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Team Focus: Barcelona's Failings

by Kieran Canning at Wednesday, Apr 25 2012 17:07
Team Focus: Barcelona's Failings In just four days Barcelona have kissed goodbye to the two major trophies they won last year and whilst their first home defeat since September 2010 to Real Madrid, followed by a barely believable elimination by Chelsea from the Champions League 3-2 on aggregate, came as a shock, some of the factors...
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Player Focus: WhoScored's March Review

by Martin Laurence at Monday, Apr 2 2012 15:58
Player Focus: WhoScored's March Review A look at the WhoScored Team of the Month for March across Europe's top 5 leagues shows that there has been some stand out performers across the continent. There are 4 Serie A players in the XI, proving that there has been some superb performances in Italy this month, while there are also 3 La Liga ...
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Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Forwards

by Paul McKinnon at Friday, Mar 23 2012 12:21
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...
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Stats Analysis: Frequent Shooters - Minutes per Shot

by Martin Laurence at Thursday, Mar 22 2012 13:00
Stats Analysis: Frequent Shooters - Minutes per Shot On March 20, 2012, Lionel Messi became FC Barcelona's all-time record goalscorer at the age of just 24. His 6th league hat-trick of the season against Granada, and 9th over all competitions so far, took him to 34 goals and the top of La Liga goalscoring charts.The fact that his unbelievable record t...
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Stats Analysis: Europe's Most Successful Dribblers (Revisited)

by Martin Laurence at Friday, Jan 27 2012 18:09
Stats Analysis: Europe's Most Successful Dribblers (Revisited) When one thinks of the best dribblers in Europe names spring to mind such as Messi, Bale, Ribery..... Cohade? WhoScored investigates the most successful dribblers in Europe to have attempted at least 20 forays past opponents to gauge who gets the better of their man with the most regularity, with th...
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Stats Analysis: Europe's Most Accurate Finishers

by Martin Laurence at Monday, Jan 23 2012 17:22
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...
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La Liga Team of the Season at the Halfway Stage

by Martin Laurence at Wednesday, Jan 4 2012 17:26
La Liga Team of the Season at the Halfway Stage After a well-earned winter break, teams from the Serie A and La Liga are readying themselves for action again this weekend so we take the chance to analyse each of the league's best XIs of the season thus far, starting in Spain.It will come as no surprise to learn that the best possible side accordi...
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WhoScored's 2011 La Liga Player and Young Player of the Year

by Martin Laurence at Wednesday, Dec 21 2011 17:51
WhoScored's 2011 La Liga Player and Young Player of the Year Following on from yesterday's feature detailing the top rated players according to WhoScored in the Bundesliga for the calendar year of 2011, we analyse the best performers in the other league that is already taking a winter break.It is now 16 games through Spain's La Liga campaign and Real Madrid l...
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Messi vs Ronaldo - Can Ron Rule Out a Messi Night in Madrid?

by Martin Laurence at Thursday, Dec 8 2011 17:49
Messi vs Ronaldo - Can Ron Rule Out a Messi Night in Madrid? It's that time of year again. El Clasico is upon us and in turn the prospect of perhaps the greatest match-up in club football. Amongst their ranks the two sides have some of the world's greatest players, though two undoubtedly shine out above the rest, with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo again ...
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Ballon d'Oh! Six of the Best to Miss Out on Elite Shortlist

by Martin Laurence at Tuesday, Nov 1 2011 16:56
Ballon d'Oh! Six of the Best to Miss Out on Elite Shortlist Today saw the unveiling of this year's FIFA Ballon d'Or nominees with the usual suspects in the fray and expected to dominate the voting. The list includes 23 players that will eventually be narrowed down to just 3, and while Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are widely expected to be among them, t...
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