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Champions League round-up: Shakhtar star steals the show

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Champions League round-up: Shakhtar star steals the show 12 spots down, four to go. The remaining teams for the last-16 stage of the Champions League are all but set, but a handful of places will need to be decided on the final gameweek of the group stages. One of those is Ukrainian outfit Shakhtar Donetsk, who are still in with a chance of leapfrogging L...

La Liga round-up: Messi leads the top performers despite Barcelona loss

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La Liga round-up: Messi leads the top performers despite Barcelona loss Barcelona fell to a surprise 4-3 home defeat at the hands of Real Betis at the weekend as they shipped four league goals at Camp Nou for the first time since 2003. Real Betis, meanwhile, had scored just one away goal this season prior to their trip to Barcelona in what was a hugely impressive victor...

La Liga team of the week: Suarez and Aspas steal show with hat-tricks

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La Liga team of the week: Suarez and Aspas steal show with hat-tricks There is little surprise as to the top performers in La Liga over gameweek ten, with Iago Aspas and Luis Suarez both welcoming the birth of newborn daughters this week and celebrating in some style.The former is our player of the week with a perfect rating of ten having scored with three of his five...

Barcelona 5-1 Real Madrid: Player ratings explained as Suarez steps up

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Barcelona 5-1 Real Madrid: Player ratings explained as Suarez steps up There may have been no Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta or Cristiano Ronaldo but there was no shortage of drama in a Clasico without the usual suspects on show.Barcelona reclaimed top spot with a convincing win after a Real Madrid fightback early in the second half, with Julen Lopetegui’s side dro...

WhoScored tipster: How to bet El Clasico with no Messi or Ronaldo

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WhoScored tipster: How to bet El Clasico with no Messi or Ronaldo There’s a curious feel about a game that many feel is the greatest in club football this time around as Barcelona prepare to face fierce rivals Real Madrid.While Cristiano Ronaldo’s absence from the historic fixture has been known since a move to Juventus in the summer, injury to Lionel ...

Classic treble headlining the top 10 matches in Europe this weekend

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Classic treble headlining the top 10 matches in Europe this weekend As we edge past the quarter of the season mark in most of Europe’s major leagues, we take a look at the top ten matches from this weekend’s fixtures, and there is only one place to start.That, of course, is LaLiga, where the first Clasico of the season could well be Julen Lopetegui&rsquo...

La Liga round-up: Levante shotstopper shines to pile misery upon Real Madrid

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La Liga round-up: Levante shotstopper shines to pile misery upon Real Madrid Levante piled the pressure on Julen Lopetegui with a 2-1 win at the Bernabeu over the weekend to inflict further misery upon Real Madrid. Los Blancos have now failed to win in five in all competitions with defeat in the Spanish capital seeing them drop to seventh in La Liga. However, they were unluc...

La Liga Team of the Month: Barcelona trio make the cut in September's best XI

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La Liga Team of the Month: Barcelona trio make the cut in September's best XI Barcelona are the dominant side in our La Liga team of the month despite failing to win three of five league outings in September. While the defenders faltered, the attackers lived up to the billing, none more so than Argentine sensation Lionel Messi, who was again at his very best to excel for the ...

La Liga round-up: League's top scorer stars in team of the week

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La Liga round-up: League's top scorer stars in team of the week Another week and yet more dropped points for Barcelona and Real Madrid, who failed to beat Valencia and Alaves, respectively, with the latter overcoming the European champions late on to ramp up the pressure on Julen Lopetegui. A fourth successive win saw Sevilla move to the top of the table as they...

Champions League round-up: Neymar the star as three perfect 10s grace the XI

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Champions League round-up: Neymar the star as three perfect 10s grace the XI Three perfect 10s grace the WhoScored Champions League team of the week after another exciting round of matches in Europe’s elite club competition. Roma were on fire to defeat Viktoria Plzen on Tuesday night, while Barcelona put Tottenham to the sword at Wembley with Lionel Messi once again th...