Sentences with phrase «end of last season when»

Valdes, 32, won six La Liga and three Champions League titles with Barcelona, before leaving at the end of last season when his contract expired.

At the back end of last season when we effectively replaced Davies with Lukas Jutkiewicz we were far more dangerous and the ball seemed to «stick» far more, not to mention the goals...

Even so, there was enough to suggest last weekend, and at the end of last season when they went the last four away games unbeaten, that Blackburn could turn over a new away leaf and pick more than the slim 14 points they achieved on their travels last season.

The former Nigeria U-20 ace is one of the players Granada are banking on this season to fire them to new height after his permanent elevation to the first team towards the end of last season when he made six appearances for the main team in addition to the 24 he made for Granada II in the lower league.

I do like the Ox, but wish he wouldn't keep coming out with the I want to play centrally stuff... his best games were at the end of last season when he played as a wing back when we reverted to 3 at the back.

Arsenal went on a winning run to overcome Spurs in second at the tail - end of last season when the pressure was off, but can they play with a care - free attitude now?

I can remember clearly the utter devastation all Arsenal fans felt after losing at home to Swansea towards the end of last season when we were in our last chance saloon of staying in the title race.

Clemson's highest odds were actually at the end of last season when they were listed at +3300.

And I advised the Boss through this website and another one to sign another top quality left back as that position looked shaky towards the end of last season when goals were conceded by both Gibbs and Monreal that denied us becoming 2nd in the table.

How come the article did not appear toward th end of the last season when these supposed offers were made?

Kalas rose to prominence at the back end of last season when he put in an accomplished performance for Chelsea as they won 2 - 0 at Liverpool to cost the hosts the Premier League title — but he was back in the reserves by the end of the season and shipped out on loan to Cologne by Jose Mourinho this summer.

And Sterling looked terrible by the end of last season when he did not have Sturridge or Suarez around him.

There were some concerns this season about his run of games without an assist, which stretched back to the end of last season when he was stuck on one behind the EPL record of our own Thierry Henry, but they have started to flow once more and he bagged another in the comeback win over Ludogorets.

Weimann first broke into the Villa team at the end of last season when Darren Bent was forced to sit out through injury.

The Boss has been tinkering with our formation a lot this season after opting to go with a three - man defence at the end of last season when we started grinding out wins as we attempted to return to the Top Four.

Not exact matches

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That's how I feel when the single sign on the what was once multiple crates of peaches reads, «End of season; get them while they last!»

In North Carolina last year — when I was also feeding my berry addiction with weekly flats of fresh - picked strawberries at the farm stand down the road — strawberry season was already coming to an end by June.

I made these last fall when I had a lot of end - of - season tomatoes that weren't going to have time to ripen on the vine.

OT I Remember the last time when we were Hoping for West Ham to do us a favour against Liverpool, that was back in the George Graham days and it was the second from last game of the season, yup, Liverpool ended up winning 5 - 0... And we were left with the mission of having to beat the Scouser's by two clear goals to win the league, at Anfield.

That should have been the end of the matter, but at the end of last season, Pedro Abad — the Fluminense president revealed: «When we brought him in last year, there was a clause that allowed Arsenal to buy him back for a fixed amount.

When he did that towards the end of last season the team and himself played BETTER.

One option for Coach K when facing future court storms, is to get his players off the court before the end of the game as Roy Williams did with his UNC players last season against FSU.

thats why he did nt even care when all those fans booed him at the end of last season or in the first two matches.

Last year, Team Bartlett went through a bit of swoon as well and when the dust settled it was them holding the Crown at Season's end.

In 2015 Arsenal only just pinched second place in the League by the skin of their teeth when Tottenham collapsed in the final games of the campaign, but Spurs got their revenge in style last season when they made sure of their second - place finish and ended 11 points ahead of a very disappointing Gunners side, that failed to even make the Champions League.

Time of Death: Houston's last meaningful drive ended in a turnover on downs with two minutes to play when Case Keenum missed on his last three passes, and the Texans are just one loss away from their worst season since 2005 — the year before they hired Gary Kubiak.

I personally feel that Jack could have a big say for Arsenal over the next three games, just as he did when coming back from injury at the end of last season, but do you think Wenger will put his faith in the 24 - year old from the start next week?

Until then, they are intent on proving that they can succeed without him — and without Hakeem Olajuwon, whose 17 - year career in Houston might have ended last week when he was sidelined for the rest of the season with a blood condition.

For Joe Paterno, the defining moment of the 1982 championship season came not in the last seven seconds of the pivotal Nebraska game, when quarterback Todd Blackledge completed a winning touchdown pass to second - string tight end Kirk Bowman, who happened to be a former offensive guard nicknamed Stonehands.

The drama finally ended on Sunday when Killy, assembling one last burst of energy, won the slalom and with it the season.

When Ox, Gnabry and Welbz was out at the end of last season it was Ramsey who played Right AM, I think this would support what Wenger himself has already said about Theo being a CF.

