Sentences with phrase «after injuries to key players»

Hector Bellerin broke into the first team after injuries to key players and he has since shown he can be greatly relied upon.

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Others could point to injuries — key players like Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery and David Alaba sat out the game in midweek, while other members of the squad were not fully fit after only recently returning.

The team is missing a lot of key players to injury and suspension and we are going to be tired after the game against QPR with 10 men.

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Having to bring in a free after the window has closed to reinforce a position where you know one of you key players has an ongoing injury sounds a little dangerous to me.

As expected by most Arsenal fans and watchers, the manager has rung the changes for the EFL cup match at home to Southampton because of our numerous injury problems and also to allow a few of the key players to get some well earned rest after a hectic fixture schedule.

Already missing some key players, including the Arsenal transfer target and their best centre back Mats Hummels, their star forward Marco Reus had to replaced yesterday after picking up an ankle injury that will almost cewrtainly see him miss the game at the Emirates.

The options available to Arsene Wenger when selecting his Arsenal line up for today's game against Sunderland at the Emirates stadium are smaller than they have been all season and with three key players in Alexis Sanchez, Santi Cazorla and Francis Coquelin being on the injury list and after the Gunners» recent struggles in the league, what should have been an easy three points is now looking like a tough and pressure filled match.

After a frustrating and injury - hit season with Manchester United, the 30 - year - old was a key player for his country in Brazil, scoring four goals in total to help Louis van Gaal's side finish in third place with a victory over the host nation in their playoff match.

You can look back at the last few seasons and point to things that went wrong for Arsenal, such as the injury problems that hit our key players including Theo Walcott, Mesut Ozil and Aaron Ramsey at the same time after the Gunners were looking good to finally reclaim the Premier League title.

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With the terrible record that Arsenal have had with various injury problems over the last few years, even this season after Arsene Wenger appointed two key fitness and medical experts to solve the problem, you would think perhaps that the club would try to avoid bringing in any more players that are injury prone.

Arsenal had to bare without key players like Alexis Sanchez, Jack Wilshere and Danny Welbeck for the majority of the campaign after their seasons were curtailed by injuries.

I know that we lost quite a few key players to injury and I didn't hold the position that Ramsey's absence cost us the league title until after our last game away to Norwich.

After a period with injuries and suspensions robbing Liverpool of key players they were finally back to something approaching full strength.

Van Gaal revealed in his pre-match press conference that Marcos Rojo will be on the bench after recovering from injury, but United are still without several key players due to injury.

After the winter break, despite all their key players coming out of injury they were still finding it difficult to win games but nevertheless they managed to climb to 9th in the table and booked a place in the finals of the DFB - Pokal by beating Bayern on penalties.