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Player Focus: Fabrizio Miccoli - Maradona Of The Salento

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Player Focus: Fabrizio Miccoli - Maradona Of The Salento The name of Diego Maradona, despite his retirement as a player coming as long ago as 1997, is never far from the headlines, whether it be yet another comparison with Lionel Messi or his latest incredulous outburst as coach of Dubai side Al Wasl, the man widely regarded as the worlds greatest ever fo...

Player Focus: Ligue 1 Disappointments

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Player Focus: Ligue 1 Disappointments Every season in every league there are players that come from nowhere to play their best football. Emerging kids breakthrough from the youth team and give fans an exciting look into their youth set-up. Unfortunately there are always players that just fail to live up to pre-season expectations. It ca...

Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Midfielders

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Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Midfielders WhoScored continues our series of articles focusing on the top five players per position across Europe’s top five leagues. Having run the rule over the goalkeepers, full-backs and centre-backs already, we turn our attentions to the central midfielders. Four of the top divisions are represented...

Player Focus: The Premier League's Top January Signings

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Player Focus: The Premier League's Top January Signings Now well into the month of March, the Premier League is hotting up and, in turn, WhoScored has deemed enough time to have passed to judge the starts made by some of the January transfer signings.Here we will look at the top 5 newcomers according to WhoScored ratings of players to have featured from ...

Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs

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Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs WhoScored continues our series of articles, as we rundown the top five players per position across Europe’s main five leagues. We’ve had a look at the goalkeepers and full-backs in the past, so this time round it’s time to turn our attentions to the centre-backs. It’s a Serie...

Player Focus: Another Hat Trick For Milan’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic?

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Player Focus: Another Hat Trick For Milan’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic? The three midweek fixtures in Serie A on Wednesday meant that finally the league table had parity restored as all the matches cancelled due to bad weather were played at last. This provides us with, after weeks of various teams having games-in-hand, an opportunity to assess where the clubs sit with ...

Player Focus: Does Kaká Have A Place in the Same Side as Özil?

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Player Focus: Does Kaká Have A Place in the Same Side as Özil? Real Madrid's 5-0 win over Espanyol on Sunday night was unremarkable in many ways. It was Real's 12th win in 13 home league games and the 14th time they've scored four or more goals this season, but one standout point was the fabulous performance of Kaká.The Brazilian playmaker hasn't had the...

Player Focus: Martin Harnik (Stuttgart)

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Player Focus: Martin Harnik (Stuttgart) VfB Stuttgart will be content with their season at this stage with a place in the UEFA Europa League well within their reach, if they can maintain their excellent current form in the Bundesliga.Stuttgart currently sit in eighth place after 24 matches but with a gap of just four points separating the...

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 ...

Player Focus: Etienne Capoue (Toulouse)

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Player Focus: Etienne Capoue (Toulouse) In the aftermath of France’s 2-1 victory over Germany last week in Bremen the stories coming out of the France camp were that, realistically, 20 places for Les Bleus Euro 2012 squad have already been filled. One guaranteed pick is that of 21-year old Yann M’Vila as Laurent Blanc seems se...