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Fantasy Football Tipster: Gameweek 31

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Fantasy Football Tipster: Gameweek 31 After a long international break WhoScored's fantasy football tipster is back in full swing with this week's suggested XI ahead of match week 31. We line up in a 4-3-3 this time round, with a number of stand out statistics to consider when making your selections ahead of this weekend.Jan MuchaIt's f...

Player Focus: Montenegro Statistical Scout Report

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Player Focus: Montenegro Statistical Scout Report As England prepare to take on top-of-the-group Montenegro in Podgorica tonight, WhoScored.com take a look at two key areas of the Balkan teams' first eleven, where there will be some familiar faces who currently ply their trade in Europe's top 5 leagues.Central DefenceMontenegro's first choice centr...

Opta League Focus: Premier League Opening Day Records

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Opta League Focus: Premier League Opening Day Records The 2011-12 Premier League season will kick off on Saturday, with the reigning Champions Manchester City beginning their campaign with a home game against newly-promoted side Southampton. At the start of their title-winning campaign last term, Manchester City faced a newly-promoted Swansea City side...

Euro 2012 Focus: Ten Top Flops

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Euro 2012 Focus: Ten Top Flops While we at WhoScored love to praise those who have wowed us statistically, we don't like to overlook those who have under-performed either, and here we will highlight our 10 top flops of Euro 2012 thus far.The likes of Wayne Rooney miss out as we focus on players to have started at least 3 games in...

Euro 2012 Focus: England Squad Selection

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Euro 2012 Focus: England Squad Selection Today Roy Hodgson announced his first ever England squad, which just happened to be the one that would travel to Euro 2012, to a nation that, for once, aren't expecting a great deal. The fact that a slightly pessimistic fanbase may well play into the hands of Hodgson, who himself has had only the pa...

League Focus: Premier League Team of the Season

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League Focus: Premier League Team of the Season We hope to have given all of you Premier League lovers enough time to get your breath back after yesterday's unbelievable events on a day that saw glory snatched from the grasp of United by noisy neighbours City before unveiling our Team of the Season as rated by, well, us.In the race for the Champi...

Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Forwards

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Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Forwards The final instalment in WhoScored’s series of articles highlighting the top five players per position in Europe’s elite leagues sees us turn our attentions to the forwards. There are four different countries represented here; France is the only one to miss out, with England’s top-f...

Player Focus: The Premier League's Most Improved Players

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Player Focus: The Premier League's Most Improved Players WhoScored has decided to look into our own category ahead of the illustrious end of season awards, focusing on the most improved players from the previous campaign. We have judged this by the greatest increase in a player's WhoScored rating from last season to this, with a mandatory cap of at least ...

Stats Analysis: Europe's Most Accurate Finishers

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Stats Analysis: Europe's Most Accurate Finishers The art of finishing is one that has been flaunted to the fullest over Europe's top 5 leagues this season, with 22 players having already scored more than 10 goals thus far. WhoScored has decided to look at a facet to the top scorers shooting that has not yet been analysed - accuracy - as well as re...

WhoScored's 2011 Premier League Player of the Year

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WhoScored's 2011 Premier League Player of the Year In the final instalment of our feature focusing on the best players per division based upon WhoScored ratings over the calendar year of 2011, we analyse the Premier League that, unlike any of the other top leagues in Europe, has had no rest bite over the winter.The winner of our award is perhaps ine...