Sentences with phrase «against lower sides»

At the moment we're getting great results against the top teams but struggle to do the job against the lower sides.

Does Wenger realize that he is hurting arsenal now big time, he helped build the club but it is time to pass on the baton and take new responsibilities... Get a 2/3 match winning streak against the lower sides and retire gracefully.

Against lower sides RW will get space so Wallcot and Ox will be fine to run at the defence like v Hull.

We seem to raise our game against top sides and it drops against lower sides.

Not exact matches

U.S. anger against NAFTA is strictly against Mexico with its low wages which is why, I have argued, Canada should have sided with the U.S. toward Mexico.

Similarly, NAFTA talks are faltering because Canada has failed to play the «special relationship» card and side with Trump against Mexico's unfairly low wages of US$ 3 - 6 an hour compared with the average of US$ 30 an hour for Canadian autoworkers.

Before the federal court as we write is a case brought by the U.S. Attorney against a co-op building on the Lower East Side for refusing a woman permission to keep a stray pit bull she adopted.

Lower ranking premiership side will begin to fancy themselves against us and that means an extra confidence boost to our enemies.

Yet to be seen how he can shield the back 4 as a DM but indications would suggest that he could do a good job against the mid / lower table sides (physical strength, read of the game, tackles, interceptions, distribution, composure... all seem pretty good)

It's not all bad news for United supporters as a match against either one of Fenerbahce, Young Boys, Sparta Prague, Anderlecht and Panathinaikos could be regarded as the easier route as well as Austrian outfit Rapid Vienna, who will be the lowest ranked side in the competition.

What really galls me is that Wenger gets paid 8 million a year to manage a side and yet even the lowest paid bin man who is an arsenal fan can see that OG and Theo are NOT nor will they EVER be up to scratch un yet Wenger persisits against all the evidence because he so desperately wants to prove the world wrong about either or both of the afore mentioned.

As witnessed this season with the Away performances against all the teams (bar Palace) in the lower reaches of the League.You could have written Southampton's tactics before the game as it's what most teams do against us.We continue to be unconvincing and like you Anders S I do not offer the excuse of the side being full of replacements for rested First Team players.

Simeone has done a remarkable job for Atletico managing to compete against Barca and Real on a substantially lower budget with consistant results while Joachim Low has had success with the German national side.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

How low can that be as Arsenal lost to Liverpool home and away following the 3 - 1 defeat masterminded by Chief Architect Sadio Mane who ran the show against the entire Arsenal side in transition.

Sunday was a day for the Premier League sides as West Ham United, Aston Villa and Arsenal all made it through against the challenge of lower league teams.

The Germans are not the sort to go easy on other teams either, as their last pre-season score of 9 - 1 against Erlangen - Bruck (me neither but they are a lower league German side apparently) will tell you.

He failed to make an impression at Bournemouth and on the back of one full 90 minutes against a lower division side there is a clamour for him to replace the likes of Ramsay, Xhaka and Elneny who is in my opinion the best defensive midfielder at Arsenal.Wenger is absolutely correct on this occasion when he points that it is up to Wiltshire to stake a claim to a regular midfield berth by stringing together a number of consistently good performances.I sincerely hope he can but please, no more of this hype after a 90 minute shift.

Arsene also finally picked his best side against West Brom, but were so low on confidence we still lost 3:0.

Borussia Dortmund centre back Mats Hummels has put Germany ahead against France in the Maracana, guiding home a free kick ahead of Raphael Varane to earn his second goal of the tournament and put Joachim Low's side in the ascendancy early on.

His job is currently under pressure after a poor start to the season, and he will be hoping that the game against the lower division side can be used to regain some confidence.

And Arsenal weren't required to shift into any lower gear, as they were up against a Man City side that hardly played Football, let alone a match of this consequence.

Our problems seem to run in cycles of a few seasons, we can challenge against the big teams but struggle against mid-table sides, or we can beat the mid / lower - table teams and get d*ck ed by the big guns.

Arsenal are not the only Premier League club that was handed a tie against lower league opposition for the next round of the Carabao cup, as there are five teams from the Championship among the 16 sides left in the competition and they have been spread around.

Joachim Low navigated his German side's safe passage into a semi-final against Brazil, and he sounded delighted with the less - than - exciting nature of their quarter final victory over France:

So if a lower league team hit a jackpot and they are drawn against a top premier league side away they make more money from that away game than their entire season (or in some cases several season).

