Sentences with phrase «against the big sides»

Results against big sides is very minor factor in the overall course of a season.

He'll need to start performing against the bigger sides too, which should happen with the kind of service he'll be getting in the red shirt.

We are long overdue for a win against a bigger side.

Make no mistake though, this will show through against the bigger sides.

Confidence alone won't bring goals or trophies, but a little bit of self belief always helps, especially against the bigger sides.

I still think he should be a guy that comes off the bench against bigger sides to give us a lift with 20 or 30 minutes remaining in the match.

They have started the season in great form and have shown that they are able to up their game against the bigger sides.

It remains to be seen whether his upturn in commitment is due to the January transfer window or more simply that he is keen to prove his worth to Arsenal, but I believe his performance yesterday was amongst his best against the bigger sides in the division.

In general this season we have performed better against the bigger sides and we have already beat City at home.

With just five goals against the big sides since 2014, Lukaku will hope to improve this statistic at United.

The English speedstar has quite the impressive record against the big sides too.

As the quality level of the opposition goes up in the latter stages of the Champions League and when the pressure is on against the big sides in England in the title race, an issue like that can emerge as a real problem at key moments.

With lacklustre performances all of last season, barring a few good performances against the big sides, we always seemed to look demotivated on the pitch.

Against bigger sides Arteta can be found wanting.

Maybe Asamoah makes up for these lapses by always being concentrated during game - time whereas, Alex Sandro becomes complacent at times with some, once in a while, defensive lapses which can be costly against big sides.

It is the same tactics Tottenham use against bigger side... They just sit back absorb the pressure and hit them on counter because they have quality attacking players such that Dele, Kane, Erikson Dembele....

Taking tiny samples of games played against each other is pointless (Mou himself said his record vs Wenger was irrelevant for similar reasons) made even more so by the fact Liverpool are the best performers against big sides and the worst overall of the entire group.

Weak squad, no belief against the bigger sides, and a sepid manager who has been there far to long.

Tottenham will have to try and pick themselves up against Manchester United next weekend, and despite the Red Devils inconsistencies this term, they have been lethal against the bigger sides.

We struggle against the big sides, that's what we are supposed to do, so when we had beaten Man United (so - called title contenders) in 20 minutes of sublime football, I think it is safe to say none of us could believe it.

Arsenal can only score against the big sides when they're 2 - 0 down and it looks like all hope is lost.

However, as last season painfully taught the Frenchman, possession is not nine tenths of football as it is the law and those heavy and damaging away drubbings at the hands of Liverpool, Man City, Everton and our opponents this weekend Chelsea have forced the manager to re-evaluate his tactics against the bigger sides and boy has it paid off, as Wenger explained in a report on the Arsenal website.

Moving on though he said «nothing is good enough anymore» and I have to say it's not that nothing is good anymore, it's just that the usual RO16 exit in the champions league and the constant humiliation against the big sides isn't very good either.

The game against Chelsea posed a significant switch from the outdated, predictable tactics that Arsenal typically resort to against the big sides which has often been one of many complaints that Gunners fans have held over Wenger.

Or do Arsenal fans just use Ozil as a scapegoat when the whole team plays badly against the bigger sides?

How Wanderers drew against the biggest side in Germany with Gerald Cid at centre back and Gavin McCann filling it at right back, i'll never know.

Predictions: Juventus has started the season with 100 % record at home in the opening 5 league games but they have been underwhelming against the bigger sides and Napoli will be aware of that.

This one seemed a bit more interesting in the build - up than an away trip for a Jose Mourinho team against a bigger side should be, due to Manchester United's surprisingly attacking display at Old Trafford in April.

England young guns finally turn up against a big side as they came from two goals down against Germany to win the game by 3 - 2.

However, a routine 2 - 0 win at Millwall in the fifth round of the FA Cup last weekend will have lifted spirits somewhat, but this is a team which has suffered some heavy defeats on the road against the big sides this season: Arsenal (3 - 0), Liverpool (3 - 1), Man Utd (3 - 0) and Tottenham (3 - 0).

United have tended to use a cautious approach against the big sides on the road, but the game at Old Trafford this week could have a different complexion with Mourinho likely to be desperate for the win.

Real Madrid has had a unpredictable season so far where they bullied teams in the bottom half while failed to get decent results against bigger sides.

Last week KS you replied that you will hi five someone when he scores a goal against a big side.

Many fans are a bit doubtful that we could win today's fixture given our woeful away record against the big sides.

The Stoke City manager Mark Hughes has slowly been improving his side over the years and this summer he has managed to persuade the PSG star Jese Rodriguez to join the club on a year's loan and has also brought in defender Bruno Martins Indi from Porto, and he is hoping to see the team improve on last years home performances against the big sides, starting with Arsenal tomorrow.

If as everyone says Ozil doesn't turn up against the big sides, then maybe Arsenal should either drop him completely for those games or rest him him for 2 or 3 games before hand so he has no excuse for being tired.

History has seen us bottle it against big sides in the last 10 years and we're likely to do it again.

Injuries, suspension, fatigue, losing form, playing two DM's against big sides, making sure he's always competing for his place so he isn't complacent.

Arsenal fans should no better than most not to get too excited, we could still draw Real Madrid or Bayern Munich and we all know our results against the bigger sides are not great

Anderlecht are usually a side that is considered to be also - rans in European competition when they come up against the bigger sides, but their record this season suggests that they should not be taken lightly by any stretch, having famously eliminated Russian giants Zenit St - Petersburg in the Round of 32.