Sentences with phrase «against a team like man»

Very unfortunate that our recent defensive solidity gave way to ghastly errors against a team like Man U. I'm sure the lads are kicking themselves and are trying to improve.

There were definitely less mistakes against Crystal Palace, but we are not talking about a game against a team like Man City.

Current form is that leicester are scoring freely against teams like man city and liverpool whilst conceedind very few goals.

ospina is not ready against team like man shitty, a clean sheet against a weak stoke team who do bad away as well as hull (which was a cup match) is not convincing enough....................

Arsenal are flat track bullies they will beat a Leicester side who in reality will be pleased with just surviving relegation and then lose the important games against teams like Man United, Chelsea or Barcelona!

Lukaku has a good scoring record against teams like Man U (3 in 12), Arsenal (3 in 12), Liverpool (5 in 13), Man City (5 in 12), and Chelsea (2 in 7), for a total of 18 goals in 56 appearances — a goal every 3.1 games.

«With the attacking players we have, we'll always create chances and should be able to get a couple of goals, but we need to tighten up in defence, especially against a team like Man City.»

Not exact matches

But while the second half of the season saw the Gunners win away against Man City and Manchester United, it also saw us struggle to beat lesser teams like Newcastle, QPR and Burnley.

Not like Man Utd won the champions league in 1999 against Bayern with a team of kids ever.

i so totally agree with you bigval, i think giroud is a great man against smaller teams, but put him up against class and he looks like a farmer throdding in a wet field.

as with last time klopp will be like the 12 man on the pitch and major inspiration (great man motivator and tactician to boot) to bvb so we will have to be on our guard against them as they will be pumped up to meet us but we could inflict an early psychological blow if we secure the services of one mr marco reus, we should roll the over two teams over with a bit of effort COYG

The only solution for the referee's unfair and wrong decision against our lovely club is to strengthen our squad quality specially in the defensive areas and be ruthless in front of the goal just like the current Man city team.

Although Arsenal fans are 99 % certain that the Gunners can not qualify for the Champions League by finishing in the Top Four of the Premier League and our only remaining hope is to win the Europa League and sneak in the back door, like Man United did next season, it would appear that the Boss thinks his team need to win against some «big teams» before we can consider winning the minor European trophy.

but like someone said, why wouldnt sacrificing stability of midfield for two strikers make team more penetrative especially against defensive teams and if back four is tight, 4 man midfield is sufficient.wenger could try that!!

Some teams, like West Brom under Tony Pulis and Man U and Chelsea under Mourinho, do not try to keep the ball, so the idea that having a high possession percentage against them is proof of superiority is simply wrong.

LOL we're looks like mediocre team against stoke... hilarious... now what our high class manager (eight million man) gonna to do...

I have a thought on this, the EPL is the most competitive league in the world but the top teams in the league which are Chelsea, Man City, Arsenal, Man United, Liverpool have all dropped their levels which is why none of them can compete in the champions league against the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern or Atletico, as great an advert it is that Leicester won but it's a serious indictment on the big teams that they won!

Better to stop a good attacking team and go for a draw or tight win than to try and outscore a team already with soild defence like we did against Chelsea and Man City.

Giroud has been awesome this season -LRB-- the monaco game) he has scored against the big teams; man city, man u, liverpool etc... but I still believe we need to add a 20 + striker like Dybala or Lacazette.

Against team who park the bus you can't always be dilly dallying pretty passes to probe their defense, you need some one like him to float the ball to a target man like giroud.

The real test comes when Arsenal has to face other big teams in their turfs and when we play against strong target men like Andy Carroll, Lukaku and Ibrahimovic.

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.

Stronger defensively wenger has tried to integrate the 4 -14-1 tactics in certain games this works well against those team who like to play with an ATt mid but it didn't offer much support to the wide men as there starting positions was very deep.

OLIVER is jus making up for the fa cup final Arsenal won, sometimes in that game it looked like too many small decision went against hull that shouldn't have n 75 % games not against big teams tho we won wt him in charge, the only big team that failed to win against us wt oliver is man city

If our team starts the game confidently instead of being nervous like they tend to be against the big teams, we can certainly trouble the Man City defence.

It may look like a tough call to take all three points against a Man United team that is unbeaten in 25 League fixtures, but as we know with Arsenal, anything is possible.

Wouldnt like us to lose against Man united but am afraid if the team finishes strongly then Wenger will not buy any new players & next season will be another battle for a top 4 finish.

Too close because if we repeat that performance against teams with better attacking potent like an Everton, Stoke or big guns like Man City... we would lose.

On the one hand, he — like the rest of the fighters at Team Alpha Male — is a man of honour who would not simply throw around wild accusations such as this to stain the reputation of his long time rival; but on the other hand he feels an absolute moral duty to take a stand against PED use whenever and wherever he encounters it.

