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Team Focus: Should Chelsea Really Play A More Possession-Based Game?

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Team Focus: Should Chelsea Really Play A More Possession-Based Game? The unrivalled success of Pep Guardiola's Barcelona team as well as the Spanish national team from 2008 through 2012 sparked a huge rise in the idealisation of their tika-taka style of play. Bayern Munich have become arguably the best club side on the planet, while Germany swiftly proved themselves ...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips Bayern and Juventus could both be crowned league winners this weekend, while Chelsea can take a big step towards the Premier League title. A weekend full of derbies controlling the destinies of so many teams and European fixtures have just been played, which will be a factor that must be taken into ...

Player Focus: Messi Worth More Than Just His Weight in Goals to Barcelona

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Player Focus: Messi Worth More Than Just His Weight in Goals to Barcelona Lionel Messi being man of the match in a Barcelona victory at the Camp Nou is not exactly news. Messi got his 22nd such award of the season from WhoScored in Saturday’s 2-0 home win over Valencia, in which the Argentine laid on the first goal for Luis Suarez [his 16th La Liga assist of the sea...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips It's the Clasico that eclipses all else outside of Camp Nou in this weekend's action but punters won't simply be casting an eye over one game, and it's worth casting some light over some potential juicy away wins, especially in France and Germany.LIKELY BETSBarcelona vs Real Madrid: HOME WIN @1.65It...

Match Focus: El Clásico - MSN vs BBC

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Match Focus: El Clásico - MSN vs BBC To be perfectly candid, it does not get any bigger than El Clásico. The meetings between Barcelona and Real Madrid invariably attract hundreds of millions of viewers the world over and Sunday’s installment is not expected be any different as the Blaugrana and Los Blancos renew hostiliti...

Match Focus: Manchester City Must Strike a Fine Balance to Beat Barcelona

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Match Focus: Manchester City Must Strike a Fine Balance to Beat Barcelona It said more than even Yaya Toure ever could that, as he tried to so consciously issue a rallying cry ahead of Manchester City’s trip to Barcelona, he couldn’t help re-asserting why their task is to difficult.“In football anything can happen, we have our chance and they have their ...

Player Focus: Settled and Scoring Suarez Focused on Enjoying Time at Barcelona

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Player Focus: Settled and Scoring Suarez Focused on Enjoying Time at Barcelona After joining Barcelona for 80 million euros last summer it took three months for Luis Suarez to make his debut, and another three months to find his feet, but the former Liverpool man is now playing with the verve, efficiency and intensity of his best Anfield days.Suarez has come bang into form ove...

Match Focus: Pellegrini Gets Tactics Wrong as Barcelona Triumph in Manchester

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Match Focus: Pellegrini Gets Tactics Wrong as Barcelona Triumph in Manchester It was a scene that defied both Manuel Pellegrini’s words, and the final score.After Manchester City had somehow escaped with just getting beaten 2-1 by an evidently superior Barcelona, who exploited so many conspicuously excessive gaps in the home side’s midfield, the Chilean was asked ...

Player Focus: Neymar Shining as Second Fiddle in Messi's Shadow

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Player Focus: Neymar Shining as Second Fiddle in Messi's Shadow The ‘man of the match’ award has long been seen as a worthwhile recognition of one player’s excellent contribution to a game. Whether chosen by a former player turned media pundit, TV viewers’ text poll or [even] more scientifically via WhoScored.com’s detailed statisti...

Player Focus: First Team Football In Question as Form of Old Evades Iniesta

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Player Focus: First Team Football In Question as Form of Old Evades Iniesta It seems almost heresy to say it, but should Andrés Iniesta really still be an automatic starter for club and country? The statistics suggest that so far this season the World Cup, double European Championship, three-time Champions League and six-time La Liga winner has fallen some distance f...