Sentences with phrase «starts against the boss»

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So even though the Gunners will head to Wales and the Liberty Stadium as big favourites against the struggling Swans, the boss knows that we must be well prepared and approach the game in the right way and after the last two starts against Bournemouth and Preston that means doing it from the first whistle.

Look back to the very start of the season, when the knives were out for the boss after Arsenal picked up just a point from the first two games against Liverpool and Leicester, after which we went on an 18 game unbeaten run.

When you consider that we had Monreal at centre back in that game and no Coquelin or Ozil, while Cazorla and Giroud were not fit enough to start, you can see why the boss is looking forward to the game and confident of ending our poor run against United.

The boss also revealed that our long term absentee Theo Walcott is actually fit to play and by saying that, I think that Wenger is seriously considering throwing the speed merchant on from the start against his former club.

Italy boss Antonio Conte has taken the slightly unusual move of naming his starting eleven for their upcoming friendly against England, twenty - four hours before the game.

A game like this you need to fight Wilshere will give you that he's going to get stuck in he knows what it means to be an Arsenal player and before he's injuries he was way ahead of Ramsey go watch him against City at home bossed the game and got stuck in you probably started wTching arsenal recently so you don't remember Wilshere before the injuries

During a press conference Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has revealed that Theo Walcott is not yet fit enough to start this weekend's game against Burnley at the Emirates Stadium.

In fact it was good enough for the boss to hand him a start in our first Premier League match against Liverpool, preferring the young Nigerian international to Arsenal teammates Joel Campbell and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain.

I can almost bet he will start against Stoke city at the weekend, if only to boss Joe Allen and «stoke» the flames of the Shawcross tackle in the home fans.?

Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti has revealed that Frank Lampard has recovered from a hernia operation to start against West Ham on Saturday.

You could see from the team that the boss started with against the might of Bayern Munich that we have problems, especially after he had to make a change just before kick - off.

But now I think that he has to start at Goodison Park tomorrow, because the boss has spoken to the press about his player and defended him rigorously against what he sees as unfair criticism from the media, as reported by Arsenal.com.

It may sound stupid seeing Wenger starting Sanchez from the bench against Liverpool but then, he was only showing Sanchez who the boss was.

So when you wonder which players Arsene Wenger should start with in central midfield against the Tigers, a lot of Arsenal fans might say the most attacking ones we have available, which would probably be Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain and Alex Iwobi, but I do not think the boss will be that gung ho, especially after being caught out so badly against Watford and then Chelsea.

I think this low key game against the lowly Leciester team is the right game for the boss to introduce de Abereu to start.

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is expected to make changes to his starting line - up against Stoke City at Anfield on Sunday.

And the fact it is Arsene Wenger will make it even worse for Jose, a fact which I am sure the Frenchman is fully aware of and will no doubt try to make even worse by starting Cech against his former boss in the Community Shield.

In the Arsenal pre-match press conference reported by Arsenal.com yesterday the boss was quick to dismiss Everton's poor recent record against us, with just one win the last 19 meetings, as well as the fact that they are currently on a poor run after a great start under Ronald Koeman, in order to make sure the Gunners keep up the performance levels that have seen us climb to second spot.

But now he is back from injury and Jack is not fit to start against Anderlecht, so if Ramsey listens to the boss and just plays his game without worrying too much about whether or not he will score, surely his form and the goals will come.

Flamini has joined Crystal Palace after his contract with Arsenal ran down in the summer and because of the injury problems that Sam Allardyce is having to cope with it is very likely that the former Gunner will start against us in a central midfield pairing with Yohan Cabaye, who just happens to be another player whose game is very familiar to the boss as we nearly signed him a few years ago.

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.

But the reason he might not be in from the start against Hull, in my opinion anyway, is that one of the things that the boss said he needed to work on was coping with the physical strength prevalent in the English game.

But still the only meaningful signing the boss has made is to bring Petr Cech from Chelsea, a transfer that is already starting to look as valuable as we first thought it would be before the Czech Republic international endure a debut to forget against West Ham.

The young Spaniard is normally well involved in most of the Arsenal attacks but had very little influence against Norwich and I think it may have been because the boss had brought back Aaron Ramsey to start in front of him.

It remains to be seen, of course, but I think that the France boss Didier Deschamps is reasonably happy with the Arsenal striker and will probably start him again against Switzerland.

