Columns

Currently Soccerlens runs the following columns: football headlines, football videos, help football, off the record and football transfer news & rumours. In addition, we regularly post match reports, feature articles (must read) and site news in this section.

Chelsea v Tottenham: London rivals ready to do battle at Wembley

By garethmcknight on April 14th, 2012.

Chelsea and Tottenham meet in the second FA Cup semi-final at Wembley on Sunday, with the London rivals’ fate this season tied in with that of their opponent. With one or the other set to miss out on a top four finish in the Premier League also, progression in the cup takes additional importance this…

Liverpool vs Everton: Merseyside bragging rights on the line in FA Cup semi-final

By garethmcknight on April 13th, 2012.

Merseyside rivals Liverpool and Everton go head-to-head on Saturday at Wembley in the FA Cup semi-final, in a massively important match for both sides. Kenny Dalglish will be eager to replicate the team’s heroics in the Carling Cup and draw attention away from under-par league form, whilst David Moyes knows that he is 180 minutes…

FA Cup Semifinals Preview: Backing Liverpool and Chelsea to win

By Soccerlens on April 13th, 2012.

It’s FA Cup semi-final weekend, and first up is a fascinating Merseyside derby clash between Liverpool and Everton (12.30pm KO, Live on ESPN). Liverpool v Everton, FA Sup Semifinal Both sides have god records at this stage of the competition, bit on current form Everton simply have to be the bet at a massive looking…

Liverpool v Everton: Battle Of The Merseyside Midfields

By Soccerlens on April 13th, 2012.

Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final between Merseyside rivals Liverpool and Everton will contain a fascinating battle between two multi-talented midfields and the outcome is likely to rest on how well those players perform. Castrol EDGE Performance data shows that Steven Gerrard has managed to find the net five times in his seventeen league appearances this season,…

Three things Pakistani football can learn from Euro 2012

By Ahmed Bilal on April 8th, 2012.

The 2012 European Championships will kick off this summer in Poland and Ukraine. The Euro 2012 betting hugely favours Spain and Germany, but beyond the favourites and indeed beyond the 16 teams competing at Euro 2012, there are plenty of footballing lessons for Pakistan and Pakistani football to learn from, and hopefully apply to our…

Liverpool, Chelsea, United, City and Arsenal all have points to prove this weekend

By Soccerlens on April 6th, 2012.

With live football on the telly for the next 6 days, it’s a good time to be a football fan. There’s plenty of mouth-watering action in tge Premier League for you to look at. Titles may be won, title challenges may be salvaged, teams could be doomed to relegation or rise from the ashes –…

Most efficient Premier League clubs in the last three seasons (2009 to 2012)

By Soccerlens on April 6th, 2012.

Building on our previous post about the most efficient football clubs across Europe’s top four leagues this season, here we do an historical analysis of the Premier league and the best performing clubs in the last three years (2009/2010 to 2011/2012). The chart below shows some fascinating visual data about Premier League teams in the…

Most efficient football clubs in England, Spain, Italy and Germany in 2011/2012

By Soccerlens on April 6th, 2012.

The study of football, and its players, is perhaps best accomplished by evaluating efficiency. Of course there are many methods of such evaluation – ranging from weekly player ratings on the typical “start at 6” scale to full scale statistical analysis. In this article we look at football clubs in Europe’s top four leagues –…

London 2012: Should it be higher on a footballer’s priority list?

By garethmcknight on April 6th, 2012.

With an exciting end to the Premier League campaign, the Champions League last four and the upcoming Euro 2012 championships in Poland and Ukraine this summer, football fans can be forgiven for forgetting about the Olympic Games and football’s involvement at the London event. Attitudes in football to the Olympics are in stark contrast to…

Balotelli is City’s best chance of overtaking United for the title

By Soccerlens on April 6th, 2012.

Alan Hanson recently described Mario Balotelli as “a damaging distraction at the Etihad Stadium”, highlighting the growing perception that the Italian has become more hassle than he is worth to Roberto Mancini. Mancini himself has criticised Balotelli several times in the past week although he’s also defended him, saying that the media overhype everything Balotelli…