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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips Europe seems to relax a little before the final round of Champions League's group stage fixtures. There are no real classic clashes in any of the big leagues, aside from Friday's pre-emptively early game between Fiorentina and Juventus. Such a fixture list thus suggests selecting bets based on goals...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips There are tense feelings looming over a number of old rivalries in this weekend's fixtures. Serie A, the Premier League and La Liga are in the spotlight for three showpiece games, two of which feature the fallen almighty, while the latter represents a challenge from an underdog on the quest to be mo...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips It's the French showdown - Le Classique - where the tactically astute Marcelo Bielsa takes his Marseille side to the French capital to face off against Laurent Blanc’s star-studded PSG. There is another game that could have had the same billing, but Liverpool’s current form means it woul...

Player Focus: Karim Benzema's Coming of Age

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Player Focus: Karim Benzema's Coming of Age On Tuesday night, Real Madrid were expected to trounce Liverpool. The Premier League side fielded a weakened team for their trip to the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, but, to their credit, held their free-scoring opponents to just 1-0. The winner came courtesy of Frenchman Karim Benzema midway through t...

Team Focus: Madrid's Progression Sees Them Beat Barca at Their Own Game

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Team Focus: Madrid's Progression Sees Them Beat Barca at Their Own Game There was something new about the teamsheets for Saturday’s clasico at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu. It was Real Madrid, not Barcelona, who took to the field with more technically-adept playmakers in their XI.All of Toni Kroos, Luka Modric, Isco and James Rodriguez started for Madrid in centr...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips If only Manchester United were able to live up to expectations, then this weekend would have seen two sets of title contenders come to blows as the Red Devils face Chelsea the day after the Clasico. It's the game at the Bernabeu on Saturday afternoon that will rightly get the most attention. There s...

Match Focus: The Key Issues Ahead of El Clásico

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Match Focus: The Key Issues Ahead of El Clásico El Clásico - an encounter that attracts interest from every fan, no matter who they support. The meeting between Real Madrid and Barcelona is widely considered the biggest in football and this weekend’s installment promises to prove why.Naturally, we at WhoScored.com are excited about S...

Match Focus: Liverpool Face Mountainous Task Against European Champions

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Match Focus: Liverpool Face Mountainous Task Against European Champions Heading into the most high-profile game of their year this week, Liverpool will have been hoping for a simple, unremarkable and uneventful win at Loftus Road on Sunday to boost confidence in their ranks. The manner of their 3-2 win on Sunday, however, meant it could barely have buoyed fans less goin...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips As we return from the international break this is one of those very rare weeks in which there is not really any direct encounters between clubs at top of the table in any of Europe's top 5 leagues. In the Premier League City host Tottenham but Spurs still haven't shown any signs of leadership, while...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips It has been a crazy start to the season in terms of goals with records breaking all over the place, following on from the trend set by the group phase of the World Cup. This may be because of teams playing more attacking football on the whole, but also in part to do with progressively decreasing qua...