Sentences with phrase «against a poor team in»

Not sure if Bvb is playing very impressive with an striker who brings ours to shame, or they where playing against a poor team in spurs.

That defensive 3 -4-2-1 (Arsenal's formation:D) will only work against poorer teams in Premier League.

Not exact matches

Wenger had a fully fit starting XI to choose from, apart from Bellerin, we were at home against a mid-table team who have been in poor form (Intertoto Cup), and were only just getting used to their new manager, and we barely created a chance against them.

Leo you said remy was crap against spuds but you have got to consider who he is playing with he is in a very poor team who create nothing for him put him in our team and with chances we create he will score goals he is a natural goalscorer and i think he would do a great job in girouds absence, think we should keep podolski for extra cover in forward area be realistic we will not get falcao or cavarni therefore remy would not be the worse option!!

Mr Wenger is consistent in that he invariably speaks nonsense particularly when it comes to the art of defending where «his» team have been deficient for the past decade.Had we kept a clean sheet against Man Utd and Southampton we would have picked up 6 points.Simple logic is something AW is now incapable of putting into practise and along with his poor recent record in the transfer market eg Xhaka and Mustafi the Board of Arsenal Football club should be making him accountable for the teams continued lack of success.Will this happen?

Great performance and a much needed win — but remember, it was against a team in poor form, lacking in confidence and bottom of table.

He has been thrown in against one of the best teams in world football with so many first team players injured, it was a poor team performance, not any individual.

Wenger is tactically poor and inferior if you are to compare him to his peers in the managerial side of football, it's not a coincidence that we can't beat any of the top teams anymore and that atrocious record against Mourinho says it all Arsene Wenger is now past his best!

But I have been saying the same thing about Sanchez since last season, his first game in the Charity shield and then that game against Villa earlier last season when he played striker, I noticed that he was so poor in possession and can't link up play with his team mates, he has the worst passing for a player of his calibre..

Llorente won't be best pleased, but using Son as CF in front of of Lamela, Dele and Eriksen created a mobile offense against a poor defensive team.

On a side note, I couldn't help but think 2 predominant thoughts when watching the game against Bournemouth on the weekend: (1) Wenger is still willing to put his own personal agenda ahead of the team's best interests when it comes to team selection, which luckily for us didn't cost us the 3 points this time and (2) if Eddie Howe is earmarked to be the successor we are in deep trouble because he's simply a poor man's version of our present manager, as he's tactically inept and has an even worse road record.

Big in your list I can agree that all these players would improve us, but let's look at our CB At the moment Kos, top player but is struggling with a inj which may or may not heal, at the moment he isn't match fit so not up to his own high standard, so needs help or a defender of his quality so he can go and recover properly So then we have Mert, too slow and no longer good enough, I'm not sure if he's even good enough for 3 rd choice CB, too slow, poor on the air for his size and not brave enough, he's lasted this long due to Kos he needs a Top class CB just to allow him to play against average teams Ok now Reid not top class we can all agree so we couldn't really play him with MERT as he isn't Kos quality so can't cover merits deficiencys He could be ok with Kos but Kos is struggling So is Reid what we need???? And finally Wenger if he has all 3 fit will still play Kos / Mert first choice Oh and God forbid we play MERT / Reid against the top teams like Chels / city / utd / Southampton Chuckle chuckle

We struggled to beat and score against the poorest Chelsea side in a long time while every other team was dismantling them.

We still struggle, look shaky and uncomfortable when we come up against any team that plays a high intensity game, teams that don't give us time on the ball, in your face etc all give us a hard time, Watford did that in the first half but poor final 3rd quality saved us, in the second half they were tired and knackered so we took advantage.

Arsenal made it hard for themselves last night against a team that never wins in the game in the Champions League Group Stages, but Arsene Wenger reckons that the result was skewed by poor refereeing, including the first goal and Giroud's sending off.

