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Tournament Focus: Copa America 2015 Group Stage Roundup

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Tournament Focus: Copa America 2015 Group Stage Roundup The culmination of the group stages of the 2015 Copa America eventually saw few surprises, despite both Mexico and Venezuela falling at the first hurdle, and ultimately those expected to progress did so. Heavyweights Uruguay and Colombia navigated their way through Group B and C respectively by the ...

Team Focus: Will Much Needed Win Spark New Life into Ambling Argentina?

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Team Focus: Will Much Needed Win Spark New Life into Ambling Argentina? On Tuesday night in La Serena, you would imagine, Leo Messi slept a lot more soundly. Argentina meanwhile might finally wake up. The story after their 2-2 draw against Paraguay was that Messi couldn’t rest, so frustrated was he with the manner of his team’s collapse. That could be felt t...

Tournament Focus: Surprises Aplenty as Subs Impact Copa America First Round

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Tournament Focus: Surprises Aplenty as Subs Impact Copa America First Round It's fair to say big things were expected of Copa America's big hitters this summer so it's also fair to say that the opening round of fixtures didn't exactly go to script. While the likes of Brazil, Chile and Uruguay all ran out winners, none were at all emphatic in victory. Meanwhile pre-tournamen...

Player Focus: Copa America Superstars in Fine Form Ahead of Chile 2015

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Player Focus: Copa America Superstars in Fine Form Ahead of Chile 2015 Back when he was manager of Barcelona, Johan Cruyff used to have a theory about the season after a World Cup. He claimed such campaigns could throw up more surprises and unexpected results because of the effect of fatigue on the top players. “Everyone in the squad who played in the World Cup -...

Team Focus: Champions League Team of the Season

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Team Focus: Champions League Team of the Season When news filtered through that Giorgio Chiellini was to miss the Champions League final with a calf injury, many felt that Barcelona’s precession to their fifth European championship had become that much easier. Juventus’ vice-captain is arguably the Old Lady’s best defender, so t...

Team Focus: How Enrique's Barca Treble Hopefuls Compare to Pep's Strongest Sides

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Team Focus: How Enrique's Barca Treble Hopefuls Compare to Pep's Strongest Sides “Barca open a new chapter,” wrote AS’ Alfredo Relaño in his editorial on Sunday morning, after Barcelona had beaten Athletic Bilbao 3-1 in the previous night’s Copa del Rey final, sealing the sixth Liga and Copa double in the Catalan club’s history.Relaño ...

League Focus: La Liga Round-up - The Stat Leaders from 2014/15

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League Focus: La Liga Round-up - The Stat Leaders from 2014/15 In the end Barcelona’s two point advantage over second placed Real Madrid in the final La Liga standings was a pretty fair reflection of how the Catalan side had been just about superior over the full course of the campaign.Looking back over the 38 games there is a feeling that Madrid perhaps,...

Match Focus: Masterful Messi Leaves Guardiola & Bayern Hopes in Tatters

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Match Focus: Masterful Messi Leaves Guardiola & Bayern Hopes in Tatters By now, there are no new words to describe him, apparently no new ways to stop him and - as a consequence of all that - no realistic hope for Bayern Munich.Leo Messi levelled the Germans, somehow lifting himself up to even greater heights at the same time. After all the build-up, all the history, al...

Match Focus: Attack the Best Form of Defence for Pep on Return to Camp Nou

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Match Focus: Attack the Best Form of Defence for Pep on Return to Camp Nou 'Unstoppable' is the way Pep Guardiola has described his former striker Lionel Messi ahead of a return to Camp Nou for tonight's Champions League semi-final. If there were a manager who knew how to stop the irrepressible Argentine, it should surely be the man who mentored him towards legendary statu...

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...