Sentences with phrase «despite playing in a team»

Despite playing in a team that has looked very limited going forward, he's been able to make a pretty good impression.

Not exact matches

Fans seem to picture these younger players who play week in / week out for a lesser team maintaining that form despite only having a squad role?

One of the first to leave simply must be Lukas Podolski who has no chance of ever playing in the Gunners first team again, and despite the German international saying last week that he would be returning to Arsenal, it would seem that he is definitely trying to find another club, where he might actually get to play.

and as i mentioned yesterday the notion that Coquelīn will get injured is hypothetical and even without any clear competition from anyone in the team for his position he still produced performances that put him in the top 10 defensive midfielders in Europe despite playing half a season..

Of a team, that despite claims of having 2 superstars, ranks dead last in ISO and is 6th to the last in ISO points per play.

They played team ball and despite losing Captain Jack early in this one to a bad ankle (feel better soon!)

Championship Teams always find ways to win and despite Team Lalez's sloppy play in the first half, they found a way to win against the scrappy rookies, Team Levitan.

Despite an influx of talent, we lacked fluency and constancy early on in the season, playing spells where we looked as good as any I's team I have played in, and spells where we were pretty useless!

He's been better at home almost every year of career and significantly so for the last 4 years, despite playing for 5 different teams with very different home parks in those years

Second - seeded IMG Academy was upset by seventh - seeded Greensboro Day in its first - round game, but Duval still managed to lead the team with 14 points despite playing in the McDonald's All - American Game the night prior.

Shawn Elliott's first Panther team thrived in close games, beating Coastal Carolina, South Alabama, Georgia Southern, and Texas State each by one possession and eking out bowl eligibility despite playing only 11 games.

This persuaded Wenger to give him a first team chance back at Arsenal, and despite some promising performances he rarely played or scored and after complaining about lack of game time he was sent on loan again after six months to Villarreal, where he scored just once in 15 appearances.

Despite having 10 assists in his debut campaign, the team seem to play better when the Argentine is not involved with proceedings.

Of course the next «big team» we play is Man City again on Thursday, and if we lose that then we are left ten points behind Tottenham in Fourth Place, and even 8 points behind Chelsea in Fifth, but Wenger insists that we can't give up yet, despite only ten games left to make up the deficit on both of them.

Coutinho has remained professional so far this season, as despite handing in a transfer request and not getting his move in the summer, he has reintegrated himself back into the team and played an important role for Jurgen Klopp's side.

The Arsenal and Spain international right back Hector Bellerin could be set to endure the same first international tournament disappointment as his club team mate Theo Walcott did with England back in 2006, when Sven Goran Eriksson took the young forward to Germany but did not give him even a minute of playing time despite injury problems to the other England strikers.

Most here, I think, are very high on McDavid because he's led the league in scoring the past two years despite playing for a Edmonton team.

The Chicago Bulls play the Celtics in Boston as both teams continue the fight despite injury - plagued seasons.

Harrison saw a lack of playing time this season, despite having a good 2016 season in which he led the team with five sacks.

He has has been consistent despite playing and learning amongst third rate players in a second rate team.

Paul Gascoigne was the most talented Englishman in a generation and despite several heroic displays for the national team, he never managed to play with a club who finished in the Premier League's top two.

Despite his injury problems, Wenger gave his captain an extra year on his contract in the summer, so Le Prof obviously thinks that Arteta can have a good influence on the team even if he is unlikely to play while Coquelin is fit.

Despite being forced to play in a new system seemingly every week, with an ever changing cast of team - mates, the winger's fine performances even under these conditions are evidence of his star quality.

Poor old Sunderland, a small club that got to play in the Premier League despite having a terrible team & lame manager.

Dunham is just a sophomore, but he leads the team in scoring (14.2 points / game) and rebounding (8.2) despite playing guard.

The only thing that might thwart those ideals would be injuries and suspension etc but all the other qualities despite having players missing, should always be in existence no matter who's in the team and regardless of who we're playing.

According to Wenger it was also due to having to play two games in a week, just like every other top team has to on a regular basis, but apparently the Arsenal players just can't handle that, despite playing less games than most other teams in the Top Six.

Despite only playing in 10 of the team's 15 games because of injury, Hooper still racked up 39 tackles with 8 sacks on defense and had 11 catches for 293 yards and 3 TDs on offense.

The Red Devils travelled to the Bet365 Stadium in top form, but despite playing like the winning team, and the match being completely one - sided, it ended in a stalemate!

