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Player Focus: Gervinho Must Rediscover Best Form to Help Roma Secure a Top-3 Finish

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Player Focus: Gervinho Must Rediscover Best Form to Help Roma Secure a Top-3 Finish A year ago, Gabriele Romagnoli, a La Repubblica columnist, compared watching Gervinho to the final scene in Thelma & Louise. They evoked the same emotion in him. Let’s not get caught… Let’s keep going, one says to the other. Coming to the end of the road, surrounded by police,...

Player Focus: Gervinho - From Figure of Fun to Fan Favourite

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Player Focus: Gervinho - From Figure of Fun to Fan Favourite Before really getting into his Tuesday column in La Repubblica back in early December, Gabriele Romagnoli had a confession to make. “I love Gervinho,” he wrote. “I will not be impartial. It’s necessary to write it with a heart between the subject and the direct object like in...

Team Focus: Arsenal's Striking Dilemma in Giroud's Absence

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Team Focus: Arsenal's Striking Dilemma in Giroud's Absence Olivier Giroud was arguably unfortunate to see red for his clumsy challenge on Fulham's Stanislav Manolev in the Gunners' win at Craven Cottage last weekend. You could even say he is yet more unlucky to have seen his 3 match ban upheld in spite of his appeal to the Football Association. The fact of ...

Stats Analysis: Premier League's Gulitiest Culprits - Big Chances Missed

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Stats Analysis: Premier League's Gulitiest Culprits - Big Chances Missed In the Premier League this weekend we may have witnessed one of the misses of the season as QPR's Akos Buszaky struck a post with the goal gaping from all of 5 yards. At WhoScored we don't like to heap misery on any one player who has had the misfortune to make such a gaffe, so we have focused on 6 ...

Arsenal Signings to Lead to Tactical Change?

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Arsenal Signings to Lead to Tactical Change? With the Premier League having put its feet up for the weekend, though many of its player's were unable to, WhoScored has had the time to have a closer look at the business done over the summer.Investigating the sides who have strengthened in numbers to see whether they have reinforced any weak link...

The Sublime to the Ridiculous - The Premier League's Best & Worst Debutants

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The Sublime to the Ridiculous - The Premier League's Best & Worst Debutants With the English Premier League season now underway a number of new recruits were displayed to the fans this weekend, with some adorning themselves more than others on their big debut.Last night's man of the match cameo from £35m man Sergio Aguero for Manchester City will have assured the supp...

Can Mata and Gervinho Replace Fabregas and Nasri?

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Can Mata and Gervinho Replace Fabregas and Nasri? It’s looking increasingly likely that Juan Mata will be appearing in the Premier League next season. With Tottenham joining Arsenal in their pursuit of the highly rated Valencia youngster, it seems the race for Mata’s signature is now a straightforward battle between the two North London...

Why Nasri Could be More Important to Arsenal than Fabregas After Gervinho Signing

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Why Nasri Could be More Important to Arsenal than Fabregas After Gervinho Signing A matter of days ago Arsenal fans were staring the stark possibility of losing arguably their two most creative players in the face. However, the completion of Gervinho's signing from Lille coupled by suggestions that Nasri may well stay at the club have lifted the mood at the Emirates and suggest t...

What Gervinho’s Game Would Bring to Arsenal

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What Gervinho’s Game Would Bring to Arsenal French champions Lille continued their summer of restructuring last night with the capture of Dimitri Payet from Saint Etienne in a four-year deal rumoured to be in the region of 10m Euros. The move means it’s more than likely Gervinho will be following Yohan Cabaye out of the club as Rudi Gar...

Ligue 1 All Star Team, Season 2010/11

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Ligue 1 All Star Team, Season 2010/11 There’s a lot more variety to our Ligue 1 All Star XI than the previous two leagues, with as many as eight different clubs supplying players. Champions Lille have, unsurprisingly, the most players in the XI, with a total of three. The big shock is the omission of Eden Hazard, France’s Pl...