Sentences with phrase «especially against good teams»

«It's always tough when you go 1 - 0 down away from home, especially against good teams, but the lads stayed calm, Christian scored a fantastic goal to get us back in the game just before half - time and in the second half we really did better.

Not exact matches

Definitely the home fans (for West Ham) will throw some tantrums against an Arsenal player especially when their team is not at their best or possibly boo an Arsenal player as an indication of rivalry that exists between the two sides.

Alot may say wheres rambo but for me having 2 good wingers especially against teams who will sit back is essential in stretching the game and creating more space for our 2 maestros ozil n santi.

[We need to] do a great job together defensively as a unit, like we showed at Manchester City, it's a good idea to do it again and again, especially against big teams.

Especially against a team as good as Chelsea, even if they're not in their best form.

It is very trendy to pick against Villanova in this bracket, especially after last year's Wildcats succumbed to a UConn team not entirely unlike N.C. State in the second round, but this is a better «Nova, and I think this team goes deep.

A normal team will give maximum of ONE player freedom to roam the pitch, Arsenal will give like 3 on a typical day, THAT is a disaster waiting to happen, especially against very well organized side.

Arsenal are now tied with Man City, Spurs, Crystal Palace and Watford for least goals conceded and when you consider how we started and also had two players sent off against Chelsea, that suggests to me that as well as being a great keeper, Cech's influence is starting to spread through the team, especially the defence.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

The work of a DM is quite clear cut... Jam the opposition radar, don't let them find their range, constitute a nuisance to the opposition, if and when you win the ball, give it to a better ball playing / retaining team - mate, never complicate issues... 16 year old Reece Oxford did that superbly against Ozil especially, Le Coq for the most part has also done it.

Both teams will be tired especially us... we had to chase the whole game against Munich, we have an extra days rest but our main man Alexis isnt firing in all cylinders and understandibly so, Per not good enough to play another game be his 4th in a row, Koss is Inj n Bellerin out along with the rest so not all rosey here for us unfortunatly going into sunday!

he is good especially against those big physical teams, he doesn't have to be our first choice but would want him to be part of our squad

Playing Poldi from the on set especially against big teams wouldn't be the wisest decision as we have players in better form than him like it or not (though the manager uses them wrongly of course (clueless)-RRB-.

I don't particularly want Chambers to be better at attacking, I would rather he concentrated on defending, we need to keep more clean sheets, especially against the weaker teams.

In addition, three central defenders on the pitch will help the team defend better in the box, especially if it comes down to having bodies at the back, as we saw in the game against Boro.

That performance against Everton was some of the best football I've seen from any team this seaso ln especially since Everton are no pushovers.

Our record is so bad against top teams, especially away from home, that I wouldn't be surprised if teams at the bottom of the table have a better record than we do.

I would keep Ospina (can't overly rely on Cech especially when he conceeds annoying goals against certain teams / players who are so good at giving shots towards the bottom end of the post)....

Well if they support him, you would think they would be trying a little bit harder on the pitch than they have been lately, especially against teams like West Brom and Watford, who they should be beating with ease..

I have been reading comments of fans on here, especially those who have chosen to appreciate the average in ability that a striker like giroud possess, my question for ya all is, when did arsenal become a team so low on profile to sing praise of a striker who no one can rank among the top 3 striker in the league, I have seen an arsenal team with a striking force with players like, anelka, Wright, Henry, v persie, no one can rank giroud or whatever his name is in the category of my mentioned strikers.we all have got to face it, giroud is not good enough to be leading the attack of a team dreaming of winning the league, and Henry is right saying arsenal can't win the league with giroud as our striker,,, check this out, man u won league titles with strikers like Rooney, van nisteroy, v persie, man city won with aguero, Chelsea with drogba and now Costa, giroud stand no chance against any of those.let's stop appreciating mediocrity, wenger should get us a good striker as giroud is damn too average for arsenal

With the duo going up against each other next year as well, there's definite potential for a few more awkward moments, especially if the team continues to become even more competitive.

I know that Mikel Arteta would be the more expected choice, especially as the Spaniard is now the club captain, but Diaby did pretty well on his return against a talented, hard working and pressing Saints team.

Francis Coquelin is Arsenal's best anchorman, but does not perform his role as effectively as Dier, as evidenced by the Gunners often being caught out on the break, especially against the top teams.

