Sentences with phrase «chances in the game after»

Unfortunately for him it was a game his partner Mesut Ozil failed to come on board as he missed two chances in the game after being played in by Sanchez.

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It would be a real shame if Ozil does not get at least 21 this time but after adding just one in the last four games despite creating 19 good chances, it could happen.

The reason I think that Diaby is more likely to play against Burnley on Saturday, although not from the start, is that he is the player that most needs the chance to show what he can do after so few games in recent seasons.

After a thrilling double overtime victory in Ottawa, the Bruins have the chance to even their series at home to send this Eastern Conference matchup to a Game 7.

Although Juve have certainly put themselves in a strong position, they will need to be better as Porto will surely perform better after what was a generally poor game devoid of clear - cut chances and so the Portuguese giants have it all do, but also nothing to lose when they travel to Italy next month.

Even after only 45 games in the NHL, there is a strong chance he is already getting close to reaching the latter two levels.

And he spurned the chance to be big - headed after the game and rightly thought of Arsenal and his team - mates and only looked at how far the team can go in this confident mood.

Sanogo may be fortunate in his arsenal stay, because of injury, no team will be looking to take on an injured player (only arsenal), which may be a blessing in disguise, because his recovery more than likely will be after the window closes, so if i was him i would try get some goals in the under 23 games and hopeful that will get him into the cup games or even the chance at the Giroud role again.

Closer John Axford, who lost his job briefly in early August after blowing seven of 15 save chances in a 26 - game stretch, has been flawless since Aug. 10.

There was no doubting that Jack Wilshere was very disappointed that Arsenal didn't take their chances against Tottenham in the first half, but he tried to concentrate on the «positives» after the game.

Arsene Wenger may only want to talk about referees after any game nowadays, but in fact Arsenal simply can not win a game anyway and if Alvaro Morata had taken any of his chances Chelsea would have won this game in canter.

Arsenal have now started the short run of pre-season games in preparation for the tough start to a crucial Premier League season in which the pressure on Arsene Wenger and the players to mount a serious title challenge is greater than ever after blowing what appeared to be a golden chance last time around and with the gap since our last successful campaign now more than 12 years.

The Gunners are away as well so you can see why we could do with Norwich City winning and as the Saints are involved in two midweek games against Liverpool for a chance to reach the EFL cup final at Wembley and after their Europa League involvement then we can hope for an FA cup upset.

Our chances of triumphing at Wembley have been severely damaged after not only Laurent Koscielny got himself stupidly sent off for a reckless tackle against Everton, but Gabriel Paulista was also stretchered off in the same game.

Wenger is looking to Olivier Giroud to lead the Arsenal line single - handedly after seemingly electing to only use the likes Lukas Podolski, Gervinho and Theo Walcott in wide areas, therefore though the French summer signing has started to up his game there is certainly a need to bring in alternatives and Dzeko may well be tempted by the chance of a new challenge.

This was the vital game though for Real who trail leaders Barcelona by 16 points in La Liga after a poor campaign and it is their best chance of picking up some silverware outside of the Champions League, in which they are evenly poised against Manchester United after a 1 - 1 first leg draw at the Bernabeu.

On - loan Jonny Williams could be included in the Forest squad for the first time after featuring for the Under - 21 side this week while Chris O'Grady, Ryan Mendes and David Vaughan could all gets their chance as Forest prepare for a 3rd game in 8 days.

Middle Tennessee State +27.5 at Georgia Tech: The Yellow Jackets are in a prime hangover spot here after blowing their chance to potentially win the division by dropping a game to lowly Miami last week.

After two straight trips to the national title game due largely to points in the paint and second chance opportunities, they suddenly find themselves without the tools necessary to follow their own blueprint for success.

After all, if you got up to get a drink of water (or, as was needed by fans of both sides in any of the previous games... not water) there was a chance that by the time you got back the lead would have changed at least once.

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..

It'll be a chance for the SEC to make it four - in - a-row after starting with an 0 - 2 record in the game.

Sanogo, 21, only has one goal for the club in 19 first - team appearances, and may now get the chance to develop his game elsewhere after a slow start to life in Arsene Wenger's side.

This persuaded Wenger to give him a first team chance back at Arsenal, and despite some promising performances he rarely played or scored and after complaining about lack of game time he was sent on loan again after six months to Villarreal, where he scored just once in 15 appearances.

It also doesn't help that even if Thomas Davis plays — and that's one guy whose word I'm never going to doubt — there is almost no chance that his broken arm doesn't affect his play in a negative way, so I could also see Manning going after him in the passing game as well.

I am with you when you say even Sanchez went missing in the big games but did he miss chance after chance or have a really bad game?

We need to be absolutely strong in the midfield if we have to have any chance whatsoever or they will rip us apart and it would be game over after the first match.

The winner will join the Oklahoma - Oklahoma State Bedlam winner (OU's the big winner of the week, vaulting all the way from No. 7 after beating TCU and maybe even putting itself in the top group) and possibly Baylor in the holding pen; the Bears and Cardinal would also have games during conference championship weekend (and Stanford would have a real chance to impress against USC or UCLA), but the others in this group would be sitting and waiting.

