Sentences with phrase «arsenal team lined»

Everyone was surprised when the Arsenal team lined up for today's win over Aston Villa, as Laurent Koscielny, who was

Not exact matches

From the Arsenal and Hull starting line ups it is clear that Steve Bruce expects his team to be under a lot of pressure as he has gone with a physical and somewhat defensive XI with players like Powell, Huddlestone and Diame and their top scorer of the season Abel Hernandez on the bench.

Stop this bullsh!t your french striker wanting to face a team (favourite opponent), the guy is capable of leading arsenal's front line, get a striker asap.

goodness i can't believe it people will still defend him.You know something when Giroud misses many chances like at Monaco i did not criticize him even based on that you know why?its because he has always not been clinical.The only way a team can improve is by indentifying its problems and solving them.Arsenal has Giroud as the main cf and Welbeck as backup to him.Giroud has done well scoring some goals some too important but collectively he does more harm than good.Do not use moments to judge a player judge him based on content.Giroud does not excel in many games than he excels in games.As a main cf you need to be consistent.I see people here saying Giroud can not dribble he cant do this he cant do that but its a bit crazy to criticize him for that because every player has his own style.Giroud limitations as a player costs arsenal and will cost us a lot.Most importantly his poor finishing which has cost us several times.Not good enough.His style of play is ok for us but a striker who can take on players and run behind defences very well would make us very strong and also should be clinical.For Welbeck he needs to works on his finishing and composure by doing the basic things right.He rushes infront of goal too much.For now he is just above average.However he can excel if he works on improving.Giroud and Welbeck will always be a pain in arsenal's neck for most part.Some will call me stupid but hey at least i want to analyze the problem.People may support Giroud or Welbeck to lead the line next season but as the saying goes if you fool me once shame on you but if you fool me twice shame on me.Will you let Giroud and Welbeck fool you again?

Reading through the lines on AW, s press conformance yesterday, i think he hinted without realizing and said «Arsenal will decide when Sanchez can leave and that he still has 16 months on his contract» this means to me that if Sanchez wants to go to another EPL team they will make him sit on the bench for the whole of the next season, my opinion they will be right to do so even if it means losing 25/30 million to prove a point

Since the New Year Arsenal have been the most in - form side so it could be argued that we already have a super-strong squad, but Wenger believes that the other teams around us will be improving their line - ups this summer.

Now sheffield know what the arsenal is capable of and we should be aware as to the depths they can go to grind out a win.Recently the results have been going our way but that can all change in a flash.We ought to be careful at all times.Our players need not to be overconfident and relax, they need to keep the fire burning to make us supporters proud.I have heard that they are now self guided.They conduct meetings on how they will be winning games.Thats the attitude and i also hope wenger is listening so he does not go all messing with the starting line ups especially during the uefa games.As for tommorows game wenger can try out the reserves team.

This is the penultimate game of the Arsenal pre-season preparations, with the final chance for the Gunners coming in two days against Manchester City, so if Theo wants to make sure that it is him rather than young Chuba Akpom who is lining up when Jurgen klopp brings his Liverpool team to north London next weekend he needs to prove himself now.

With Theo Walcott almost permanently injured and Lukas Podolski possibly leaving, Arsenal could be lining up an exciting # 26m move to sign Barcelona winger Pedro, who can fill in a number of attacking midfield roles and provide the team with another goal threat.

I think as team, Arsenal lack a mid-fielder who wins challenges, supplies to the front - line, some one like Gerrard.

Lining up on the right, but given freedom to interchange with his team - mates, Alexis Sanchez continues as a key member of Arsenal's attack for next season.

Its not like he is going to compete with Messi, Neymar and Auarez for first team line up.He is going to compete with Giroud, Welbeck, Walcott.So if he sign for Arsenal, he will not get any problem to get into the first team.

In addition, Mhky might not be on the same level with Sanshit... but he is well above all the wing forwards we have in the team at the moment (including Ozil whenever he is deployed on the wing), just imagine an attack line of Laca, Auba and Mhky with Ozil providing all the assists, you can bet you luch that Arsenal will be a handfull for any team to handle and less predictable with fresher options coming off the bench to maintain the pressure (Iwobi, Welbeck and co).

