All in all the Serie A fixture list serves up some very tight games, while the likes of Chelsea and Real Madrid face equally tough prospects away ...

Player Focus: Why Giaccherini Would Be A Real Coup for Sunderland

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Player Focus: Why Giaccherini Would Be A Real Coup for Sunderland Paolo Di Canio is frantically looking to strengthen a Sunderland squad that was stumbling into oblivion, and his hard work and effectiveness in the transfer market thus far is not dissimilar to the playing style of one of his latest targets.It's fair to say that Italians are few and far between in E...

Player Focus: Carlos Tévez - The Top Signing Juve Have Been Waiting For

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Player Focus: Carlos Tévez - The Top Signing Juve Have Been Waiting For Just over sixty years ago, Juventus owner Gianni Agnelli decided his side needed an injection of attacking quality and twice broke the world transfer record to bring two foreign stars to Turin. One was a quiet and unassuming giant, the other a fiery Argentine with a questionable temperament, but as ...

Player Focus: Fernando Llorente - The Right Man for Juventus

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Player Focus: Fernando Llorente - The Right Man for Juventus Shortly after he had returned to Juventus, Antonio Conte led his team south to the vociferous cauldron that Napoli call home, where the Bianconeri hadn’t secured a victory in over a decade. Inspired by their passionate home crowd, the Partenopei sprang into a 3-1 lead and were clearly in the a...

Player Focus: Juve Switch Most Likely for Jovetic

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Player Focus: Juve Switch Most Likely for Jovetic For 71 minutes on the final day of the season, Fiorentina were in third place and set to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in four years. By obliterating Pescara 5-1, they’d put themselves in a position to seize upon any mistake Milan might make at Siena and things looked to ...

Team Focus: Does Hitting The Woodwork More Equate To Success?

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Team Focus: Does Hitting The Woodwork More Equate To Success? The scene was perfectly set in Jamie Carragher’s 737th, and last ever, appearance in a Liverpool shirt. The defender, who has scored as many own goals for Tottenham Hotspur (3) than strikes at the right end for the Reds in the Premier League, saw his 30 yard effort cannon off the post in what ...

WhoScored Tipster: RVP's Return and the Madrid and Turin Derbies

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WhoScored Tipster: RVP's Return and the Madrid and Turin Derbies Whilst Bayern Munich were the first team in Europe's top 5 leagues to claim their respective title, Manchester United followed suit shortly afterwards with Monday's win over Aston Villa, and this weekend sees the possibility of Barcelona, Juventus and Paris Saint Germain going a long way to completi...

WhoScored Tipster: Super Sunday Betting

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WhoScored Tipster: Super Sunday Betting Sunday's action could have huge consequences in the race for Champions League football in England, while Juventus could take a huge step towards securing the Serie A title at the end of the weekend. It is with these top matches that the WhoScored Tipster's attentions are focused for the best bets of...

Player Focus: Arturo Vidal

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Player Focus: Arturo Vidal Here, there, Arturo Vidal was everywhere. So much so that La Gazzetta dello Sport claimed he wasn’t a footballer, but an illusionist. The pink paper’s reasoning was simple: against Lazio on Monday night, the Juventus midfielder gave the appearance he was in two places at once.Journalists...