Sentences with phrase «fielded weakened teams»

It is surprising to me as to how many of them fielded weakened teams in the FA Cup competition this season.

Wolves have been handed a # 25,000 suspended fine for fielding a weakened team in their Premier League clash at Manchester United.

Pires had been talking about his belief that Arsenal could win the EPL title this season as long as the injury problems do not hurt us too much, so is he actually revealing the thoughts of the Prof and does this mean that Arsenal will field another weakened team in the Champions League?

I'd far rather we field a weakened team and lose to Dinamo Zagreb than lose more players to injury and then lose to a relegation contender in the EPL.

Imagine we lose to Hull (due to fielding a weakened team in preparation for Barca) And then Barca trashes us 6 - nil next week... * Shivers and quickly drinks a glass of water *

so to anyone who believes that Mo will field a weakened team tomorrow then you're more delusional than Wenger is and even he has come out and stated that he is ignoring Mo's comments lol..

Mauricio Pochettino effectively sacrificed a chance at Europa League glory by fielding a weakened team for Thursday's 3 - 0 thrashing by brilliant Borussia Dortmund.

Mourinho has given up on United's hopes of securing Champions League qualification via the league and fielded a weakened team in last Sunday's 2 - 0 defeat at Arsenal.

Wenger has the liberty to field a weakened team in the premier league but as this is the last game of the season at the Emirates, they will surely go for the win.

In previous seasons this would have been accepted because Arsenal historically fielded a weakened team in this competition.

The EFL ruled Huddersfield had fielded a weakened team, having made 10 changes to their starting XI for the 2 - 0 defeat on April 29, but confirmed that the Yorkshire club will not face sanction due to their interpretation of the regulations.

Not exact matches

First of all the Gunners are likely to field a very weakened team in the next round.

But blame should b put on the manager who fields players out of position and there by weaken the team n» get far less from the team.Carzola / Ozill, Wilshere / Ramsey all play the same roles respectively and should b used interchangably then give the left winger slot to Joel Campbell

In previous campaigns Arsenal have been in top spot in the group going into the final group stage match and Wenger has therefore decided to field a slightly weakened team in order to focus on our domestic league campaign.

But in the statement reported by Arsenal.com it sounded to me like the manager was really preparing the Arsenal fans to see him field a much changed and weakened Arsenal team in the following game, our trip to Monaco to attempt to put right that horrendous defeat in the Champions League first leg.

There has been much made already about teams fielding weakened sides in last night's first crop of EFL Round Two matches.

Managers of top teams began to treat it very much as a secondary priority behind the cash - raking goal of Champion's League qualification and began to field «weakened» teams made up of squad or younger players.

Along the way, Warnock points the finger of blame at: Gareth Southgate, Rafa Benàtez and Alex Ferguson, for all playing weakened teams in their respective clubs» matches against United's relegation rivals; the officials who allowed West Ham to win at Blackburn with a «goal» that didn't cross the line; Times journalist Pete Lansley, for upsetting goalkeeper Paddy Kenny by asking about his troubled personal life in an interview; the FA («rank amateurs»), for not punishing West Ham for fielding two ineligible players, Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano; and finally David Unsworth, for contriving a costly penalty miss for United against Blackburn midway through the season but then scoring from the spot at Bramall Lane for Wigan in the game that sent the Blades down at the Latics» expense.

The Tangerine boss was later fined for fielding a» weakened team» to which Holloway later handed in his resignation, believing the FA had no right to get involved in matters which did not directly concern them, only for the club's chairman, Karl Oyston, to reject his letter of resignation.

Given that the field intensity in the region is also declining today — though less rapidly, as measured by satellites — the research team believes that the process causing the weakening field may be a recurring feature of the magnetic field.

«The weakening of Earth's magnetic field opens up floodgates for low - energy solar plasma to pour into the atmosphere,» says Gupta, whose team reports its findings this month in Physical Review Letters.

Another team led by William Livingston, also of the National Solar Observatory, has observed magnetic fields necessary to produce sunspots steadily weakening for the past 13 years.