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Player Focus: Fernando Llorente - The Right Man for Juventus

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Player Focus: Fernando Llorente - The Right Man for Juventus Shortly after he had returned to Juventus, Antonio Conte led his team south to the vociferous cauldron that Napoli call home, where the Bianconeri hadn’t secured a victory in over a decade. Inspired by their passionate home crowd, the Partenopei sprang into a 3-1 lead and were clearly in the a...

League Focus: The Relegation Battle In La Liga

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League Focus: The Relegation Battle In La Liga Relegation - one of the game’s necessities. After a long drawn out season, teams that have failed to muster an adequate number of points feel the ice cold grip of footballs’ Grim Reaper tighten around the neck of an unsuspecting club.It's happened with Reading and Queens Park Rangers in ...

WhoScored Tipster: Sunday Betting

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WhoScored Tipster: Sunday Betting Seeing the joy of teams progressing to the semi-finals of the Champions and Europa League this week can only serve to motivate others into working their way up the league and pushing for qualification for next season's tournaments. Domestic league action returns this weekend with some tasty looking ...

Team Focus: Athletic Bilbao

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Team Focus: Athletic Bilbao This time last year Athletic Bilbao were embarking upon what was to prove a wonderful if ultimately fruitless journey that put their name back not only among the footballing elite in Spain, but made them one of the most admired and talked about teams in Europe last season.From the beginning of Janua...

League Focus: Possession Means Little in La Liga

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League Focus: Possession Means Little in La Liga If this summer's European Championship seemed to tell us anything it was that Spanish teams and Spanish players love possession. Having the ball and being in control of the game is when they feel most comfortable.Even if it wasn't always dazzling up until the demolition of Italy in the final, it was...

Match Focus: Athletic vs Atletico

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Match Focus: Athletic vs Atletico When you think of the top eight teams in Europe the usual behemoths of European football come to mind; Barcelona and Real Madrid, Manchester United, Bayern Munich, AC Milan and given their domestic success this season maybe even Borussia Dortmund, Juventus and Manchester City.AtléticoMadrid, ...

Player Focus: Fernando Llorente (Athletic Bilbao)

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Player Focus: Fernando Llorente (Athletic Bilbao) Ever since Marcelo Bielsa agreed to have a second crack at La Liga by returning to take charge of Athletic Bilbao last summer, they have been one of Spain’s most intriguing storylines.The match on the surface wasn’t exactly a perfect one. Bielsa’s intense pressing and possession ba...

Stats Analysis: Chance Conversion from Set Pieces

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Stats Analysis: Chance Conversion from Set Pieces The Sam Allardyce’s of the football world have shown us the importance of creating chances at set pieces and, more importantly, making them count. The teams Allardyce built at both Blackburn and Bolton consolidated their positions in the Premier League with their game based largely on attacks ...

Zonal Marking Team Focus: Athletic Bilbao

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Zonal Marking Team Focus: Athletic Bilbao Marcelo Bielsa’s arrival at Athletic Bilbao was the most exciting managerial appointment of last summer. A notoriously eccentric yet highly intelligent figure, his work with Argentina and Chile had elevated him into the enviable position of being both the neutral’s favourite, and a highl...

Europe's Underachievers: La Liga - Athletic Bilbao

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Europe's Underachievers: La Liga - Athletic Bilbao Our look at the biggest underachievers in each of Europe’s top five leagues sees WhoScored turn our attention to La Liga. Following on from Arsenal and Hamburger SV in the Premier League and Bundesliga respectively, Athletic Bilbao come under the spotlight for their performances in the six rou...