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Real Madrid – Cristiano Ronaldo, Star of the One Man Team
He didn’t start or didn’t even show up on the score sheet, but without Cristiano Ronaldo coming in off the bench, Real Madrid would have drifted even further away from the top spot in the La Liga, despite all the accolades thrown at Kaka for a rare performance both in terms of length and in quality.
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Manchester United – Even Robin van Persie is No Longer Interesting
For Manchester United, their latest win as they run away with the Premier League, was about Rafael scoring a rare goal and Ryan Giggs with the finisher putting a solid and remarkable performance (at his age) in the middle of the field. For the rest of the league, only Robin van Persie being slightly injured seemed to be causing any interest.
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Arsenal FC – Santi Cazorla Relaxes Things for a Bit
It’s always impossible to decide who needed the win more – the underachievers, fighting to try and get into the Champions League, or a club fighting for survival in the Premier League. However, quality was what prevailed, as Santi Cazorla reminded many what he was all about for Arsenal when the season began.
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Barcelona & Lionel Messi Should Focus on Football
It seems that some teams and players want to do more than just play football – Barcelona are about global peace, or something of the sorts, as the nation of Israel got excited about the prospect of Lionel Messi coming for some sort of peace-promoting effort between Israelis and Palestinians.
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David de Gea – Between Real Madrid & Manchester United
Despite the improved form in recent months and the stability between the posts at Manchester United, the rumors around the departure of David de Gea, in favor of a better life (???) with Real Madrid simply won’t go away.
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Cristiano Ronaldo Complaining for Nothing Again
Every once in a while, maybe in some sort of timing related to other events, Cristiano Ronaldo has to let some steam off his chest and let everyone know just how fine thing are with him and Real Madrid. This time, it was about his public persona (what else) and the split in the Real Madrid dressing room.
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Liverpool FC – Luis Suarez Always Makes Up for Jamie Carragher
The power of Anfield was enough for about 60 minutes to push Liverpool to one of those special European nights, but even the prowess of Luis Suarez from set pieces (two wonderful free kick goals) wasn’t enough to make up for the mistake of Jamie Carragher early on.
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Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard Shines Again While Fernando Torres Keep Missing
There’s a good chance that if it was up to Fernando Torres, Chelsea would have been still looking for that equalizing goal. Instead, in a performance filled with chances but a lot of disappointing and bad football from the European champions, it was Eden Hazard, coming off the bench, that became the hero of the day.
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Bayern Munich – History Says They’ll Win the 2013 Champions League
Looking to the past to learn about the future isn’t the worst way to try and cast a prediction, and even if the sample size isn’t that big, putting Bayern Munich on a pedestal and declaring them the favorites to win the Champions League this season isn’t so far fetched, especially because of their win on an English ground.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Arsenal Finally Going to Spend Some Money
Maybe it’s the media undermining Arsene Wenger once again, but maybe there’s some truth to the news: Arsenal are finally going to spend big in a transfer window, with David Villa and Victor Valdes mentioned as potential new arrivals, although they don’t sound like the names some Arsenal fans would like to hear about.