Sentences with phrase «few teams expected»

Every year a few teams expected to have down years come out of nowhere.

Not exact matches

With a team of veteran entrepreneurs, you can expect to see much more of this dynamic start up in the next few years.

This team also discovered 3,200 genes that had fewer loss - of - function or missense mutations than would be expected suggesting that these are likely disease - causing variants that are rare or absent in the population because of their detrimental effect on human health.

I'd expect Wenger to name a few regular stars in the side, but I think the majority of names on the teamsheet will be those fringe players in the squad and those youngsters on the cusp of breaking into the first team.

At unexpected 3 - 3 you would have expected all the players to be around their 18 with few minutes left, but the man and the team like football and they were rewarded.

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The ACC champion was out, and the SEC, Pac - 12, and Big Ten, which began the tournament with a combined 15 teams, were down to four, slightly fewer than expected, based on seeding.

Doubtless the Spaniard had ambitions of cracking the first team, but there's no reason to think he was expecting it to take anything less than a few months to earn his manager's trust as he settles in.

In the midfield, (including RWB & LWB) we have a whole bunch of tweeners... none offer the full package, none make sense in our manager's current favourite formation, except for Sead on the left and Ox on the right, and all of them have never shown any consistency for more than a heartbeat... Sead, who I'm including in this category because of our present formation, looks like a positive addition, minus his occasional brain farts, but I would rather see what he could do in a back 4 before making my mind up... Ox, who has never played better, which isn't saying much considering his largely underwhelming play in previous seasons, seems to have found a home in this new formation; unfortunately, can we really expect this oft - injured player to handle the taxing duties that come with said position over the long haul, not to mention, it looks like he has no intention of staying... Ramsey has relied on the empathy that stems from his gruesome injury years ago and the excitement that was generated a few years back when he finally seemed to put in altogether, but on the whole he has been a big disappointment (neither he nor the Ox have scored enough to warrant a regular spot)... Wiltshire should be put on a weekly contract then played until he suffers his first injury, if and when that occurs he should be shipped - out and no one should very be allowed to say his name on club grounds ever again... Elnehy & Coq are average players who couldn't make any of the top 7 teams currently in the EPL... both have showed some great energy on the pitch, but neither are top quality and no good team can afford to have that many average players on their bench playing the same position, especially with Coq's injury history / discipline concerns and Elheny's headless chicken tendencies... as for Xhaka, his tenure here so far has been incredibly underwhelming... we know he has some skills to provide the long ball but his defensive work is piss poor and he gives the ball away too cheaply and far too often... finally, the enigma himself, Ozil, so much skill with his left foot but his presence has been more frustrating than uplifting... in many respects his failure has been directly related to the failure of this club to provide him with the necessary players up front, minus Sanchez of course, and unless something drastic happens very soon his legacy will be largely a negative one (much like Wenger's)

There were very few Arsenal fans that honestly expected to see our old striker Nicholas Bendtner back in England, never mind on the same pitch as an Arsenal team, after Arsene Wenger finally gave up on him back in 2012.

As expected there are only a few changes from last week's Arsenal team that beat Swansea, with Petr Cech back in goal after getting his usual rest in the Champions League.

Another notable example was a few years ago when the team were in a bad period and expected to get another pasting away to Bayern Munich, only to beat the Germans and be the first side all season to do so.

Expect Arsenal to be a Europa league team for a few or more seasons.

I would like to see Elneny get a chance but it would be unfair to expect too much from him given how few minutes he has gotten with the first team since his arrival.

to be honest i was more worried before we played boro because i half expected the team to get carried away after a comfortable win few days before / to take their foot off the gas!!

You can never tell what to expect with this Arsenal team, Westham can have all their best players, be on a solid run of wins and we turn them over easily, or they might be going through a bad patch and without a few of their best players and beat us so easily it will be embarrassing, the only thing consistent about us is our inconsistency, if am not mistaken they turned us over at home in the first game of the season, with a 17 year old boy in their first 11 and about 3/4 new to the country and the league....

Vieira, who is currently managing New York City FC and is often talked about as a future Arsenal manager, told Sky Sports: «When you look at the Arsenal team in the last few years I think everybody expects more because of what this football club represents,»

Concord scored on its first possession of the second half, and to the surprise of few, turned the game into the battle of undefeated Diablo Valley Athletic League teams that everyone had expected.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

I expected to find a decent number of Fulton / LDT quality players, but only few were even starters, most played less than 30 career games including for other teams.

Tom Ede, who works for stats gurus Opta, was on hand to end the madness when he tweeted that over 300 fewer goals for his current team than his former one — 89 for Arsenal and 392 to Chelsea, which is pretty much what you'd expect given his time at both clubs.

Arsene Wenger might decide to keep faith with the Arsenal players who got beat in our last Premier League match which ended with a 4 - 0 defeat away to Liverpool and could have been a lot worse if Petr Cech had played as badly as his outfield colleagues, but somehow I doubt it and expect the manager to make a few changes to the team for the home game against Bournemouth tomorrow.

We have seen a few teams down at the bottom picking up points that nobody expected.

