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Team Focus: Champions League Team of the Season

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Team Focus: Champions League Team of the Season Atlético Madrid came perilously close to landing an historic double at the weekend, but after extra time, rivals Real Madrid won the Champions League in Lisbon, in the process securing ‘La Décima’. Yet another memorable rendition of the competition was made all the more spe...

Team Focus: How Van Gaal's Holland Will Line Up this Summer

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Team Focus: How Van Gaal's Holland Will Line Up this Summer The loss of box-to-box midfielder Kevin Strootman forced Louis van Gaal to confront the orange elephant in the room ahead of this this summer's World Cup; a fragile defence and a squad limited by its youthfulness (inexperience, at the highest level, a by-product). Van Gaal arrived, in July 2012, wit...

Team Focus: Goiás Continue to Confound Expectations in Brazil's Emerald City

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Team Focus: Goiás Continue to Confound Expectations in Brazil's Emerald City Like most big conglomerations in Brazil, Goiânia, a city of 1.4 million souls nestled in the country's midwestern belt, goes by a couple of nicknames. It is both the Capital of the Cerrado (a tropical savannah that runs through the state of Goiás and neighbouring Minas Gerais), as well ...

Team Focus: The Premier League Newcomers XI

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Team Focus: The Premier League Newcomers XI Each summer, a raft of new players arrive in the Premier League, be they big money signings or youth-team products. Some go on to succeed in England’s top tier, others fail to cut the grade and are quickly forgotten.With that, we here at WhoScored.com have formulated a team of the season of pl...

Team Focus: Sticking to Principal Paying off for Paco Jémez at Rayo

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Team Focus: Sticking to Principal Paying off for Paco Jémez at Rayo There is no club in Spain’s top flight that has battled against the odds – and continues to do so – like Rayo Vallecano in recent years. With the smallest budget in La Liga (around €18m) the Vallecas outfit take the field every week 30 times worse off than Barcelona and Real M...

Team Focus: Marseille Give Bielsa Reason to Dream

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Team Focus: Marseille Give Bielsa Reason to Dream One could never suggest Olympique de Marseille are ever in a state of calm, but they certainly felt more themselves on Sunday night as they celebrated a period of damaging uncertainty coming to an end. As Marseille and Lyon took the field, a banner displaying the words “El Loco – Haznos ...

Team Focus: Weighing up La Liga's Relegation Run in

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Team Focus: Weighing up La Liga's Relegation Run in This past weekend Real Betis were the first team to fall in La Liga’s relegation battle. It had been a case of confirming the inevitable for the Andalucian side, who have won only five of the 35 games they’ve played this season. Now attentions turn to the other two relegation spots, and ...

Team Focus: Sinking Ship Birmingham Need to Stop Home Rot

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Team Focus: Sinking Ship Birmingham Need to Stop Home Rot Tonight, Birmingham must do something they have failed to do since October 1: win at home. Defeat to Wigan, who still require a win to guarantee a play-off position, will keep them in the relegation zone heading into Saturday’s final round of games, where they travel to Bolton.The supporters w...

Team Focus: Nantes are Safe in Ligue 1 – But for How Long?

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Team Focus: Nantes are Safe in Ligue 1 – But for How Long? Some pairings just sound right. Friday night’s encounter between Nantes and Marseille was one that had – and always will have – a pleasing ring about it to Ligue 1 traditionalists. The two clubs have 17 league titles between them and even with neither side threatening to add to tha...

Team Focus: Wily Mourinho Waits for Liverpool's Mistakes to Win

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Team Focus: Wily Mourinho Waits for Liverpool's Mistakes to Win One of the problems with José Mourinho is that he says so much, in such a range of tones, with such a range of intentions, that it’s never easy to separate out the truth from the bluster. He has, though, consistently spoken of his dissatisfaction with his striking options and it may be ...