Sentences with phrase «as teams playing against»

Not exact matches

You're still playing just as hard, you're doing all the things, but playoffs means if you have one team to focus on, that means you can study all your regular - season matchups against them, you can learn all the information you need to learn to prepare yourself for this playoff series.

Salah was playing against Roma, his former club where he finished as the team's top goalscorer last season.

Facing off against a Texans team that gives the fifth most points up to tight ends in the league, he's a good play this week as well.

I notice we select teams we cheer our team against and we cheer when they are playing well as if we are neutral fans.

So until then, why not show a bit of modesty, stop with the big predictions and declarations, start showing on the pitch we have changed, beat every team that's put in front of you and fight each game as if you play in the CL final against Bayern Munich or Barca.

you also have to consider that giroud managed to do so in the world's toughest league as opposed to la liga where benzema only had atletico and barca as the only tough teams to play against.

Between the halves, U.S. Coach Buzz Bennett, an earnest young man but hardly closer to first - rank as a coach than his players, tried to goad his men to better performances by saying, «Don't you guys realize that's a high school team you're playing against?

playing draw on our own home soil against the big teams is total crap if we think we are a big team as well.

That said, Walcott should be sold this summer, ox should only play as a sub against lower half table teams and flamini / arteta should've been released.

ozil has no place in a 3421 he can perform in a 3412 where he play behind the two strikers so i will go with ozil behin both danny and lacazette sanchez and giroud can be used as a supersubs but i will tell u this, i hope we win but i am sure we will loose arsene wenger is blinded against top teams and he will play ramsey and xhaka again in the middle and we will be dominated by chelsea midfielders

When they come up against a dysfunctional team like Arsenal who play as individuals, no tactics and don't have a team effort then they might mash us again..

Not only was SMU forbidden to compete against NCAA teams for a year, it also lost 1988 thanks to being barred from playing home games and dealt with a player exodus, a financially disastrous bowl and TV ban through 1989, as well as heavy recruiting and staffing penalties.

As Thirdman implies, Ozil might have a purple patch when playing teams of lesser quality teams or if he happens to come against opponents with even less zest than he has.

Against other sides, or even at home where teams come to defend an we will dominate possession then yes play him as a no 10 but away from home.

Besides if you and I can see that Arsenal struggle against teams who play a pressing game, surely any experienced manager with the players capable of carrying out the tactics would just use that on Arsenal as Dortmund did

So if he's not going to play against the other team's top line, might as well give him Girard and give him the mission to help and «guide» the kid.

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I can nitpick on each of our 14 players performance in this game if i want, but I happen to think that overall, obtaining a draw against a title contender playing away, especially playing with 10 men for almost 45 minutes, was not such a bad result after all, not only if the standard is applied to a fragile team such as AFC, but also if it were to be applied to some other «fantastic» team such as for example, Leicester... I can imagine that if we were to loose the game the way Leicester did at the Emirates, many (visitors to this site) would be condemning our players bottlers, chokers instead of hailing them for defending bravely for 20 minutes with 10 men... LOL..

If we only play with the same mentality and intensity just as when we played against Monaco away after losing at home, which is not unlike previous years at the same stage of CL, against Bayern last year and Dortmund before that, I believe this team can start another «Invincible» streak from this month onwards till next season.

All three of our away games in Europe are to be played on Tuesday, leaving plenty of time for the team to recover before the next league match and although one of those matches is the north London derby it is at the Emirates stadium and is going to be played on the Sunday, so the European game should not affect our chances, especially as it is against Lodogorets, the weakest team in the group.

Yes, that's my take as well, we need to add another striker type so that we can change the tactics and style according with the team we play against.

They are happily ignoring the way that Arsenal are playing these days, against bigger or smaller teams and with different tactics as the different game demands.

Now, he got to play behind a pretty good team tonight, as well, and against a good team and he played well.»

He is good for lower half teams and should be played against them so that coq gets some rest as well.

The problem with us is that we can win against any of them just as much as we are capable of losing against them, we can be a real Jekyll and Hyde team, if we go out playing like we think we already won tonites match, we could easily get stunned by AC, when was the last time we won a home game in the knock out stages of a European tie, 6 or 7 years ago.

This is a great opportunity to play with some of the girls you always compete against, and now you get to play with them as a team member.

Perhaps even more interesting is that two weeks ago the team at Sports Insights sent out the Kansas City Chiefs (+11.5) as a Best Bet against the previously undefeated Green Bay Packers, largely because they fit into this historically profitable contrarian play.