Best formation i ve ever seen, actually with Flamini in our team, our chances are bigger by 50 %, he scored against strongest defence in europe against Spuds, he will score against poor side like Bayern, ALL HAIL FLAMINI

1) When you can not beat mid teams like Hull and Tottenham at home 2) You have no track record of beating top teams who you should be competing with 3) You struggle against any decent opposition that decides to play good football and apply themselves tactically 4) A confused manager with poor tactics, playing players in wrong position, throws a blind eye when a possible solution presents itself (Fabregas) and makes no move or poor moves in the market when he does GUYS to be honest we are at risk of losing out on 4th place with a resurgent Man U, fighting Liverpool and decent team like Everton and Southampton.

The main reason I have always wanted wenger out is for his record against the big teams, it is poor to say the least and most managers would be sacked with that kind of record.I still cling on to the hope that we will beat one of Chelsea, Man United or mancity this season even though it is seemingly impossible with wenger in charge

us scoring in the dying minutes wil keep the overall mood of the team good for UCL... This team played good attacking football but we need DM against Bayern... Case has been a bit poor lately but hopefully zidane trusts him and starts him...

literally saying he is prone to many mistakes for instance goal misses (1 on 1), retaining possession, hold up play, poor goal conversion rate against a «formidable team», inaccurate passes, struggles when backing a defender (s) and he's not good in the air.

The players have to recover from that poor result in the derby and there's no better fixture to restart the winning streak than against the worst team in the division — who's manager is expected to be sacked if his team loses against us.

Mustafi was given an «8» rating against Spurs for example, and now Coquelin, and Mertesacker are getting «8» ratings in a defeat, and a poor performance, and against a shocking team that we should be spanking!

Just look at our record these past 2 months and you will see that we have been poor in attack and most importantly against teams where we expect to dominate and win.

His handling is very poor, especially against an aerial threat team with a player like Carrol in it.

Unless there is a huge gulf in class with us playing against a really poor team, we should kick goal kicks long and we should try for balls over the top, that way we are either creating a chance or we are giving them the possession so we can set up to counter.

England may be unbeaten in Qualifying, but they really have not come up against any strong teams at all, and Switzerland are definitely the best of a poor bunch.

Saying Ozil has been poor for us is an understatement, in fact he has been very woeful for the past 10 matches and I totally agree with you that we have been playing 10 against 11 all these while, he just can't fight for the ball or his life and whenever he doesn't play very well, he puts the whole team in big danger and i still don't know why Araene can drop him for at least 2 matches and play Iwobi in his position

Before this Arsenal away game at Swansea City, Arsene Wenger spoke about how our recent poor results against Garry Monk's team have been caused in the latter stages of the game, so he urged his players to keep focused and working hard right until the end of the match.

Preseason projections still account for 30 percent of teams» ratings, which doesn't help, but neither do Arizona's poor performance against UTSA or Utah's plodding offense, which has been outgained by the opponent, on a per - play basis, in every game so far.

I fear we might have another November not to remember in the making, Mourinho has Wenger's number and another draw against Man U would be a poor result for a team with title ambitions IMO.

Toronto shot 50.6 percent from the field, but that was mitigated by some poor work on the boards against a Miami team that ranks toward the bottom of the league in rebounding.

Ozil is only good against poor defending teams, this is why he goes missing in the big games.

It was a shame that Giroud did not score and had a pretty poor international break but he has at least got a goal for Arsenal this season and despite getting just a few minutes for France on Friday, he started for them last night and so his place in the France team looks reasonably safe, while a home game against Stoke almost guarantees him a start on Saturday.

Wenger blamed the 12 day gap between games as the reason for Arsenal's poor start against Liverpool a few weeks ago, then he claimed a lack of confidence for the start against Lincoln last week, but as most of our first team played last weekend and scored many goals in the second half then neither of those should apply this time around.

That's why defence is rated very low in his priority'and thats why his record is so poor against the top teams.

Why the media got it for Arsenal, we bottle some games we are expected to win, proving some pundits that hates the club right time after time, games are not comfortably won, last season we had a better away record than home, We have an overall poor result against the big teams for the past 5 years, we haven't won the league for 12 years now, we haven't made a proper challenge in Europe for 10 years and on top of it we have an Owner who doesn't care about football, just the money he makes, so many reasons.

