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Can Mignot Stop Remy’s Scoring Streak?

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Can Mignot Stop Remy’s Scoring Streak? Likely Line-UpsMarseille will be without centre half Stephane M’Bia until October- he suffered a broken foot in last week’s match at Auxerre, with the injury confirmed after he’d played the 90 minutes. With Andre-Pierre Gignac also still injured, the in-form pair of Mathieu Valbuen...

WhoScored All Star Team of the Week - Week 1

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WhoScored All Star Team of the Week - Week 1 In our regular Monday afternoon article of the new season, we take a look at the top-rated XI from Europe’s top five leagues over the previous weekend. Some team performances really stood out and contribute to our line-up; Montpellier’s shock 1-0 win at Ligue 1 champions Lille sees two o...

Giroud Stuns the Metropole into Silence

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Giroud Stuns the Metropole into Silence After the 1-1 draw away at AS Nancy the Champions Lille returned north for their first home game of the new season. Montpellier, under Rene Girard, decided to spoil their homecoming party; after holding off Lille’s attacking threat it was left to Olivier Giroud to stun the Stade Lille Metropol...

Lyon 1-1 Ajaccio Post Match Analysis

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Lyon 1-1 Ajaccio Post Match Analysis After the disappointed of last week new boys AC Ajaccio picked up their first point of the season quite surprisingly against Olympique Lyonnais. Although Lyon controlled the game with 69% possession and 11 more shots it was Ajaccio that took the lead through Frederic Sammaritano after 59 minutes. Ly...

WhoScored.com's France National Dream Team XI

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WhoScored.com's France National Dream Team XI Laurent Blanc leads his France side to Montpellier to take on an exciting Chile side, that reached the quarterfinals of the Copa America, in a friendly on Wednesday night. Under his guidance Blanc has tried to mix the experienced internationals with some of Ligue 1’s most talented players incl...

PSG 0 - 1 Lorient Match Report

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Saturday night saw the eyes of the world focused on the European capital of love. Although Christian Gourcuff’s Lorient side had no plans on showing PSG any act of kindness. New signing Julien Quercia silenced the Parc des Princes after 28 minutes when Yann Jouffre’s free-kick made it al...

Lille Fail to Make Possession Pay at Nancy

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Lille Fail to Make Possession Pay at Nancy Rudi Garcia’s Lille opened the defence of their Ligue 1 title with a disappointing 1-1 draw at Nancy last night. After losing key figures such as Gervinho and Yohan Cabaye in the summer, the champions were keen to follow up an away record that saw them lose just three times on the road last se...

Ones to Watch this Weekend: European League Picks

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Dortmund vs Hamburger SVFriday 5th August - 19:30Reigning Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund begin the new German campaign in style with a mouth-watering home tie with Hamburg, who finished last season in 8th.This fixture has seen the home side, be it Dortmund or Hamburg, win 4 of their last 6, ...

Ligue 1’s Top 5 Attacking Full-Backs for 2010/11

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Ligue 1’s Top 5 Attacking Full-Backs for 2010/11 Our final article in the series focusing on attacking full-backs sees us take a look at Ligue 1. Benoît Trémoulinas of Bordeaux heads our list while Rod Fanni, Marseille’s mid-season purchase from Rennes, is the only player amongst the top six teams to find his way in our selectio...

The Best Wingers for Crossing & Dribbling Across Europe

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The Best Wingers for Crossing & Dribbling Across Europe As a round-up of WhoScored.com's feature on Europe's best attacking wingers from each of the top 5 divisions, we have collated the leading 5 players per category based on crossing and dribbling levels from each of the leagues, with some interesting conclusions to be drawn.As a reminder, all players ...