Sentences with phrase «best against a club»

Even with England striker Andy Carroll at the spearhead of a strong lineup, the Premier League side came off second - best against a club making their first appearance in Europe.

Not exact matches

Well, there could be infiltratation resulting in a vote that still goes against rhe club's core beliefs.

He said, «Well, if you are an advocate against such a thing like you say you are, why are you just like the strip clubs and promoting it to young kids?»

Ramsey is also pretty excited after Aubameyang's instant impact on his debut against Everton, saying that if that's not him at his best then the club have a frighteningly good player on their hands, as he expects he'll likely only go on and improve on that exciting introduction.

To think it is in the club's best interest to keep players against their will is naive to use one of Wenger's favorite words.

I expect Giroud to get a rest and Welbeck to replace him at centre forward, as the Frenchman could do with a rest and the England striker could do with the game time, especially after doing so well against his former club in the last round.

Wengers method of bluffing the board & fans to keep him for a further season... > We loose enough games to take us completely off winning the league, then say it wasn't in our control, we then fight till the end and win last few games so we look good and like we worked hard to earn the 4th place trophy.He then links us with awesome transfers (which we all know wont happen), and finally while Man U / City and Chelsea organise pre-season friendlies against top clubs, we play the weak ones, win and look all good to go next season without any additions... AND THEN REALITY STRIKES..

Both Manchester clubs lost yesterday but at least they lost to better team and gave much better fight than we did against the so called weakest team of our group.

I'm going to repeat what I said earlier... this team actively pursued a policy to undermine the relationship between the fans and the best player on this team... for all intent and purposes this is a traitorous act... so instead of spending money, which all pundits and fans agreed was necessary in order to compete at the highest levels, this club was wasting time and money trying to turn fans against Sanchez long before the end of the season (the real concerted effort started around the time that Wenger benched him for the start of the Liverpool game)... for a team that pertains to be different, like a FAMILY, and constantly questions the tactics of it's opponents, to engage in such a treasonous act is deplorable

Most of the season, as well as a number of occasions in previous years, a growing number of fans have moved to protest against Arsene Wenger remaining in charge of the club, and with the manager's contract up this summer, the movement has snowballed.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

fellow gunners, its been a while i commented here, its not been easy watching my team fall apart, ND being mocked by friends, well i like Alexis he is a great guy, but not anymore, you no why?the day he laughed when arsenal was beating by Bayern, and against liverpool, seriously alexis is good, but he thinks more of himself than the team, i jst want him out of my club asap.

The Championship club are well safe but have no real chance of the play - offs so will probably rest key players and go easy against Leeds on Saturday.

However, it did end with a good note, in that it was Lampard who scored against his beloved club.

I hope we can do just as well against the top clubs next season.

Shitroud is just not good enough... if he strives under pressure he should be scoring against big clubs.....

He has had a couple of good games there against schools for the blind (smaller clubs) but against good defences he will at most time one run ok and have 1 in 20 chance of scoring from it.

He should have gone last summer for atleast 50mln and Ozil about the same amount, you cant keep a players against his wish and congratulation to Mr Wenger for being a longest service manager in club history and everything he did in the past — but for this sanchez / Ozil he did nt handle very well

Up to this year Theo has always been a real credit to himself and this club... this year he does seem to be a bit moody and sulky... but that's because he doesn't play... Theo's sake it would be best if he went to another club... BUT not in the PL... as if he does reach the potential that we all know he perhaps could, we don't want or need him to be against us.

Someone in club should talk with Wenger about his plans for next season as to how he is going to win trophies next season and what his best 11 will be.Currently it seems everyone in his team are so up his *** that they don't have the courage to speak against him.

Now I know there will be many out there who will say this is a negative view and that you should NEVER take that stance against your own club, but as well as being a dyed in wool Arsenal fan, I'm also a devout realist and finally the truth has sunk in with me, and I know in my heart of hearts that this season is going to be the longest and toughest many of us have experienced in an age.

He ushered in an era of revolutionary quick passing sexy football at the club in which we played attractive attacking football won titles and could compete against the best teams in the world.

Luckily for him, the duo of Memphis and Jesse Lingard proved effective in the club's win over Norwich City, and could very well be up front against PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday.

The king of hearts would have provided an extra entry to dummy as well as a parking place for a spade, and after successfully finessing against the diamond king and drawing trumps, declarer could then have returned to dummy via the king of spades to lead up to his king of clubs and make his contract.

