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Team Focus: Valencia

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Team Focus: Valencia The final whistle was met by boos and waving of the white handkerchiefs at theMestallaon Sunday as Valencia squandered a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 with Mallorca. This sort of crowd discontent is usually the sign of a club in crisis and spells trouble for the manager, but at Valencia it is pretty muc...

Player Focus: Does Kaká Have A Place in the Same Side as Özil?

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Player Focus: Does Kaká Have A Place in the Same Side as Özil? Real Madrid's 5-0 win over Espanyol on Sunday night was unremarkable in many ways. It was Real's 12th win in 13 home league games and the 14th time they've scored four or more goals this season, but one standout point was the fabulous performance of Kaká.The Brazilian playmaker hasn't had the...

Team Focus: Real Madrid Success Built on Solidity on the Road

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Team Focus: Real Madrid Success Built on Solidity on the Road Real Madrid's 1-0 victory at Rayo Vallecano on Sunday was Jose Mourinho's men's ninth consecutive league win on the road.It also kept up Real's amazing record of having only dropped eight points all season through 24 games (2.66 points per game), however that run has been amassed in two very differe...

Team Focus: Rayo Vallecano Bucking La Liga Trends

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Team Focus: Rayo Vallecano Bucking La Liga Trends In a league season troubled by its predictability, Rayo Vallecano are La Liga’s great unknowns; the unpredictable package that bucks the trend and do so whilst playing fantastically entertaining football.Football is often a copycat game, whatever is successful becomes “the way” to ...

Team Focus: Villarreal - Borja Leading the Revival

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Team Focus: Villarreal - Borja Leading the Revival Amongst a crazily congested La Liga table there is a great potential for fluidity. As Villarreal are finding out, even If you are only halfway up you can still go either up or down.Four weeks ago it appeared the Yellow Submarine were sinking, a lifeless 3-0 defeat to Atletico Madrid on January 15 sa...

Team Focus: Sevilla Lacking Goals from All Areas

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Team Focus: Sevilla Lacking Goals from All Areas Marcelino became the latest victim of the La Liga chopping block this week as just over halfway thought the season, Sevilla became the eighth side to change their manager.The decision was hardly surprising, Marcelino himself had acknowledged before Sunday’s 2-1 defeat at home to Villarreal tha...

Team Focus: Barca's Away Day Blues

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Team Focus: Barca's Away Day Blues Barcelona’s latest failure on the road this weekend in the 0-0 draw with Villarreal saw them fall seven points behind Real Madrid and even with 18 games to go the task of replicating Johann Cruyff’s dream team’s achievement of four successful titles already appears beyond them.So w...