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League Focus: Why the Headed Goal is a Dying Art in Serie A

by James Horncastle at Tuesday, Jan 5 2016 17:01
League Focus: Why the Headed Goal is a Dying Art in Serie A No one has scored more headed goals in the history of Serie A than Alberto Gilardino and so when Palermo sold Paulo Dybala to Juventus last summer and signed him as a replacement, it was evident that how they attacked would have to change. A little less interplay between the lines and players taking...
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Player Focus: Hiljemark the Latest Prospect Picked Up by Palermo

by James Horncastle at Tuesday, Sep 22 2015 12:15
Player Focus: Hiljemark the Latest Prospect Picked Up by Palermo In Sweden, he is the most talked about Oscar since the last of Ingmar Bergman’s Academy awarding winning films in 1983. The name is Hiljemark. Oscar Hiljemark. On Saturday night, he once again had the critics writing glittering reviews. “A revelation” went the consensus. Gracing th...
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Player Focus: Telepathic Connection at Palermo Firing Vazquez into Dybala's Limelight

by James Horncastle at Thursday, Feb 5 2015 10:35
Player Focus: Telepathic Connection at Palermo Firing Vazquez into Dybala's Limelight Think of him as a shrinking violet playing in pink. Palermo’s Franco Vazquez is the shy and retiring sort at least when off the field. He doesn’t say much. Never has done. “I was quiet as a kid too,” he told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “Even then everyone used to call me E...
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Player Focus: Dybala Finally Repaying Zamparini's Faith at Palermo

by James Horncastle at Thursday, Nov 27 2014 12:46
Player Focus: Dybala Finally Repaying Zamparini's Faith at Palermo A delegation of Palermo emissaries are in Argentina to negotiate the purchase of Franco ‘The Mute’ Vásquez from Belgrano. It’s 2011. They’re sat around a table and treated to some barbecued Patagonian lamb. “It was delicious,” Luca Cattani, their former dir...
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Player Focus: Serie A Waking Up to Andrea Belotti's Talent

by James Horncastle at Friday, Sep 26 2014 11:31
Player Focus: Serie A Waking Up to Andrea Belotti's Talent Andrea Belotti’s aunt has a chicken factory. Nothing like Los Pollos Hermanos rest assured. As a kid, he would go and visit. “Often I’d stand and stare at the roosters,” he recalled.His best friend Yuri was nicknamed the Rooster at school. Belotti started to go by it too. Rat...
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WhoScored Tipster: Bets to End the Season on a High

by Ed Malyon at Friday, May 11 2012 12:37
WhoScored Tipster: Bets to End the Season on a High Man City vs QPRA huge game at both ends of the table, but make no mistake, City will be winning this and they will be winning this by a few.Sides have come to the Etihad all season to defend and have still been picked apart. They boast a record of seventeen wins and one draw from their eighteen home...
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Match Focus: Palermo vs Catania - Serie A’s Forgotten Derby

by Adam Digby at Thursday, Apr 26 2012 17:05
Match Focus: Palermo vs Catania - Serie A’s Forgotten Derby When drawing up a list of world football’s most hotly contested derby encounters, the same games inevitably crop up time and again. Boca Juniors v River Plate, Partizan v Red Star, Fenerbahçe v Galatasaray and Celtic v Rangers are always among the usual suspects while a list of exclusiv...
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WhoScored Tipster: El Clasico Leads Weekend's Best Bets

by Ed Malyon at Friday, Apr 20 2012 16:06
Barcelona vs Real Madrid - Match PreviewThere is no way around it; this will be the game that decides the La Liga title. A repeat of this fixture could well be what decides the Champions League, but that will be a one-off in a neutral venue. This is a game in front of a hostile Catalan crowd and Bar...
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Stats Analysis: Serie A’s Set-Piece Specialists

by Adam Digby at Friday, Apr 13 2012 11:45
Stats Analysis: Serie A’s Set-Piece Specialists With Milan having stumbled at home to Fiorentina last week and thus holding a title-deciding door open for Turin’s Old Lady, Juventus kicked off against Palermo last Saturday evening knowing a win would take them top of the table for the first time in over two months. The opening goal in a gam...
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Match Analysis: MGladbach & Palermo Home Runs Halted

by Paul McKinnon at Wednesday, Mar 28 2012 10:52
Match Analysis: MGladbach & Palermo Home Runs Halted WhoScored’s regular weekly look at those significant streaks that have come to an end over the past weekend sees us focus on the Bundesliga and Serie A this time round. In Germany’s top-flight, MGladbach suffered a home defeat for the first time this season, going down 2-1 at the hands o...
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