The highly - rated 19 - year - old, who signed a new long - term deal with the club at the start of year, attempted to force his way into Wenger's plans for the new season by scoring a hat - trick against an admittley poor Singapore Select XI and his goal haul certainly didn't go unnoticed by the boss, who says he plans to keep the player at the club this season:

In our next 2 away games against Man U and Monaco FC, I will suggest the boss starts Monreal or Chambers and Koscielny at CB for those particular 2 top games.

Going into the game against Stoke on Sunday, the Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger will have a much tougher job in selecting the starting eleven as the Frenchman welcomes as many as four players back into the side.

Saturday sees the Gunners take on a struggling AFC Bournemouth side at the Emirates Stadium and there is no doubt that the boss will be fielding a strong and Arsenal side as possible as it is vital that we add another three points to those gained in the opening game against Leicester, while also getting the home fans back on side after a slow start and a frustrating transfer window.

The Red Devils boss also chose to leave Anthony Martial out of his starting line - up in the opening leg of the Europa League on Thursday, which will mean he must have decided that this key player could be used against Arsenal instead, which also tells me he is not wholly concentrating his team's efforts on the EL.

Florentino Perez has reportedly told Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane to start forward Gareth Bale against Juventus in next week's crucial clash in the Champions League.

But now that the young French striker has found his scoring boots in stunning style, with four against Benfica, those concerns do not seem as critical, and with the boss also stating that Joel Campbell would definitely not be going out on loan, our front line starts to look pretty good.

After Laurent Koscielny got himself suspended for a ludicrous challenge on Enner Valencia in the game against Everton and Gabriel got stretchered off later in the same game, the Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has now stated that he does not expect Shkodran Mustafi to start the all - important Cup final either.

Welbeck also backed the statement of the boss and even admitted that his half hour against Norwich had taken a lot out of him, but in another Arsenal.com report he made it clear that he did not really want to be a sub and that he would much prefer to start in the centre forward position.

So the Arsenal boss has decided to stick with the same line up that started against Man City five days ago, and I would not be surprised to see a few changes on Monday.

If I am right then we should be seeing Jack Wilshere, Kieran Gibbs and Theo Walcott from the start against Garry Monk's team but the boss seems perfectly happy that this will not have a negative effect on our performance4 and result.

However, with the boss having no injury problems to concern him, it looks like team that started against Deportivo La Coruna in the final league game is what Zidane sees as his best XI, so will that be the same side that starts the Champions League final against city rivals Atletico Madrid on Saturday?

Despite the Arsenal boss having to sit in with the home supporters, his only job is to get the starting line - up correct against a side that could move 12 points clear.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has suggested that attacking midfielder Mesut Ozil and striker Olivier Giroud will both start today's game against Watford on the bench.

The Portuguese boss may not make many changes in the starting lineup that featured against Everton in Wayne Rooney's testimonial.

However, the Serbian boss did not succumb under that pressure and said that the player is still not physically ready to feature from the start and only gave him another 20 minutes against Palermo in the following weekend.

Bolasie could come into consideration for a start against Arsenal, though the Eagles boss will be reluctant to change too much, following the 3 - 1 victory over the Canaries last weekend.

Bosingwa, who saw some some action against Arsenal, is expected to start this one while the men warming the bench at The Emirates might get some «field time» to impress the boss.

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He is in contention to start again on Saturday, for sure, but if Luiz has successfully impressed the boss at Cobham after being dropped against Manchester United, he might get the nod ahead of Christensen on Saturday.

Nikola Vlasic is vowing to do everything he can to impress Sam Allardyce after the Croat attacker made his first Premier League start under the new Everton boss against Manchester United.

As part of the administration's «Persecute Opuni agenda», government and party communicators have started posting Dr Opuni's mother's tomb on their Facebook wall to incite the public against the former cocobod C.E.O. Communicators of government are treating the issue as if the former cocobod boss was «a nobody» before taking the cocobod boss appointment.

Foul - mouthed and domineering she starts a one - woman crusade against the local police boss played superbly by Woody Harrelson.

When you're surrounded, they'll get right in there and start slashing, and against bosses, they'll be right in the thick of the fight.

Defiant Honor started strong with a fight against a suped - up form of a previous boss, but the first major stage gimmick was more annoying than anything else, and although the boss was cool, he needed a bit more health.