Sentences with phrase «better than an opposition»

The problem with Arsenal is how we play, or adapt our play in matches, we've had good players up to the point where our squad looks better than the opposition, but we then loose dismally.

Constantly beating the same dead horse when the team is doing very good (I am not saying brilliant because that's Citeh, Chavs territory usually these days) is not making you any better than an opposition fan.

For the second rule to work at team has to defend better than its opposition and score more goals than its opposition, in each game.

Having respect, is completely different to underestimating the opposition and Arsenal need to go into games like these with a winners mentality knowing they can be better than their opposition.

our players need to believe in their heads that they are better than the opposition and they deserve to win the title.

* Yes, newer studies show no effects on certain health risks, but if we become dogmatic claimers of how red meat is super healthy, we become no better than our opposition that is based in bad evidence or average person arguments for that matter.

Not exact matches

Even some opposition members say Abe and his aides display a better ability to govern than the first administration, when gaffes and scandals cost him five ministers including one who committed suicide.

For now, with the leader of the opposition, a longtime politician and establishment figure, calling to install a council of «good people» to govern, the Thai market seems a safer bet than Thai democracy.

«I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition.

I think our prospects are thus better than our main opposition.

The NDP folks are nice and will do a good job in government; they will actually work rather than loll around in the house of corruption avoiding the questions of the opposition parties as I noted when I went to the legislature to present my banned self to my MLA — Mr. Mandel.

I challenge the Wildrose and the opposition to show exactly how they would run the province and country any better than our current government in less than ideal times.

Or, as the French Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain put it nearly a decade later, «There is nothing more illusory than to pose the problem of the person and the common good in terms of opposition,» for in reality, it is «in the nature of things that man, as part of society, should be ordained to the common good.»

By the time you got there, the opposition was well orchestrated and finely tuned, and in less than a week your leader was strung up, and you were smart enough to head for the hills.

Mutual admonition and the quest for complementarity are a better way than either «polite... opposition» or church - dividing declamations based on careless theological judgments.

More than two - thirds of them (68 %) believe you can be a good Catholic even if you disagree with your church's opposition to abortion.

More than two - thirds of them (68 %) believe you can be a good Catholic even if you disagree with your church's opposition to abortion» fallacy.

The continuing secular popularity of Pope Francis, thought Sandro Magister, had a good reason, which «explains better than any other the benevolence of worldwide secular public opinion toward Francis... [and that is] his silence in the political camp, especially on the minefield that sees the greatest opposition between the Catholic Church and the dominant culture.

It indicates the solidarity of man in his alienation from God, but the opposition of the whole universe to the will of God is so deliberate and so well organized that it is more than the product of the human will.

He said: «A decade on from the passing of the controversial anti-smacking law in New Zealand, the law has maintained its very high level of opposition, but most significantly the law has had a «chilling» effect on parenting, and rather than tackling rotten parents who are abusing their children, it has targeted well - functioning parents».

Though her unwomanly way drew much prejudice and opposition, she refused to give in, but instead said, «It is better to obey the voice of Heaven than that of man.»

Discussing his opposition to same - sex marriage, Liberal MP Kevin Andrews said children who are brought up with a mother and father are «better off than those who are not».

+ wenger out is more than just lack of spending; its not studying the opposition, not rotating players, not addressing why we have so much more injuries than others, not subbing early enough to give incoming players a chance to influence the game, not playing players in their best positions. . . .

Giroud misses more than he hits, Walcott has NEVER delivered his expected talent, Welbeck will NEVER be the striker to score 20 goals a season Coqellin will NOT go a whole season injury or suspension free, Sanchez and Ozil WILL have down period during the season, all teams have these problems to a greater or lesser degree but most of the top teams will address these problems and players either inprove or are sold and replaced with better or at least more consistant players, NOT Wenger he keeps doing the same thing over and over with the same players and he expects a different result but gets the same outvome time and time again, yet its ALWAYS someone else's fault be it the Ref or the linesman or the opposition or bad luck or whatever and whoever and its NEVER the fact that HE has done nothing to change the situation and LOOKS LIKELY to not change it next time around.

The most frustrating but also the best thing is so far we drop points because of bad official decision (Everton, Hull,...) or individual mistakes (Swansea, Man Utd, Hull,...) rather than our opposition push us (only happen at Dortmund away)-- that means we have our fates in our hands, and we still have time to turn things around — especially when we have our 1st team player back from injury.

Our biggest problem is throwing away games having taken the lead, or while putting tons of pressure on the oppositions goal, and while Ospina is better than Schez, a World class keeper will help us stop this most annoying habit.

