Sentences with phrase «d team we play against»

Not exact matches

You're still playing just as hard, you're doing all the things, but playoffs means if you have one team to focus on, that means you can study all your regular - season matchups against them, you can learn all the information you need to learn to prepare yourself for this playoff series.

Some will say no Santi after his blinder against saints & though I agree I would still play El Neny reason being, Psg are low on confidence they have had a poor start to season and their fans are already on managers and teams back, therefore we need a fast start on the front foot pressing harassing not letting these players who are top class majority of them to settle & El Neny loves to press has unbelievable energy can run all day, and most of all keeps it simple with his passing.

Arsenal has struggled against teams that play a structured and defensive game.

Freeze was just holding his «read option / QB draw» plays close to his chest until he needed them against teams that hadn't much tape on them.

So until then, why not show a bit of modesty, stop with the big predictions and declarations, start showing on the pitch we have changed, beat every team that's put in front of you and fight each game as if you play in the CL final against Bayern Munich or Barca.

Remember chelsea are playing at home to a much weaker team while we have to travel and we have another away game against tottenham on the horizon which is a must win for obvious reasons.

you also have to consider that giroud managed to do so in the world's toughest league as opposed to la liga where benzema only had atletico and barca as the only tough teams to play against.

He's just finally being exposed because every team in the league knows how to play against us now, and Arsene has no response.

The closest we looked to finding our rhythm was the match against watford and for that to happen a team have to be playing together in real matches, hull will be looking to counter attack from their park bus situation and will hope to get some free kicks around our box.

it is his fault Bolly from Borehamwood He gets paid in excess of eight million a year to have alternatives when things go bad, to motivate players when the run of play is against them, to buy players who are capable and good enough to NOT hit the woodwork time and time again, to sell players who are off form and who fail to deliver on thier promised talent, in effect TO MANAGE the team.

We had pressure when playing the bigger teams because due to our record against them and because everyone does ask can Arsenal finally handle the big games.

This team has no leaders are weak and easy to play against and we have a deluded manager so we are in for 2 more years of misery!!

Against teams we have been playing recently in coqs absence, our midfieeld has been alittle too porous.

That said, Walcott should be sold this summer, ox should only play as a sub against lower half table teams and flamini / arteta should've been released.

ozil has no place in a 3421 he can perform in a 3412 where he play behind the two strikers so i will go with ozil behin both danny and lacazette sanchez and giroud can be used as a supersubs but i will tell u this, i hope we win but i am sure we will loose arsene wenger is blinded against top teams and he will play ramsey and xhaka again in the middle and we will be dominated by chelsea midfielders

The combination of the compressed post-London schedule and the mental / emotional toll of playing these every - possession - has - to - matter basketball games is leading to an understandable lack of sharpness and execution against good teams.

Leo you said remy was crap against spuds but you have got to consider who he is playing with he is in a very poor team who create nothing for him put him in our team and with chances we create he will score goals he is a natural goalscorer and i think he would do a great job in girouds absence, think we should keep podolski for extra cover in forward area be realistic we will not get falcao or cavarni therefore remy would not be the worse option!!

And for God's sake if the plan is to keep playing Valaika at 1B against LH pitching I would rather the team re-sign Mark Reynolds.

The Englishman can make runs down the flanks, catch on to quick through balls and would be better suited to play on the counter attack, which we may have to do against a team like Manchester City.

Arsene playing a balanced team will give you positive results, especially playing against a big team, over the past years we have continued to use players not suited for certain positions, we actually had a player who used left foot on the left side of the field who got in attacking position, Kolasinac to me was the most important player going forward and defending.

I'd still wager we're going to look to play a possession game against 90 % of the PL teams.

Finding a way to near the.500 mark in conference play or against top 25 teams would help; last year, they went 3 - 6 in the Big XII and were just 2 - 5 against ranked teams.

Totally agree with you twig, an those people thumbing you down are idiots who don't know football, we've been disjointed an uncoordinated so far this eason the only game we played well in was against city.Once again Wenger's laziness in preseason means the team has no chance of winning any major trophies.Wenger out.

With Giroud against better teams we don't really have the option to play on the counter attack which has become part of the modern game.

When they come up against a dysfunctional team like Arsenal who play as individuals, no tactics and don't have a team effort then they might mash us again..

