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Player Focus: Thomas Müller - The Man for the World Cup Occasion

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Player Focus: Thomas Müller - The Man for the World Cup Occasion Brazil 1-7 Germany! Now that's out of the way, let's focus on a couple of matters that have been lost in the melee of David Luiz's Tasmanian Devil style of defending. The Selecao's ultimate humiliation has overshadowed just what Germany and, in particular, Miroslav Klose achieved on Tuesday.The vete...

League Focus: Striking Duos Set To Storm Serie A

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League Focus: Striking Duos Set To Storm Serie A In its early nineties pomp, Serie A was home to some of the greatest attacking duos European football had ever seen. Roberto Mancini and Luca Vialli won a league title for Sampdoria and were crowned I Gemelli del gol – The Goal Twins – for their incredible combined strike rate. Toto Schi...

Player Focus: Players with the Biggest Effect on Win Rate

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Player Focus: Players with the Biggest Effect on Win Rate The presence of just one player in the starting lineup of a team shouldn't really be enough to have too drastic an effect on performances. In an ideal world, at least, while teams will have star players, they will also be able to call for reinforcement when necessary without too great a compromise i...

Team Focus: Lazio

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Team Focus: Lazio Lazio picked a rather curious venue to celebrate the club's 113th birthday on Wednesday. The American Circus was in town, so they chose to blow out the candles under a big top and among some scary-looking clowns. As a location, it was a touch ironic really because unlike their surroundings, there's ...

League Focus: Serie A Strike Rates Analysed

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League Focus: Serie A Strike Rates Analysed Sitting atop the Serie A table, their nearest rival already three points behind them in the title race, Juventus possess both the joint best attack and the meanest defence in the league. While many will point to Luca Maggiani’s flag as their most influential defender, it is The Old Lady’...

Euro 2012 Focus: Quarter-Final Best XI

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Euro 2012 Focus: Quarter-Final Best XI Drawing ever closer to its conclusion, Euro 2012 has been whittled down to the last 4 teams after the quarter-finals went to plan for the Portuguese, Germans, Spaniards and Italians. The four matches threw up very few surprises, with all the favourites progressing and the England-Italy match unsurpr...

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...

Stats Analysis: More Serie A Surprises - Aerial Superiority

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Stats Analysis: More Serie A Surprises - Aerial Superiority Unlike other leagues, Serie A is not commonly associated with great headers of the ball, even among its defenders. While England and English football bring to mind classic number nines and lumbering central defenders, Italy is more readily thought of for bringing culture to the game and beyond the a...

Hot Shots: Serie A's Magnificent Seven

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Hot Shots: Serie A's Magnificent Seven Serie A has long been famed for it's defensive abilities and tactical organisation, it's gifts to the world deemed to be tacticians such as Giovanni Trapattoni and Arrigo Sacchi, breeding defenders the likes of which other countries could only look on in envy of. Yet, as a byproduct of coming up aga...

Lazio-Palermo: Unpredictable Clubs Serve Up Interesting Battle

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Lazio-Palermo: Unpredictable Clubs Serve Up Interesting Battle Just three games into the new season and Palermo have already undergone a coaching change as Maurizio Zamparini's mission to outdo himself saw Stefano Pioli fired before the campaign even began. However a disastrous exit from the Europa League combined with a poor relationship with the leaders among...