Sentences with phrase «injuries to key players gave»

Injuries to key players gave Iwobi his chance last season and he grabbed the opportunity with both hands.

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Beset by injuries to key players like Brett Hull, Pierre Turgeon and Al MacInnis, they have put together a corps of former minor league workhorses, including Blair Atcheynum, Jim Campbell, Chris Conroy, Pavol Demitra, Scott Pellerin and Terry Yake, who refused to give up their NHL dream.

We came second to Leicester mainly because of the much greater demands on the squad from our competing intensely on 3 fronts, playing 2 tough games every week without any respite — whilst Leicester had only the League to focus on, with only one game a week and crucially were given 2 weeks off to rest and recover their energy levels — over a period in which we were handicapped by many injuries, loss of form and confidence to key players whilst Leicester had no such handicaps.

I hope he proves me wrong and gives everton a nightmare of a game but i'm excited about seeing Campbell coming in as a sub soon because of injury to one of our key players.

In an interview with BBC Sport, as seen in the tweet below, Pogba suggested that he hoped some key Man City players picked up injuries to give United a better chance of catching them in the Premier League title race, although you can tell he was hesitant in admitting it.

Of course an injury can occur at any time, but with Arsenal missing key players like Cazorla, Bellerin, Welbeck and Mertesacker, are we hoping for Chelsea and Man City to have problems in order to even things up and give us a realistic shot at the EPL title?

Would love to see them make it in the 1st team in EPL games... im sure if we have injuries to key players, instead of players like Flamini and Arteta we could give some of these youngsters a chance.

We are not far from top, key players coming back from injury and a sharp Alexis Sanchez ready and rearing to rip the 2nd half of the season so don't give up just yet.

It's understood that injuries to key players will be a recurring theme of Mourinho's moan, while penalties not being given for United will be another hot topic.

i'll be honest, i'll be gutted if we go out tonight.when you look at the teams left in the carling cup only man utd & villa possibly stand in our way from winning it.i honestly reckon that if it was an arsenal v man utd final every single arsenal fan would be up for it, i know i would.the good thing is as well the carling cup final is in feb and winning it could give huge confidence to the squad especially if we are in contention for the other trophies.the biggest thing that worries me is injuries to key players, but imagine arsenal parading the cup at wembley and every one of those players having a winners medal on their sideboard, the team's belief would be an all - time high.while i agree with you that the 3 other trophies are more important, but don't you think it was great to hear wenger being positive.i thought it sent out a message of intent and belief although we all know it's difficult winning one trophy besides 4.