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Euro 2012 Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs

by Martin Laurence at Jumatano, Jul 4 2012 15:17
Euro 2012 Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs Having assessed the tournaments' leading attacking threats in yesterday's Sharp Shooters blog, today we are looking at the best centre-backs at Euro 2012, based on WhoScored ratings. Here we will analyse our top 7 across a variety of defensive categories to ascertain just why their ratings were so i...
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Euro 2012 Focus: Sharp Shooters

by Alistair Tweedale at Jumanne, Jul 3 2012 17:21
Euro 2012 Focus: Sharp Shooters Euro 2012 saw 76 goals scored in the 31 games and six players share the mantle of top scorer, on a rather unimpressive tally of 3 goals. While Cristiano Ronaldo and Mario Balotelli took much of the plaudits for their performances in front of goal, the sheer volume of shots they each had means the th...
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Euro 2012 Focus: Final Stats Leaderboards

by Martin Laurence at Jumatatu, Jul 2 2012 15:11
Euro 2012 Focus: Final Stats Leaderboards So Spain are the European Champions, again, deservedly winning over against a much improved Italy side in the final to retain their title and assert their dominance at international level. Del Bosque's side scored the most goals (12), conceded the fewest (1) and averaged the highest possession per g...
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Euro 2012 Focus: The Final - Spain vs Italy

by Martin Laurence at Ijumaa, Jun 29 2012 15:55
Euro 2012 Focus: The Final - Spain vs Italy So, it's decided. Spain will face Italy in the final Euro 2012 after many believed that Germany were shoe-ins to progress past the Azzurri. Much of the credit should go to Cesare Prandelli for the Italian's surprise appearance in Sunday's showdown, with the former Fiorentina boss taking a team who h...
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Euro 2012 Focus: Semi-Finals Best XI

by Alistair Tweedale at Ijumaa, Jun 29 2012 12:53
Euro 2012 Focus: Semi-Finals Best XI The two Euro 2012 semi-finals produced plenty of drama and many a talking point; with Spain edging past Portugal on penalties and Italy upsetting the odds with a deserved win over Germany. Spain and Germany were largely expected to control their respective matches, but WhoScored.com’s team of ...
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Euro 2012 Focus: Ten Top Flops

by Martin Laurence at Alhamisi, Jun 28 2012 17:15
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...
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Euro 2012 Focus: Germany vs Italy

by Martin Laurence at Jumatano, Jun 27 2012 12:44
Euro 2012 Focus: Germany vs Italy Joint favourites Germany face England's conquerors Italy in the second semi-final of Euro 2012 on Thursday night, with Löw’s side having been heavily backed since the tournament began having won all of their games so far. In comparison, Italy have only actually won once in normal time of ...
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Euro 2012 Focus: Portugal vs Spain

by Alistair Tweedale at Jumanne, Jun 26 2012 14:37
Euro 2012 Focus: Portugal vs Spain The first semi-final at Euro 2012 pits the reigning European and World champions, Spain, against archrivals Portugal (Match Preview). Cristiano Ronaldo has lit up the competition recently, with the rest of his team largely relying on his talents, while Spain have made it this far without being consi...
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Euro 2012 Focus: Quarter-Final Best XI

by Martin Laurence at Jumatatu, Jun 25 2012 12:58
Euro 2012 Focus: Quarter-Final Best XI Drawing ever closer to its conclusion, Euro 2012 has been whittled down to the last 4 teams after the quarter-finals went to plan for the Portuguese, Germans, Spaniards and Italians. The four matches threw up very few surprises, with all the favourites progressing and the England-Italy match unsurpr...
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Euro 2012 Focus: England vs Italy - Drawing Comparisons

by Martin Laurence at Ijumaa, Jun 22 2012 16:34
Euro 2012 Focus: England vs Italy - Drawing Comparisons With the quarter-finals having been decided, and Portugal already progressing to the final four at the expense of the Czech Republic, most have tipped England's tie with Italy as potentially the tightest of the lot. With that in mind we take a closer a look at where the game could be won and lost an...
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