Sentences with phrase «big plays against well»

Not exact matches

Mertesacker is the type that will win headers that go towards him, but if he has to move for it then he's in trouble, but he's very good at positioning himself so it's not that big a deal, though when he does get caught out it seems to stick in my head for a while, like against Anderlecht... Players like Koscielny and Gabriel are a lot more mobile, they move and attack the ball when it's played into their area.

«We played well but they played better» this is becoming the theme song for arsenal when matched against big teams.

Arsenal always plays well if there is no heavy pressure from their opponent, unlike the previous matches against the other big teams.

The charity shield is still a trophy and I agree, however we need to play better against big teams.

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

Westbrooks isn't quite as big as your average 3 - 4 defensive lineman, so I do have some questions about how well he will hold up against the run, especially if they play him inside on early downs.

Being good on offense against Arkansas in a 49 - 30 win isn't a big reason for excitement, since the Razorbacks had allowed over 10 yards a play in a game already.

«When you're playing against Chelsea you have to be big, strong, and good in the air — and Dann has all of those qualities.»

Aaron Ramsey certainly hopes and thinks so, and the Welshman also reckons that the return of our big French striker to the squad will play a big part in making sure that the three good performances against Man United, Borussia Dortmund and West Brom is not another false start, as an Arsenal.com report explains.

Benteke is a better finisher, passer, and dribbler than Giroud and may even in this sh*t hold up play afc fans keep taking about (Watch him against so called big teams)... regarding stats, Benteke plays for AV for football sake, so he gets far less support and chances... Mind that I'm not criticizing and I'm not taking anything from Giroud improvement this season, it's plain comparison... Though, I want someone better than Benteke

You are spot on on Perez being better than ozil if he's given the chance, but neither of them are at wilshere's level when fit Wilshere is aggressive, you can't get the ball off him unless you foul him which gives us enough set pieces, he's a big game player, watch our games against Bayern, barca, Chelsea, man city, man utd e.t.c when he plays, he creates more chances You just need to watch his games even at Bournemouth against Chelsea, which brings me back to the point that, no coach will ever play ozil while Wilshere is fit except wenger............ Plus, ozil is a pu ** y or a weakling rather

Granted, McDermott did it against much better competition in the Missouri Valley and Big East, but buckets are buckets and Daum can get them regardless of who he's playing.

They got back on the right track with a hard - fought W against a sneaky good (and big) Team Gutman squad who has played many top Teams tough all season long.

RHJ was banged up as well, though playing against bigger, stronger guys on a nightly basis will do that - Close games.

The best player on the pitch was always the biggest grafter of the lot of us, people hated playing against him.

This all sounds very positive from the talented defender, but although he is right that we are used to playing against top sides, he seems to conveniently forget that we usually lose those big games as well!

We have numbers but less quality, we play less than average against big teams and the small teams can chew on us whenever they have a good plan.

«It was very similar to the Stoke team, with a big team playing against a small team with very good players, trying to defend, trying to keep the score»

That's a big reason why we saw Jabari playing more as a defensive 3, which also made sense because he's lacking in the areas where Giannis excels and OK at the things Giannis is less good at (ie moving feet one - on - one on perimeter against wings).

He plays with good pad level for the most part, but I have some concerns about how he would hold up against bigger, stronger defensive tackles in the league.

Your squad above to me as well is the best though I would give Chamberlain a rest bringing him and Rosicky on late; but start Akpom (I think Welbeck will likely be playing against his old squad though... expect big things either way) instead... he will, in my mind with Sanchez on the other side coming in attracting a lot of attention will give Chuba all the space he needs.

you'll play against the best on the biggest stage blah blah blah blah

Before his last few games I would probably have said yes to9 this loan deal straight away but he has looked better of late and against Burnley he played a big part, including the great run and cross to assist the Alexis Sanchez winner.

Jones anchors well enough against the bigger DT's to play center for now.

He plays well against lower teams but struggles against bigger teams or matches.

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

lst season at stamford bridge, was the first time i saw that 4 -1-4-1 formation being used, and for some weird reason i feel a very strange negative vibe and well all know the outcome.the manager has come back with this formation and its not yielding result, but he still sticks with it.i do nt know much about formations dear friends, but if you are playing a slow dm in arteta and a very very slow cb, then you are toast against quality teams with sound tactics.wen playing wellbeck as a lone striker, i think 4 -2-3-1, will work better, but if we have a big player like oliver (boooos), thn we can try the 4 -1-4-1, thingy cos he can hold the ball for our midfielders to run in.but on the overall, shame on wenger for not giving our defence a good cover DM.NO BODY PLAYS A SLOW DM / CB AND EXPECT TO B REGARDED AS CHAMPIONSHIP MATERIAL.IT HURTS GUYS, REALLY HURTS.

the truth is when we play big teams all our players are under perform that's because whether they are up against better players or physical players and Ozil is usually the escape goat

Santi was the engine oil to our new found way of playing against the big clubs, because he made it work so well.