Despite not having Joel Embiid, despite playing its first playoff game, despite going against a cagey Miami Heat team, they won Game 1 easily, 130 - 103.

Most had never even met before, and after a few brief practice sessions they were hustled onto a plane and dispatched to represent their country against a Russian team which had been playing together for four years.

If your feeling is giving him a handful of minutes against these bottom feeder teams we are going to playing over the next 3 - 4 weeks is 1) a monsterous step - down from what we have been getting lately from TJ / Marco, and 2) the difference between a 3/4 seed and a 6/7 seed, then we will just have to agree to disagree.

To me the fact that we have a striker in Giroud that can not make runs beyond the defence allows teams to play a high line against us which makes our midfield struggle with space.

As Thirdman implies, Ozil might have a purple patch when playing teams of lesser quality teams or if he happens to come against opponents with even less zest than he has.

I still believe Mert is liability against the big teams, but definitely has a role to play in games like these.

«I think Wenger is slowly reverting back to the 4 -2-3-1 and has finally realised that this team isn't capable of adapting to the 4 -1-4-1 or that it isn't needed against the smaller teams» Wenger would never admit that unless his job was on the line (FA Cup formation change when 2 - 0 down) don't get too excited, he is only reverting to what works because his poster boy Wack Wiltshire isn't playing.

Neymar was playing full first team football since about 17 akpom has just been loaned out here and there at lower level...... unless we sign more quality players we wont beat chelsea to the title, they are too strong and wengers record against jose does nt fill you with confidence.

Seriously if ozil was in the team it wouldn't have made any difference to the scoreline.I think it is a blessing in disguise that he wasnt there.How many more games does he need to adapt to premiership only game he played good was against crystal palace in rest of matches he just made these ordinary passes.

I just don't understand on any level why you would play Sissoko over Lamela to replace Eriksen against a team that's gonna sit back anyway.

Besides if you and I can see that Arsenal struggle against teams who play a pressing game, surely any experienced manager with the players capable of carrying out the tactics would just use that on Arsenal as Dortmund did

i have been saying this for along time arsenal would be better surve with a defrent stile of play maker one who can shoot head the ball take on defender dribble into space.we all see it over on over again you don't need one killers pass to win game alot of team don't have ozil on create lots of chance against us.

Snail to be precise And sometimes against big teams we used to get one dimensional because of his hold up play style and having no pace for the counters

As much i have faith in the WOS trio against teams playing footbal as much as i don't trust them againt teams parking the bus because they are weak physically But hey why not barcelona lack phisical players but scores loades of goals against teams parking the bus

But problem we would have In 3 at back formation would be against Chelsea, Tottenham and United... Chelsea and Tottenham also plays with same formation hence Tactically both players cut each other and Currently both teams having more quality players than us so here we will short on our performance....

I can nitpick on each of our 14 players performance in this game if i want, but I happen to think that overall, obtaining a draw against a title contender playing away, especially playing with 10 men for almost 45 minutes, was not such a bad result after all, not only if the standard is applied to a fragile team such as AFC, but also if it were to be applied to some other «fantastic» team such as for example, Leicester... I can imagine that if we were to loose the game the way Leicester did at the Emirates, many (visitors to this site) would be condemning our players bottlers, chokers instead of hailing them for defending bravely for 20 minutes with 10 men... LOL..

«But if we have shown something over the past weeks and months, it is that we have a plan against good football playing teams.

He's the guy you love to have on your team but hate to play against, just like our other Marcus.

Xavi put him on his team with greatest player I ever played against, and said that barca did not have a answer for his speed

Ozil is only very good if you have a better team than all the teams you are playing against, he needs to be in a team that has top players in every position and they all basically have to be very comfortable on the ball.

I honestly think that if we were playing against any of the other PL teams playing today, we would've struggled.

We can beat any1 of those teams on our day, we have trouble like teams against dortmund who press us high up the pitch, those 3 you just mentioned don't play a pressing game and i truly believe we are capable of beating them.

What has changed is just because we want to play against the top teams and we want to be in the Champions League.

Teams beat us bec we have trouble - ties to win the ball of the team which we are playing against.

chelsea are playing at home to a much weaker team while we have to travel and we have another away game against tottenham on the horizon which is a must win for obvious reasons.