Joachim Low's side were beaten in the 2010 World Cup Semi-Final 1 - 0 by winners Spain, although I for one certainly wouldn't bet against them going one better in 2012.

He has fight and desire which against a in - form lower league side is often what you need.

For the home game against Hull City this weekend and, in subsequent weekends, against mid and lower - mid table sides, I would not be fazed to play two strikers up front — Welbeck and Sanchez — and set out to score a lot more goals than Arsenal have managed so far.

1975 — Tottenham haven't lost a home #FACup match against a side from a lower division since a third round replay vs Nottingham Forest in 1975, winning 30 and drawing seven since.

Overall for the season they are W5 D4 L4 in the top flight at home but with them only having taken one clean sheet in their last eleven league games, even against a low scoring side like Burnley they are going to be a little vulnerable and therefore it is worth taking a punt on both teams to score at Coral for 8/11 odds * (Betting Odds taken at 10:58 p.m. on March 7th, 2018).

Defeats by Italy and Uruguay and a draw with Costa Rica in Brazil last June were viewed by many England fans as the lowest point in the team's chequered history but six wins from six in Euro 2016 qualifying are beginning to change perceptions - notwithstanding the side's appalling 0 - 0 draw against Ireland last week.

Over the years the likes of Manchester United and Liverpool have slipped up against lower division sides and the FA Cup is always packed with thrills and spills.

Another player from lower division side also got himself into that top five seat, it's Blackburn Rovers» Elliott Bennett who scored a cracking goal against Blackpool.

However, the predictability with which Liverpool slumped to a 2 - 0 defeat against Hull City marked a new low for Jurgen Klopp's side, who are in serious risk of their season fizzling out into nothing.

Against low - block sides, a player of that mould is imperative to success as it drags players out of position and creates gaps as a result.

It's makes me both sad and angry that a player of Eddie's abilty has had his career so adversely affected by a low life thug... a player who having arrived on the heels of TH's departure had much to prove, who as each game went by began to show his ability, class and his incisiveness in front of goal... one of the quotes that still rings clear after his 2 goals against the bolton thugs on that memorable rain soaked night in the Carling Cup was «He just doesn't miss does he», and it was getting to the stage where everyone who watches prem football, was sitting up and taking notice of this small, shy, brilliant striker — as each game went by his confidence and stature were growing, you could see him blossoming in front of the supporters...... and he was beginning to form a real strike partnership with Bendtner who also seemed to becoming more of a pivotal player with Eddie in the side....

Another game against a low - block defending side, another game where Liverpool created nearly nothing of note.

Burnley are a better home side than they are away from home, but the Cherries took a recent victory on the road at Stoke which suggests that they can go to Turf Moor and collect all three points against the low - scoring Burnley.

Burnley looked under - resourced in midfield against the Swans, but successfully frustrated Jurgen Klopp's men and provoked mistakes from them, registering the lowest percentage of possession by a Premier League side since they started gathering the statistic.

Routine win, low key, probably with the intention to avoid injuries against a side like Birmingham.

They have claimed a clean sheet in six of their last seven games and Chelsea to win to nil at Paddy Power has to be weighed up, especially against a low scoring side like Norwich.

But what the lower - league sides who enjoyed a degree of success against them all shared was that nothing was expected of them; they all had nothing to lose and they played accordingly.

While their rivals will be taking points off one another, Hibs» last four games are all against lower - half sides — including all of the bottom three.

Rangers midfielder Chery, playing against his former side, then teed up Michael Petrasso with a clever pass and the winger fired low into the net but was offside.

Admitting that his side are on for a much tougher task against Joachim Low's men, Azzurri head coach, Antonio Conte prepared his team to study their opponent vigorously...

Losing against the top clubs is understandable, suffering defeats against low - scoring sides like Southampton and Huddersfield isn't.

While still strong sides, there is no reason for their far from impressive performances against teams in the lower half of the table.

Mauricio Pochettino says respect is key to his near perfect record against lower - league teams so far at Spurs - and that won't change as we face League One side AFC Wimbledon in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.

No use crying over spill milk, it was there in writing when da 11 was chosen, weak defence that neva play regularly n unknown forward line so da expection were low, either draw or loss.i hate havin 2 c man city n chelsea havin n easy run playing n full strenght side, so much anger against wenger 4 in da fa cup we had 50/50 chance of winning it n now it gone n what wil da arsenal mood b when facing da next opponents.anyway it bridge over water.