Sentences with phrase «fighting for a place as»

The arrivals of Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil and the re-emergence of Coquelin and Ramsey has made competition for a place in the starting midfield much more intense, especially with the likes of Mikel Arteta, Theo Walcott, Tomas Rosicky, Santi Cazorla, Danny Welbeck and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain also fighting for a place as well.

Petr Cech is determined to fight for his place as his decade - long reign as Chelsea's preferred goalkeeper comes under threat for the first time.

Not exact matches

«China is fighting back against American dominance as it tries to carve out a place for itself in the region.»

At Forbes, Marianne Bickle leads the charge for those who feel that bosses need to fight back against the impulse to loosen the rules as the temperature climbs, stressing that keeping productivity up means keeping the usual standards and practices in place.

Most notably, Pam has taken the lead on humanitarian issues as the founder and «guiding visionary» of Humanity United, which fights conflict and injustice in some of the most troubled places in the world — South Sudan, for example.

It is as repressive as telling a woman to «stay in her place» or a telling a slave to remain faithful to his master and not fight for his freedom.

It comes as the Prime Minister's announced new powers for police to seize terrorist suspects» passports and to prevent British people suspected of fighting abroad in places like Iraq and Syria from returning to the UK.

But when we see the people on the other side of the debate as the enemy (by calling them names, labeling them or demeaning their convictions), we miss the point of what «fighting for our faith» is supposed to be about in the first place.

She described for us how she and other «first - stage» feminists fought to restore a fully legitimate place for women in the professions and in careers, a place they had won in the twenties and thirties but lost again as the post-war «feminine mystique» tightened its grip.

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With the emergence of Francis Coquelin as Arsenal's first - choice defensive midfielder and with the likes of Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere and even Santi Cazorla, who has grown accustomed to playing a deeper role, fighting for a place alongside the young Frenchman, the Gunners captain will certainly find it difficult to get into the first - team.

As soon as the window closes our players will go down injured, then we will have injury crisis as usual then have to limp to January then fight for 4th placAs soon as the window closes our players will go down injured, then we will have injury crisis as usual then have to limp to January then fight for 4th placas the window closes our players will go down injured, then we will have injury crisis as usual then have to limp to January then fight for 4th placas usual then have to limp to January then fight for 4th place.

Wilshere should have been brought in to create and add danger, speed to our game, Walcot some more and Giroud if needed... Ozil being supposed to sit apparently... So, it is no referee, but a team as reflecting manager... If owners and Wenger himself do not get a huge container of coffee, we will finish 12 and he will be doing the walk of shame, leave himself remembered as a loser... What they need to do NOW is bring Henry to assist him and do the job, boost, get players focused with winning spirit he has in him... Then wenger can sit all season long, bench himself as he does and watch henry do the running and screaming as other manager dio... Then we will be in top 3, meaning third; there's now way to ctach up the Manchesters and if we do nt wake up now, we will fight for fourth place; the spurs will distance us and fight for second or third.

The recent performances of Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud in particular have struck me as those of players fighting for their places in the team, so I (wonder if we might just see Wenger start the EPL campaign at home to Leicester City next Friday with these two in the starting line - up.

But as a club we wont prevail by fighting every year for the 4th place.

Coach Gary Colson has recruited players from as far away as Kentucky, Indiana and Georgia and should be in the fight for second place.

The match in question, sometimes referred to as the «Battle of the Bridge» for the fighting that took place on and off the pitch, featured Chelsea overcoming a 2 - 0 deficit to tie the game against Tottenham and deprive the Spurs of their last chance to stave off Leicester City in the Premier League title chase.

Despite Leicester completing the signing of Hull goalkeeper Eldin Jakupovic this week, Schmeichel has said that he is determined to stay at the King Power and fight for his place in Craig Shakespeare's side, as reported by the Mirror.

At the moment he is not as sharp as we know him and there's no need to say all that nonsense about him just let him fight for his place.

The German international has been claimed to be keen on staying with Paris Saint - Germain as he looks to fight for a place in the side, but Lemar on the other hand has previously been said to be keen on the switch.

Watching Debuchy, i think he wants to stay and fight for his place, he may do stupid tackles and behave as if he has anger issues.

Maybe that is just wishful thinking too as most papers are saying he wants to see out his contract at Arsenal and fight for his place.

Well benzema just broke a couple of you'll hearts not mine because i knew sir Arsene is a joke Of a manager therefore i have already drawn comfort from the fact that we will be fighting off liverpool for 4 th place but you know whats funny some Of you guys that says wenger is a genius Will call for his head but DISGUSTED1 and HAFIZ are the only two fans that as constantly call for wenger to go.

Happy with this, this team currently reflects that the days of fav players are over, happy that even walcott has to fight for a place on the squad and also wilshere can be eased into the team as slowly as possible, hopefully quickly too as santi cant play all games.

