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Hot Prospect Scout: Five Top Young Full-Backs

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Hot Prospect Scout: Five Top Young Full-Backs As the new season approaches here we take a look at some of the young full-backs to impress across Europe last season that may well feature even more heavily next time around. The following five all featured at least 10 times last season and, based on our ratings, emerge as some as the hottest prosp...

Player Focus: Europe's Set Piece Specialists

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Player Focus: Europe's Set Piece Specialists The art of the free kick has become one so practised in the modern game that the poses of the likes of David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo as they line up a shot are now instantly recognisable. Ronaldo’s routine puff of his chest and is more iconic than Jonny Wilkinson’s stance before a ...

WhoScored Youth Scout: Trybull, Akpa Akpro, Niang

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WhoScored Youth Scout: Trybull, Akpa Akpro, Niang As with every summer in the world of football, players from all over are now being linked with moves to pastures new, while rumours have fans in fits and giggles over their team’s alleged discovery of football’s next big thing. The hype surrounding young prospects is often heightened (an...

WhoScored Scout: Ramirez, Jovetic & Silvestre

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WhoScored Scout: Ramirez, Jovetic & Silvestre In a new series of mini scout reports WhoScored will be taking a closer look at transfer targets from across Europe's top 5 leagues to try and give fans a greater understanding of what sort of players are being linked with your club. We will also occasionally include profiles of players who have rec...

Team Focus: Can Arsenal's Strikeforce Click?

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Team Focus: Can Arsenal's Strikeforce Click? With Robin van Persie releasing a statement on his website regarding his future late on Tuesday, many of Arsenal’s fans’ worst nightmares about their star man were realised. It was confirmed that he would not renew his contract and would stay no more than one more season at the club. Bef...

Euro 2012 Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs

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Euro 2012 Focus: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Backs Having assessed the tournaments' leading attacking threats in yesterday's Sharp Shooters blog, today we are looking at the best centre-backs at Euro 2012, based on WhoScored ratings. Here we will analyse our top 7 across a variety of defensive categories to ascertain just why their ratings were so i...

Euro 2012 Focus: Sharp Shooters

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Euro 2012 Focus: Sharp Shooters Euro 2012 saw 76 goals scored in the 31 games and six players share the mantle of top scorer, on a rather unimpressive tally of 3 goals. While Cristiano Ronaldo and Mario Balotelli took much of the plaudits for their performances in front of goal, the sheer volume of shots they each had means the th...

Euro 2012 Focus: Final Stats Leaderboards

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Euro 2012 Focus: Final Stats Leaderboards So Spain are the European Champions, again, deservedly winning over against a much improved Italy side in the final to retain their title and assert their dominance at international level. Del Bosque's side scored the most goals (12), conceded the fewest (1) and averaged the highest possession per g...

Euro 2012 Focus: Semi-Finals Best XI

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Euro 2012 Focus: Semi-Finals Best XI The two Euro 2012 semi-finals produced plenty of drama and many a talking point; with Spain edging past Portugal on penalties and Italy upsetting the odds with a deserved win over Germany. Spain and Germany were largely expected to control their respective matches, but WhoScored.com’s team of ...

Euro 2012 Focus: Ten Top Flops

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Euro 2012 Focus: Ten Top Flops While we at WhoScored love to praise those who have wowed us statistically, we don't like to overlook those who have under-performed either, and here we will highlight our 10 top flops of Euro 2012 thus far.The likes of Wayne Rooney miss out as we focus on players to have started at least 3 games in...