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Exclusive Interview: Fiorentina midfield magician Castrovilli discusses his breakthrough season

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Exclusive Interview: Fiorentina midfield magician Castrovilli discusses his breakthrough season While the opening game of the Serie A season may not be easy to recall, the night time kick-off between Fiorentina and Napoli remains one of the most entertaining matches of the 2019/20 campaign. It was one that ultimately ended in disappointed for the hosts, falling to a 4-3 defeat, but for one pla...

European Team of the Season: MC - Thiago Alcantara (Bayern Munich)

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European Team of the Season: MC - Thiago Alcantara (Bayern Munich) As Bayern cantered to another Bundesliga title, the orchestrator of their success and indeed their play was in little doubt. While Lewandowski ended the campaign with the Golden Boot once more and there was a renaissance from Ribery and, in particular, Robben, Thiago Alcantara was at the heart of ev...

Bayern vs Real Madrid: Reborn 'Robbery' set to take centre stage

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Bayern vs Real Madrid: Reborn 'Robbery' set to take centre stage There was a nostalgic feel to Bayern Munich’s 4-1 trouncing of Borussia Dortmund at the weekend and it wasn’t just to do with the hosts’ dominance of their Bundesliga counterparts. Rather, that wide duo Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery were both on the scoresheet in the victory to he...

Will Oblak or Neuer come out on top in tight Atletico-Bayern clash?

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Will Oblak or Neuer come out on top in tight Atletico-Bayern clash? While packing all the prestige of Tuesday's clash between Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid, Wednesday's battle of La Liga and the Bundesliga between Atletico and Bayern promises to be a different prospect entirely. It's a meeting in which the visitors will be keen to exact revenge for their exit to...

Match Focus: Old Favourites Still Key for Bayern and Dortmund

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Match Focus: Old Favourites Still Key for Bayern and Dortmund That Borussia Dortmund came up short at the Allianz Arena in Der Klassiker against Bayern Munich was not the biggest surprise of the weekend. It was still to come late on Sunday, when Vladimir Darida’s penalty winner for Freiburg at Köln sealed a first win of the season for Christian Stre...

Team Focus: France Finding the Formula to Forget Ribéry

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Team Focus: France Finding the Formula to Forget Ribéry The dust is only just settling on the international retirement of Franck Ribéry, and it will continue to wag French tongues for a while yet. “I don’t understand him,” UEFA president Michel Platini told Bild am Sonntag in an interview published this weekend. “He’s...

Player Focus: Griezmann Ready to Step Up for France

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Player Focus: Griezmann Ready to Step Up for France Of the injuries ruling players out of this year's World Cup, Franck Ribéry's is, on the face of it at least, one of the more damaging to his country's hopes. Ribéry has established himself as one of the best left wingers in world football at present and his loss would naturally hurt an...

Player Focus: 2013 Calendar Year Stat Leaders

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Player Focus: 2013 Calendar Year Stat Leaders With New Year hangovers subsiding it seems a relevant time to recap on the year gone by, looking at the statistical leaders of 2013 over a variety of categories in Europe's top 5 leagues.Most GoalsWe start at the business end, and Cristiano Ronaldo had a year to remember netting at least 9 more leag...

Team Focus: All Change for France as they Chase the Impossible Dream

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Team Focus: All Change for France as they Chase the Impossible Dream “We’re ready to die on the pitch to get there.” So said Olivier Giroud, speaking of how “angry” he was at France’s World Cup play-off defeat to Ukraine on Friday. Something probably already died on the pitch at the Olympiyskiy that night – France’s hop...

Player Focus: Franck Ribéry - France's Man for the Big Occasion

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Player Focus: Franck Ribéry - France's Man for the Big Occasion The hype surrounding the fast-approaching World Cup playoffs has been primarily concerned with the guaranteed absence from the tournament next summer of one of the world's best players, with Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal and Zlatan Ibrahimovic's Sweden playing for a single place in Brazil. Meanwhile,...