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2012-2013 Top Scorers in Europe’s Top Leagues
Like in every season, the tracking of top scorers around Europe’s best football leagues is all about seeing if anyone can get close to the incredible scoring numbers Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo produce year after year. Alas, no one was good enough to top the usual top two.
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European Football Leagues Are Boring in 2012-2013
With Manchester United clearly winning the Premier League, and the same goes for Barcelona in Spain, Bayern Munich in Germany and Juventus in Italy, it’s official – 2012-2013 is one of the more boring seasons in memory, at least when it comes to the local leagues, with the drama this time saved for the Champions League and the Europa League.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic On His Way to Another Title (PSG vs Marseille)
While a lot of the focus was on David Beckham playing for 15 minutes, Zlatan Ibrahimovic as always was the man in center-stage, scoring the clinching goal that kept PSG on top of Ligue 1 in a win over their greatest rivals, Marseille, also chucking them out of the title race.
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Most Popular Football Teams on Away Matches
Some clubs are more popular than others, everybody knows. Stadiums don’t fill up for every opposition, but it’s surprising to see the clubs still drawing the biggest numbers on away matches, like Liverpool in England or Juventus in Italy, when compared with the positive or negative effect other teams have in the major European leagues.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic – Not What’s Best for PSG
Not every footballer loves being a star and the focus of attention. Zlatan Ibrahimovic? Give it to him all day. He’s born to score, win championships and for moments of being crowned and distinguished apart from his peers, like getting his name plaqueted on the Malmo walk of fame in Sweden.
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PSG – Not the Start Everyone Expected
Two matches into the 2012-2013 Ligue 1 season, Paris Saint-Germain are undefeated, but still win-less, finishing their visit to Ajaccio in a 0-0 draw while losing both Ezequiel Lavezzi (after a two footed challenge) and Carlo Ancelotti to red cards in another disappointing outing.
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Michel Bastos With the Early Goal of the Year in France
Two weeks of football are hardly enough time to declare a goal of the season, but I doubt we’ll see many strikes better than Michel Bastos delivering a perfect overhead kick in Lyon’s 4-1 win over Troyes, putting on top of the table after two matches in Ligue 1 with 6 points.
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Djamel Bakar With the First Beautiful Goal of the Season
Not going to win goal of the year, but you have to start somewhere, and Djamel Bakar scoring a nice curler from 20-something meters out against Lille for Nancy in the 1-1 draw on Friday night is probably the first real impressive goal of the 2012-2013 season, at least in French Ligue 1.
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2011-2012 Top Scorers in Europe’s Top Leagues
All the major leagues in Europe have concluded their business, so we decided to check if there was anyone alive good enough to tickle the scoring heroics of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, racing through the record books for another season. These are the best the English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, German Bundesliga, Italian Serie A and French Ligue 1 had to offer.