It was a good all round team performance from Arsenal against Crystal Palace yesterday and there were some notable showings from the likes of Alexis Sanchez, Iwobi, Xhaka, Elneny and both full backs, but even though his overall contribution was perhaps not the best of the lot, I just have to give Olivier Giroud the Man of the Match for one of the best goals you will ever see.

I do nt know... WC is Ronaldo, Messi — yeah they have their bad days but they do nt go missing as often and esp not when you need them the most... i like Ozil — he has alot of Talent — but he really needs to put more effort into it... Ozil needs to win us some big games (Man U, Bayern etc), not just be MOTM on a game against a lower league team...

Swansea are hardly setting the League alight this year, and the only worrying stat is that their manager Gary Monk has not lost in his three games against Wenger since he took over at the Swans, but if this Gunners team can take apart sides like Man United and Bayern Munich then they should be feeling confident going into this one.

I quite like our remaining fixture list; we have played 6 of our 8 «mini-league» games against the 4 teams above us, after TH our remaining away games are Palace, QPR, Newcastle, Burnley, Hull and Man U and with 8 home games where I don't fret so much.

Face it, if we play like we did against Man United, we could beat any team in the world never mind Watford!

Until we show that resolve against big teams like Man City, Bayern, Chelsea, Barcelona etc there will be doubters, it's all good and well beating Besiktas in a qualifier at The Emirates how about going to The Nou Camp and beating Barcelona there!

we wont have those chances against big teams like Man U.

I have been reading comments of fans on here, especially those who have chosen to appreciate the average in ability that a striker like giroud possess, my question for ya all is, when did arsenal become a team so low on profile to sing praise of a striker who no one can rank among the top 3 striker in the league, I have seen an arsenal team with a striking force with players like, anelka, Wright, Henry, v persie, no one can rank giroud or whatever his name is in the category of my mentioned strikers.we all have got to face it, giroud is not good enough to be leading the attack of a team dreaming of winning the league, and Henry is right saying arsenal can't win the league with giroud as our striker,,, check this out, man u won league titles with strikers like Rooney, van nisteroy, v persie, man city won with aguero, Chelsea with drogba and now Costa, giroud stand no chance against any of those.let's stop appreciating mediocrity, wenger should get us a good striker as giroud is damn too average for arsenal

And not only that, he feels that they have showed the ability to do a good job in the different circumstances that come from playing a game against a big Premier League rival like Man City or a team at the bottom that we are expected to dominate, like the basement club Aston Villa.

We can use it against strong teams like Man City too as they play through the middle more.

I would like to see Gabriel playing against teams like Villa and Southampton, who look for fast counter attacks... Gabriel will be key in these games, where he can keep up with the pace... We all saw how he man - handled Ronaldo...

we faced them twice without loosing against them beating them in d process, world class matic was in chelsea team we dominated and annihilated @ fa cup finals, with matic making zero successful tackles and was a liability all tru d duration of d match, was ran over by our midfielders like ever, lukaku was in Everton team we beat 3; 0 even with 10 men, even with Mert @ our back he couldn't even smell a goal, the way we ridicule our players is terrible, to some dudes here all we have is bunch of idiots, parading as players, what a pathetic bunch of ingrates, between Sanchez and walcot last season we have 49 goals and numerous assists, how many goals has Rashford and Martial scored since last season that makes they super stars?

we might have changed formations but i feel like the players do nt receive any instructions and just go with the flow, i havent seen wenger set up a proper tactical team to shackle the oppostions since the 2 - 0 against man city and that was years ago, maybe the 3 - 0 against chelsea but that was to get a new contract which he has.

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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

There is a quite widely held theory in the football world that Arsenal have become a team that just can not seem to produce our best performances when it really matters and there is evidence that the proponents of this theory can point to for support, most recently the slips against the likes of Swansea and Man United that effectively ended our chances of the Premier League title.

Wellbeck has scored important goals for us in the little time he has played for us and he has scored against the bigger teams like Man United when those goals most mattered.

BUT ramsey / xhaka combo will simply rarely work against intelligent tactical teams like bayern, liverpool (talking about their pressing which is more tactical that it seems like), barca or a barca - styled man city.

ram and xhaka will work well against team that rely on physical play and aggressive man - marking e.g stoke, burnley and big teams like chelsea or man city depending on what system they are using.

After what Sanches said about «he wants champions league footbal next season» that's defenaitly saying he wants to leave and just put the price up of every player we are after and worst deferred from joining us, he should of kept his mouth shut until we finished our deal, so let's do what clubs like Man - U do with players, don't sell him to rivals teams let them train with youth team, players are becoming bigger then clubs they need reminding who pays their wages, if you want to leave do it like a gentelman and not some ungrateful shi7 no one is against you if you go to Bayern who have more chance of wining the CL then City any day of the week

Come to that, Ozil is nothing to write home about.Football is a team work.Ozil should be used only against weak teams not teams like Chelsea, Man U, City, Liverpool etc.Use boys who are ready to work as a team.