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Player Focus: Why Carroll Will Struggle For Regular First Team Action Upon Return

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Player Focus: Why Carroll Will Struggle For Regular First Team Action Upon Return Andy Carroll’s first home start since signing for West Ham permanently last season was certainly memorable. The striker, a club-record £15m acquisition from Liverpool, began the campaign injured and fans would have to wait until Swansea’s trip to the capital in February before seei...

Player Focus: England Should Progress Without 'Archetypal Striker' Carroll

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Player Focus: England Should Progress Without 'Archetypal Striker' Carroll 'Unplayable on his day'. 'Offers something different'. 'Typical English number nine'. Myriad cliches are batted about all too widely after Andy Carroll puts in any half decent performance that traditionalists in this country expect of and love from an archetypal British striker. Monday night saw Car...

Team Focus: West Ham's Woes Start at Home

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Team Focus: West Ham's Woes Start at Home Sam Allardyce summed it up as bluntly as you would expect.As the West Ham United manager reflected on the latest home defeat, the 3-0 loss to Chelsea in mid-November, he let out a sigh. “Ultimately, I know one thing that will change our dynamics a massive amount, but I can’t have him - a...

League Focus: Europe's Most Improved Players of the Season

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League Focus: Europe's Most Improved Players of the Season A year is a long time in football. A player can go from hero to zero and vice versa over a 12 month period, with the displays of many often not going unnoticed. Using WhoScored.com’s unique rating system, we can see which players have improved the most from 2011/12 to the 2012/13 season across...

Player Focus: Best New Signings of the Season XI

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Player Focus: Best New Signings of the Season XI Transfer season is upon us, and while our insatiable appetite for football has to be satisfied by mere speculation and the hope of a marque signing, the media does its best to attract interest with the best rumours they can find. Only some of those will become a reality, however, and only a proporti...

Player Focus: Same Old England - Who Has Hodgson Overlooked?

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Player Focus: Same Old England - Who Has Hodgson Overlooked? England go into a double-header of friendlies against the Republic of Ireland and Brazil with a threadbare squad to choose from and Roy Hodgson bemoaning a number of close season friendlies putting strain on some of his players. It was the manager's choice, however, not to use the opportunity to off...

Player Focus: Is A Target Man The Favourable Striking Option?

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Player Focus: Is A Target Man The Favourable Striking Option? There are teams across the continent that rely heavily on the burly ‘number nine’ to be the focal point of their starting XI. The striker that will hang on the last defender and provide the physical threat to the opposition, while bringing team-mates into play and look to capitalise on a...

Fantasy Football Tipster: Gameweek 25

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Fantasy Football Tipster: Gameweek 25 So the transfer window has slammed shut in the Premier League, but the advantage of you managing a fantasy football team rather than the real deal is the wheeling and dealing needn't stop here.We're back with our regular tipster XI ahead of gameweek 25 and though many will be pinning their hopes on ...

WhoScored Fantasy Football Tips - Ivanovic, Rosicky & Carroll

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WhoScored Fantasy Football Tips - Ivanovic, Rosicky & Carroll Last week we started a new fantasy football tips feature, better late than never, and we carry that on ahead of the most important gameweek of the season. Choices and transfers in this period could win you the league and, more importantly, bragging rights over your friends, so don't take your decisi...

Stats Analysis: Premier League's Gulitiest Culprits - Big Chances Missed

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Stats Analysis: Premier League's Gulitiest Culprits - Big Chances Missed In the Premier League this weekend we may have witnessed one of the misses of the season as QPR's Akos Buszaky struck a post with the goal gaping from all of 5 yards. At WhoScored we don't like to heap misery on any one player who has had the misfortune to make such a gaffe, so we have focused on 6 ...