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Player Focus: Falcao (Atletico Madrid)

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Player Focus: Falcao (Atletico Madrid) When Radamel Falcao made the trip across the Iberian Peninsula from Porto to Atlético Madrid for some €40m in the summer many an eyebrow was raised.Why would a player who had starred as the Portuguese side stormed to four trophies and on a personal level broke a European record by scorin...

Player Focus: WhoScored's March Review

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Player Focus: WhoScored's March Review A look at the WhoScored Team of the Month for March across Europe's top 5 leagues shows that there has been some stand out performers across the continent. There are 4 Serie A players in the XI, proving that there has been some superb performances in Italy this month, while there are also 3 La Liga ...

Stats Analysis: The Premier League's Most Involved - Touches per Minute

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Stats Analysis: The Premier League's Most Involved - Touches per Minute It's fair to say that while some roles require less of an apparent involvement in play in terms of time spent on the ball, there are certainly a number of players who feel the need to make themselves available to a teammate at every opportunity. These are, in turn, the individuals that colleagues ar...

Stats Analysis: Serie A's Magnificent Seventies

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Stats Analysis: Serie A's Magnificent Seventies The prominent American novelist Tom Wolfe dubbed it ‘The Me Decade’ as many of his countrymen “abandoned communal and left wing politics to take the money and run” yet, looking purely from a Serie A stand point, the 1970’s gave birth to a generation of footballers who h...

Player Focus: Mario Gotze (Borussia Dortmund)

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Player Focus: Mario Gotze (Borussia Dortmund) For the last three transfer windows, the name of Mario Gotze has been linked with pretty much every “elite” side in Europe. Arsenal and Manchester United were reportedly two of the biggest suitors of the 19-year-old with interest also coming from Chelsea and rivals FC Bayern Munich.Howev...

Player Focus: Philippe Coutinho (Espanyol - On Loan)

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Player Focus: Philippe Coutinho (Espanyol - On Loan) As the end of the January transfer window approached it was no surprise that one of the few clubs in Spain to make a move were Espanyol.Mauricio Pochettino’s side had surpassed expectations to enter the New Year in fifth place, but a gruelling January calendar in which they played eight times ...

Player Focus: Bafetimbi Gomis (Lyon)

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Player Focus: Bafetimbi Gomis (Lyon) As Lille take on Toulouse this weekend looking to extend their lead in the race for third place two teams will meet at the Stade de la Route de Lorient looking to keep up the pace in the battle for European places.Lyon travel to Brittany, which as we already know from the article 'Brittany Fears: Wh...

Stats Analysis: Europe's Best All-Round Midfielders

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Stats Analysis: Europe's Best All-Round Midfielders Having recently looked into the best 'all-round' defenders in Europe in the aptly named article 'Stats Analysis: Europe's Best All-Round Defenders', we have decided to take a similar approach in an attempt to gauge the most effective midfielders, going both forwards and backwards.We, at WhoScored, h...

Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Forwards

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Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Forwards The final instalment in WhoScored’s series of articles highlighting the top five players per position in Europe’s elite leagues sees us turn our attentions to the forwards. There are four different countries represented here; France is the only one to miss out, with England’s top-f...

Stats Analysis: Frequent Shooters - Minutes per Shot

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Stats Analysis: Frequent Shooters - Minutes per Shot On March 20, 2012, Lionel Messi became FC Barcelona's all-time record goalscorer at the age of just 24. His 6th league hat-trick of the season against Granada, and 9th over all competitions so far, took him to 34 goals and the top of La Liga goalscoring charts.The fact that his unbelievable record t...