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Player Focus: The Myth Of The Super Sub

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Player Focus: The Myth Of The Super Sub Every team has one - a player to come off the bench and save the day in the dying embers of a competitive encounter that will either secure a much-needed point or deliver a victory in the face of adversity.It’s the myth of the super sub that has regularly left football fans scratching their he...

Player Focus: La Liga's Vital Defensive Midfielders

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Player Focus: La Liga's Vital Defensive Midfielders It’s not the prettiest job on the football field but someone has to do it, and without them these players’ respective teams would be a considerably less formidable opponent. They are the defensive midfielders, putting substance over style at every opportunity and forming part of the spin...

Player Focus: The Biggest Upturns in Form in 2013

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Player Focus: The Biggest Upturns in Form in 2013 WhoScored.com examines the players who have had the most significant upturn in form in 2013, with ratings from this season prior to January 1st deducted from their respective averages since the turn of the year. To be considered all players must have featured in at least ten games both before and si...

Player Focus: Why Marek Hamsik Is Napoli's Creative Lynchpin

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Player Focus: Why Marek Hamsik Is Napoli's Creative Lynchpin There is something quite wonderful about Napoli, most notably the scalpel-sharp attacking trident utilised by Walter Mazzarri last season for the Partenopei. The application of Ezequiel Lavezzi, Marek Hamsik and Edinson Cavani not only made the club aesthetically pleasing from a fans perspective, bu...

Player Focus: Why Chelsea Must Sign Radamel Falcao

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Player Focus: Why Chelsea Must Sign Radamel Falcao When a frontman is dubbed 'El Tigre', the player in question is rightly feared by defenders across the world. Atletico Madrid's Radamel Falcao is regularly associated with the nickname as a result of his striking prowess during his respective stints in Portugal and now Spain.The Colombia internation...

Player Focus: Adem Ljajić's Revenge

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Player Focus: Adem Ljajić's Revenge It's as though Adem Ljajić were in a dark room, processing the film taken from a camera, which had been used to capture a series of snapshots of his time at Fiorentina. As the pictures begin to develop it's clear he doesn't like what he sees. It was like a photograph that had come out bad, he told L...

WhoScored's All Star Team of the Month - April

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WhoScored's All Star Team of the Month - April We've now entered the final month of the season across the major European leagues and while the titles have all effectively been sealed, there is still plenty to play for the clubs attempting to break into Europe, as well as those hoping to stave off the threat of relegation. April proved to be an i...

Player Focus: Is Romelu Lukaku The Striker Chelsea Need?

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Player Focus: Is Romelu Lukaku The Striker Chelsea Need? How would one go about replacing soon-to-be-outgoing striker Didier Drogba? A player of his physical supremacy, not to mention his ability to lead the frontline with the standard expected of a striker that stands at 6ft 2in and built like a heavyweight boxer - it's fair to say Fernando Torres can't ...

Player Focus: Matthew Lowton - Future England International?

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Player Focus: Matthew Lowton - Future England International? There was a familiar tense atmosphere at Villa Park when Sunderland came to visit, and few were expecting Aston Villa to run riot in the manner that they did in what was an undeniably crucial match in the fight against relegation. A second half Christian Benteke hat-trick again saw the Belgian, who ...

Player Focus: Is Mourinho Right to Select López Over Casillas?

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Player Focus: Is Mourinho Right to Select López Over Casillas? José Mourinho dared to do what no manger has done in the past 13 seasons. This season wasn't going as smoothly for Los Blancos as they are used to, and after a string of poor performances and plenty of goals conceded, Mourinho went and dropped Iker Casillas. He is a legend at Real Madrid, fir...