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Player Focus: What Does Sami Khedira's Arrival Mean For Juventus' Midfield?

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Player Focus: What Does Sami Khedira's Arrival Mean For Juventus' Midfield? Juventus have moved to strengthen accordingly this summer already. The long-awaited capture of Paulo Dybala was confirmed last week, while the Old Lady followed that up with the signing of Sami Khedira on Tuesday. The Champions League runners' up have certainly wasted no time in their bid to bolster...

Player Focus: Fortunes Favouring Neymar While Unrest Amounts Towards Bale

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Player Focus: Fortunes Favouring Neymar While Unrest Amounts Towards Bale Two seasons ago, La Liga welcomed two giants of the game into their league. Barcelona secured the signature of Neymar, while Real Madrid spent big, even for their standards, to bring Gareth Bale to the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu. The duo arrived with huge expectations having established themselves as...

League Focus: La Liga's Relegation Showdown

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League Focus: La Liga's Relegation Showdown With La Liga's title race now done and dusted, much of the focus ahead of Saturday’s final round of fixtures has turned to the battle at the bottom of the table.Cordoba have already been relegated, with their first top-flight season in 42 years having been more or less a disaster from start to...

Player Focus: Is It Right for Bale to Bear The Brunt of Madrid's Problems?

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Player Focus: Is It Right for Bale to Bear The Brunt of Madrid's Problems? It is fair to say that Gareth Bale’s performance in Real Madrid’s 2-1 Champions League semi-final first leg defeat at Juventus last week did not impress many pundits.It's very difficult to win a big game like this when you're only playing with 10 men, ex-Manchester United midfielder and ...

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...

Team Focus: Analysing the Correlation Between Possession & Defensive Organisation

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Team Focus: Analysing the Correlation Between Possession & Defensive Organisation When discussing the concept of possession football there will always be those for and against the ideals it propagates. How often do you hear generally uninformed 'pundits' use the phrase I don't really like statistics, but… before highlighting a side's possession figures to illustrate their ...

Team Focus: Could Goal-Shy Athletic be Dragged into a Relegation Battle?

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Team Focus: Could Goal-Shy Athletic be Dragged into a Relegation Battle? Although it is not unusual for the team which finishes fourth in La Liga to have difficulties handling Champions League commitments the following year, Athletic Club’s struggles this season are still quite startling.Things seemed really rosy for Athletic just last August when they made good on...

UPDATE: WhoScored iOS App Launched!

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UPDATE: WhoScored iOS App Launched! WhoScored.com is continuing to expand. We are delighted to announce the release of our free app for iPhone, allowing for accessibility to all of our popular products, detailed statistics and latest scores when on the go. Live Scores With a scaled down version of the ‘Live Scores’ section...

Player Focus: Neymar Discovering His Goalscoring Touch in Spain

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Player Focus: Neymar Discovering His Goalscoring Touch in Spain On Wednesday night, Neymar bagged a brace in Brazil’s 4-0 win over Turkey. A friendly in Istanbul may not have set the world alight, but it was a game that saw the Brazil star continue his impressive pursuit of the nation's all-time scoring record. Neymar’s second of the game brought his...

Player Focus: Karim Benzema's Coming of Age

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Player Focus: Karim Benzema's Coming of Age On Tuesday night, Real Madrid were expected to trounce Liverpool. The Premier League side fielded a weakened team for their trip to the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, but, to their credit, held their free-scoring opponents to just 1-0. The winner came courtesy of Frenchman Karim Benzema midway through t...