The # 59.7 m club record signing di Maria has been greatly impressing from his move from Real Madrid and along with fellow newbie Rojo will be wanting to maintain that good form in friendlies against great rivals Brazil and Hong Kong.

The good news for the Arsenal club captain Per Mertesacker is that the recovery from the knee injury that the World Cup winning centre back picked up in the pre-season game against Lens is still going well.

It is a club for all standards, whether experienced players who are looking to test themselves against some of the best university sides in the country, or complete beginners, who want to learn the basics.

Who knows, he could do better than three FA cup wins in the last four years, three community shield wins in the last four years, twenty years of champions league participation and overseeing the building of a magnificient stadium that has propelled us into the top five clubs in the world, All I can say is this, after supporting Arsenal for over sixty years Arsene Wenger is the best their was, the best their is and the best their ever will be and despite numerous attempts to organise protests against him the anti wenger brigade has always failed miserably.

The 28 - year - old should have little trouble adapting to English football after showing what he can do in Germany, Spain and against the best clubs in Europe.

And now after the Gunners gave away two winning positions against two eminently beatable clubs one after the other, the fans, or at least a good portion of us, want a new manager to take the reins and steer Arsenal back to glory.

Debuchy did seem relatively impressive in the first half against Lens, making a lot of forward runs as well as tough tackles at the back, however it's not enough to convince me that he has a future at the club.

It is hard to root against them as they've done well, but to date in the league they've only played Tottenham and Arsenal from the top 6 clubs and they drew to the Spurs at home and lost 2 - 5 at home to the Arsenal.

Atlanta may be the better team on paper, but this won't feel like a gim me coming off of an awful loss and a lack of success against this club in 2017.

Go and pee man, we had a fairly good game against Stoke, we paid for not being ruthless enough in front of goal, yes we were terrible against Liverpool, its start of d season, stop moaning and leave our club, bunch of retard idiots, rubbish

He is excited about the pressure of playing at Anfield and against the best teams that the Premier League has to offer, telling Liverpoolfc.com: «I'm very excited and so proud to be here and a member of Liverpool Football Club.

The Italian coach was relieved of his duties earlier in the week, and while some members of the Merengues squad — including star man Cristiano Ronaldo — were against the manager's dismissal [via the Telegraph], some of the club's players may well be happy to see a change at the top.

A lack of trophies could come back to haunt them as they fell short in the FA Cup at the weekend and look likely to finish second in the Premier League this season, and perhaps that could work against them this summer if top clubs around Europe are looking to convince their best players to leave north London.

The youngster notably scored in a friendly against England last year, showing he can impress on the international stage as well, and the Daily Star now names the three Premier League clubs said to be vying for his signature this summer.

No manager will do better than top 4 with the funds available at the club, so we should all simmer down and enjoy matches like Arsenal — Brighton and an odd win against a top 4 side.

It's why Bolton did so well against Wenger's side, and why Arsenal are constantly moaning about clubs who do take the time to exploit the flaws in their system.

United matched Chelsea's 3 -4-3 formation from the start and — by matching their intensity too — Jose Mourinho's men looked well in the game against his former club.

Spot on bro... the problem with most of us Arsenal fans is that we've been made to accept average as our only option after been promised by Gazidis and other members of the board that we will compete with top European clubs... i feel some players need to be allowed to go in order for better ones who are ambitious and hungry for titles to come in... and someone made mention of Giroud saving Arsenal in a few games like the countless chances he's missed that could have put the club in better positions could be equated right... he should have done that against Watford, west brom and the rest... truth be told..

With a match next weekend against Stoke looming large, the club would do well by making sure they focus all their positive energy on getting at least a draw to get things back in the right direction.

Clearly Sir Alex will be going up against a myriad of other members of Europe's elite but could well tempt the playmaker to the club and who knows, maybe he could be the «Next Cantona»?

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The player involved, German international winger Karim Bellarabi, must be feeling quite good about himself after scouts from Arsenal, Man City, Liverpool, Man United, Tottenham and Newcastle all turned up to watch him play for Bayer Leverkusen against the Russian club Zenit St. Petersburg in the Champions League this week.

Now I know Arsene should be doing better and he is at a club with big expectations but comparing the job Arsene has been doing against the job Mclaren has been doing it is not even close.

Ozil was recently voted the best player by the German public and he does tend to turn it on against Bundesliga clubs.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

Despite him looking a bit rusty, Giroud will start as his record against Newcastle is better than against any other club.