Morinho had Tores, Ba and Eto who altogether had a good goal distribution last year but they all appeared incapable of scoring goals when the entire under perform with few chances presented to them and Morinho without any hesitation said we will not win the league this year because we don't have a proper striker and allowed Ba, Eto and Torres to leave at the end of the season.

When Walcott and Ox played at the end of last season, in FA Cup and in Comm Shield......... Arsenal scored and won all of those games.

The 23 year - old right - back was reported as being in talks with Wenger last summer with a view to moving to the Emirates for free when his contract ended, but the ex-Spanish youth international has only featured once for Barca this campaign and has made it clear through his agent that he doesn't want to waste the rest of the season in the reserves.

When he was finally healthy to return last season — in the midst of the rookie's breakout — Romo ended any debate with one of the most heartbreaking, honest, and gracious statements an athlete can make in that situation, beginning with the admission that Prescott «earned the right to be our quarterback.»

In regards his age, Wenger is on record saying he would continue in management at the end of his contract if it was not renewed last season when it expired.My regret is he isn't manage of another club now.

Kante has been one of the best players in the Premier League in his short time in England, winning the title in each of his first two seasons on these shores, first with Leicester City and then last season with Chelsea, when his all - action displays also earned him the PFA Player of the Year award at the end of the campaign.

What all of you are forgetting is last season we were top of the league but failed to maintain till the end because of lack of a good goal scorer when Ramsey got injured.

3 League titles / 6 Fa cups and constant champions league last 16odd years out of 19 also but no matter what anyone says his time as our coach has come to an end even if we win the league which in fairness we have a great shot so going out of Europe could help us win the league for Wenger to leave on a high like fergie did... This has to be his last season in charge along with Stan the Conman... Money needs put into this squad to get it to the next level and a different direction because in all honesty when we beat Bayern they just did nt take their chances like they did last night and they already had a great squad and added to it in the summer with Costa etc... we had a real chance this year if we had brought in more than Cech and that is Wengers fault!

Every single Arsenal article in the last few days has been all about whether Arsene Wenger should resign right now or at least decide to give up his job at the end of the season when his contract runs out, but today he has made it clear that there will no decisions made right now.

Arsenal won every game when Walcott and Ox start going back to the end of last season.

All this «Wenger plays his card close to his chest» malarkey is just an excuse, The press do spin stories when they have nothing else to talk about BUT there's a grain of truth is all of them, it's as plain as that, last year the press had an inkling about Sanchez coming to u and thus it was proved a I've said many times on here Wengers statement prior to the end of the season are clear if you look back at what he said going back season after season, He said That Olivier Giroud WAS in his opinion good enough to fire Arsenal to PL glory.

Look when stand back and take a good look at things Wenger had Plenty of time to get a TOP Class Striker he knew at the end of last season he needed one.

The 24 - year - old was sent off in their game against City last season, meaning he missed crucial end - of - season fixtures against the likes of Chelsea and Crystal Palace, when Liverpool dropped crucial points before eventually conceding the title to this weekend's opponents.

why was Sanchez truly playing... no one believes he was too injured to play to start the season, and some like myself would go as far to suggest he wasn't injured at all... so why play him... they can't say it was to appease the fans because when was that ever a factor at this club except when «panic buys» were in the offing... I believe that this was to give Arsenal a little leverage when it comes to negotiating his transfer... just imagine their horrible bargaining position if Sanchez never saw the field before the deadline then heading back to South America and played for Chile... regardless of the facts, this was sadly again another example of a team putting business ahead of fielding a team with the greatest chance to secure 3 points... of course, some will say that Sanchez is, or was, our best player, so obviously he's a no - brainer to start, but those who really watch the game know that his heart hasn't been truly in it for quite some time... even at the end of last season you could see a definitive difference between the Sanchez who played for Chile and the one that played for Arsenal... that being said, 70 % of Sanchez is still better than a 100 % of the vast majority of our remaining roster... shame on you Arsene and shame on you too Sanchez for that telling smirk... I've supported your attempt to push this squad to the next level but don't pretend for a second that you didn't know you were being watched... don't lower your standards or you'll end up like this club, on the outside looking in

Verlander might not be the ace he looked like for much of last season when he just missed winning a Cy Young award, but he could still end up being enough of a difference maker that the Brewers benefit by adding him — especially if they grab onto him more like now - ish rather than waiting for the deadline a little less than two weeks (and multiple Verlander starts) from now.

Wenger is absolutely right to be worried, especially as Chile played Alexis last season when he also had a hamstring injury, and the Chilean ended up missing a couple of months of games that could have influenced our title bid.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

He played in only one game last season — 17 fourth - quarter plays in a 40 - 0 blowout of Ole Miss — and his stint as the No. 1 quarterback in spring practice ended after 12 days, when a helmet smashed into his right leg.