Sentences with phrase «early season struggles»

As reported by The Mirror, Gazidis has declared himself to be a bit disappointed that the early season struggles have seemingly left the Gunners too much to do to catch the league leaders Chelsea.
Meanwhile, former champs Bdarcy's early season struggles continue, while the 3 - 1 Lenny and the Jets are still rolling.
Despite his early season struggles, Marlins outfielder Giancarlo Stanton opened as the co-favorite (+400) to win alongside Trumbo.
The bad news is that Kane is now well and truly over his early season struggles in front of goal and has scored four times in his last two Premier League games and got their Europa League opener last night, Hopefully Laurent Koscielny will pass his fitness test because we will need to be at our defensive best on Sunday to cope with the danger of Kane.
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.
After putting up good numbers at Class A Quad Cities — he hit.270 with 11 homers and 45 RBIs in 51 games — Ankiel returned to the site of his early season struggles.
Meanwhile, Team AEPi FR (Griffin Lowy) and Team ZBT SO (Blake Weltman) early season struggles continue, while the 3 - 0 Team Delta Chi JR (Noah Berkowitz) are still rolling and still undefeated.
Stuttgart's early season struggle continue as they picked up another defeat this past weekend, suffering a 1 - 0 loss from Schalke.

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Neely had struggled in his early seasons, in part because the coaching staff gave him few chances to play with Vancouver's best players.
J.C. Penney Co., struggling to turn itself around after a failed attempt to move upmarket, will offer extremely deep discounts early in the season, which will put pressure on other retailers to do the same, the Morgan Stanley analysts said.
Though early seasons of the show drew big ratings and critical praise, in 24's final two seasons on Fox, it struggled to maintain its audience.
Winters are a real struggle for me, so it's a relief to see spring season kicking in early.
But it's an easy correlation to make, the workload after surgery, followed by the early struggles next season.
The onetime face of the franchise has seen that surgically repaired joint diminish his performance at third base, leading to 15 throwing errors last year and a period early in the season when he struggled just to get the ball across the diamond.
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.
We are also preparing to start the season without Koscielny and Giroud due to their international campaign with France, and should we fail to pick up some crucial early points, we could struggle to get back on terms with the big teams this year, especially when we have to start juggling Champions League football also, where the likes of United, Chelsea and Liverpool do not.
The four - time PGA winner's ongoing struggles with his shortest and longest clubs did him in at the PGA, much as his wedges undermined the early part of his season.
The Englishman is a more than able substitute and looks back to his early season form after a struggle for consistency over the past few months.
We're now over a month into the season and five teams» early - season struggles have provided significant value for contrarian bettors.
This is a big - time revenge spot for Baltimore after they struggled to contain Le'Veon Bell earlier this season (186 scrimmage yards).
The Blue Devils» man - to - man scheme was exposed early in the season, as true freshmen big man Marvin Bagley III and Wendell Carter struggled to defend high ball screens.
Josh McCown looked nothing like the quarterback he was with Chicago at the end of last season (insert sample size caveat here), and those early struggles may have muted the rest of the Bucs» supposedly elite skill talent.
Miikka Kiprusoff 116 12 -12-3 2.84.894 Sharks Flopped during Evgeni Nabokov's early - season holdout; struggling with 3.77 goals - against average
Smith likely won't be returning to Detroit next season even though he shown some flash early on, but has struggled to stay on the field.
«Nick struggled with accuracy in camp and early in the season, but he's getting better every game,» Malzahn says.
The Welsh international struggled to establish himself in the starting line - up with the Reds last season, but was able to shine at Euro 2016 earlier this summer.
While the Spaniard started life at Goodison Park strongly after replacing David Moyes — guiding the Merseysiders to their highest - ever Premier League points tally — he struggled to build on that early success, and the Blues ended the season down in eleventh.
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.
Bordeaux are prone struggle without towering centre - back Lamine Sane; they did so earlier in the season when the defender was out injured for the away fixture against Paris Saint - Germain, losing 3 - 0.
After Arsene Wenger described the 20 - year old as one of the big surprises of the season, praising his mentality for pushing on and showing mental strength after some early struggles as well as the quality of his recent performances, the young Gunner has reinforced his position at the club with his warm words.
The season is 1 week old and Wilshere is out, Bellerin is injured, Rosicky out till October the earliest, Welbeck struggling even though he didn't play at all for 2 months, and this is ONLY WEEK 1?!?!
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.
Could this be a jumpstart for a San Francisco defense that has struggled early on this season?
A win against our Premier League rivals would not only keep the Gunners in touching distance of the league leaders, but it would also land an early blow on Brendan Rodgers and his players, whose confidence is probably quite fragile after last season's struggles.
In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners
Considering the early - season struggles of Jake Smolinski and Shin - Soo Choo, this makes baseball sense, too.
Giroud, will bag 20 + and Danny will try hard no doubt:) but if Alexis doesn't follow his first season (again quite possible) with one similar we could be struggling to score (as has been evident early doors).
We dominated Sp ** s at The Emirates earlier this season and with better finishing and composure in the second half we could easily have doubled that score.The team were focused and kept a good shape all through the game.We should not need motivating for a game as big as this.The fact it's a NLD is important enough but 3 points will put us in with a chance of getting back into the mix for a top 4 finish.Anything less and we will struggle.
Elliott opened the season as the odds - on favorite -LRB--140) to be named Offensive Rookie of the Year, but he struggled, at least comparatively, in the early going.
It is the halfway stage of the domestic season for Arsenal and our Premier League rivals and, while the Gunners finally seem to be hitting a bit of form and consistency, it is too early to say that we have put the troubles and struggles of the first half of the season behind us.
An exit will make sense for all concerned as Jenkinson has struggled for playing time at the Emirates, with Hector Bellerin and even Gabriel ahead of him in the pecking order earlier in the season.
Despite their early success, it's worth noting the Celtics struggled in the subsequent seasons.
Chelsea's midfield struggles earlier in the season cost the team an early exit from the Capital One Cup tournament as well as significant points in the Premier League that still have the reigning BPL champions toiling at 12th on the table.
If the Bengals struggle again, especially early in the season, Cincinnati may not wait to make a change.
Rennie Childs struggled all year, and Carson missed a few games early in the season.
Clearly Arsenal can not cope with the extra games, and travelling, because of all the injuries we keep getting, and Wenger saying how his team were struggling physically as early as November this season.
While Arsenal fans are still patiently waiting (or pulling our hair out in frustration) for Arsene Wenger to add to the early signing of Petr Cech, we have at least had the comfort of seeing last season's Premier League champions Chelsea struggle.
Darnold struggled at times this season, particularly early on, but he can make some impressive throws.
Earlier in the season he says we need Guardiola in this league when CIty were struggling.
Historically, newly - founded super teams have struggled in the early going and I can see the same thing potentially happening with the Thunder this season.
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