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The Best Wingers for Crossing & Dribbling Across Europe

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The Best Wingers for Crossing & Dribbling Across Europe As a round-up of WhoScored.com's feature on Europe's best attacking wingers from each of the top 5 divisions, we have collated the leading 5 players per category based on crossing and dribbling levels from each of the leagues, with some interesting conclusions to be drawn.As a reminder, all players ...

Aguero - Another Quality Forward for the Premier League

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Aguero - Another Quality Forward for the Premier League The transfer of Sergio Aguero from Athletic Madrid to Man City is a truly significant coup for the Premier League side. Having been linked with Juventus and Real Madrid, Aguero has instead opted for the ambitious Abu-Dhabi owned club and the move brings a true world-class talent to England’s t...

La Liga’s Top 5 Attacking Full-Backs for 2010/11

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La Liga’s Top 5 Attacking Full-Backs for 2010/11 The third in our series of articles showcasing the most attacking full-backs across Europe’s top five leagues sees La Liga under the spotlight. The displays of Daniel Alves for Barcelona last season illustrate just what a world-class presence he is for the Champions League winners, while Marce...

Hey Big Spenders: La Liga - Malaga

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Hey Big Spenders: La Liga - Malaga Spanish side Malaga CF are the focus of our 'Big Spenders' feature for La Liga and it isn't hard to see why. Since the takeover of the club by Sheikh Al Thani last June, wholesale changes have been made to secure their safety and progress the club onto the bigger stage.Having brought in Jesualdo Fer...

La Liga's Top 5 Wingers for Defensive Contribution

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La Liga's Top 5 Wingers for Defensive Contribution Our round up of the best 5 wingers for defensive contribution in each of the top 5 European divisions concludes in Spain with La Liga. All figures shown relate to the performances each player made from wide positions only and are based on WhoScored.com ratings for defensive contribution, including t...

Serie A's Top 5 Attacking Full-Backs for 2010/11

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Serie A's Top 5 Attacking Full-Backs for 2010/11 Continuing our series of articles on attacking full-backs, we turn our attentions to Serie A. Highlighting the top five for key passes and successful dribbles combined, we look at the performances of Ignazio Abate and Maicon at the two Milan clubs as they finished first and second in Serie A respect...

La Liga's Leading 5 Crossing Wingers

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La Liga's Leading 5 Crossing Wingers WhoScored.com's final episode of our feature focussing on the world's top crossers and dribblers of the ball, compiling the best 5 players from each of the top 5 divisions, concludes in Spain with La Liga. All players to have played fewer than 20 games from the wing were filtered out in order to pro...

Ligue 1's Top 5 Wingers for Defensive Contribution

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Ligue 1's Top 5 Wingers for Defensive Contribution In the reverse of our feature studying the world's leading wingers for their attacking threat from wide, we continue our look at the leading players in the same positions for their defensive contribution to their respective sides, with our penultimate episode focussing on Ligue 1. All figures shown ...

The Premier League’s Top 5 Attacking Full-Backs for 2010/11

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The Premier League’s Top 5 Attacking Full-Backs for 2010/11 It was none other than Jonathan Wilson, the guru of football tactics, who hailed the importance of the modern day full-back in an article previewing last year‘s World Cup. According to Wilson:“The full-backs are the only players on the field who regularly have space in front of them, and...

Ligue 1's Leading 5 Attacking Wingers

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Ligue 1's Leading 5 Attacking Wingers The penultimate episode of WhoScored.com's feature focussing on the world's top crossers and dribblers of the ball, compiling the best 5 players from each of the top 5 divisions, heads to Ligue 1 and France. All players to have played fewer than 20 games from the wing were filtered out in order to p...