Sentences with phrase «premier league performances»

Very highly regarded during his time playing in France for Saint - Etienne Kurt Zouma was expected to flourish for Chelsea and has widely impressed with a number of excellent Premier League performances.

The simplest way of looking at this is that Premier League performances are generally proportionate to the amount a club spends on wages.

Although there is no doubt that the Premier League performances in the last two seasons have been a disappointment, Wenger remains one of Europe's top coaches, and with over a year to run on his contract, it makes no sense to dispense with his services at the end of this season.

But despite renewed success, worsening Premier League performances had led to considerable fan protests against his tenure.

True, but we could also say the same thing about our premier league performances over the last decade or so, yet no one is saying what's the point in playing in this league since we keep on bottling it every time we are in with a shout.?

Roberto Mancini takes his Eastlands side to Austria hoping for a big improvement on recent Premier League performances that have seen his Man City side fall away from the top four race.

Has underwhelmed in his recent Premier League performances.

I know Cambridge will be blown away at Old Tratford but its another mid week game for United which may affect their premier league performance.

It is not free flowing like it used to be and our premier league performance has deteriorated.

Since arriving at the club, Jurgen Klopp has placed great importance on the competition, due in part to a disappointing Premier League performance this year.

Not exact matches

The Switzerland - based institute analysed performance data over the last three months from Europe's «big five» football leagues — England's Premier League, Spain's La Liga, Italy's Serie A, Germany's Bundesliga, and France's Ligue 1.

In that time, Iwobi managed two goals, both in the Premier League, whilst also showing that statistics aren't the only thing that make a good performance.

The former Porto boss has been less than impressed by some decisions against his team, even going so far as calling referees» chief Mike Riley to complain about the performance of the officials in Chelsea's Barclays Premier League defeat at Manchester United.

The 30 year - old was rightly chosen for the Man of the Match award for his outstanding performance against the Premier League champions.

Assuming that the currently injured Gunners like Jack Wilshere and Danny Welbeck do not suffer any setbacks on their paths to recovery and that we keep putting in the good performances and getting the right results in the Premier League, then I can not see the boss being any more keen to add to his squad.

After putting in another match winning performance for Arsenal, depending on whether or not you agree with the player ratings from Just Arsenal earlier that is, Mesut Ozil continues to confound his critics and help to keep the Gunners in strong contention for the Premier League trophy.

While they remain in a strong position in their Champions League group, Chelsea should be alarmed by last night's result and performance, particularly as it comes alongside a slow start in the Premier League.

In fact many people would say it is even more gruelling in the Championship, with everyone fighting hard to win a place in the Premier League, and Bruce certainly seems suited to the job, although he has also pulled out some brilliant performances from his teams in the top tier as well.

A lot of people are questioning the title credentials of Arsenal, but we are perhaps the most stable club and squad of players and there was plenty of reason for optimism from the performances of our other Premier League rivals yesterday.

The Dutchman was forced to play alongside Chris Smalling at the heart of United's defence during their Premier League season opener against Tottenham Hotspur at the weekend and his performance was questioned by some in the media, who don't feel he is the long - term solution in that position.

Kane's performances have been so impressive this term that Newcastle head coach John Carver was quoted by the Daily Mail as comparing the forward to Premier League legend Alan Shearer, while Rodney Marsh told talkSPORT that he believes the 21 - year - old is better than Manchester United's Angel di Maria — and is worth # 100m.

Previously prolific Dutch strikers have had mixed results after moving to the Premier League, but I am sure Arsene Wenger would be very keen to get such a freescoring centre - forward, especially after watching some of our insipid performances this season.

Ronald Koeman will be delighted with his team after a stellar performance, while Guardiola will undoubtedly be left furious as City capitulated and showed their vulnerabilities again as they fall behind their Premier League title rivals.

The veteran left - back spent eight years at Old Trafford, winning five Premier League titles and the Champions League in his time with the club, and becoming something of a fans» favourite with his committed performances.

However, Wenger has got a good squad that is sitting pretty in 3rd place on the Barclays Premier League table, and the likes of Mesut Ozil, Santiago Cazorla, Alexis Sanchez, Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud, to name a few, have to turn up on the night and produce their best performances.

