Sentences with phrase «spaniard start»

While the Spaniard started life at Goodison Park strongly after replacing David Moyes — guiding the Merseysiders to their highest - ever Premier League points tally — he struggled to build on that early success, and the Blues ended the season down in eleventh.

Whether it was just a con all along we do not know but the Spaniard starts today, while our own injury blow was clearly true because Lucas Perez is not even in the matchday squad.

The Spaniard started the season on poor form, but he has found his form since playing in the centre of...

The Spaniard started his Etihad career in sensational form but lost his place at the end of last season and is said to be unsettled

The Spaniard started up front, however, and made a huge contribution.

Guus Hiddink had ruled Diego Costa out of this game at the weekend, but despite that the Spaniard started here, leading the attack.

Goalkeeper: David de Gea The Spaniard started midweek and will be certain to keep his place in the starting XI this weekend given that he is arguably the best goalkeeper in the world right now.

Not exact matches

Last night, the Spaniard was constantly jeered by the Santiago Bernabeu crowd, following a difficult start to the season.

With Oxlade - Chamberlain and Monreal also tipped to start by Wenger, the team will have two wing - backs who have adapted well to their new roles and will be great going forward, although the Spaniard should be a little more alert at the back.

Chelsea striker Diego Costa always seems to get under the skin of Arsenal players when the two sides meet and — having scored five goals in as many Premier League games this season — the Spaniard is almost certain to start in North London.

The Spaniard has come on leaps and bounds since earning a regular starting role, even picking up the award for the PFA Premier League Team of the Year for last season.

Along with Giroud I think that Lucas Perez played a huge part in the comeback at Bournemouth and after a slow start to his playing career with Arsenal I think the Spaniard is starting to show why Wenger signed him.

Started the last two matches for United after fans were pining for his involvement, and they've certainly be proved right with the Spaniard scoring the opening goal in both games.

I'm guessing that there will be lots of goals too, unless Wenger decides to confound the Spaniard by parking the bus to start with, but I doubt that will work against City.

The little Spaniard may have been out with injury for a long time and he might not be able to finish the game but I think he must at least be given a chance to start it.

The Spaniard revealed that he is expected to start running within the coming week, and will hopefully be ready to train within two weeks.

One of Benzema or Morata will likely leave this summer, and while the Spaniard has outscored his team - mate this campaign, he is still regularly overlooked to start.

The Spanish bank started sponsoring Ferrari in 2010 when Fernando Alonso joined the team and continued to sponsor the Scuderia, even when the Spaniard made yet another one of his bad career moves and joined McLaren - Honda.

Mkhitaryan and Mata appear to have both fallen out of favour with Mourinho as Jesse Lingard now looks to have stolen the starting position in the Man United number ten role ahead of the Armenian and Spaniard.

Spaniard has been an impressive start to life in the English top tier and one of the few bright spots of an otherwise poor season for the Emirates Stadium side.

In turn, seeing him miss the game with United would be a huge blow, while potentially bringing in Fernando Llorente to replace him in the starting line - up would likely force Pochettino to change the way his team play to fit the strengths of the Spaniard.

After suffering an injury setback last weekend, the Spaniard has been passed fit for this weekend's encounter with Stoke City and so Antonio Conte will likely call on him to help Chelsea keep up their positive start to the season.

The sophisticated Spaniard is yet to make an impression at Loftus Road but Real Madrid don't buy bad players and when he's settled, Granero will start to show his worth.

While it's still very early in the season, one has to start wondering if the Spaniard finally has all the pieces in place to make a legitimate run at the league title.

The Spaniard's blistering speed to get up and down the right flank for the Gunners is a major facet of his game, and in turn it has helped him establish himself in Arsene Wenger's starting line - up and become recognised as one of the best in his position in England.

Kieran Gibbs is more suited to an all - out attack approach than Monreal, but, given that Arsenal don't have to chase the game from the get - go, expect the more defensive - minded Spaniard to start.

