Sentences with phrase «by injuries to key players»

Leicester's remarkable run, Chelsea's title defence, Klopp's arrival — these have been the main storylines of the 2015/16 season so far but from a City and Arsenal point of view, it's been a campaign characterised by injuries to key players.

Sanchez can play as a winger; but, when you are hampered by injuries to key players, it wouldn't be wrong to play the Chilean up top, while Sanogo plays in the cup games and builds confidence on his own self, more than anything else.

Beset by injuries to key players like Brett Hull, Pierre Turgeon and Al MacInnis, they have put together a corps of former minor league workhorses, including Blair Atcheynum, Jim Campbell, Chris Conroy, Pavol Demitra, Scott Pellerin and Terry Yake, who refused to give up their NHL dream.

And, with both sides plagued by injuries to key players, Wenger and Pellegrini will have their thinking caps on, when it comes to picking their strongest possible starting lineups.

Not exact matches

The Gunners have been plagued by injuries to a number of key players already this season and with Chamberlain continuing to struggle to fully establish himself in the side this will come as another setback in his short career.

Mind you, Southampton lost 8 key players plus a manager in the transfer window, they now sit fourth, 3 pts ahead of us.We can no longer use injuries as an excuse because we have always had them, and if wenger was a smart manager, he would have addressed this problem by having better squad depth, but instead he chose to send a defender out on loan despite being short in numbers at the back, foolishly chose not to sign a defender despite an array of good defenders on show at the world cup.So now who is to blame?I guess it's anyone or anything but Wenger.

We came second to Leicester mainly because of the much greater demands on the squad from our competing intensely on 3 fronts, playing 2 tough games every week without any respite — whilst Leicester had only the League to focus on, with only one game a week and crucially were given 2 weeks off to rest and recover their energy levels — over a period in which we were handicapped by many injuries, loss of form and confidence to key players whilst Leicester had no such handicaps.

Without long term injuries to key players like Sanchez, Ozil, The Boss and others then we'll be crowned champions by May next year.I yearn for the return of Welbeck and Lucas as Girroud thrives amid competition especially when coming on as a substitute.

They have a few key injuries to contend with and Pellegrini and the players know how much it would hurt the City fans to be knocked out of the top four by their main local rivals.

So on the eve of the first leg against Bayern in Germany, Arsenal were handed the boost, reported by Metro, that the Bundesliga side had been hit with an injury to one of their key players Xabi Alonso.

And as reported by the Daily Mail he admitted that all the injury problems to key players has had a large and negative impact on our title challenge.

MLB - Injuries continue to mount up for key players around baseball: - Last night the Tigers made a move to strengthen their bullpen by acquiring RHP Joakim Soria from the Rangers for RHPs Corey...

As expected by most Arsenal fans and watchers, the manager has rung the changes for the EFL cup match at home to Southampton because of our numerous injury problems and also to allow a few of the key players to get some well earned rest after a hectic fixture schedule.

We could be hit with more bad luck in the form of poor decisions by referees and injury problems to key players.

They've all somehow been able to lead their teams past the first round on multiple occasions (without their opponent losing two key players to injury) and never been swept by a lower seed.

I don't know about the rest of you Arsenal fans, but I am still scratching my head trying to figure out just what the hell Arsene Wenger was thinking by only completing the one bargain basement transfer deal on the January window, despite the club being sat on a mountain of cash and having our best chance of the Premier League title in a decade put at risk by losing a number of key players to injury.

He knows his season has been destroyed by some unfortunate injuries and some bad management from above, with key players allowed to get far too close to the end of their contracts... which has caused so much disruption and uncertainty.

Wenger is taking it easy with some of our key players during training as an alternative to not being able to rotate them, even though this is a good way of resting players by not burning them out, the downside is that their fitness levels will drop and muscle injuries will more than likely occur during games.

Then when we win it's bloody excuses for why the opponent lost, Man City was missing key players (we have missed 7 of our starting 11 for 5 weeks + this season, Chelsea have the best injury record in the PL), or predicting the «future» about how shit we will play next week, or simply trying to pit everyone against each other by mentioning AKB AOB b * llshit and this or that player will lose form.

The Gunners are also boosted by the return from injury of two key players in Coquelin and Alexis Sanchez, so it a little bit of a surprise to see Le Coq on the bench for this crucial game, and Flamini starting in the middle along with Ramsey.

It's no good for Arsenal and Wenger during this stage of the season when they are hit by injuries to many a key player, and it's precisely due to that reason why Wenger needs to start thinking of utilizing Podolski and Tomas Rosicky a lot more than what he has done with them so far.

It is like a mantra in his head, «it's all about wanting more» is a regular phrase, and it is an opportune moment to discuss the journey he has made from bit - part player, from someone who was even offered up as a makeweight in a failed bid to sign Clint Dempsey from Fulham in 2012, to being shunted around the team, then hampered by a chronic heel injury, fretting about his future, to now being a captain, a leader, a key player for Klopp.

Arsenal had to bare without key players like Alexis Sanchez, Jack Wilshere and Danny Welbeck for the majority of the campaign after their seasons were curtailed by injuries.

So a fairly shit afternoon in which Bolton were well and truly torn apart by Dougie Freedman's resurgent Nottingham Forest, but that was left pretty much irrelevant as Bolton suffered two serious injuries to two key players.

Chelsea were pummeled by Burnley in a shock 3 - 2 home loss last weekend and with the loss of key players through suspension and injury they are not going to be at their strongest by any stretch of the imagination.

Arsenal are considered by many as genuine title contenders this term but injuries to key players are threatening to derail the gunner's title challenge.

To further accelerate Klopp's pursuit of new players this winter, Liverpool have been struck by a terrible injury curse to a host of their key men and a couple of new names arriving at Anfield seems just a matter of... [Read more..To further accelerate Klopp's pursuit of new players this winter, Liverpool have been struck by a terrible injury curse to a host of their key men and a couple of new names arriving at Anfield seems just a matter of... [Read more..to a host of their key men and a couple of new names arriving at Anfield seems just a matter of... [Read more...]

After the winter break, despite all their key players coming out of injury they were still finding it difficult to win games but nevertheless they managed to climb to 9th in the table and booked a place in the finals of the DFB - Pokal by beating Bayern on penalties.