Sentences with phrase «about team selection»

Wenger reacted angrily to questions about his team selection after his decision to leave Petr Cech out in midweek backfired when replacement goalkeeper David Ospina made a major error in their 3 - 2 defeat at home to Olympiakos.

It's not just the Chairmen and the kids, why do I keep seeing reports from our ITK about team selection and potential signings and other «expert» comments.

On paper City should sail through this tie but alot depend on how Guardiola's goes about his team selection.

Mourinho is very funny, he was asked about his team selection, if the team reflects to his changes during the second half against Newcastle and he couldn't hide his foolishness saying «His team was fantastic against Arsenal for 90 mins».

With an FA cup clash with Hull City just a few days before the visit of Barcelona in the Champions League, Wenger has some big decisions to make about team selection and rotation.

No clue about tactics, no clue about substitutions, no clue about team selection (Cech would have dominated his area and prevented at least one of the headers + he is most experienced keeper trophy winning keeper in the country and would remain calm), no plan B when he realised Carroll is playing.

My point was that our manager has a mountain of experience to draw on and I think that is why he was very circumspect in his pre match press conference, reported by Arsenal.com, when talking about his team selection for the FA cup clash with Sunderland tomorrow.

AW needs to think about his team selection, his rotation, his selection, but most of all about the balance of the team and squad viz - a-viz the opposing team and their coach / manager.

There were groans about the team selection on the weekend, but that team is putting up results.

Wenger doesn't usually go into so much depth about his team selections, and that was a very complicated comment from Le Boss.

It's said that Abramovich and Conte have had a number of spats about team selections and transfer targets and the Italian has become a somber figure compared to last season.

Not exact matches

From the CEO of a Texas - based shop who sent his regards to the selection committee via video from his yacht, to the mesmerizing story spun by a strategist from New York using nothing but a Sharpie and a pad of paper, there was never really any doubt about what these teams would be like to work with.

In some ways my focus going forward will not actually change very much — it remains all about people, and it's clear to me the stability of our board of directors, the selection of our new CEO, and the empowerment of our management team is what is needed most.

We had more than 300 people apply to be part of the launch team for A Year of Biblical Womanhood, and because I absolutely hate not including everyone — especially when just about everyone had amazing ideas and meaningful words of encouragement — I've left the selection process to my team at Thomas Nelson.

«For me it's all about flexibility,» explains Laithwaites» wine director Abi Hirshfeld, who confirms that while the majority of the time her team's winemaking involvement is restricted to blending the «80 - 90 %» of wines which are exclusive to Laithwaites, there is the option to extend this right back to vineyard parcel selection.

Ask one of the team to tell you about our selection of freshly - made desserts, all served with vanilla ice cream.

Hector has been brilliant for us but still has much to learn at FB and Wenger is helping out with the conservative team selection — he was after all a winger in the Barca youth set - up (slightly ironic really with all the people moaning about AR15 being played in an unfamiliar role that we have a rookie converted winger at RB).

Arsene Wenger has been handed a few selection problems ahead of this game, but he did the right thing by resting most of the regular first team stars in the Europa League win at BATE Borisov, so there should be no excuses about tired legs today.

So I think team selection is all about who plays best with each other.

THe boss also spoke about finding the perfect blend in his team selection, perhaps a little message to players like Lukas Podolski and Joel Campbell who are clearly frustrated at lack of game time.

One of the best and most encouraging things about the season just gone for Arsenal, after a pretty shoddy start to proceedings, was the strength in depth on offer to Arsene Wenger with his team selection.

So while we are all delighted about topping our UCL group, could Wenger's team selection mean that fatigue will play a part in the next two games?

This one is going to be more about the individual selections and instructions than it is the formations, and the interesting parts of the tactical battle will be who starts and what their roles are, not what formations the teams line up in.

It is all about competition really and the summer additions through the transfer window of Granit Xhaka, Lucas Perez and Shkodran Mustafi, as well as giving the manager more options in his team selection, will hopefully have the added effect of keeping the likes of Olivier Giroud, Theo Walcott, Per Mertesacker and Gabriel on their toes.

