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Why these five are some of the best in Europe’s elite
Depending on what European league and team you passionately follow, you may be three, four, or even five games into the 2014-15 season as the final week of September approaches. But with so few games played for teams to garner momentum, and so little time for superstars to develop a rhythm, many fans are yet to see their favourite players in full stride.
There are certain individuals, however, who have started the season with a spring in their step.
Attackers with an extra yard of pace, allowing them to terrorise defenders still wishing they were poolside a strikers, alert in front of goal, leaving inattentive goalkeepers scrambling to al and scheming midfielders, roaming into space, passing with precision and creating chances for their team-mates as if possessing match sharpness only acquired after months of training.
After trawling through Squawka’s archives, five players fit the above description. Five players who, having only played a handful of games, are clocking up some impressive early statistics.
Diego Costa
Diego Costa may have failed in his efforts at this summer’s World Cup, looking an isolated figure up front within a fragmented and incoherent Spanish system that only managed to overcome Australia before shamefully jetting home. But as Chelsea fans have seen during the opening four games of the season, and throughout his final year at Atlético Madrid, the 25-year-old can flourish when spearheading a formation and framework suited to his physical and technical qualities.
Costa has 7 goals from 10 shots on target this season.
Following the striker’s ?32m move to England, the
reported that Atlético Madrid boss Diego Simeone was quick to praise him, wishing him well in his future endeavours.“He’s at an age where he can continue to improve so let’s hope he can develop further-i’m sure he’ll be a success.”
And what a success he’s been.
In just four appearances for the Blues, Costa has achieved a phenomenal 91% accuracy from 14 shots (10 shots on target, one off target and three blocked), scoring a total of 7 goals. That’s a conversion rate of 64%.
José Mourinho has worryingly voiced concerns over Costa’s fitness this week. However, if the Brazilian-born striker can maintain the level of performance witnessed in the early stages, Chelsea will unquestionably have the firepower to challenge on all fronts, both domestically and throughout Europe.
Marco Verratti & Thiago Motta
Dominating central midfield by means of hundreds of accurate passes. That sounds like an accurate description of a typical Spanish tiki-taka system devised to retain possession, doesn’t it? Well, you may be surprised to learn that’s what Marco Verratti and Thiago Motta are up to for Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1.
Verratti completed 129 passes versus Bastia on 16 August.
The Italian midfield duo have achieved an average of 114 passes per 90 minutes this season (a combined total of 995 passes) after just five games played (Motta has played four), helping Laurent Blanc’s team to recycle possession and score the league’s second highest amount of goals so far.
The end of September sees Verratti and Motta up against Barcelona in the Champions League. How apt. Let’s see them try and pass Luis Enrique’s team off the park.
Cesc Fabregas
Arsène Wenger may have decided against exercising a buy-back option on former player Cesc Fabregas this summer, but deep down he probably regrets that decision, especially now that the ?27m Chelsea midfielder is causing all sorts of problems for opposing defenders upon his return to the Premier League.
60% of Fabregas’ key passes have been assists.
In four league appearances for Mourinho’s side, Fabregas has six assists to his name from 10 key passes, forging an exciting, almost telepathic understanding with Costa. The Former Barca man has also created chance after chance for midfield runners surging into the opposition penalty area from deep (Fabregas’ inspired pass to André Schurrle versus Burnley being one fine example).
The 27-year-old Spanish midfielder is still a class act. Not that we needed reminding.
Eden Hazard
With a total of 50 caps for Belgium at only 23-years-old, Eden Hazard has an experienced head on young shoulders, dazzling onlookers with an abundance of tricks, deft touches and dribbling prowess throughout the final third as he continues his growth (mentally, physically and technically) for club and country.
Hazard as completed the most take-ons in Europe’s top five leagues.
The ?32m winger has completed 25 take-ons in the Premier League already this season, completing 19% of his overall tally from last season (132 take-ons) in just four games.
If Hazard keeps this impressive form going, bearing in mind he made a total of 35 appearances in the league during the last campaign, then he could be looking at a total of approximately 219 successful take-ons come May 2015. A sum that, given the competitiveness of the league, would be absolutely mind-blowing.In the early 1950‘s, historians who studied preindustrial Europe (which we may define here as Europe in the period from roughly 1300 to 1800) began, for the first time in large numbers, to investigate more of the preindustrial European population than the 2 or 3 percent who comprised the political and social elite: the kings, generals, judges, nobles, bishops, and local magnates who had hitherto usually filled history books. One difficulty, however, was that few of the remaining 97 percent recorded their thoughts or had them chronicled by contemporaries. Faced with this situation, many historians based their investigations on the only records that seemed to exist: birth, marriage, and death records. As a result, much of the early work on the nonelite was aridly s reducing the vast majority of the population to a set of numbers was hardly more enlightening than ignoring them altogether. Historians still did not know what these people thought or felt.One way out of this dilemma was to turn to the records of legal courts, for here the voices of the nonelite can most often be heard, as witnesses, plaintiffs, and defendants. These documents have acted as "a point of entry into the mental world of the poor." Historians such as Le Roy Ladurie have used the documents to extract case histories, which have illuminated the attitudes of different social groups (these attitudes include, but are not confined to, attitudes toward crime and the law) and have revealed how the authorities administered justice. It has been societies that have had a developed police system and practiced Roman law, with its written depositions, whose court records have yielded the most data to historians. In Anglo-Saxon countries hardly any of these benefits obtain, but it has still been possible to glean information from the study of legal documents.The extraction of case histories is not, however, the only use to which court records may be put. Historians who study preindustrial Europe have used the records to establish a series of categories of crime and to quantify indictments that were issued over a given number of years. This use of the records does yield some information about the nonelite, but this information gives us little insight into the mental lives of the nonelite. We also know that the number of indictments in preindustrial Europe bears little relation to the number of actual criminal acts, and we strongly suspect that the relationship has varied widely over time. In addition, aggregate population estimates are very shaky, which makes it difficult for historians to compare rates of crime per thousand in one decade of the preindustrial period with rates in another decade. Given these inadequacies, it is clear why the case history use of court records is to be preferred.
It can be inferred from the passage that much of the early work by historians on the European nonelite of the preindustrial period might have been more illuminating if these historians had
Aused different methods of statistical analysis to investigate the nonelite
Bbeen more successful in identifying the attitudes of civil authorities, especially those who administered justice, toward the nonelite
Cbeen able to draw on more accounts, written by contemporaries of the nonelite, that described what this nonelite thought
Drelied more heavily on the personal records left by members of the European political and social elite who lived during the period in question
Ebeen more willing to base their research on the birth, marriage, and death records of the nonelite
正确的***：C
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& & & & & & & & & & & &定位在L43：“ but this information gives us little insight into the mental lives of the nonelites“；直接选出C选项
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& &C选项最后一个词应该是“thought”，我看的时候自动合理化为thought，因为这是关键字
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