Johnson, despite having spent three seasons in the NFL, also becomes a developmental prospect for a Browns team still looking to find consistent play from the quarterback position.

Despite only playing 20 minutes last season, Little Mozart was still called up to the Czech Republic national team for this summer's European Championships in France.

The manager of the Chile national team, Jorge Sampaoli, has already given the Gunners a fright this week by admitting that he played our star striker for the full 90 minutes against Brazil in a World Cup qualifying match, despite knowing that he was not fully fit and so was at risk of aggravating the injury Alexis picked up during the Premier League win over Manchester United.

Chambers - Paid a lot of money for a young player with little experience in regards First Team and Premiership games.He looked a good prospect and because of injuries to the squad he found himself playing very soon into his Arsenal career.This caught up with him a bit as did playing with different CB partners and filling in at full back.Form dipped and was out of the side till a year long loan move to Boro.He was playing every week and despite them going down he was one of their best and consistent players.He has been indifferent since coming back but has looked better in last few games he has played.I believe there is a very decent centre back in this player and would not describe him as a bad buy at all.

De Gea has apparently not spoken to the Dutchman for months, despite playing in the first team continually under van Gaal.

It sounds ridiculous but hear me out, he always plays attacking football, or as our manager likes to say «approaches the game with a positive attitude», he knows how to be consistent with his goals (kept Wigan in PL despite everyone saying they would be relegated), also brought his team to a cup final on an extremely low budget, was also responsible for the passing philosophy in Swansea, and most importantly, he can nurture YOUNG talent (Lukaku already has 50 goals in England, Delofeu is starting to bloom, Stones is already flourishing,...) Imo someone like Matinez would be the perfect candidate for the job, but he has to prove he can win trophies as well and challenge in Europe as well.

Despite being younger and having played in a worse team, Benteke still has a better goalscoring record than Giroud in the PL:

Arsene Wenger was much critized for not playing Lukas Podolski in the Arsenal First team, despite his excellent goalscoring record for the club, but now the German is struggling to get a game on loan at Inter Milan it would seem like Le Prof was right.

It is not just the team in general that should benefit either, but Sanchez himself who was looking frustrated that he had not scored despite playing a great game.

Despite playing in arguably the most competitive division in baseball and possessing neither a potent offense (18th in baseball in runs scored) nor an elite pitching staff (11th in baseball in team ERA), Baltimore is 10 games above.500.

Smith was a sophomore starting linebacker on a Granite Bay team in 2012 that won the CIF Sac - Joaquin Section Division I title despite starting 1 - 3 while playing a difficult preseason schedule.

Despite being young enough, at 18 - years old, to play for the Arsenal under 18 team, Chuba Akpom is firmly established in the under 21s and if he keeps on going the way he has been of late, it will not be too long before he is involved in the first team squads as well.

DIAMOND DIVISION Despite playing without Nevada - bound star Mariah Williams, who was out with an MCL sprain, Vanden - Fairfield was the only Northern California team to win a top bracket after the Vikings handily beat former state champion Narbonne - Harbor City, 62 - 28 in the No. 2 bracket's title game.

who looks to be the main target, is that he plays in the SPL, which is just a terrible league (no offence to any scots), for the only team of any note (Celtic) who despite this are still only in 3rd (although with a game in hand), and completely dependent on Guidetti (who, by the way, looks awesome, but is contracted to Man City) scoring to get them out of trouble... my granny could do his job.

His Porto team bothered the net 73 times in the league this season, which is more than both Mourinho's title - wining Chelsea sides (72 apiece) and his last Porto team (63), despite Villas - Boas» sides playing eight games and four games fewer across the respective seasons.

Team AEPi SO took a step backwards in Week 2 and despite playing well against a very good Team they tumbled down the Rankings as so many Teams around them Won on Sunday Night.

Despite first - team All - American honors as a sophomore in 2010, Burfict's declining play as a junior, concerns about his lack of discipline, a failed drug test at the NFL Combine, and poor testing times all combined to boot him from the 2012 NFL draft entirely.

Despite the loss, Team Evans Scholar SO (Justuss Boice) really played their A game on the offensive end in this game, beating their average of 70.6 points per game this season.

Ray Allen will play, the team announced, despite spending Saturday in the hospital with a, shall we say, problematic stomach bug.

Arsenal's new found depths in the squad means that the Gunners will hardly be playing a team of kids in tonight's match against Southampton, despite making a host of changes from the weekend win over Bournemouth.

Despite such success, until last spring no Navajo team had been able to play in the off - season against top clubs from Phoenix and Tucson.