Sentences with phrase «league opponents on»

Also, our Champions League opponents on Tuesday could only manage a scoreless draw in Belgium yesterday so we can expect to beat them again at the Emirates.

Arsene Wenger has already been sensible enough to remind the Arsenal players that our champions League opponents on Wednesday night will be no pushovers.

A lively opening from the Championship side instantly set the tone, and put their lower league opponents on the back foot.

Thankfully for Arsenal, our Champions League opponents on Wednesday are doing even worse than the Gunners are in their domestic league.

Well we do, but you have to feel a bit sorry for our Premier League opponents on Saturday, because West Ham, who were already missing two of their front line in Carlton Cole and Andy Carroll, have now a lost a third striker to one of those bizarre injuries that must have a manager tearing his hair out.

Not exact matches

The league source said that James and the Cavaliers flip - the - switch mentality could have a crippling effect on opponents because, frankly, no team has seen the way they really play.

Arsenal fans will have been a bit worried to say the least when the news came in on Saturday that our opponents for the first game of the Premier League season had just put the mighty Barcelona to the sword, with a 4 - 0 win against a strong side including their former striker Luis Suarez, Messi, Iniesta and all.

If we are trying to constantly out duel opponents on offense, then why is it that we don't lead the league in goals every year?

Romeu is coming with Premier League pedigree and can sit affront the back three and help intervene to cut off the opposition moves early on — forcing the opponents to errors that can be then be better dealt with in the defending department.

They are the creme of the crop and I need to apologize to the other teams in the League as I believe my lack of acknowledging this has led them to taking it out on their opponents.

An attributable factor to our dropping of points in winnable games on Saturdays was almost definitely our domination of our BUCS league on Wednesdays and, therefore, complacency against stronger Saturday opponents.

For a change, though, our next opponents Liverpool have an even bigger problem on the injury front and their new manager Jurgen Klopp is starting to wonder what he let himself in for when deciding to come to the Premier League, as his press conference reported by The Mirror suggests.

The Gunners take on Manchester City this weekend as they look to win the League Cup for the first time under Arsene Wenger, but will have an uphill task given the season their opponents are having.

So there has been hardly any pressure on our first team except for in five Cup games all season, whereas ALL of our main rivals have had to contend with much harder opponents in the Champions League on a regular basis, as well as the FA and League Cups.

It may only have been against the EPL's bottom club Swansea City but it will have given our opponents a nice boost as it keeps them in the top half of the league and was their third win in six games and a rare three points on the road.

Chelsea are reportedly eyeing up a triple raid on Champions League opponents Paris Saint Germain for striker Edinson Cavani, midfielder Marco Verratti and full - back Gregory van der Weil, according to French publication Buzzsport.

The Foxes have started the Premier League season better than their points total would suggest, after facing some tough opening opponents and a win here will hopefully allow them to kick on this month.

What we did not want, though, was for United to find some form in front of goal and score five goals, as that is likely to give the players a timely boost ahead of their clash with the Gunners on Sunday, so how much should Arsenal fans worry about the effect this big win in Europe will have on our next Premier League opponents?

They battled to a win in midweek against Red Star Belgrade in the Europa League, with a brilliant team goal eventually breaking their opponents down late on.

Arsenal are currently on a run of nine league matches without a clean sheet, and if they concede against City tonight it will be the first time they've gone ten in a row without keeping their opponents out since February 2002.

Once a champion league game is next week, it was three points on a plata of gold for the preceeding league game opponent.

We have a tough Champions League game against Monaco approaching fast, but today we will find out who our next opponents are on the road to Wembley.

Like what @dave said, Arsenal needs an upgrade to Giroud, a striker that is good in the air, quick, willing to take on the opponent's defenders, has good dribbling and can score more than twenty league goals in a season.

United needed an stoppage - time penalty to edge past Sheffield United in the third round of the FA Cup on Saturday, having managed only two shots on target against their League One opponents.

But now we have the mouth - watering prospect of seeing our Lord and master return against Arsenal as an opponent for the first time, as he has now joined Nottingham Forest on a two - year contract and is very likely to be in their side when they play against us in the League Cup in 12 days time.

of course the games against stoke, leicester etc would have gone a long way to seeing us challenge for the title last season but for a long time now we've been labelled flat track bullies i.e we are generally very good at beating opponents outside the top six but our record against man utd and chelsea maybe even city quite recently has not reflected a team on the same level as those going for the premier league title.

Arsenal are facing a tough task tomorrow, as despite beating the spuds on Wednesday, the players are not exactly flying high after a slow and goal shy start to the season, while our Premier League opponents Leicester City are on a brilliant run of form and have taken the Premier League by storm.