NOTE, however, that a quick back - of - the - envelope analysis we did a few years back showed that teams coming off of bye - weeks were an «expected».500 ATS — so we believe that all coaches / teams are not «created equal» in terms of this angle.

Let other teams swing and miss in the higher rounds on tackles by expecting too much from them in the NFL too soon and let us focus on poaching those high round talents a few years later on for cheap or giving a few guys chances to learn and improve by spending late round picks on them ourselves.

Lower totals are good for dogs / draws since there are fewer goals to be expected, which helps the «lesser» team stay in the match.

-- bar few top players like Ozil, Sanchez we have a bunch of young players who never win big titles before — We can not just expect them to compete on par with teams full of seasoned top players like Chelsea and Man City.

And it is true that there is no way Arsene Wenger could have expected his team to perform so badly even with a few changes.

Team Almeleh (Loree's Closet)-- I expect a few bumps along the road as these guys will need some time to gel.

Few expected the Capitals to win the Metropolitan Division again after losing Justin Williams, Marcus Johansson, Nate Schmidt, Karl Alzner, Kevin Shattenkirk and Daniel Winnik from last year's team that won the Presidents» Trophy for the second consecutive season.

Which is the lack of game time that a few Arsenal players are gettning (speaking mostly in reference to Chambers, Gibbs and Campbell) im paraphrasing here but the basis of his argument is how do you expect a player to be able come of the bench and be capable of doing a job for team and perform competently with a very limited or no game experience... Considering we have Chelsea at the weekend it seems t would be a great time to start giving those players game experience and resting a few of the starting 11 perhaps with the exception of Walcott i'd like for him to get more game time at Cf... his finishing is diabolical... and learning how to pay as a striker takes time.

Wenger made a few changes before the last round tie against Burnley and we only ended up with a narrow 2 - 1 win with many scares before the end, and if we again play a weakened team we can expect an even tougher fight from the Tigers.

With Mercedes continuing to be one of the top teams in F1 and Hamilton probably having a few more years in him yet, we can probably expect Hamilton to move up a place or two on this list.

Tannehill was diagnosed with ACL and MCL sprains in his left knee and, although the team doesn't have an exact timetable for his recovery, Tannehill is expected to miss at least the next few games.

You have mentioned Pogba, Messi et al when making your point but lets conveniently overlook the fact these type of players are a one off, and let us also forget about the hundred of EPL youngsters hyped to high heavens in recent years off the back of a few spectacular performances only for them to flounder and disappear under rye scrutiny and pressure of expectation, the latest been the kid from Aston Villa who was meant to set the league alight this season but who has now totally flopped... nobody is disputing Iwobi's quality, but he still needs nurturing and care, AFC is a team who is expected to win things and the pressure can break a player, am dead sure you were drooling at the mouth about Ox few years back as you would have done with Walcott too, but 4 years and 10 years after we are still awaiting them to fulfill their potentials....

They also have three of their main strikers on the treatment table so you would expect the Gunners to roll them over at the Emirates today, even if we do have a few of our own team missing.

Husky fans had a good feeling about this season but few expected the dominant performances the Dawgs have delivered in the last two weeks against the traditional Pac - 12 powerhouse teams of Stanford and Oregon.

When Northwestern was undefeated and leading No. 4 Ohio State at home just a few weeks ago, we were perfectly rational in expecting big things out of this team.

«I'm going to finish with the national team and then I expect I'll have a few phone calls.

With the club lacking in the transfer department, I would expect that in the next few weeks, Daniel Levy might flex his business muscles and bring in a few players for a reasonable price, but as a fan, I would like to see a striker and midfielder be signed, just so we have some depth in the team.

As far as Klopp's team news is concerned, we can expect a few changes in the squad that started vs the Swans.

Gribbin has been highly rated for the last few years and has played with many of the young and talented players expected to make their own way towards United first team in the years to come.

Chelsea have definitely been found out in the last few games and I expect a lot of teams to adopt a similar style (wide players) against them, these last few days could prove very costly over the season.

As far as Manchester United's team news is concerned, expect a few changes in the starting XI that played against the Black Cats last weekend.

Last weekend, after a career spent drifting from team to team, the man few expected to win anything again won his second Bundesliga title in the familiar colors of Bayern Munich.

On defense they've conceded 41 goals, which isn't bad (only nine teams have conceded fewer), but expected goals predicts Swansea should have conceded 45 goals from the chances they faced, the third - worst total in the league.

Mourinho will be able to answer a few questions of his team ahead of next season, where he will be expected to challenge the likes of Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool, Manchester City and Arsenal for the Premier League title, finishing behind all of those teams this season.

«The trouble is, this is a football club that expects their team to attack and their fans will go berserk if Mourinho tells his team to play as negatively as they did against Man City a few months back and end up losing again.»

Warrior have also said that they will be adding a few more European teams to their porfolio and an announcement is expected by the New Year.

Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United are three of the five teams which have turned the screw on West Ham's bid for survival, though it would be fair to say that few expected them to take much away from those formidable fixtures.