His lack of playing time is largely due to injury problems though, as he has only played four games for the under 21s, but now that Danny Welbeck has recovered from his own injury and with Theo Walcott set to return and joing the likes of Giroud, Alexis, Iwobi, Lucas Perez and the Ox in fighting for a place in the forward line, I do not rate Akpom's chances of playing a lot of football for the rest of the season very highly.

So, I would give Wenger chance until his contract runs out, because he has changed, might not be completely, but very effectively, and that can be seen as a result in fighting for second place, when the top fight is too tight...

as you have stated we have some very talented players out on loan, and that for now is the best option for them, as they will get the game time needed and when they come back in the summer, they should be ready for the first team fight for places.

It just goes to show how far away we are from being anywhere near tittle contenders we are further away then ever afraid will just be fighting it out for champs league places as per usual!

As seen in the image below and caption, he's ready to fight for his place in the Arsenal starting line - up once again but could face a difficult challenge.

Benteke will be hoping his goal can ignite his career for the Reds as he faces a fight to retain his place in the starting XI as fellow forward Daniel Sturridge is closing on a return to first - team football after five months out with a hip problem.

Neville said: «For the first time this season I am concerned as to whether Manchester United can fight them off in the scrap for the Champions League placFor the first time this season I am concerned as to whether Manchester United can fight them off in the scrap for the Champions League placfor the Champions League places.

He may not be the same sort of player as the Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez, but he was just as effective in his own way when the two were fighting for a place in the Barcelona team.

However it seems as if his future has been cleared up now as the Colombian is adamant his wants to remain at the club and fight for his place.

In fact I believe there is a possibility that one day the little Spaniard could become a manager of Arsenal, but I still hope that he will have to fight for his place against a new beast of a signing as well as Francis Coquelin!

As for fighting for his place, when you've got a team or unit of that team i.e his fellow strikers not making headway, you've hardly got a fight on your hands as you can't be differentiated from them and so don't look out of placAs for fighting for his place, when you've got a team or unit of that team i.e his fellow strikers not making headway, you've hardly got a fight on your hands as you can't be differentiated from them and so don't look out of placas you can't be differentiated from them and so don't look out of place!

Lets not talk get ahead of ourselves, for all we care to know by this time Monday we could be back to fighting for our annual 4th place trophy seeing how we buckle under pressure and this game has to rank as the most important this season so far.....

IF wenger promotes Akpom and does not buy another striker, not only will this be a massive betrayal of the fans as its clear we need a proven and experienced striker to push Giroud to fight for his place, but also this could have the affect of destroying Akpom before he really gets started I for one really hope this doesn't happen, BUT i wouldnt be surprised if the penny pinching mentality gets the better of the boss

As the talk is the rebuild will be over a 2 year contract, that would mean all those 18 months left now will be out of contract before his 2 years are up, with funds to rebuild then players will hopefully feel the need to fight for their place more.

The big man has allayed those fears this week and declared that he knows he faces a fight for a place in the first team and has no intention of giving up on his career as a Gunner, even if his Chilean rival does also commit his future to the club.

sanogo must fight hard for his place with welbeck... try smart as he can to get first score, then we will have great striker on sanogo and welbeck....

We as the Arsenal need to do our part in becoming a place where the highest dreams of players are realized, even if we don't always win trophies, we need to at least always have a «Genuine» fighting chance, Real Madrid went a number of seasons chasing La Decima, spent loads of cash, played second fiddle to Barca for a few seasons even but still players still dreamed of playing for them in that period, we as fans need to grow up too and stop bitching and whining especially about our players, we create a toxic atmosphere for these guys when we do so and it doesn't help nobody, little wonder our players perform better away than they do at home.

«As I told you many times it is our job to fight for our places.

With Chelsea surely on their way to a relatively comfortable first place finish in the Premier League, it is still looking fairly unpredictable just below them as six sides fight for a remaining three places.

Now he has got his chance as injuries have decimated the squad yet again, and he has chances of getting a prolonged run in the team, he has spoken out, saying that he is prepared to fight for his place and wait for Wenger to decide when he is ready to play.

A lot of criticism against him can also be attributed to the fact that the guys put on our left wing offer very little defensively It also can't help knowing that Gibbs is automatically chosen as soon as he is fit, rather than having to fight for his place.

One of the big questions for Arsenal fans as we gear up for another, and hopefully more successful, push for the Premier League title was about who would be playing in central midfield, with the new signing Granit Xhaka fighting with Coquelin as well as Santi Cazorla, Aaron Ramsey and Mohamed Elneny for a starting place.

Holding and chambers can stay as 3rd and 4th place and fight for starting roles

Arsenal have eleven players currently out on loan, and as fans we would love them all to be lighting up the lower divisions with brilliant football and proving themselves good enough to fight for a place in the Gunners first team next season, but alas the truth is that there are very few impressing at all.

Makes more excitement to the league as MU who can win today and fight for 1st place with MC... Feel strange sometime how games turn and team pick.

Everyone seems to think that Arsenal's season is over right now, but as with every season, we are still in the most important fight for a Top Four place, and have made it to an FA Cup semifinal for the third time in four years and are two games away from winning the trophy yet again.