Sentences with phrase «against teams like city»

Sure Arsenal aren't poor, it was proven with the money spent this summer, can we really say we didn't spend enough because # 40m is a lot of money but the media, pundits and fans alike have been brainwashed into comparing money spent against teams like City, which is incomparable.

Surprisingly he still gets picked to start against teams like City, Liverpool, Chelsea..

Imagine Bellarin, Mert, Chambers, Monreal and Arteta as our back 5 against teams like City / Chelsea / Dortmund.

And against teams like City, Chelsea, United, Barca, PSG, Bayern I would like to see him play uptop and us to play on the counter.

«We scored five and conceded one, and these numbers are not usually possible against a team like City.

Mesut is The Man this season and against a team like City who will use skill as opposed to muscle to combat him, Ozil may well flourish.

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.

Fans have a right to be extremist, after being given false hope on transfers season after season, knowing we could improve our team with better players but the manager refusing to do so because he prefers mediocrity like Arteta and Flamini, or having to endure humiliating thrashings against Southampton, Liverpool, City and Chelsea over the past 3 seasons.

That is because it is against Manchester City and after watching the likes of Silva, Toure and Kompany cruise to a comfortable away win over the usually difficult West Brom of Tony Pulis, I am worried that Manuel Pellegrini and his players will be the team to beat this season.

Gabriel is not bad but he is more brawn than brain, n that gets xploited against technical teams like City, Bayern n also gives unnecessary fouls like he did vs Kane....

The Englishman can make runs down the flanks, catch on to quick through balls and would be better suited to play on the counter attack, which we may have to do against a team like Manchester City.

You guys are hoping against hope that Arsenal miraculously win all their games whiles teams like Liverpool and city lose all their games

[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.

There is nothing wrong with being positive and we could get ourselves a run going against smaller teams after the City match, but it looks like it is going to be «too little too late» again this season.

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.

True true MOBELLA Even under pressure at the back they are passing the ball from one defender to another lol and against a pressing team like city mistakes happen quick

I think our record against City is probably the best out of all our games against other teams like Chelsea, United etc so this is why I think we have a chance.

Manchester City — Team News While there were sickening fears over Kompany's fitness before Belgium's friendly match against Australia, it does look like the Belgian will be ready to lead the Champions for this all important clash.

Although the semi-final Carabao Cup win against Chelsea suggested a change in the team's character and game - management, there are still massive question marks about whether their defence can hold up in the big games against the likes of Manchester City and Manchester United.

Playing against teams like United / Chelsea / Liverpool / City without Coq would be very hard.

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

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!

I'm not saying we were not fabulous against City (we were) but most teams will not come out at us like City did.

Do you honestly think our senior pro's are good enough to carry an inexperienced player against a team like Liverpool, City, United, Everton, Chelsea, Spuds....

We all know he doesn't like using his 1st team keeper for cup games...... He mustn't use sczesny's shambolic perfomances as an excuse for choosing to play Ospina against Hull city.......

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.

And we only play counterattacking football against teams like Bayern and Barca, and maybe 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.

Mourinhoo's Manchester United could not capitalize from their set piece goals, if they are against skillful teams like Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester City and Liverpool.

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

Alexis should play striker against teams like Chelsea, pool and city and UCL games.

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.

«If you look at their results against the top teams like Manchester City and Chelsea, they have done extremely well.

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.

You all saw what Everton can do to a team like city needless to mention we struggled against them last season..

Can you expect a hatrick from Giroud against a team like Norwich City in a game to determine if we made top 4?

We struggle against teams like Palace and Norwich at the Emirates and all of a sudden people start to believe that our bottlers can beat City away from home???

Yeah we won yesterday because team played as a unit and fought hard and this is a very good sign because have lost these kind of physical games in past like against stoke city but we deservedly won the game and now hoping for chelse to lose or atleast a draw and a draw between manchester clubs...

A) This is a Defensive lineup to face the likes of City, Utd, Barcelona and Munich's, We will be up against it when we play these kind of teams anyway, so why not try a different strategy against them, Leicester proved that it worked.

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

2) Wilshere — Played well vs City, the guy lives and breathes on confidence, he needs to prove himself against a team like this who are a bit more physical in the middle of the park Jedinak is a very good test.

He is right of course, any team that sits back against an attacking force like City is bound to be punished.

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!

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

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

If Arsenal were really good, they would have been able to keep up with Manchester City at the Etihad stadium, not just dominant against defending or smaller teams like Huddersfield.

2 — While I agree rotation is important, why immediately throw Ramsey back in against an important team like City, when Tomas hadn't played his way out yet, and he and the team were in a good rhythm?

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.

You won't see teams playing nervously against us like they do against City.