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What was curious was Southgate's decision to switch to a 3 -4-3 after playing most of qualifying in a 4 -2-3-1 and his belief that the former is a better option against better teams at the tournament level.

Not exact matches

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Definitely the home fans (for West Ham) will throw some tantrums against an Arsenal player especially when their team is not at their best or possibly boo an Arsenal player as an indication of rivalry that exists between the two sides.

Now it's another game, and another game at home, against another team and it will be important to have good possession, good possibilities to attack.»

Both Manchester clubs lost yesterday but at least they lost to better team and gave much better fight than we did against the so called weakest team of our group.

I'm going to repeat what I said earlier... this team actively pursued a policy to undermine the relationship between the fans and the best player on this team... for all intent and purposes this is a traitorous act... so instead of spending money, which all pundits and fans agreed was necessary in order to compete at the highest levels, this club was wasting time and money trying to turn fans against Sanchez long before the end of the season (the real concerted effort started around the time that Wenger benched him for the start of the Liverpool game)... for a team that pertains to be different, like a FAMILY, and constantly questions the tactics of it's opponents, to engage in such a treasonous act is deplorable

Finally, Ozil recently has been at best been described as a flat track bully due to his evident ability to impose himself on the «lesser» teams but at worst he is described as lazy and a luxury player that has no place in the team against the «bigger» teams.

Perhaps he knows something we don't about the Man United line - up ahead of their match against Hull City, a match that if Phil Brown's side wins means that whatever Shearer's team does they are as good as down unless Sunderland also fail to get anything at home to Chelsea.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

Hoping Wenger will prepare the team well against both Spurs and Atkinson and our fans get right behind them at the Emirates.

A Good performance from all the players.no team is easy to beat at this closing stage of the league: If a half goal exists in the game of football and guarantees 3points, I had take a half goal and 3points against any opponent no matter how lowly placed.

May sound perverse but I think a more evenly matched top 5 will offer us a better chance of at least still being in the mix later in the season — no one team likely to dominate and walk away with it and all dropping a few points against each other.

I'm wondering if we were playing against teams at the best times (injured qb's, rb's, or wr's) often or were teams scoring less against us compared to other teams.

[We need to] do a great job together defensively as a unit, like we showed at Manchester City, it's a good idea to do it again and again, especially against big teams.

They rendered the same pattern of match at Stamford Bridge, and were the better team in the 1 - 2 reverse against Mourinho's men.

They were thrown in at the deep end having had little match time and then expected to perform against the best team in the World (possibly).

Daily Fantasy Football game Oulala.com have taken a look at Arsenal's record against the other «big six» Premier League teams when Ozil has featured in the side since he joined in 2013, as well as his individual contribution too.

And other teams buying players even though they have a good squad also doesn't go unnoticed by our players.It must be putting doubts in their minds as to why am i in this team who isn't showing ambition.I am against buying for the sake of buying but at least assemble a decent group of players who could get the job done.

He ushered in an era of revolutionary quick passing sexy football at the club in which we played attractive attacking football won titles and could compete against the best teams in the world.

they did nt we were just so f# ck & ng predictable because of the same bullshit tactics that may have worked against the smaller teams but against the larger ones at full strength... well you ask the question again as to why we don't beat the top sides, they hire managers like mourinho who are tacticians and take one look at arsenal's team sheet and know exactly what they are doing... there is a reason we haven't beaten them in a while.

The best - value bets can often be found by going against these teams because the oddsmakers adjust the line to reflect the expected weight of public money; so that the underdog is often quested at better odds or receives a larger point spread than is warranted.

Also, they got their fifth Win against a really good opponent in Team Schwartz, who came into the Week at 3 - 1 and # 3 in the Rankings.

meanwhile the best team just drew against everton... i bet they couldn't score more because the grass was a shade more greener at the goodison

Not their best night against Team Zimmerman to begin 2016 but at the end of the day it's just one Game..

«I think after the Tottenham game where we played a very good game with 10 men against 11 and came back to 2 - 2, I couldn't understand why — at the moment when you need everyone behind the team — we had to hit that storm.

Perhaps even more interesting is that two weeks ago the team at Sports Insights sent out the Kansas City Chiefs (+11.5) as a Best Bet against the previously undefeated Green Bay Packers, largely because they fit into this historically profitable contrarian play.