His performance in Europa League games has been particularly impressive, starring in famous confrontations with Arsenal's Premier League rivals: Chelsea, Liverpool, and Tottenham.

Liverpool transfer target Yannick Bolasie delivered a fine first - half performance for Crystal Palace at Anfield and reminded spectators why he has been linked to the Premier League giants.

Willian undoubtedly stood out for his performance with the two key goals, while there was an historic landmark reached for Cesc Fabregas as he registered the 100th Premier League assist of his career as he continues to impress when given an opportunity by Conte.

The young Italian turned in a magnificent performance in the second leg against Chelsea as Paris Saint Germain knocked out the Premier League leaders on away goals.

It was lazy of Wenger to emphasize a family atmosphere especially in recent seasons, it almost, if not created a culture where everyone patted each other on the back fostering mediocrity, in the real world of the premier league and elsewhere, it is important to be fired up by competition even among the players, and with a manager of Wenger's stature, I'm sure he has enough in his locker to make sure said competition don't get nasty and counterproductive to overall team performance.

There will certainly be Premier League attention on his performance with the likes of Man United, Liverpool and Arsenal linked with the forward in recent weeks (via Daily Mail).

There was plenty of impressive performances this weekend as the Premier League returned following an international hiatus, but there was also plenty of nightmare displays, particularly from Arsenal and Liverpool who both lost once again to continue their dreadful campaigns.

The new coach is looking forward to another good performance from his team and he would love to go all the way in the Carabao Cup, as he told the official West Ham website: «It is less than a week since we held Arsenal to a goalless draw in the Premier League at London Stadium and now we go to the Emirates in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night to take them on again.

Morale is down, toxicity in the stands is spreading to the dressing room, pay attention to Ozil and Sanchez and even Bellerins body language, the playing for a lost cause... If I'm Ozil there is no way I'm putting in a similar level of performance I did last season if the «main striker» goes missing for 14 games despite creating 141 chances and breaking the premier league record

The Women's Blues entered the Varsity Match following strong performances in the BUCS leagues, narrowly missing out on an immediate return to the Premier Division.

In fact, it had been thought that McCarthy would be moving to Anfield this summer after the Englishman's man - of - the - match performance against Brendan Rodgers's side in the Premier League last April, a display that the Reds boss later called one of the best - ever that he had seen from a goalkeeper in his career.

But his performances between the posts at Celtic Park have attracted interest from Premier League clubs.

As Wenger outlined in his pre-match press conference reported by Arsenal.com, Leicester are no mugs and have put in two strong performances against Everton and Chelsea so far in the Premier League.

The young forward will have returned from the Euro 2012 finals buoyed by his fine individual performances and as such will not have been happy to return to the Premier League title holders after a successful summer only to be left warming the Etihad Stadium bench.

As another old enemy, Michael Owen, said about the match in his Premier League betting preview: «Tony Pulis has lost only one of his last six Premier League home games with Arsenal and I expect to see his side bounce back after a couple of disappointing performances in recent weeks,»

His assessment comes after Spurs suffered their first defeat in the Premier League this season away at Chelsea, but ultimately performances haven't been great from them in recent weeks.

Flick through the pages below to read our full list of ratings for Liverpool's performance against Tottenham in their Premier League clash.

Karius has been in fine form so far in 2018, with the German's performances going a long way to helping Klopp's side reach the latter stages of the Champions League and all but secure a top four finish in the Premier League.

Chilean forward Eduardo Vargas has taken his time to adapt to Premier League football since joining on loan from Napoli this summer, but impressive cameo performances against the likes of Liverpool have given Rangers fans real hope that he can be a difference maker for them.

Luiz's performance were very key last season, as the defender's partnership with Cesar Azpilicueta and Gary Cahill at the back for the Blues saw his side win their fifth Premier League title.

The Premier League leaders are considering a summer bid for the stopper and sent over scouts to report back on the player's performance.

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Opta - powered fantasy football game www.oulala.com have taken a look at the Welshman's performance data from the Premier League last season and compared it against the man he'd most likely be looking to oust in the Barcelona first team, Ivan Rakitic.

Indeed, if Sissoko's performance for Newcastle continue, he could well become one of the figures to define the transfer window — a player who the Premier League's top clubs should be falling over each other to try and secure.

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