Big derbies like this never come down to who is in better form, its about who turns up on the day... Lets hope the team that destroyed Chelsea pitches up tomoro, and lets hope the boss gets the selection right.

Ifthat true, and his team selection plays badly, then he will know about it.

The worst thing about it for me is it's not just the team selection which is poor, but the way we go about our performances.

One thing you can definitely say about Arsenal after the FA cup thumping of Southampton and as Arsene Wenger prepares for the top of the table clash with Premier League rivals Chelsea this weekend is that the players involved last weekend have given the boss a tough decision on team selection.

Personally, I don't care as much about the result today as about Wenger's team selection.

No his selection fault???? Ermmmm how about putting cech in goal for this crucial game, how about actually buying some quality players that our team needs

There is not too much to be happy about this morning if you are an Arsenal fan, after another exit from the league cup, currently known as the EFL cup, with Arsene Wenger demonstrating once again that he has very litte respect for this trophy or desire to add it to his collection with an Arsenal team selection that would have struggled to beat a lower league team, never mind our Premier League bogey team Southampton.

I've been SBNation.com's resident bracketologist since 2009 and while I've never gone into a Selection Sunday thinking I would get all 36 at - large teams correct, I've never had as much doubt about the complete picture around the cut line as I do this year.

Arsene Wenger would have had to hand in his Arsenal team selection before he knew how West Ham would line up today, but even though the big centre forward has not started a Premier League game for about three months, I could have told Wenger that Andy Carroll would start against us today.

I get a bit worried about Wenger's team selection when he has so many of his CAM's back.

I could go on and on about players performance and attitude, team selection, tactics and so on — but one simple fact has actually dawned on me to make me feel genuinely sad......

I have often complained about the «Wenger favourites» system, and that is completely ruining the team selection and tactics more than ever before.

Those worried about bracket creep, i.e. the inevitable push to expand the tournament from four to eight to 16 to 32 teams, should see danger in the decision to allow the selection committee to fill out the top 12 teams.

Three representatives of the 13 - member College Football Playoff selection committee — Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich, former Nebraska coach and member of Congress Tom Osborne, and Big East advisor Tom Jernstedt — spoke on a panel at the IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum, offering clues and opinions about the criteria for selecting the field of four teams, beginning in 2014.

-- anyone who hasn't got the same amount of experience from the training ground with the team as Wenger, is NOT eligible for his view or opinion about the team's selection by a manager, who's salary is PAID BY fans who express their opinions?

Hancock has stated that the voters will start from scratch for each poll, ignoring their past selections in order to avoid the heavy emphasis on preseason expectations in ranking teams after games have actually been played, so nothing about any edition of the Playoff selection committee top 25 should have an effect on later results.

Personally, I think what cost us most was poor tactic and wrong team selection, last season (u know this thing about favouritism at Arsenal: the sacred lambs).

So we were right all along about our lack of team balance and I hope our French boss realizes that he has been wrong in his selections.

Its not about the record, but team selection.

Whatever we think about Wenger's team selection or tactics, surely we have to agree with him that the referee was at fault for the sending off.

I'm more nervous about Wenger's team selection rather than Leicester City itself.

It is not the players Wenger needs to think about defending or not, he should defend his own team selection and his decision to keep want away players around and to play others out of position.

In my opinion for Arsenal as we continue on, it's all about the balance in the team selection, and minimizing injuries until people return or Arsene purchases in January.

While we can stay optimistic about the EPL title and also the Champions League you have to accept that winning either is more unlikely than not, making the FA cup even more of a priority and Wenger has to balance this in his team selection.

Most football fans know the outline of his amazing story by now: Griffin was born with amniotic band syndrome, had his left hand amputated at age 4, and, despite that, grew into a two - time All - AAC selection and 2017 second - team All - America at a position where players use their hands as tools on just about every play.

It is going to be very difficult game... Forget about tactics and all, at least Wenger's team selection must be spot on....