«They were 2 - 0 up against West Ham and could have lost, and they drew against a Crystal Palace team that played a very good counter-attacking game just as we did at Norwich.

Team Harris, sitting at 12 - 3, has two losses by a combined 7 points to last year's Championship Game combatants (Teams Lalez and Maione) as well as an 0ff - night against the surging Team Schwartz a couple weeks ago..

We will have to wait and see whether the Arsenal and England defender Kieran Gibbs is selected by his national manager Roy Hodgson for the friendly game against France at Wembley tonight, which is bound to be an odd and emotionally charged encounter after the terrible terrorist attacks in Paris, but with England wracked by injury problems and having to play a very young team, as well as the limp performance put in by Ryan Bertrand at left back against Spain, I will be surprised if Gibbs does not start.

If low variance Alex Smith has played below expectations (possibly far below) twice against this PIT team and still came so damn close to winning the game both times, then you know your best chance at winning comes with Alex Smith and minor changes that put him in a better position to meet expectations and / or convert just one of those missed chances.

There are so many knee jerkers on this forum it's laughable.Spurs were better than us today.Accept it.We played the same way against Man City we won, Wenger is a genius.We play the same way again Spurs and loose.Wenger is crap.If we had played free flowing football against Spurs and lost, Wenger would have been blamed for not playing defensively.Sometimes you have to accept when a team is better.Harry Cain is a great player at the moment but lets see whether he is any good next season.

He is excited about the pressure of playing at Anfield and against the best teams that the Premier League has to offer, telling Liverpoolfc.com: «I'm very excited and so proud to be here and a member of Liverpool Football Club.

Xhaka and Ramsey seem to be the preferred pair for Wenger but they are inconsistent at best and often against decent teams wobbly IMO.

They play well against contenders at home but plays like a lottery team against actual lottery teams on the road.

The Wolfpack are consistently good but never experience true success, and because Doeren hasn't changed that, either overall or in single - game upsets — at NCSU, he's 0 - 15 against P5 teams that finished with at least nine wins and 25 - 11 against everybody else — he is facing more pressure than his performance warrants.

Again, shame we got a decision against but why is a team that couldn't be bettered in the summer not peppering a mid-table Liverpool team at home that was pieced together 3 weeks prior?

Only good thing was seeing Chelsea lose and tott and liv failing to win at home against relegation teams.

He's at the front of the line to be a main contributor for awhile and until somebody comes along that: Plays better, more regularly, for a better team against better competition and his around the same age then he's gonna get some leeway.

For the first time in years I see Myers being active at the trade deadline to get better bench CHEMISTRY — whether it be through trades, releases and d - league call ups, it's clear this team is no lock against OKC or HOU anymore

Honestly the players need to start taking responsibility as well, no passion... Tired of losing the same fixtures against the same teams at the same venues «EVERY» year...

LSU came in 7 - 0 when leading at halftime, but protecting a five - point halftime lead against a team like Kentucky was going to require a better performance down the stretch.

Importantly, a step in becoming a «good» team is winning the games you should... which we really never did in the Pablo era... our draw at home last year against Minnesota being a great example.

«We played a match against our under - 18 team at the Academy the other day and it was good to see the players.

Arteta and Flamini are not good against the big teams and i really think we need to at least get an upgrade on our back up options for DM.

The good news is that Werner was able to notch two sacks against the Ravens on Sunday, including one on the first play of the Ravens» last desperation drive at the end of the game, which definitely helped his team finish off the win.

With an efficient offense and one of the best special teams units in the country, the Blue Devils were tipping the field, finishing drives, and pulling off close win after close win — by six at Georgia Tech, by seven against Virginia, by three at Pitt, and by 17 at Syracuse in a game that was tied heading into the fourth quarter.

There's something to be said for Aston Villa's talent level when they find themselves down 2 - 0 at the half — not against Chelsea «s A-team or even their B - team, but against what can be best described as their C - team.

shame on us for being flat at home vs monoco, no doubt we would be in the top 4, i would love to see this team as playing now line up against real madrid, I think we have good odds, vs munich or barca, not as confident,