Sentences with phrase «few goals they have conceded»

«What is really surprising is how few goals they have conceded,» said Wenger.

Not exact matches

At this stage of the season Man City have won more games, conceded fewer goals, and scored nearly twice as many goals as Arsenal did during our best ever season under Wenger.

It will be difficult as Monaco concede few goals, but we have the «tools» to change the odds.

United have conceded fewer goals than under Moyes, but have also managed fewer clean sheets — 18, as opposed to 21 in 2013/14.

Sir Alex Ferguson may well feel he needs a steely presence in his side to help stem the tide of opposition attacks that have led to the Old Trafford side conceding a fair few goals this season.

City have conceded fewer goals (39) than either Liverpool or Arsenal, while scoring more than the Gunners and as many as the Reds (75).

Defensively, Arsenal have conceded three fewer goals than Liverpool.

Only four clubs (Stoke, Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal) have conceded fewer goals than West Ham (22) in this season's Premier League.

When we look at this season compared to past the problem doesn't look defensive at least on goals conceded... The real problem is how few we have scored..

Despite their resolute defending though, Arsenal have actually conceded fewer goals per game across the last 10 games in all competitions and scored an average of twice as many goals per game across the same period.

Add that to the Spuds mean defensive record this season, them and Chelsea have conceded the fewest goals in the league.

The Gunners have conceded the fewest goals of any Premier League side during the calendar year, just 20.

Also, The Guardian has reported that the spuds have lost their Belgian centre back Jan Vertonghen to knee ligament damage and he has been their defensive stalwart and why they have conceded the fewest goals in the league.

Everybody played really well yesterday, I only felt Szczesny wasn't confident enough when having had to leave his goal on a few occasions, but he didn't concede so no big deal after all.

No team has conceded fewer goals than arsenal in the epl this season.

Ospina has also conceded fewer goals per game that any of the highly rated big name keepers in England and to highlight the fact that he has done this despite Arsenal being an attacking and open team rather than because, he has more saves for each goal as well.

The 25 / year old defensive midfielder has helped Lyon to concede the fewest goals in the French Ligue 1 and Wenger has decided that Gonalons is the perfect player to boost Arsenal's midfield options and has instructed the club hierarchy to make it happen.

We've conceded fewest goals in EPL

[But] since January, we have conceded fewer goals than anybody else.

After conceding the fewest goals in the group stages of the World Cup finals last summer, the 26 - year has conceded no goals in his three Premier League games, no goals from his one FA cup game, one penalty given away by Szczesny in the Champions League and the two in his debut against Southampton in the League cup.

Early impressions of Gabriel are far more positive from a defensive standpoint and the fact he's come from Villarreal having helped them go through a long period of defensive stability (forget the stat, but something like a few goals conceded over a period of months) and that he's won awards as a young player in Brazil bodes well imo.

Instead of fixating on replacing Giroud to get maybe 4 - 6 extra goals a season (and contrary to accepted popular belief there are very few if any supporters who would be upset if an upgrade came in) why can't we a bit more imaginative about this; conceding 10 less goals could have won us the title just as easily, further refining our balance between defence and attack, building on the cohesion and fledgling confidence we have built - up may, just may, bring bigger benefits than ripping the spine of the team out and starting again.

Monaco missed a penalty, Hugo Lloris had to scramble to keep the scoreline respectable, and just a few short seconds separated Spurs being thrown an unlikely lifeline in the form of an equalising penalty, and Spurs throwing it away, preferring instead to concede a second goal and drown.

Critical to their progress has been their superb defensive unit, the Monegasques have conceded fewer than any other side in Ligue 1, and have let in seven fewer goals than table - toppers Paris Saint - Germain.

Ospina concedes fewer goals, makes more saves per goal conceded and has more clean sheets.

UTD have the same points count they had last year, also they have been one of the most error prone teams, yet conceded the fewest goals from errors.

The domination of possession that results means City this season has tended to overwhelm weaker teams, meaning it concedes few goals (only 21 in 31 league games this season, the best in the division), but also that if the defense can be challenged, it is vulnerable.

Spurs have been defensively sound this season, and have conceded just 18 goals in 22 games so far — the fewest in the top flight, and despite having two left - backs already in the shape of Danny Rose and Ben Davies, manager Mauricio Pochettino is still keen to bring the Gambian international on board.

Have conceded 20 fewer goals than at this stage last season.

As pointed out by football writer Daniel Storey on Twitter, the Saints made huge amounts from the sales of Dejan Lovren to Liverpool, Luke Shaw to Manchester United and Calum Chambers to Arsenal, but have conceded 20 fewer goals than they did at this stage last season.

Or this could be his true feelings I don't know but I do know how Arsenal have improved greatly in this department and are one of the highest for conceding fewest goals.

Its not by chance that we have conceded few goals since his arrival.

They have conceded 12 fewer goals than Arsenal and kept three more clean sheets.

We have all seen it happen to Arsenal a fair few times in the past, when the need or desire for a goal has the likes of Ramsey and the full backs pushing further and further forward to link up with the forwards only for the opposing defence to hold firm and then spring a counter attack that sees us concede a goal.

It is better to win with few goals when you have also conceded few.

In the last few years, we might well have found ourselves dropping points for not having killed off teams that we had outplayed, conceding sloppy goals or whateveer.

He remains the goalkeeper with the fewest goals conceded in the Champions League this season (3) and has kept five clean sheets in the competition so far.

The likely favourites for the FA Cup — Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal — have conceded the fewest goals (see graphic below), while Lincoln's 0.88 goals shipped per game are only surpassed by Spurs (after their nasty fright in the Fourth Round when Wycombe put three goals past them).

The Montpellier right - back has continually impressed for his side this season, with only leaders Paris Saint - Germain conceding fewer goals in Ligue 1.

Villa have scored fewer goals than any other team in the league this season, and have conceded more than any other team.

Even though Allardyce's team have conceded 3 fewer goals than Sunderland, their defensive stats don't really look any better than those of the Black Cats.

Only Manchester United have conceded fewer goals at home this season than Arsenal.

Tottenham have only conceded 15 goals in 22 matches, fewer than even Chelsea, which is a truly impressive stat for Tottenham's defense.

Not only have they conceded only two goals, the fewest in the league, but they've also conceded only 41 shots, 10 fewer than any other team.

Dan Murphy is back, and he has a few thoughts on the tendency of Bolton Wanderers Football Club to concede very late goals.

Pep Guardiola's men have conceded 12 goals more than Spurs in the Premier League this season, despite having fewer shots on their goal and that tells me that Harry Kane (who has been responsible for five of the last 10 Spurs strikes) will take his chances with shots from any angle against Claudio Bravo who has a poor shot to goal ratio when conceding this season.

In 2015/16, only Atletico Madrid (11) have conceded fewer goals than Bayern Munich (13) in Europe's top five leagues.

Clinching their third straight Bundesliga crown this weekend courtesy of a 1 - 0 home victory over a surprisingly resilient Hertha Berlin and second - placed Wolfsburg's identical scoreline defeat at Gladbach, Bayern Munich now have no fewer than 25 domestic championships in the strong room and looking at the season's tale of the tape — just two defeats, 24 wins out of 30, 77 goals scored and only 13 conceded — the competitive deficit in today's top - flight is there for all to see.

The Italians have won all three Group E games and have shown few signs of weakness, scoring eight goals while conceding just once.

Nice have conceded the fewest goals in France this season (only 15 in 22) and this fixture effectively pits Ligue 1's best attacking side against its best defensive one.