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The Milan Derby: City Rivals By The Numbers

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The Milan Derby: City Rivals By The Numbers Sunday evening will see two of European football's grandest clubs meet in one of the most high profile matches of the year as Milan face Inter in the 205th Derby della Madonnina. As rivalries go it is also one of the closest; Milan have won on 72 occasions, just one more than their city cousins, wit...

Serie A Team of the Season Up to Now

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Serie A Team of the Season Up to Now Like La Liga in Spain, Italy's Serie A returns to action this weekend, so we take the time to analyse the league's All Star XI up to now based upon WhoScored ratings.As many as 8 sides are represented, indicating the tight nature of a league that reigning champions AC Milan top on goal difference ah...

Statistical Oddities: Five Serie A Surprises

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Statistical Oddities: Five Serie A Surprises With Serie A away on its traditional Winter Break, fans of Italian football are reduced to searching for snippets of information on transfer rumours and training camps as the league builds up to its return this coming weekend. In an attempt to fill the void left by the absence of Calcio (which almos...

Hot Shots Part Two: Serie A's Most Prolific Midfielders

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Hot Shots Part Two: Serie A's Most Prolific Midfielders Last week we looked at the most accurate strikers in Serie A, bringing you the seven most prolific front-men of the season so far. Yet in today's game it isn't just those hit-men who are responsible for scoring goals. With so many teams utilising a formation with just one man up front it is increasi...

WhoScored's 2011 Serie A Player and Young Player of the Year

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WhoScored's 2011 Serie A Player and Young Player of the Year In the penultimate edition of the WhoScored Player of the Calendar Year in each of Europe's top 5 leagues we analyse the top performers of Italy's Serie A since the beginning of 2011.While there are a number of predictable inclusions in our top 10, there is also a selection of high-profile absentees...

Hot Shots: Serie A's Magnificent Seven

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Hot Shots: Serie A's Magnificent Seven Serie A has long been famed for it's defensive abilities and tactical organisation, it's gifts to the world deemed to be tacticians such as Giovanni Trapattoni and Arrigo Sacchi, breeding defenders the likes of which other countries could only look on in envy of. Yet, as a byproduct of coming up aga...

It's In The Script: Serie A's Best Readers Of The Game

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It's In The Script: Serie A's Best Readers Of The Game Thanks to the 2006 Calciopoli scandal, saying the word ‘interception’ to most fans of Serie A instantly conjures up transcripts Luciano Moggi’s conversations on a Swiss mobile phone, undoubtedly one telling someone on the other end how he alone was responsible for Massimo Moratti&r...

Bundesliga Boasting the Finest Finishers

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Bundesliga Boasting the Finest Finishers With some sharp shooters already stamping their authority in Europe this season, WhoScored has undergone an analysis of individuals, and indeed league averages that stand out when it comes to shooting stats for the most prolific players for shots on target. Of the top 5 players in terms of total sho...

Torrid Travellers - Europe's Rotten Away Records

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Torrid Travellers - Europe's Rotten Away Records With Europe’s respective league seasons now around a third of the way through their duration, every team in the top 5 leagues has had the chance to build up a decent run of form, be it at home or away. However, WhoScored investigates the teams who will be damning their form on the road having ...

Goal-less La Liga

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Goal-less La Liga The beautiful Spanish game, the famous ‘tiki-taka’, and arguably the greatest show in football in the last five years is undergoing a torrid time in front of goal, particularly when disregarding the two big teams in La Liga; Real Madrid and Barcelona.Real Madrid and Barcelona have scored...