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Player Focus: Rakitic Tasked With Evolving Barca Where Fabregas Failed

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Player Focus: Rakitic Tasked With Evolving Barca Where Fabregas Failed In summer 2011 Barcelona's big midfield summer signing was supposed to add more direct passing and make the team's build-up play less predictable. Three years later the Cesc Fabregas 'experiment' has been widely deemed a failure, but Ivan Rakitic is now arriving to do more or less the very same job....

Player Focus: Will Sánchez Struggle on Premier League Away Days?

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Player Focus: Will Sánchez Struggle on Premier League Away Days? The acid test for footballers arriving in the Premier League from foreign shores is, more often than not, ‘can he do it on a wet, windy Tuesday night in Stoke?’ The Potters are famed for their roughhouse approach, so the work of Mother Nature would make a midweek trip to the Britannia St...

Team Focus: How Happy Can Barcelona Be With Their Summer's Business so Far?

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Team Focus: How Happy Can Barcelona Be With Their Summer's Business so Far? Every summer, in the one part of the year in which there is no domestic football, Barcelona and Real Madrid take their battle off the pitch, attempting to out-do each other in every aspect of the game. Spending big during the transfer season is part and parcel for these giants of European football. ...

Player Focus: Well Rested Messi Set to Shine for Argentina

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Player Focus: Well Rested Messi Set to Shine for Argentina Lionel Messi joined a long line of ‘New Maradona’s’ when he made his Barcelona debut almost 10 years ago. The likes of Pablo Aimar, Javier Saviola and Ariel Ortega, amongst others, have all been mooted as the successor to one of the all-time legends of the game. However, while the ...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips The last act of Europe's top 5 leagues is often where the best odds are to be had. There is sure to be some surprise results and in addition, of course, there is La Liga's final showdown to look forward to…LIKELY BETSParma vs Livorno: HOME WIN FIRST HALF-SECOND HALF @1.61This match was a diff...

Match Focus: Stretched Atlético's Chance to Make History Against Barcelona

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Match Focus: Stretched Atlético's Chance to Make History Against Barcelona And then there were two...It just so happens that this particular two will play each other on La Liga’s final day of the season. Barcelona face Atlético Madrid in what promises to be one of the most spectacular showdowns in Spanish football history. If Barcelona win, they will retain th...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips The post-European fixtures, even trickier considering that each side in the quarter-finals faces a tough task to progress. As a result, the odds have become favourable for the team playing at home.LIKELY BETSRayo Vallecano vs Celta Vigo: BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE @1.66A win for Rayo would see them move le...

Team Focus: Barca & Atletico Dealt Untimely Injury Blows

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Team Focus: Barca & Atletico Dealt Untimely Injury Blows One game. Two Injuries. A lot of selection dilemmas ahead. The enforced withdrawals of Gerard Piqué and Diego Costa in Tuesday evening’s draw between Barcelona and Atlético Madrid could not have come at a worse time for their respective clubs, who both still harness ambitions of ...

Match Focus: What we Learned from El Clásico

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Match Focus: What we Learned from El Clásico During José Mourinho’s reign as Real Madrid manager, El Clásico was often a turgid affair where players resorted to simulation and manipulation as they did anything they could to secure victory. On Sunday however, they showed why millions of fans tuned in to watch yet another ins...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips It opens greatly but closes even better. The weekend is a thrilling book, starting with Chelsea-Arsenal and ending with Real Madrid-Barcelona. No matches in between can compete with that, although Italy too provide two tense games between Lazio-Milan and Napoli-Fiorentina. Above all the odds, be sur...