Remember if you aren't at the head of the class when it comes to the development of young talent, which means eyes on the ground everywhere, a vast array of connections with soccer associations throughout Europe and beyond and a manager willing to properly train and play said blue chippers, (like the 90s Arsenal or clubs like the modern day Monaco and Dortmund) you need to spend to win... anything in between is highly problematic... failure to make the necessary changes leaves you in the proverbial «no man's land» and that is currently where we reside... it's difficult to get out of this rut... just ask either of the Milan teams... next step after that is being known as a «seller», which could be us already if and when Sanchez leaves... there are only two teams that have worn this moniker in recent times and had some decent success and that is Athletico Madrid and Dortmond, which only occurred when they both brought in new, charismatic leaders in Simmone & Klopp... the odds that Wenger could conjure up the magic to repeat the performances of a bygone era are incredibly low, so why prolong the agony... he's not willing to create the hierarchy necessary to go the youth route and he's unwilling to put his team's potential success ahead of his job security by laying it on the line with Moustache, so it's time to place all your chips in the middle or go gently into that good night

One of the main reasons why Arsenal are expected to win the battle for his signature (other than the wages on offer) is that Goretzka would be reunited with Saed Kolasinac, who was playing alongside him at Schalke before the Bosnian international moved to Arsenal on a free last summer, and the fact that his international team - mate Shkrodan Mustafi is also in the starting line - up for the Gunners.

anyway I ain't freaked about seeing Giroud in my first choice Arsenal line up, so to me, there's nothing to worry abt, thanks to the depth of the squad which means everyone have to sit up or gets displaced by someone else due to the competition for places in the team and this includes Giroud.

He is decent in the England national team but needs to step up his game to push for a place in the starting line - up at Arsenal.

We did this with my friends the other day, get the team sheets (starting line up) of ALL the teams in the Premier league and try and see who can DEFINITELY be replaced by an Arsenal player.

arsenal have the most dum gullible delusional fans in the league Wenger is actually managing down to the levels of the fans it doesn't matter the line up the team Wenger put together is just not good enough bellerin not top ten right back in the league a defender who never win a header.

Only the attacking line cost more than all Arsenal team, ffs, Bale costs more than Ozil and Sanchez put together.

There are not many other surprises in the Arsenal starting line up, with Petr Cech set to face his fomer team mates and manager for the first time, Monreal getting the nod over Gibbs, and Coquelin detailed to provide the back four with good protection and perhaps stop Eden Hazard running the game.

This is beginning to look to me like Arsenal are going to be scared of teams if we don't have Sanchez in the starting line - up, and conversely that our opponents are going to feel more confident if he is not named in the team sheet before the game?

A look at how Arsenal would dearly love to be lining up next season if they appoint Jurgen Klopp as their manager and see him raid his old club Borussia Dortmund for three of their star players, could this team dominate English and European football again under the German's guidance?

Wenger is to blame bec is the one who insist in putting an inferior line up and hope that the oppisite team will give up without a fight only bec we are Arsenal.

If Arsenal players can keep their distances short to play short passes, confident to play with high defensive line and work as a team, I think we will see a good football from them.

There are some changes to the Arsenal starting line - up which is hardly surprising after the lame effort the team put on at Old Trafford, but not many would have expected it to be Koscielny that dropped out for Mertesacker.

Since his exclusions teams have not held back against arsenals defensive minded line up that Arsene produces.

Those players you highlighted do not play in a team that goes gung - ho in attack, if you consider Arsenal set - up we play so high up the pitch that we leave our defence exposed, there are even times when our defenders also play a very high line and all this is Wenger's instruction...

I'll be the first to admit counter attacking football and Arsenal should go together like cookies and cream but ever since the invicibles teams have refused adamantly to play high defensive lines against us and counters do not work if the opposition has a defensive 5 or 6 set up near the edge of their box when you finally get the ball up there.

Would love to see how an Arsenal team would fair with Ramsey, Mertesacker, Walcott, Ox and Flamini out of the line - up at the same time.

