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WhoScored.com’s Spanish National Dream Team XI

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WhoScored.com’s Spanish National Dream Team XI World Cup holders Spain travel to Bari tonight for an intriguing showdown with Italy. The friendly has been somewhat overshadowed by the upcoming Spanish Super Copa between Barcelona and Real Madrid; Sergio Ramos and Xavi have already withdrawn from Vicente del Bosque’s squad ahead of the firs...

Top 5 Goal Scoring Centre Halves for 2010/11- La Liga

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Top 5 Goal Scoring Centre Halves for 2010/11- La Liga Next up in our look at the top scoring centre-halves of 2010/11 is La Liga. The top two teams are represented here, with Gerard Pique and Ricardo Carvalho proving their importance at either side of the pitch for Barcelona and Real Madrid respectively. There were impressive performers near the foot o...

The Best Wingers for Crossing & Dribbling Across Europe

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The Best Wingers for Crossing & Dribbling Across Europe As a round-up of WhoScored.com's feature on Europe's best attacking wingers from each of the top 5 divisions, we have collated the leading 5 players per category based on crossing and dribbling levels from each of the leagues, with some interesting conclusions to be drawn.As a reminder, all players ...

La Liga’s Top 5 Attacking Full-Backs for 2010/11

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La Liga’s Top 5 Attacking Full-Backs for 2010/11 The third in our series of articles showcasing the most attacking full-backs across Europe’s top five leagues sees La Liga under the spotlight. The displays of Daniel Alves for Barcelona last season illustrate just what a world-class presence he is for the Champions League winners, while Marce...

Hey Big Spenders: La Liga - Malaga

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Hey Big Spenders: La Liga - Malaga Spanish side Malaga CF are the focus of our 'Big Spenders' feature for La Liga and it isn't hard to see why. Since the takeover of the club by Sheikh Al Thani last June, wholesale changes have been made to secure their safety and progress the club onto the bigger stage.Having brought in Jesualdo Fer...

La Liga's Top 5 Wingers for Defensive Contribution

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La Liga's Top 5 Wingers for Defensive Contribution Our round up of the best 5 wingers for defensive contribution in each of the top 5 European divisions concludes in Spain with La Liga. All figures shown relate to the performances each player made from wide positions only and are based on WhoScored.com ratings for defensive contribution, including t...

La Liga's Leading 5 Crossing Wingers

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La Liga's Leading 5 Crossing Wingers WhoScored.com's final episode of our feature focussing on the world's top crossers and dribblers of the ball, compiling the best 5 players from each of the top 5 divisions, concludes in Spain with La Liga. All players to have played fewer than 20 games from the wing were filtered out in order to pro...

La Liga Under-21 Team of Season 2010/11

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La Liga Under-21 Team of Season 2010/11 The third of this week’s articles focusing on the best youngsters from Europe’s top five leagues last season sees us turn our attention to La Liga. As it’s Spain, we considered mirroring Barcelona and playing a 4-3-3 but the solidity offered by both Javi Martinez and Sergio Busquet...

Top 5 La Liga Centre Backs for Defensive Stats Combined

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Top 5 La Liga Centre Backs for Defensive Stats Combined Concluding our feature on the world's most dominant centre-backs from last season, we analyze the purely defensive statistics of Spain's La Liga players to compile the top 5.Of the league's top 6, eventual champions Barcelona are represented on the leader board along with 6th placed Athletic Bilbao....

La Liga Top 10 Key Passers

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La Liga Top 10 Key Passers Our round up of the top ten Key Passers for each of Europe’s main five leagues last season continues as we turn our attentions to La Liga. Despite finishing as top for assists in the division, there’s no place for Lionel Messi here, though Xavi make it with some outstanding passing displ...