I knew Salah would be pretty poor in terms of finishing yet he scores against us then misses 15 chances in the next game, you know why we just make it that good damn easy for opposing teams.

Qualities: Giroud - Hold up (but not against top defenders Tery, Cahil, etc), short pass, hard working, team player, defensive duties (set - pieces), injuries Benteke - Hold up, short pass, better dribbler, long shots, finishing, positioning, defensive duties (set - pieces), can play with his back to the goal and also drop deep and face the goal when marked weakness: Giroud - very slow, easily marked, poor finishing (not wc finisher), technique Benteke - injuries, not a hard worker If you look the stats for the since 2012/2013, they have almost similar records except that Benteke scored like total of 19 goals (correct me if I'm wrong) in his 1st season and also have a decent record against top teams, keep in mind he plays for AstonVilla not Arsenal where you get much more chances and better players around.

even f. Roberto Di Matteo could win one, with a poor chelsea team against a strong bayern, and that in germany.

negatives -LRB--)-- terrible result — wengers team selection (arteta + ozil in particular)-- generally poor work - rate across the pitch and nothing like the backbone we showed against man city — handing dortmund initiative to top the group (we all know what finishing 2nd means)-- lack of hunger + desire — welbeck misses — still no joel campbell (who in my personal opinion is a big game / stage player)-- in all our «set - piece» training we totally forgot about the bread and butter of football which is making an impact in open play

Overall the entire team was poor, strikers would have scored more, defenders would have defended better, Ospina should have been sharper, Wenger should have fixed such in training as what we saw happens almost always against Arsenal, etc..

I wonder how arsene prepares our team for them to produce such lacklustre performances.Its very perplexing for us to lose or draw against poor teams like chelski and looserpool.I was always a wenger out due to I being a frustrated fan.When our players are on the pitch they show no desire and no hunger at all.They produce such mediocre performances in front of fans whove paid so much to watch these games.It makes you womder why on earth they have such heavy salaries only to put on a flabbougasting show in front of 55000 fans.Its very ironical that we here on this site shower praise on such performances.players like ozil recieve such unwarranted praise you might think they are from another planet.Then we have an extremely overrated english core of gibbs ox and walcott Sorry to say this but players like draxler and rodrigiez are twice these players.This is food for thought for you who support the team blindly due to wengers compulsion that makes you believe that we are playing the worlds finest brand of football and have a large array of talent that excused him for not going into the transfer market as at the moment we are currently losing the clubs most coveted round of 16 trophy and putting such dissapointing performances in the league.

Theo is no ST, I agree he needs to prove himself there but I don't see it working aside from against poor teams and in the last 20 mins to play counter attack.

Spurs have been a very fragile team since Redknapp's departure and pressure is already mounting on Pochettino with poor results recently in the Premier League (including a 3 - 0 hammering at home against Liverpool).

i think the poor man still stuck in» 04... buy a 50 something striker and bench him against the top team smart right?

Remember people, our only convincing performance in the EPL this season was against Everton: a team that is piss poor and not playing for their manager.

So we have to put this game behind us we have a title to win MANU have been nothing less that appalling this season every time i see them draw or loose against poor teams i laugh for my self full they are really rubbish this season, to put that into perspective look at the list of the teams who have either drawn or beaten them this season: west brom (loss) Southampton (draw) at United Cardiff (draw) Spurs (have taken 4 points off united this season) Everton (won) at United Newcastle (won) At United Stoke -LRB-(won) and the worst of all Fulham (draw) Now if those results does not reflect a team in shambles based on where they were then i don't know what would, they are piss poor even with rooney and robin.

I have some reservations, partly because of our past record against teams who are in poor form, where somehow they seem to relish our visit which enables them to turn their form around.

Arsenal head into tomorrow's match at the Liberty Stadium with Arsene Wenger warning his players that they must all fight for their place in the team, these words rang true midweek as Thomas Vermaelen was axed for the trip to Bayern Munich following a poor performance against Tottenham Hotspur where his error contributed to Tottenham's second and winning goal.

Neither team has seen very much in his abilities, and he's looked poor going up against decent competition.