Sentences with phrase «concern over one's fitness»

It all seems to be on the attacking side of things, however, and even though the first signing made by Arsenal this summer was the versatile defender Sead Kolasinac, a lot of Gooners would like to see the defence bolstered with Mertesacker coming to the end and with concerns over the fitness of Laurent Koscielny.

Barcelona, with concerns over the fitness of Lionel Messi, travel to the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium on Saturday, looking to extend its own undefeated run this term to 30 league games.

There are obvious concerns over the fitness of players like Kos but we should be able to cover the situation with the current options of Kos, Per, Monreal, Holding and Gabs.

Wolves have slight concerns over the fitness of winger Matt Jarvis (thigh) and midfielder Dave Edwards (groin).

The Gunners were strongly tipped to sign the talented 20 - year old in the summer, but concerns over the fitness issues that saw him miss out on the World Cup triumph in Brazil meant that Wenger went for Alexis Sanchez from Barcelona in a # 30 million transfer instead.

One would have thought that Tottenham would have kept their academy graduate at White Hart Lane if they still had big concerns over his fitness, allowing Mauricio Pochettino to monitor him in training.

Carlo Ancelotti, in his pre-match conference, raised concerns over the fitness of John Obi Mikel and David Luiz.

Played alexis sanchez despite concerns over his fitness and calf issues.

There have been concerns over the fitness of Wilshere, so if the Englishman doesn't quite make it, Abou Diaby will be in line for his first start of the season.

With the Arsenal away game against an in form and high flying Southampton being the third game for the Gunners in a week, Arsene Wenger will obviously have some concerns over the fitness of some of his Arsenal players.

With Wenger seemingly still unsure on whether to start with Giroud or not this weekend, largely due to concerns over fitness, Lucas could be in line to make his debut for the Gunners against the Saints.

It is not as if the Gunners are struggling, far from it in fact as we are the division's form side with five wins and a draw from the last six games, but we are a little bit thinly stretched due to a raft of injury problems and the concerns over the fitness of Alexis Sanchez.

Despite the concerns over the fitness of the heavily worked forward Alexis Sanchez, not many Arsenal fans or football observers really expected Arsene Wenger to leave his star man out of the Arsenal starting line up for the away game at Norwich City today and so it is no surprise to see the Chilean's name on Wenger's team sheet.

Gerard Pique started the game, despite concerns over his fitness, and Barca managed to hold the hosts at bay until substitute Philippe Coutinho came on and scored his first goal for the club.

However, there are no concerns over the fitness of Gareth Bale, who limped off with a cut knee after a goalscoring display in Saturday's victory at Sociedad.

There are concerns over the fitness of Lanzini who was on international duty in the break, but Masuaku can return after his six game suspension, and apparently Fernandes, who hasn't been seen for some time, is fit once again.

Fenerbahce have reportedly decided against making a permanent offer for Tottenham Hotspur striker Vincent Janssen at the end of the season due to concerns over his fitness.

His starting eleven still looks immensely strong on paper, so for now the Englishman is fine, but Blackburn have been known to» roughen» up sides this season, and so, perhaps Redknapp will be right to have some concerns over the fitness of his players heading into what should be a physical clash with Blackburn.

In the Champions League group stage this season when PSG travelled to Real Madrid there were concerns over the fitness of Marco Verratti.

The full - backs are really strong and Leighton Baines will probably miss out as he's not played often enough since his injury and there has to be concerns over his fitness.