«They were 2 - 0 up against West Ham and could have lost, and they drew against a Crystal Palace team that played a very good counter-attacking game just as we did at Norwich.

They played against a Justin Bowen led Team Cohen, which is a hard enough task as it is..

Although we also have the Europa League games to come, our next round against the minnows from Sweden, Ostersund, it is hardly likely to be as stressful as playing teams like Barcelona, Juventus or Sevilla and I am sure Wenger will still be rotating players for these games.

It's so tough to play for 44 straight minutes and especially against a Team that has as much Offensive firepower as Team Bulwa.

We will have to wait and see whether the Arsenal and England defender Kieran Gibbs is selected by his national manager Roy Hodgson for the friendly game against France at Wembley tonight, which is bound to be an odd and emotionally charged encounter after the terrible terrorist attacks in Paris, but with England wracked by injury problems and having to play a very young team, as well as the limp performance put in by Ryan Bertrand at left back against Spain, I will be surprised if Gibbs does not start.

YES!!!!! I was gutted about Aurier, I wanted him with us and... bahhhhh I don't rate Nelson as a RWB although I am happy with him playing against lesser teams in that role to learn how to defend better, I hope to see him as a AM that can press early on.

I would just like to add as well that we played against a good Bayern team who have won this competition [recently], and who have 11 top - class players.

I don't blame Giroud for not having the same movement ability as Theo, I blame Wenger for not playing a more agile CF against a team which was going to dominate us in possession.

Because Arsenal have a winning FA Cup team already on ground now in the final team that have beaten Hull last night to play the FA Cup against Watford and beat them as well.

For the second consecutive week, Gates did not practice and although he had been listed as questionable on the team's injury report, he will play Sunday against Baltimore.

As football coach at Amherst, before he came to Brown, he had effectively thumbed his nose at Princeton's famed Coach Bill Roper when the arrogant Roper decided to play his second team against Tuss's boys, since they were so obviously minor league.

I like Mert as a human being but I think he doesn't bring enough to play against top teams.

Let's go with van Dijk, as he's going to be the most notable difference between the Liverpool that will play in the quarter - finals, and the Liverpool teams that conceded eight goals in two games against this opposition.

The goal against title - leaders Chelsea on Saturday was Villa's first in a staggering 11 hours of football played — but Lambert's fate was decided after the 2 - 0 defeat to Hull City on Tuesday, as the team dropped into the bottom - three.

The German international scored in his side's latest defeat of the season, a 2 - 1 reverse against Werder Bremen on Saturday, but is clearly unhappy with how the team is playing at the moment as they head into the second half of the season facing a genuine fight against relegation.

There are doubts over Olivier Giroud against the top teams [Daily Telegraph], while Theo Walcott and Danny Welbeck have never played as a central striker on a regular basis and it remains to be seen whether either player could lead the line for potential title contenders.

He's only played in a few big games, and he's never stood out as anything special, nor has he against more mediocre PL teams; the only matches that stand out to me for Arsenal are the WBA game at the end of last season and a game against Sunderland and in both cases, the opposition really didn't look up for it.

We have Giroud putting crosses in from the left and hesitant full - backs playing centre half, who let guys run past them as they pray for an offside flag, and when we miss early chances up front teams know they can bank up against us.

We haven't played either recently, but they're two teams that I'd hope, as a club, we'd head into a tie as the favourites to win against.

the problem against big team especially against Mou is with Wenger, Mou messes with Wenger's head n makes him make some annoying decisions that makes no sense like all of a sudden starting Elneny as CM, one who couldn't even dictate play from deep against Sunderland n benching Xhaka who has this ability n has shown it over n over.

We all know that Shkodran Mustafi [hamstring], Calum Chambers [hip], Santi Cazorla [ankle], Danny Welbeck and David Ospina [both groin) are definitely unavailable, but the team that faced Red Star will not need many changes at all, especially as Jack Wilshere only had a cameo role against Everton so should be fine to play tomorrow.

Say we stumbled our way to the Champions League final and were lined up against Madrid, Barca or Bayern; Cech, Sanchez, Xhaka, Ozil, Bellerin and Koscielny on our team sheet would give me full confidence as they could easily be playing for any one of the three, Lukaku and Higuain will be decent too but not for 75 million pounds though.

shame on us for being flat at home vs monoco, no doubt we would be in the top 4, i would love to see this team as playing now line up against real madrid, I think we have good odds, vs munich or barca, not as confident,