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Barcelona star one of five new La Liga arrivals to watch this season

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Barcelona star one of five new La Liga arrivals to watch this season The 2018/19 La Liga season kicks off on Friday night and fans are eagerly anticipating how the campaign will shape up following Cristiano Ronaldo’s move away from Real Madrid. Here, we run through five new faces in Spain looking to make a quick impact following their summer arrival. Santiago A...

Transfer recap: Top La Liga signings you may have missed this summer

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Transfer recap: Top La Liga signings you may have missed this summer Continuing our series of transfers that might have slipped under your radar in the current window, we switch from Italy to Spain and look at three newcomers to La Liga to have arrived from overseas.William Carvalho (Real Betis)That’s right, William Carvalho has finally left Sporting, but not f...

World Cup Selection Dilemma: Why Portugal must build around Ruben Neves

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World Cup Selection Dilemma: Why Portugal must build around Ruben Neves Let’s start with a sentence I never thought I’d type. The European champions should build their team around a Championship star.Of course, Portugal’s most important player in Russia will be Cristiano Ronaldo, but Fernando Santos’ side can’t rely too heavily on the agein...

Carvalho coming of age to epitomise Portugal pragmatism

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Carvalho coming of age to epitomise Portugal pragmatism Perhaps Portugal’s greatest achievement was that they did it without their key man, that they had the team spirit and the organisation to overcome the loss of a player who had been central to everything they had done in the tournament to that point. But enough about the semi-final – at l...

The key battles as France aim to avoid upset against Portugal

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The key battles as France aim to avoid upset against Portugal With the showpiece event now decided as France take on Portugal, most are leaning towards the hosts to secure glory on home turf for the third time in their history. The Portuguese, meanwhile, are aiming for their first major international trophy anywhere having narrowly missed out as hosts themselv...

Team Focus: Portugal Golden Generation Hoping to Better Class of '94

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Team Focus: Portugal Golden Generation Hoping to Better Class of '94 It was a performance of the highest quality that saw this Portugal U21 side progress to the European U21 Championship final at the expense of pre-tournament favourites Germany. The ease with which they dumped Horst Hrubesch’s side out of the competition in Saturday’s 5-0 mauling means Ru...

Tournament Focus: What We Learnt from the Opening Round of U21 Euros

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Tournament Focus: What We Learnt from the Opening Round of U21 Euros The surprises just keep on coming in this summer's international action, with the Copa America in Chile proving tighter than anyone would have predicted and the Euro Under-21 Championship now looking set to follow suit.We take a look at 3 things that we've learnt from the opening round of fixtures i...