Player Focus: Europe's Most Potent Poachers
by Alistair Tweedale
at giovedì, mag 16 2013 14:36
The poacher. The fox in the box. The super sub.The primary job of a striker is to score goals, and each of these three terms is coined from players that tend to do so but rarely offer much else. Whilst Luis Suarez is a goalscorer who drops deep for possession and is thus very involved in Liverpool's...
League Focus: The Most Valuable Scorers in Serie A
by James Horncastle
at giovedì, mag 9 2013 12:17
With the title race over and the season nearing its end in Serie A, a period of reflection begins. Who have been the real difference makers over the current campaign and how might you measure that? One reductive yet still quite revealing method is to look at points won as a direct result of the goal...
Player Focus: Taking Chances - The Easy & The Hard Way
by Martin Laurence
at martedì, feb 19 2013 17:02
It's fair to say that the goalscorers across Europe's top 5 leagues have excelled themselves this season, with as many as 54 players already having reached double figures. At this stage in the previous two campaigns that was a feat that only 41 players could manage and here we take a closer look at ...
Team Focus: The Same But Different: What's Behind Inter's Revival?
by Adam Digby
at giovedì, gen 26 2012 16:01
The Milan Derby: City Rivals By The Numbers
by Adam Digby
at giovedì, gen 12 2012 17:25
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 Goal Scoring Masters
by Cristiano Acconci
at venerdì, mag 13 2011 15:13
Not too long ago Serie A was typified as a league that focused and mastered defending while avoiding beautiful/attacking football. To be honest not much as changed except one major thing, defending got poorer. Nevertheless, Serie A can be proud of is its abundance of natural goal scorers. Serie A is...