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Player Focus: Vidal Will Have to Wait to Claim Alves' Right-back Crown

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Player Focus: Vidal Will Have to Wait to Claim Alves' Right-back Crown On Tuesday, Dani Alves signed a new two-year deal to extend his stay at Barcelona. Rumours had suggested the Brazilian would depart La Liga and Europe's champions after seven years at the club, with PSG, Manchester United and Milan linked with a move for the marauding full-back. The news that Alves ...

Match Focus: Allegri Requires a Touch of Luck to Halt Messi & Co. in Saturday's Final

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Match Focus: Allegri Requires a Touch of Luck to Halt Messi & Co. in Saturday's Final Ahead of the biggest game in club football, Max Allegri faces the biggest conundrum in all football. It is the issue that has defined the entire season, and the question that so many managers have failed to answer, leaving Barcelona on the brink of a second treble in their history as they face Juven...

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,...

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...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips This is the weekend that could decide the two vacant titles in Europe’s top 5 leagues, while three clashes, that may not be as enthralling as hoped, but still pull in the crowds.LIKELY BETSManchester United vs Arsenal: BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE @ 1.61This could be the perfect farewell for Robin Van ...

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...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips Four fixtures remain, and motivation levels vary from club to club and league to league. In most cases underdogs can get around any technical gap fairly easily. Needless to say this is the best. time in the season to catch odds more realistic than they might originally suggest..LIKELY BETSCordoba...

Team Focus: Should Chelsea Really Play A More Possession-Based Game?

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Team Focus: Should Chelsea Really Play A More Possession-Based Game? The unrivalled success of Pep Guardiola's Barcelona team as well as the Spanish national team from 2008 through 2012 sparked a huge rise in the idealisation of their tika-taka style of play. Bayern Munich have become arguably the best club side on the planet, while Germany swiftly proved themselves ...