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League Focus: Premier League Team of the Month - August

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League Focus: Premier League Team of the Month - August The first 'month' of the Premier League season is over and it's fair to say there have already been a number of surprises. The least shocking outcome from the three matches thus far, perhaps, sees favourites prior to the season Chelsea sitting pretty at the top.The most shocking, in more ways than o...

Player Focus: Fàbregas Signing Should Bring Out the Best in Schürrle

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Player Focus: Fàbregas Signing Should Bring Out the Best in Schürrle Cesc Fàbregas rightly won the plaudits for his performance in Chelsea’s 3-1 win over Burnley. The Spaniard capped off an impressive Blues debut on Monday with 2 assists to help secure an impressive WhoScored rating of 8.73 on his first game back in English football.The second of his ass...

Team Focus: Fábregas Signing Addresses Key Flaw at Chelsea

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Team Focus: Fábregas Signing Addresses Key Flaw at Chelsea It wasn’t something Jose Mourinho was so willing to touch upon last season, and he certainly didn’t mention it as much as he did the obvious flaws up front. Yet, now that Chelsea have made their major change in the area, the Portuguese was better prepared to discuss the other deciding fa...

Player Focus: Rakitic Tasked With Evolving Barca Where Fabregas Failed

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Player Focus: Rakitic Tasked With Evolving Barca Where Fabregas Failed In summer 2011 Barcelona's big midfield summer signing was supposed to add more direct passing and make the team's build-up play less predictable. Three years later the Cesc Fabregas 'experiment' has been widely deemed a failure, but Ivan Rakitic is now arriving to do more or less the very same job....

Team Focus: How Happy Can Barcelona Be With Their Summer's Business so Far?

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Team Focus: How Happy Can Barcelona Be With Their Summer's Business so Far? Every summer, in the one part of the year in which there is no domestic football, Barcelona and Real Madrid take their battle off the pitch, attempting to out-do each other in every aspect of the game. Spending big during the transfer season is part and parcel for these giants of European football. ...

Player Focus: Top Rated Players of the Season So Far

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Player Focus: Top Rated Players of the Season So Far As 2013 draws to a close, Luis Suárez ends the year at the halfway point in the season as WhoScored’s highest rated player in Europe’s top 5 leagues. The Liverpool frontman currently boasts an average rating of 8.73 following a blistering return to domestic action having missed th...

Player Focus: Europe's Most Creative Players This Season

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Player Focus: Europe's Most Creative Players This Season Cesc Fábregas - a name that Manchester United fans will want to quickly forget. The Spaniard was heavily linked with a move to Old Trafford this summer, only for the midfielder to remain at Camp Nou on the back of Thiago Alcántara’s departure to Bayern Munich. Having attempted to...

League Focus: WhoScored's La Liga Team of the Season

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League Focus: WhoScored's La Liga Team of the Season With La Liga now all wrapped up, we can finally name the WhoScored Team of the Season according to our unique rating system. As you’d expect the team features a heavy presence of Barcelona and Real Madrid players, but there are a few surprise names thrown into the mix, particularly so when it ...

Player Focus: Fabregas' Flop in Form

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Player Focus: Fabregas' Flop in Form This time last year things could hardly have been better for Cesc Fabregas. He wasn’t even a month into his second spell at Barcelona, but he had returned home with a bang, winning as many trophies in two games with the Catalans as he had in eight years at Arsenal.He even scored in the second ...

Team Focus: Barcelona's Failings

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Team Focus: Barcelona's Failings In just four days Barcelona have kissed goodbye to the two major trophies they won last year and whilst their first home defeat since September 2010 to Real Madrid, followed by a barely believable elimination by Chelsea from the Champions League 3-2 on aggregate, came as a shock, some of the factors...