When the Gunners are up against lower league oppositio0n on a cup, for instance, we often hear the old adage that we have to match the work rate of our opponents first and earn the right to play and exert that superior quality.

On the face of it, Arsenal should have no problem recording a home win over our Premier League opponents Aston Villa on SundaOn the face of it, Arsenal should have no problem recording a home win over our Premier League opponents Aston Villa on Sundaon Sunday.

Barcelona face Bayern Munich in the Champions league on Wednesday night, and it looks like they were attempting to intimidate their semi final opponents from the start.

Arsene Wenger spoke earlier about tomorrow's Premier League game against QPR and was of course asked about our opponents, and you can see the full interview on Arsenal.com.

@ a star you could be right because when marseille (my hometown) won the CL league many many years ago:) they were done for bribing opponents but they were rumours of doping, im sure chris» magic» waddle could tell us, apparently they used to get injections before games, all this stuff going on was the reason WENGER decided to leave french football because he thought it was impossible for others french teams to win the league in a fair manner!!

In his defence, the curly - haired Manchester United badman at least picked on a worthy opponent when he decided to unleash his nasty side during the first half of Sunday's Premier League game against Leicester City.

Alvaro Negredo put in a man - of - the - match performance as Middlesbrough thrashed Swansea City 3 - 0 on Saturday to sink their opponents to joint bottom of the Premier League table, ahead of Hull City on goal difference alone.

Even though a draw would not be a bad result for Arsenal against Liverpool at the Emirates stadium on Saturday, it would be so much better for us to take all three points and stretch the Premier League gap between us and our opponents to a massive nine points with just seven games to play.

Just when Arsenal fans were left cursing our luck yet again after the news was revealed this morning that our Brazilian centre back Gabriel has gone back home to South America as he recovers from injury, we got some better news on the injury front from our next Premier League opponents Manchester United.

Manchester United managed to finish sixth in the Premier League last term, but qualified through winning the EL, and we would have to be happy to do the same, although our opponents on paper look much the more difficult to pass with Spanish giants and recent Champions League finalists Atletico Madrid favourites to win the competition.

The Trojans face another physical opponent in Vacaville on Sept. 27 before their Delta River League opener when Book will go toe - to - toe with the region's gold standard at QB, Jake Browning of Folsom.

Arsenal in the past have been accused of being a bit naïve in the way they approach the massive Premier League games, as Arsene Wenger seems to build his gameplan around attacking his opponents and place relatively less emphasis on good defending.

The fact that the on loan Arsenal midfield star Jack Wilshere was widely regarded as the Man of the Match when our opponents for tonight AFC Bournemouth won their last Premier League match at Swansea does give the Gunners some hope that our own absentees will be somewhat offset by the home side's.

I say we concentrate on sending them down a division or 2 so they can get used to the propect of playing against sides they'll actually face on a regular basis... especially if they play in the FA cup and Carling Cup we begin to understand how they'll stack up against Premier league opponents.....

You all know the saw about any team can beat any other on any given night blah blah blah, there really aren't any easy games in this League anymore... All true, but if ever there was a series the Pens looked several levels better than their opponent in the Playoffs in this the 3rd go around for the Mike Sullivan Penguins it is this series.

strengthening opponents is not a good thing, when Man U or Chelsea or Man city sells us their players, you'll only get Welbeck and Sylvester type of flops, but we give them Van Persie, A. Cole, Sanchez etc. they always go on to win the league while for us, the money goes straight to Wenger's salary increment for next season..

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The blueprint to follow, ever since the Royals decided shortening the game to make up for their league - average (or worse) starting pitchers was the way to go, was to get as many nigh - unhittable strikeout machines as you could, and then deploy them all one inning at a time until your opponents were weeping while whiffing on pitches they had no chance against.

The fact that we have been drawn against another Premier League club for the first time this season may have an effect on the Frenchman's thinking, as might the identity of our opponents.

Arsenal are sitting pretty in third place in the Premier League with 8 games to go, and now that we have finally got over our losing streak we just need to carry on making sure that we win all of our games and not worry about our opponents, according to our new Number 9 Danny Welbeck, who opened the scoring against Everton yesterday.

The real test is yet to come on the Premier League front Take nothing away from Arsenal's solid performances and the consequent results they managed during March, however, 3 of their 4 league opponents were teams from the bottom half of the League front Take nothing away from Arsenal's solid performances and the consequent results they managed during March, however, 3 of their 4 league opponents were teams from the bottom half of the league opponents were teams from the bottom half of the table.

They are both useful in that role, it depends on the opponent and the situation of the game (league position or so).

If the Red Devils lose tomorrow's FA Cup quarter - final with West Ham United, perfectly plausible considering that the high - flying Londoners are above their opponents in the Premier League table, then Van Gaal's side won't be competitive on any front whatsoever.