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Player Focus: Guillaume Hoarau (PSG)

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Player Focus: Guillaume Hoarau (PSG) Paris Saint-Germain look set to win their first league title since 1994. If they do manage to hold off Montpellier and Lille and lift Le Championnat the praise will go to the creative talents of Brazilian Nene and Parisian Jeremy Menez. However, one player that will deserve a huge mention in the cre...

Player Focus: Santi Cazorla (Malaga)

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Player Focus: Santi Cazorla (Malaga) As Santi Cazorla stepped up to bend in a truly sensational free-kick into Iker Casillas’ top left-hand corner late on Sunday night many would have been surprised.Xavi Hernandez, though, wouldn’t have been among them, only last week when asked about other midfielders he admired he said, &...

Player Focus: The Premier League's Big Dippers

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Player Focus: The Premier League's Big Dippers Having focused on the Premier League's Most Improved Players last week it seems only fitting for the ever-judgemental WhoScored to analyse the individuals to have gone through the biggest decline this season. To do so we have calculated the greatest decrease in their WhoScored rating from last seaso...

Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Wingers

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Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Wingers WhoScored continues our series of articles analysing the top five players per position across Europe’s top five leagues by turning our attentions to the wide men. Four of the five main leagues are represented here; two of our featured five are based in Spain, with Serie A the only one to miss ...

Player Focus: Fernando Torres (Chelsea)

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Player Focus: Fernando Torres (Chelsea) Twenty-three minutes after coming off the bench for Chelsea in the second-leg of their last 16 tie in the Champions League against Napoli earlier this week, Fernando Torres surpassed a rather undesirable milestone – he had reached 24 hours on the pitch since his last goal in a Chelsea shirt. B...

Player Focus: The Premier League's Most Improved Players

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Player Focus: The Premier League's Most Improved Players WhoScored has decided to look into our own category ahead of the illustrious end of season awards, focusing on the most improved players from the previous campaign. We have judged this by the greatest increase in a player's WhoScored rating from last season to this, with a mandatory cap of at least ...

Player Focus: Fabrizio Miccoli - Maradona Of The Salento

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Player Focus: Fabrizio Miccoli - Maradona Of The Salento The name of Diego Maradona, despite his retirement as a player coming as long ago as 1997, is never far from the headlines, whether it be yet another comparison with Lionel Messi or his latest incredulous outburst as coach of Dubai side Al Wasl, the man widely regarded as the worlds greatest ever fo...

Player Focus: Ligue 1 Disappointments

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Player Focus: Ligue 1 Disappointments Every season in every league there are players that come from nowhere to play their best football. Emerging kids breakthrough from the youth team and give fans an exciting look into their youth set-up. Unfortunately there are always players that just fail to live up to pre-season expectations. It ca...

Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Midfielders

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Stats Analysis: WhoScored's Top Rated Centre-Midfielders WhoScored continues our series of articles focusing on the top five players per position across Europe’s top five leagues. Having run the rule over the goalkeepers, full-backs and centre-backs already, we turn our attentions to the central midfielders. Four of the top divisions are represented...

Player Focus: The Premier League's Top January Signings

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Player Focus: The Premier League's Top January Signings Now well into the month of March, the Premier League is hotting up and, in turn, WhoScored has deemed enough time to have passed to judge the starts made by some of the January transfer signings.Here we will look at the top 5 newcomers according to WhoScored ratings of players to have featured from ...