Sentences with phrase «crunch match»

You can't do that in crunch matches — he has to be brought up to speed, while someone more experienced scores the goals.

A fit MD in a physical crunch match will be a great option.

Looking back, Wolves haven't won many crunch matches this season, and by that I mean beating those in close proximity.

as experience as buffon + bbc are, we can not deny that they are not good enough nor mentally strong enough for finals or for crunch matches.

Manchester City are set to play Europa League champions Sevilla in tomorrow's crunch match at the Etihad.

The Chilean missed his side's recent 5 - 0 demolition of Aston Villa with a hamstring niggle but Wenger seemed hopeful the star striker would be available for this weekend's crunch match with hated rivals Tottenham Hotspur.

If either Everton can get something from their game at Liverpool or West Brom from their trip to face Man United it would be a huge boost for Wenger and the Arsenal players ahead of our own crunch match.

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It's high stakes at the Stade Velodrome, then, with more than just bragging rights to play for in this long - standing crunch match.

Arsenal bomb out of two major crunch matches against an excellent Barcelona at home then a cut - rate Manchester United away to cast serious doubt over the squad's collective leadership qualities, not to mention its title - winning credentials.

We used to have a better than evens chance of winning crunch matches, now we can not beat any top team nor any physical team.

Whether or not all this makes Saturday's crunch match against Juventus at the Allianz Stadium a Scudetto showdown is another matter - personally I still don't believe Inter are legitimate title contenders - but that's not really important.

The drama of deadline has lead to Chris Sutton to believe that the Arsenal boss simply has to play the contract - rebel this term, and he was shocked to see him left out of last weekend's crunch match with Chelsea.

Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has previously overlooked the French striker when naming his starting line - up to take on the bigger teams in the division, and with close rivals Spurs coming up this weekend, there is calls that he should be given the nod for the crunch match.

England take on Wales in a must - win game on Thursday, and we thought we'd run a competition to give you further interest in the crunch match.

I would put Koscielny up there as well and he also has a boost ahead of this crunch match because Germany lost their only real centre forward Mario Gomez to injury.

OK, so it doesn't look like a serious incident, but surely any road collision is far from ideal when preparing for a crunch match against the best team in England.

This crunch match in previous years would be all about keeping our bragging rights over our rivals, but we currently have a power struggle in North London, with the our rivals closing the gap on us domestically, albeit without any return of trophies.

the best thing to do at the moment is to just get a convincing and great win against palace first, and set up the high confidence levels for the crunch match against Liverpool next week.

So Cech has been rallying the spirits of his team mates and showing his leadership skills ahead of their crunch match with Turky this evening, insisting that they have the tools to cope without Rosicky, as reported by Sky Sports, and calling for a real team performance to see them into the next round.

By all accounts both teams were unlucky not to have gotten more for their efforts in their crunch matches against Fulham and Aston Villa.

Hector Bellerin has warned our rival side Tottenham Hotspur that Arsenal are in a great place coming into the crunch match on Sunday.

It was a much - changed Swans line - up, showing six alterations from the weekend defeat to Tottenham and with more than an eye on a crunch match at home to fellow strugglers Norwich on Saturday.

The Saints have been impressive at this ground since returning to the top flight, which makes this a tough fixture to play 72 hours after a crunch match at Wembley.

Wayne Rooney said that England can't focus on Gareth Bale in England's crunch match against Wales on Thursday afternoon.

The crunch match against Hungary followed and Ronaldo raised his game to match the occasion.

Ahead of this weekend's crunch match against Juventus at the Allianz Stadium, Inter captain Mauro Icardi sat down with the Gazzetta dello Sport's Mirko Graziano for a lengthy but extremely engaging interview, which was published in Friday's paper.

Arsenal will not be underestimating their opposition like they did against Norwich, and will hopefully be fired - up for this crunch match.

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