Cazorla starts over Wilshere for me simply because the Spaniard almost always causes Spurs a lot of problems.

The Spaniard agreed a season - long deal with Napoli last summer, but made just two starts for the Serie A side.

We were all shocked when we heard the rumour yesterday that Santi Cazorla was more injured than we thought he was, but Wenger started off by confirming that the Spaniard needs surgery.

We all know how long the tapping up of Cesc Fabregas went on to persuade him to return to the Nou Camp and there is no doubt that the Catalans will start trying to persuade the Spaniard to return home as soon as possible.

The Spaniard is consistently caught out, and although he is a threat going forward, he hasn't improved enough to suggest that he deserves to be the starting left - back at a club chasing major honours.

I doubt that I was the only Arsenal fan to be surprised to see the name of our France international right back in the starting line - up instead of the young Spaniard Hector Bellerin at the weekend.

The Gunners have used Mesut Ozil on the left before and doing so again would allow the super Spaniard Santi Cazorla to start again in his favoured central role.

Gibbs was formerly a first team regular for the years after Gael Clichy and kept Nacho Monreal out of the starting eleven after the Spaniard signed for the Gunners back in 2013.

The Spaniard had a quiet start to life at Old Trafford following his move from Stamford Bridge, but burst into life in the second half of this season.

In fact, it was the Spaniard that signed a young Alexis from Udinese for the Catalan giants, with the Chilean being a regular in the starting eleven and an integral part of Barcelona's system at the time.

Spaniard De Gea starts in goal for the home side, with Chris Smalling, Victor Lindelof and Daley Blind set to start ahead of the «keeper.

Now though, The Mirror reports that Wenger has no intention at all of selling the Spaniard and he backed that up yesterday by starting Monreal in the first game of pre-season, which would be unlikely if the player was close to a possible transfer away.

Instead of resting Santi Cazorla for the Premier League and using Xhaka in Europe where his three match ban does not apply, Wenger started the Spaniard but then had to replace him after Santi picked up a knock in the second half, as revealed by the boos in an Arsenal.com report.

The Spaniard has improved after a slow start for the Gunners and we need him to come back in top form, with our German play maker Mesut Ozil ruled out with injury until the start of next year.

However, Wilkins thinks his former side will still cope without Costa because they have Loic Remy, who started in the Spaniard's absence against Crystal Palace at the weekend.

There is one slight surprise for Arsenal fans in the starting line up of Arsene Wenger today, although the use of our England international left back Kieran Gibbs in a more advanced role on front of the Spaniard Nacho Monreal has been tried before and with a fair amount of success, although it is normally a move made by the manager to shore things up at the end of a game.

The Spaniard was speaking ahead of the start of the tournament in Poland, and is disappointed not to see the best possible talents for each nation selected.

After several stop - start talks the young Spaniard is now set to join the reds after Sevilla's involvement in the European Super Cup against Real Madrid this week.

Despite knowing that the Spaniard wouldn't start as part of the switch to a 3 -4-3 system, he still travelled as per the report and watched him in action for the last five minutes or so.

So, a pretty disappointing start to the weekend for the Spaniard in front of his home fans.

What started as a bit of gamesmanship at TPC Sawgrass two weeks ago now has sponsors distancing themselves from the Spaniard.

Not only does Wenger really like the combination of Coquelin and Cazorla in the middle, as proved by him starting them over Xhaka when all were fit, but the combative Frenchman and the sublime Spaniard have not been away on international duty so should be that bit fresher.

When Campbell and the Ox came onto the right they began to link up with the Spaniard and we started to look a threat again.

The little Spaniard was replaced at halftime against the spuds and he might as well not have started because the boss revealed after the game that Cazorla was suffering from some mystery illness that was clearly affecting his game and the Frenchman suggested that his central midfielder was only operating at around 30 percent.