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Team Focus: New Manager Impacts

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Team Focus: New Manager Impacts With almost a quarter of the season already vanishing before our very eyes across Europe's top 5 leagues, the fans of clubs who appointed new managers in the summer have started to form opinions of the men at the helm.In total there were 23 managerial changes over the course of the summer, and here ...

League Focus: Serie A Not Just A Country For Old Men

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League Focus: Serie A Not Just A Country For Old Men Paul Pogba sensationally wrote his way into Italian football headlines this past weekend, scoring a superb goal in the top of the table clash between Napoli and Juventus. His shot completely wrong footed Morgan De Sanctis in the visitors goal but perhaps more surprising is the speed at which the you...

Player Focus: September All Star Team of the Month

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Player Focus: September All Star Team of the Month With September now having come and gone there were a number of standout performances over the top 5 leagues during the last 30 days. Here we compile our team of the month with those with the best average WhoScored ratings since 1st September making the grade.Those to perform consistently well over t...

Player Focus: Weekend Stats Round Up

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Player Focus: Weekend Stats Round Up After the previous round of fixtures across Europe's top 5 leagues this weekend there were, as ever, a number of standout statistical performances to catch the eye. Here we look at the players that led the way across Europe over a number of categories, starting with those to impress in attacking are...

League Focus: Serie A Surprises

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League Focus: Serie A Surprises Thanks to the recent break for World Cup Qualifiers, the Serie A season is just three weeks old and, while that is certainly not long enough for anyone other than Maurizio Zamparini to base a sound judgement on, it does give us enough data to throw up some interesting statistical surprises. Looking ...

Player Focus: Records Surpassed this Weekend

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Player Focus: Records Surpassed this Weekend After a somewhat tedious international break for club football fans, the full compliment of action returned this weekend, with a number of standout statistics. With it being so early into the new season there are more opportunities to record new campaign high figures, with a selection of players man...

League Focus: It's Not All About The Money in Serie A

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League Focus: It's Not All About The Money in Serie A As is now customary, Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport has published the salary of every player in Serie A. The figures are given in terms of annual salary paid after tax and includes no bonus payments of any kind, allowing the most simplistic of comparisons across the teams, players and ...

Serie A’s Week One Analysis: Il verdetto del campo

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Serie A’s Week One Analysis: Il verdetto del campo Italian’s often refer to ‘il verdetto del campo’ (the verdict of the pitch) as the definitive judge of players, teams and coaches and, by using the games of the opening weekend a number of points become apparent. Yes, after months of speculation, rumour and scandal, the world of Se...

League Focus: Serie A's Top 5 Summer Transfers

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League Focus: Serie A's Top 5 Summer Transfers The start of the new Serie A season is almost upon us, with Italy’s top flight set to return to action this coming weekend. In a summer transfer window which has seen six of the previous campaign's top twenty performers (according to our own WhoScored.com ranking system) changing clubs, we dec...

League Focus: Serie A 2011-12 By Numbers

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League Focus: Serie A 2011-12 By Numbers Italian football has always been home to some of the world’s biggest names and, while many factors have contributed to the lure of the peninsula losing some of its former sheen, there are still many top players plying their trade in the Bel Paese. Many of these – including Gigi Buffon, Z...