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Liverpool dominate our Champions League best XI

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Liverpool dominate our Champions League best XI After their 7-0 thumping of Maribor, Liverpool absolutely dominate our Champions League team of the week, with five representatives in the best XI, while the player of the week also plies his trade for the Merseyside outfit. Liverpool rebuffed multiple Barcelona offers for Philippe Coutinho over the...

Sevilla hat-trick hero sets the standard in Champions League best XI

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Sevilla hat-trick hero sets the standard in Champions League best XI After a midweek hat-trick in the 3-0 home win over Maribor, Sevilla forward Wissam Ben Yedder is our Champions League player of the week. The 27-year-old may be struggling for domestic game time and goals for the La Liga side, but Ben Yedder has been in fine form in Europe’s elite club competi...

Manchester City defender leads the way in Champions League best XI

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Manchester City defender leads the way in Champions League best XI There were 54 goals scored across the opening 16 games of the 2017/18 Champions League season, an average 3.38 per game. Needless to say, Europe’s elite club competition returned with a bang. Four of the representatives in the first team of the week scored two or more goals in their respective...

European Team of the Season: ST - Edin Dzeko (Roma)

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European Team of the Season: ST - Edin Dzeko (Roma) In Roma’s 3-2 win over Genoa on Sunday, a match that will forever be remembered as Francesco Totti’s final game for the Serie A giants, striker Edin Dzeko netted his 29th goal of the season, becoming the first Roma player to reach the figure since Rodolfo Volk in the 1930/31 campaign. It...

European Team of the Season: FWL - Neymar (Barcelona)

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European Team of the Season: FWL - Neymar (Barcelona) Just pipping Lionel Messi to top spot as the highest rated player in Europe’s top five leagues this season was the irrepressible Neymar, who gained a WhoScored.com rating of 8.52.Many may have criticised the Brazil international over the course of the season, with a foolish red card in the 2-0...

European Team of the Season: AM - Eden Hazard (Chelsea)

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European Team of the Season: AM - Eden Hazard (Chelsea) Having played a starring role in Chelsea’s Premier League title win, Eden Hazard earns a place in the European team of the season with his WhoScored.com rating (7.81) better than any other Premier League player and the sixth best in Europe’s top five leagues this term. The Belgium intern...

European Team of the Season: FWR - Lionel Messi (Barcelona)

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European Team of the Season: FWR - Lionel Messi (Barcelona) It wouldn’t quite be a European team of the season without Lionel Messi, who scored more goals (37) than any other player in Europe’s top five leagues this term.There aren’t enough superlatives to describe the mercurial Argentine, who continues to astound and amaze for Barcelona. T...

European Team of the Season: AMC - Emil Forsberg (RB Leipzig)

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European Team of the Season: AMC - Emil Forsberg (RB Leipzig) As far as first seasons in a major European league go, Emil Forsberg made the step up to the Bundesliga with consummate ease. Creator in chief for a RB Leipzig side that can claim to have done the same thing, exceeding expectations, the Sweden international is now believed to be the subject of inter...

European Team of the Season: MC - Thiago Alcantara (Bayern Munich)

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European Team of the Season: MC - Thiago Alcantara (Bayern Munich) As Bayern cantered to another Bundesliga title, the orchestrator of their success and indeed their play was in little doubt. While Lewandowski ended the campaign with the Golden Boot once more and there was a renaissance from Ribery and, in particular, Robben, Thiago Alcantara was at the heart of ev...

European Team of the Season: DC - Nicolas Otamendi (Manchester City)

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European Team of the Season: DC - Nicolas Otamendi (Manchester City) Featuring alongside Federico Fazio at the heart of the defence in WhoScored.com’s European team of the season is compatriot Nicolas Otamendi. The Manchester City man earned a rating of 7.49 this past campaign with his proactive approach helping to earn such a figure.While Otamendi has his doub...