I get your point mate.But in truth Ramsey is the CM and Xhaka is the DM according to our formation anf tactic.It's even debatable if Xhaka is capable of playing DM.I think Ramsey's tactical awareness is poor but he has every right to take risks and move into the opposition box.He's a box to box player.The only problem is Ramsey overdoes it.If we had a proper CDM the team would be more balanced.Now it's like we have two CM's playing in midfield and due to their poor tactical awareness we're always left exposed.I conclude by reminding people that Wilshere is better footballer and is more intelligent than Xhaka.It'll be better playing Wilshere and pairing him with a CDM than having Xhaka play there.He just gets to play over him becausr we signed him for # 35.

If Arsenal allow opposition teams a good foothold in the game as they seems to always do nowadays and continue to play with less than 50 % possession, they will have to score at least 3 goals or more per game to win matches.

He chips in a goal every 4 league appearances roughly, has bagged a few hat - tricks, has had good games against top opposition - he's not the player we hoped, but he's a far better bet than Oxlade - Chamberlain.

we have lost the ability to applaud an opposition team if they play better than us or an opposition player for a moment of magic... its so tribal and we see that even within our own club!

«I keep thinking whether our opposition is better than them [over the run - in], but I think so.

Leeds on the other hand have proven their a hard team to beat, no matter the opposition, boasting the 3rd best defensive record in the league with just 36 goals conceded all season, just 3 more than that of Brighton and 4 more than Newcastle.

First of all, the Bruins use their size and muscle (five of them weigh more than 200 pounds, four more better than 190) to establish the tempo of a game right at the start, and the opposition often loses its sense of purpose.

If, as a coach, Harkness tends to nettle the opposition, he gets along better with his own players than perhaps any other coach.

The goals stats make him look better than he was an most of those goals were against very poor opposition in the cup competitions.

The best thing about Mourinho is that he analyses the opposition and has a plan in place to exploit their weaknesses and more often than not it works.

Well he's completely wrong on the timing issue, in all the years I have been watching football, referees have never stopped the game in the middle of a corner / direct free kick in the oppositions half, and I'm sure he's watched more football than me.

By playing a very feeble back 3, is he underestimating the opposition or does he feel Arsenal are better than they are?

... he played there against crystal palace, Everton 2 season ago and it was a disaster... our build up is majorly done closer to d centre circle than d oppositions box... that's y girouds hold up play is vital... either we go with dat path or we look for a striker who is lightning quick (so when we make d final pass, it doesn't get wasted), uses both legs to shoot on sight, with good accuracy... playing Sanchez, who is not very good with his back to goal as a 9 is useless and though fast, holds on to d ball a lot tryn to get d best angle to shoot... we need a striker who is very intelligent with d timing of his runs... too bad Walcott is as intelligent as a sheep, cld have been d perfect cf...

If you have the better team, you should be confident to hand out a beating to the opposition rather than admiring them.

(The goals stats make him look better than he was an most of those goals were against very poor opposition in the cup competitions.)

Mertasaker 1 vs 1 statistics are better than kosc which also shows opposition are less successful at tacking him on this ids were kosc is more likely to foul a player

Our forward line is much better than last season, but always seems to be given a handicap, by wenger playing ozil, wilshere and Cazorla all at once or two together, grant you cazorla is improving defensively, but when we play all three we miss out defensively, we have a soft middle and our opposition knows it, therefore we are giving all an edge before we even play

You could throw in to this theory that we are an offensive team which seeks to entertain and accordingly plays with the philosophy that the best form of defence is attack and we will score more than the opposition.

I thought people here were debating about two or three seasons back why he should be our top striker.When I thought the Monaco match was the icing on the cake to show how average he was it seems just like Wenger we» will never learn our lesson.Now people our okay with him being a super sub which is debatable.Giroud was a super sub in games last season because he wasn't played when he was supposed to.He's not your ideal super sub because he very hardly creates but rather requires people to create for him.Most of the time super subs are the one's who tend to create the chances and open up spaces in the opposition defence.West ham are ready to pay and hence we should demand more from them.We can then use the money from his sale on far better players.Given the same seasons, time and chances a lot of average strikers can do better than what he did.This is because Arsenal create a lot of chances and it just needs someone who can finish.Goodbye!.

Well he has too there's no way around it... when you mesmerize about the opposition ability to finish it means you understand that a certain level of quality & consistency is needed to finish up plays & bury occasions (that we do create in numbers better than anybody in the kingdom).

no need for 4th place junkies on this site to worry... chelsea were only 12 points better than us last season and have strengthened their first XI but we have taken their substitute GK who is class cost us a couple of points but can make that up against lower opposition, man city have strengthened and will probably bring in de bruyne but we cant compete with oil money anyway man utd?

As well Welbeck is taller than Falcao, which is essential when the opposition is parking the bus and height is required to bypass all the defenders with continuous crosses into the box for headers.

All these players are good when the opposition are less than world class and are willing to play free flowing football but all of them collectively seem bereft of ideas when the opposition parks the bus like Chelsea / Sunderland did!

3 points is 3 points in that game of course but play the same way we played against more talented opposition, they will capitalize better than Sunderland did.