In the Monaco game we are going to need all the pace we can get at the back, it's going to be a risky game for us as we have to start well and we are going to go for it, this means we will be exposed at the back, that is where we need 2 quick central defenders, Kossy and Gabriel can look after themselves on the counter, but Mertesacker has no chance, so I think if we play Merte then we ain't got a chance at all, they will counter on us and due to him being slow.

After he went down with an injury, they lost by two, then never stood a chance in any subsequent games.

It is not how the big striker started the season, of course, but Arsene Wenger did not have a lot of choice but to give Theo Walcott a chance after Giroud fluffed his lines in those early games.

And the Colombian international has done his chances no harm after not conceding a single goal in his three games.

i am not too bothered by the manner we won today the most important thing is the 3 pts remember burnley beat liverpool not so long ago, also for the people who thought the title was already lost after just a few games (which by the way was stupid to think) well not only man city got beaten but their team looked jaded / tired and even though they have a very good squad they missed de bruyne terribly, it is not the same team without him they couldn, t create any chances which is good news, it can, t be good for a team to depend so much on one player (we should know a thing or two about this) in case he gets injured hopefully we have moved on from this and can deal with injuries to our players in case it happens to us, we had our fair share and it is time for us and to watch other teams getting depleted, COYG.

I tell you from a footballing point of view scoring 8 goals you got have players that know where the goal posts are it takes energy and creativity to score 8 yes I agree vikings changed their players because their league is starting i think tomorrow so yes they were not a big team team but to say that Arsenal were not strong thats a bit to much and I say it again you need energy and creativity to score 8 I was very happy they did that Arsenal are well known for creating chances yesterday they converted them chances into Goals this should be the norm and I hope this will give them a lesson on how to win a game as they did nt dwell about with the ball it was goal after goal and that tells me that they went for the goals directly and I hope and wish the young guns all the best and to do well in the next season

Just 2 minutes later Theo was given another perfect pass but this time couldn't slot it past Neuer.Seven minutes before half time, Bayern finally created a good chance when Robben dinked the ball into Lewandowski who made an unusual miss after scoring 5 goals in his last 3 games.

We had a fluent game by creating chance after chance and in the second half we just had to show different qualities and hang on.»

Barring the outcome of the late game between Man City and Tottenham Hotspur at the Etihad, Arsenal have a chance of moving up to the 3rd positio in the table after beating Burnley tomorrow.

The Ox, Ramsey, Sanogo, Welbeck, Ozil, Wilshere, etc play game after game and are poor in 80 % of those games but keep being given chances until they hit a bit of form, our starting 11 have been poor all season but they keep being given second chances, we are already 15 games into the league and none has justified their starting place apart from Sanchez.

After playing 21 games in his first season and u say he was not given a chance.

After watching how slow the Flyers were last night, I honestly believe whoever plays them next has a chance to surprise them in the first game.

He was scathing in his verdict after the Leicester game, and declared that the Gunners have little chance of winning the title if they don't improve their game play.

After the Spurs match there is another international break and Arsenal's first two games after it could be absolutely massive for our hopes in the Premier League this season as well as our chances of ending the six year cycle of qualifying but not finishing on top of the Champions League gAfter the Spurs match there is another international break and Arsenal's first two games after it could be absolutely massive for our hopes in the Premier League this season as well as our chances of ending the six year cycle of qualifying but not finishing on top of the Champions League gafter it could be absolutely massive for our hopes in the Premier League this season as well as our chances of ending the six year cycle of qualifying but not finishing on top of the Champions League group.

Now that Arsenal have given themselves a good chance of qualifying into the last 16 of the UCL, after a disastrous start by losing our first 2 games in the competition, I think some of us are still nervously assuming that we have been here before (whatever stage) and don't want to get our hopes up, understandably so!

Our slump in away games needs to change quickly, as Arsenal have to travel to Milan for the first leg of our Europa League tie just four days after Brighton, but Wenger will have to decide whether to rest some of his stars to keep them fresh for the only trophy we still have a chance of winning, but the Boss didn't sound keen on taking any chances.

Norwich must be dreading a backlash from the Gunners after our bad luck at the Hawthorns, and having lost 5 of their last six games they must now be getting worried about their chances of surviving in the Premier League after this campaign.

«I thought we had two good chances and after it was just down to 1 - 1, then we showed resources and character, were leading 3 - 1 and controlled the game quite well, but at 3 - 2 we became quite nervy again and we finished in a bit of a less controlled way, but overall it was a good team performance.»

It ended a long Old Trafford hoodoo for the Gunners, put the label of big game bottlers further behind us, kept us in with a good chance of another trophy and was further evidence that Arsenal are on the up after some lean years.

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

I was hoping that Giroud would of been rested in the last game and Theo given a chance, Giroud tends to go through dry periods after he has played a number of consecutive games... and it has happened again.

The visitors were well in the game early on and had their chances to break the deadlock, but after falling behind and seeing Sadio Mane given a straight red card after his collision with Ederson, the tide turned significantly in favour of Pep Guardiola's side.