Sentences with phrase «early season injuries»

Yes, it may be surprising to see «CR7» high on the list, but early season injuries, couple with a suspension, has seen him score 22 goals in La Liga.

A switch to McLaren to partner Kimi Raikkonen in 2005 promised fireworks, but an early season injury rather set him back, and by the time he was back on the pace he was too far back.

In fact, our early season injury problems gave Chambers plenty of chances to impress and he did that well, both at centre back and right back.

Their goal production raw numbers are nearly identical but Giroud has had fewer games to accomplish this due to his early season injury.

Not exact matches

I think we can chalk most of last season's flailing up to that incredible injury bug that ripped through the team early.

With Cazorla taking over as creator, Ozil has been shipped out to the wing and whilst he struggled earlier in the season in this position, on his return to the first XI after long term injury the German seems to have bulked up, reassessed his game and figured out the kind of role Wenger wants him to have in the team.

The really free flowing and incisive Gunners that we saw earlier in the season in games like the demolition of Chelsea have been missing too often, but with an easing of the fixture list and an improvement in the club's injury situation there are signs that Arsenal are getting back to our best.

Both battled through injuries to their star quarterbacks earlier in the season and have middling records.

Last season oldies Arteta and Rosicky picked up injuries early and barely featured for the rest of the season.

Rush them back in less then 2 weeks and you risk injury now, early burn - out and injury in the second half of the season as a result of this needless rushing back.

Arsene would have done better in transfer market in his last season (may be) by getting CB early and not waiting for last minute injury to buy new CB.

All he brings is lack of motivation, excuses aplenty, usually involving «biased» or incompetant refs, no obvious coaching or even any understanding whatever of the need for defence and hard running, an injury crisis every season, discontent among fans, slavery to 70th minute subs, whether needed earlier or not, a belief in last millenium tactics (mostly indiscernable tactics), a love of waving his arms and shouting uselessly at the innocent fourth official (who does not make onfield decisions anyway!)

Former five - star prospect Terry Beckner Jr. has seen each of his first two seasons end early because of a knee injury.

Gruber had a knee injury earlier this season and now is playing with a neck injury.

Eagles head coach Doug Pederson has done an outstanding job with formations, personnel, and finding ways to make plays with Foles, who stepped into the QB job when Carson Wentz went down with an injury earlier this season.

Of course we all know that Santi Cazorla is extremely unlikely to be fit before Christmas, if ever, but should we worry about our growing injury list so early in the season?

CM: Another injured star who could return for this game is Paul Pogba, who was excellent for the Red Devils up until his injury against FC Basel earlier in the season.

Holtby signed a pre-contract agreement earlier this month to swap Germany for north London at the end of the season on a free transfer, but Tottenham have attempted to bring forward to transfer after losing Brazilian Sandro to a season - ending knee injury.

Yeldon missed one game earlier in the year with a groin injury, but has started in the other 12 games this season.

The 20 - year - old, who made just one appearance as a substitute for Germany during the Euro U21 tournament earlier in the summer, missed the entire 2014 - 15 campaign as he recovered from a serious knee injury sustained in the previous season and it's been well over a year since his last competitive game for the club.

«Because of our injuries and inexperience the coach had tried to change us to a more controlled, slowdown style,» said Midfielder Doug Radebaugh, one of Maryland's three captains, as he tried to explain the Terps» early - season sluggishness.

This would be simply weird if we didn't all watch the Sixers bungle the Ben Simmons injury situation a year ago, apparently trying to bring him back too early, causing further injury and costing him the entire season.

But Trestman can only do so much with the wounded Young at quarterback; two early - season injuries, a fractured pubic bone and a pulled groin, plus two concussions in the last three games, have rendered him tentative and vulnerable and have thrown off the offense's delicate timing.

Kris Letang suffered a season - ending neck injury in early April that came with a lengthy recovery timetable.

Arsenal's early season optimism has taken a blow after Abou Diaby was ruled out of action through injury.