The board has their fault which we all know but performances on the pitch should be better especially against teams we should be beating, teams that don't spend as much as us on transfers and wages.

Otherwise he fears our backline are too exposed to direct threats especially against teams with a very good No 10.

Walcott, well we've seen how dangerous he is when playing upfront especially against teams that like to press and attack.

Even in the match against villa — ozil lost possession a number of times — against better teams it can make be disastrous... till he is ready to go into a tackle or a 50 - 50 ball with a hope that he can win the ball — he should be played against teams which are not quick / fast... i worry wenger praising him too much — rosiscky is much better especially with coquellin providing cover...

A hat - trick in the last League game against Aston Villa meant that Giroud equalled his best tally of 16 (EPL) goals for the season, and 24 in all competitions, but that is not really good enough for a top team like Arsenal, especially with Ozil creating chances in the hundreds.....

Especially Arsenal who are the most consistent against weak teams and not as good against the top teams.

Bama tends to play better against the good teams, especially against the spread.

The Arsenal side still looks like a strong one to me, especially up front where Danny Welbeck and Theo Walcott will be feeling good after both scored against the Foxes and will be keen to build on that and force their way into the first team on a regular basis, not to mention the thoughts of the England manager Roy Hodgson ahead of Euro 2016.

Ind needs a win as badly as Baltimore, however KC seems much better (nowadays against team that are actually pretty bad) than NE, so the game might be much closer and might be a 50/50 (especially since Indy's defense might be the best KC will play this year).

Against Vigo he held possession maturely, linked up beautifully with Coutinho especially, as well as the rest of the team.

But we weren't playing especially well, and it's possible that I still had in mind a moment in the first half when, trailing 1 - 0 against a team positioned in the bottom three, we took a crack from about 30 yards and missed by a similar sort of distance.

The Premier League is tight at the top this season and draws against teams outside of the top six are no good, especially at home.

«We were very involved and, especially in the first half, created some good chances, but it was hard against a team who defended cleverly.

Both teams are, especially in the long term, in good shape, we can lose against each other, we can win against each other.

What a terrifying vision of the future of football we've been served up this week.AC Milan, once the pride of a powerful and thriving seria A now reduced to shadow boxing against a really not that great United.All because they deserted their natural (and rather beautiful) defensive style of football to join the circus, brought in foreign players (especially brazilians) who think jogging back to defend is beneath them and generally put two fingers up to Italy's historic football traditions.Much good as it done them, and what a boring game?I concede that a lot of football fans nowadays do nt remember anything before the cheque book league but even they must have been struck by the sheer mind numbing pointlessness of it.Even the stewards were asleep by half time.As for the porto match well all that can be said is that they made the gooners look like an half decent well balanced football team, no mean achievement when you think about it.At least we, ve had the pleasure of listening to all those gooners and Mancs waffling on about how great they are which is always hilarious.Especially the stuff about Rooney, just wait till the World Cup when some Italian or South American defender takes him under his wing for half an hour and then see how great he is.If he can survive the WC without being sent off it will be a miracle.All the recent hype has done him no favours at all.Not that the World Cup really inspires these days, its glory days are long over and it's become a competition decided by referees rather than great play.Bear that in mind if Roons has to take the walk of shame, it's not his fault, someone told him he was a truly great player like Bobby Charlton or George Best.The problem is he looks like he believes them.

Or is it the fact that we shifted Mata wide when we scored knowing fully well Jose prefers lingard as a wide player especially against a physical team like west ham.

Even against ten men, this Chelsea team still looked a bit shambolic, especially going forward, but having gone into a 1 - 0 lead in the first half, the one thing they can still do is defend well, and it's a lot easier to play with everyone behind the ball when the opposition trying to force the game are a man down.

Things like that (the 3 - 0 defeat) sometimes happen in football, especially against very good teams in the Champions League.

That's unusual for any Premiership team to be an underdog in a cup fixture, especially as it's not against one of the so called» Big Four» but Rovers» predicament means they've lost the respect of both the bookies and the punters, and many will steer well clear of Blackburn in the FA Cup this season.

Mick McCarthy's preference for using a 4 -5-1 formation is all good and well, it's pretty effective against the bigger teams in that it reduces the amount of space available in the midfield, but it also restricts the amount of chances they create up front, especially if that one lone striker is the Irish workhorse Kevin Doyle.