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WhoScored Tipster: Sunday Betting Across Europe

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WhoScored Tipster: Sunday Betting Across Europe In terms of high profile football, this weekend is to some extent the eye of the storm, with the relative calm of league action following midweek Champions League games and preceding next week's clashes in Europe's elite competition. There are still, though, plenty of ties to whet the appetite, with...

Premier League Focus: Victors & Victims of Comeback Results

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Premier League Focus: Victors & Victims of Comeback Results Although as many as 5 teams failed to find the net in gameweek 25 of the Premier League there was still plenty of goalmouth action, particularly in the games featuring sides at the bottom of the table.The late comeback was a common trend over the weekend, and while it brought adulation for the likes...

Player Focus: Michu

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Player Focus: Michu Deep inside the Emirates Stadium last week, Arsene Wenger was talking about his scouting network ahead of Arsenal’s trip to Swansea in the FA Cup. He was aware of Michu during his spell at Rayo Vallecano, but admitted that the Spaniard was not on Arsenal’s radar at the end of last season...

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...

Player Focus: Why Liverpool Want Joe Allen

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Player Focus: Why Liverpool Want Joe Allen While the player himself is settled in London with Team GB for the Olympics, Joe Allen’s name has been flying about in the media, with a potential transfer to Liverpool being mooted as more than a mere possibility. Brendan Rodgers is apparently keen to take the midfielder with him to Anfield a...

WhoScored Tipster: This Weekend's Best Bets

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WhoScored Tipster: This Weekend's Best Bets Lecce vs Palermo - Match PreviewThe fact that Palermo are still in touch with the Europa League places is an absolute miracle given their shocking away form this season. Still without a win after 13 games on the road, their problem has been a lack of goals (just eight) away from the Renzo Barbera. O...

Torrid Travellers - Europe's Rotten Away Records

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Torrid Travellers - Europe's Rotten Away Records With Europe’s respective league seasons now around a third of the way through their duration, every team in the top 5 leagues has had the chance to build up a decent run of form, be it at home or away. However, WhoScored investigates the teams who will be damning their form on the road having ...

Team Focus: Swansea City - Just Like Watching Barca?!

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Team Focus: Swansea City - Just Like Watching Barca?! So often it is that a promoted side is branded as a breath of fresh air into the Premier League that the phrase starts to lose its meaning, but if one side epitomises the term in this season or indeed recent years, perhaps it is Swansea City.At times it appears that the first Welsh side to have reac...

Chelsea vs Swansea: Passing Interests

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Chelsea vs Swansea: Passing Interests This Saturday sees Swansea make their way to Stamford Bridge to face a Chelsea side keen to recover from their 3-1 setback at Man United last Sunday. Chelsea’s evolution under Andres Villas-Boas has seen the Blues slowly, but surely, alter their style of play and ditch the more direct approach...

Survival of the Richest? Premier League Newcomers’ Transfer Policies

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Survival of the Richest? Premier League Newcomers’ Transfer Policies This season's promoted sides in the Premier League all got off to reasonably slow starts to their respective campaigns. Neil Warnock, Paul Lambert and Brendan Rodgers were all doomed to fail in the top flight according to many, with all three opting for bargain deals rather than marquee signings ear...