I wanted to know we could challenge the best to win, and I just don't think there is as much appeal in a victory against this liverpool team as there was last year, just feel like I'm waiting for that game where we turn up away from home against a big club and show them we can play and win

Perhaps the biggest revelation, however, in a jaw - dropping night in Columbus was how well the Sooners» D played against Urban Meyer's offense on the way to the Buckeyes» worst home loss since 1999.

neither arteta nor flamini is good enough to play for arsenal per mertasacker should be our 4th choice cb he can play well against less technical more physical teams like stoke but he is not good enough in big games we need 1 - 2 cdm's / cb's what will happen in jan only time will tell

Thierry Henry has said it all, that there's is a problem in arsenal, there was a time he don't even relate with his teams mate and he question why Sanchez will remain at arsenal after the display against Liverpool, I have said it before the big issue on ground is not money that the player are demanding but the ambition of the club... henry also said, when u are playing for arsenal u are comfortable whether u are playing well or not because there's no pressure on u....

Playing Poldi from the on set especially against big teams wouldn't be the wisest decision as we have players in better form than him like it or not (though the manager uses them wrongly of course (clueless)-RRB-.

I still do think there's that often - not - seen good post defense and rebounding that Asik can bring as a starter and as a good matchup against burly big guys around the NBA... BUT the team's «death lineup» will certainly revolve around AD playing the 5.

As for the transfers, I said he could have done better, but we are starting to buy the world class players that arsenal deserves... My point is that on the day it's arsenals 11 against the opposition 11, and it's up to the players to get the win... Wenger plays a big part in the tactics and formations yes... However ultimately it's down to the players to come up with the result... I think the players get away with poor performances too lightly as wenger gets the brunt of the criticism, ultimately it was a poor performance by the players yesterday not by wenger

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

We have not yet played any of the big moneyed three and look at our season: a dogfight with a team who will finish mid-table, a loss to a team who will finish mid-table and humiliation against a team who is good but not great.

The key test for Balotelli now though is to add consistency, as it's all well and good producing in a big game against the Italian champions, but can he repeat the trick and play a decisive role for his team away at Sampdoria on Sunday?

i think this could officially be the start of the end for wenger his blind arrogance has cause him to buy welbeck in the sheer belief that AGAINST THE ODDS HE CAN BEAT THE REST OF THE BIG 4 WITH ONE ARM BEHIND HIS BACK we should be buying top top top european c / l standard players not sunderland spuds everton standard players thats about welbecks standard of club in all truthful reality he is an honest hard working player but wenger thinks he can coach the mediocrity out of him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for klopp

All of that was on display in this single play against Texas in 2016, via which the All - Big 12 first - teamer became one of three finalists out of dozens of candidates for SB Nation's Piesman Trophy, given annually to the best non-lineman play by a lineman.

«In softball, you play your best and in the big games against the top teams there's always a break, a bloop single here, a spinning ball there.

However, the big surprise was how well Christian Ponder played against the vaunted Packers D. With the sportsbooks adjusting their lines to take away a big point from the visiting Vikings, six out of 10 spread wagers are banking on Newton to lead Carolina to a four point or more victory at home.

I thought we played very well in both and two big decisions went against us.

Klopp is good in big games as his team plays counter but sux against small teams.

Saying Ozil has been poor for us is an understatement, in fact he has been very woeful for the past 10 matches and I totally agree with you that we have been playing 10 against 11 all these while, he just can't fight for the ball or his life and whenever he doesn't play very well, he puts the whole team in big danger and i still don't know why Araene can drop him for at least 2 matches and play Iwobi in his position

The committee's plan for determining which teams play in the best games has not yet been completely disclosed, but if it leads to a common - sense determination of teams based on merit, rather than an application of cryptic and unforgiving rules made solely to prevent unscrupulous bowl executives from turning every big bowl game into Notre Dame against someone vaguely local, it's a massive improvement in the process.

Although sissokho is more of a box to box but he has athleticism and physical presence to affect the game and often plays well against big teams when ever I watch him e.g Chelsea this season and last two seasons against Man united last season at old traffold etc he can play DM role for us and will be a good signing and very useful in champions league... COYG!!

I am glad of the news cause Arsenal play against man against the best men Arsenal are growing big they will beat bayern comfortably and move on to beat the rest competition like that make champions a proper challenge brilliant looking forward for it but we meet everton first let us concentrate on that one first and move on come on the Arsenal its our season to push and take all

arsenal as a big and rich club they didn't spent so much money to buy best players in the past years like the other big clubs so this time it is a must that arsenal buys best defender, midfielder and striker and as well keep Sanchez valuing the service that he will be giving next season mote than # 50 m which will also protect him not to play against arsenal at least for the coming season, and who knows after wards..