The former Caen man spent a spell on the sidelines earlier in the season, and his return was soon curtailed when he picked up another injury against LOSC Lille at the end of March.

A spate of injuries to several key forwards will test the Stars» depth at center early in the season and the forward corps will rely on young prospects in the system to step up in their absence.

The Argentine superstar has been one of the Citizens» key performers this season, and despite missing seven weeks of the campaign with an earlier injury, he's the club's top scorer with nine strikes.

Despite losing 6» 1» senior forward Monique Reid and 5» 9» junior guard Tia Gibbs to season - ending injuries early last season, Louisville still won 23 games and made the NCAA tournament.

Five players listed, three out with shoulder injuries, and one questionable with a rib (not including Jordy Nelson or Clay Matthews, each of whom missed games earlier in the season with fractured ribs and a shoulder injury, respectively).

The issue last season was not quality but quantity where we struggled with injuries and a repeat of this seems to be repeating itself already, so early in the season.

The silver lining of Cook's injury is it happened early in the season.

The Belgian international has been in fine goalscoring form for Villa since returning from a long injury layoff earlier this season, and looks once again to be showing himself to be one of the finest forward players in the English top flight at the moment.

Which is probably why it came as such a shock earlier this season when Buffalo Owner Paul Snyder suspended McAdoo over the matter of a back injury.

Arsenal suffered with injuries early in the season.

Nick had to withdraw as it was too early in the season to risk a more serious injury.

With Darrelle Revis, Brandon Browner, Devin McCourty, Patrick Chung and Logan Ryan (and maybe Alfonzo Dennard, who missed a few games early in the season dealing with a shoulder injury and was also a healthy scratch against the Bears last Sunday), the Patriots boast the second - best pass defense in the NFL, and match up physically with Broncos receivers of all shapes and sizes.

The Steelers had a bunch of injuries at outside linebacker early in the season, and were also in dire need of some leadership on that side of the ball.

i am happy w everything except selling TV5 with such a thin bench a CD, Kos seems prone to injury of late, Only Chambers to back up the two, feeling better w Alexis and Welbeck, especially when Walcott returns, need Rambo back to his form of early last season, and we will click, any indication on Theo's return?

answer, «no doubt, and maybe the best team since January 1, if not for key injuries early in the season, they would have given chelsea a run for thier money» I fully agree, now lets go get 2nd and the FA silverware, we are back!

The two clubs had been thrashing out a deal which appeared to be finalised earlier this month which would have seen Siqueira join Real Madrid's Castilla team next season until May 2019, however a lingering injury to his left knee has caused the deal to momentarily collapse whilst further tests take place.

Also, with the amount of battering a DM gets during the season, it is insane not to have a top class backup, as more than likely they will be needed, and rotation should help to preserve both staying fit, as I can't help thinking FC's knee injury earlier on in the season had something to do with the current knee injury.

The 29 - year old feels that the Gunners have shown in the second half of the season that we are as strong as anyone and, just like me, he believes that all the injury problems the boss had to cope with were a major factor in the early season struggles.

When Rooney was forced to play in midfield earlier this season, due to an injury crisis, he looked restricted, but nevertheless got on with the job.

To my surprise, Clowney actually thrived at defensive end early in the season, which the Texans sorely needed with J.J. Watt trying to come back from a serious back injury.

And after the way the Gunners struggled to get going in the early stages of this season after the World Cup and issues with fitness and injury problems, you can see why Arsene Wenger is concerned that it could do real damage to our hopes of winning the title.

He was fantastic early this season and at one point I believe he was the only player to appear in every EPL game (until his injury).

Racking up wins early in the season is invaluable because later in the season injuries are more likely to happen as more time passes and players get fatigued, and teams become more competitive with trades.

we were hit by a number of injuries early in the season and it effected our performance, we had no one leading our attack.

We are not going to catch Chelsea, the damage was done for us early season when we suffered injuries and the lack of a Coqulein type player.