FC Basel midfielder Mohamed Elneny is expected to sign on the dotted line for Arsenal in a matter of days, if not hours, to become the first big signing for the team this transfer window.

Arsenal will line up the same as always in a 4 -2-3-1 formation against every side because Wenger is still the same, all the top managers have Wenger's number because he doesn't adapt the teams playing style according to our opponents from week to week, he thinks the so - called Arsenal way is the best way for every game even though we'll face different teams with different managers!

Speaking on the matter before Arsenal's Champions League clash with PSG, a team which has many stars names in their line - up, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger officially confirmed that the Gunners are set to begin contractual negotiations with the pair.

There are not too many surprises for Arsenal fans today, in fact it looks like the Arsenal team is almost picking itself at the minute, with Arsene Wenger sticking with the same starting line - up that faced Chelsea eight days ago.

Arsenal fans were desperate for Arsene Wenger to spend some money on a new striker for the team this summer, because season after season has proved that we aren't quite sufficient in the front line.

It is the only way Arsenal can hope to beat teams with forward lines like Neymar - Messi - Suarez (wow!).

Teams like Manchester United and Arsenal sold themselves short over the summer by moving for too many attacking players and sacrificed strengthening their back lines to their detriment.

Arsene Wenger has been a lot more liberal with his team selection, making five changes to the Arsenal line up that beat QPR last week.

Bottom line, a manager who can get the best out of the players at Arsenal, can see the weaknesses in the team and deal with them.

The bottom line this summer in Arsenal signings is Le Prof MUST sign a top quality holding / attacking midfielder of Goretzka's caliber to fully complement his entire starting XI team next season and just limits himself to the signings of Kolasinac and Lacazette alone which if he does without signing a top quality holding / attacking midfielder, his starting XI team next season could be understrength at midfield as Santi Cazorla won't be available in the first half of the season and Elneny can't be relied on to deliver high performances for Arsenal on consistent basis.

Sandro is the same age and also capable of playing across the front line, but he hasn't quite made the same impression on the team — he certainly has potential, but he may not be an upgrade on Arsenal's current young options.

if after 20 + years at arsenal this is what wenger Lines up as a team.....

We have already had the bonus of seeing Alexis Sanchez overcome the knock to his Arsenal and play for Chile and now the news that our creator in chief Ozil is going to be okay to line up against Pep Guardiola's team is a major boost to our hopes of getting back on track and finishing in the top four spots to ensure another Champions League place.

If there are more players like him, especially in the defensive line, Arsenal can build the attack from the back and play more fluid passing game, like the other top European teams do.

do nt totally agree with your selection — iwobi is young and is still learning do nt think hes a first team player but he will get better xhaka is a tough ball winning midfielder just gets booked too much OX is getting better and sthey will stick with him giroud is simone perfect player will lead the line (like torres does at At mad i do nt think Coquelin is good enough for arsenal

Reading between the lines of his pre-match comments reported by the Arsenal website, I get the impression that the boss is really not sure whether his team will turn up for this crucial clash and he appears to be almost pleading with them to take it seriously.

I guess the Arsenal manager really does believe all his talk about the cohesion and stability of a team being all important, because Arsene Wenger has, stubbornly some might say, stuck largely with the same starting line up that was so poor as we lost to West Ham last Sunday.

Cech was expected to reinforce the Arsenal back line, to make the defensive aspects of the team much stronger.

Look man I hear you but I mean objectively not because we're fan of this club... on paper overall we have a better team than Spurs & Leicester, we have more overall talent but fail to produce that is the bottom line... Always the same issues come up & we're talking about it over and over on website & youtube channels like Arsenal TV.

playing with g - rod up front is like sticking to fingers up to traditional arsenal play of fast movement one twos and pass and move football this is very unlike wenger to make such a major shift away front his normal trends of style of play big man up front with no pace just isn't the wenger way really he needs to go back to the past really to answer the current problem i have noticed all the other top 4 teams are more wenger they are (wengerites to coin a phrase) than wenger himself playing with a big srtong pacey team like we use to have they all copied wengers blueprint and left him behind somewhere along the line and he altered his and its not been the same since do nt change a winning system of power and pace if it is was working for you mr wenger