Sentences with phrase «first season injured»

failed first season Injured the next.

Not exact matches

Luck first injured his shoulder during the 2015 season, and he finally got surgery on it following the end of the 2016 season, but his recovery didn't go as planned and he went on to miss the entire 2017 season.

Since 2010, Arsenal have won just one of their seven first league matches of the season due to a combination of not making new signings until the end of the transfer window and players either being injured or not fit after pre-season.

Chamach was very good for first half of first season, RVP was injured and Chamach scored a lot of goals, then form dipped and never came back.

So expect us to be in for him but expect him to sit on the sidelines for the first half of the season until Welbeck gets injured OR Iwobi does or whoever, THEN expect him to flop.

It has been an underwhelming first half of the season for the Chicago Cubs, and things got even worse on Wednesday night with reigning MVP Kris Bryant injuring his ankle.

The Chilean has been a breath of fresh air and his untiring energy galvanized the Gunners in the first half of the season when we had half our squad out injured.

2017) QB Deondre Francois (injured in first game of the season).

But maybe he has now got over that as he has scored 6 goals already this season (helped by his first ever hat - trick against Everton in his last match) but he immediately went out injured again until (hopefully) returning for the Cup Final tomorrow.

BFG had a poorish first half of season due to fatigue from World Cup, Kos being injured and Chesney in goal.

He's vulnerability a lack of Height during set pieces (I.e Giroud being the only realistic target because of his height and the fact he is a striker) has meant our CB «s are playing a bit more up top than they should be and because our midfield is mostly attacking defusing the situation / stopping opposition attacks in the first half of the season wasn't happening, the second half we had coquelin but if he gets injured, without any cover at CDM we end up in the same situation.

That first year, 1986, he sat out half the season on injured reserve with a muscle pull in his right thigh.

There was talk of him being involved in first team before the start of the season but has been injured only just comeing back but very good.

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)

It would have to be Iwobi, us all excited to see if a Bellerin could happen and he gets injured after the first game of season.

I strongly believe he should / will be given another season at least to show what he can do albeit in a different role to which he wants... he will have ro reinvent himself and learn to play and score from the wings because to be perfectly frank he had more than enough time and games to show he can top strike for us when he first joined and Giroud was out Injured and he was less than impressive goals wise.....

Throw out the last 2 games when he was clearly injured, and we see that his production was way down on a per - game basis during his first 6 games of 2017 (when he wasn't injured) vs. his 2016 season.

Our player of the season so far?Certainly the most consistent.JACK AND OZIL CONTRACTS - just get them signed up for F *** S SAKE.Jack doesn't want to go anywhere and Ozil will have his choice of big clubs to choose from if allowed to be able to go on a free.How about giving out a statement of our ambitions (yeah right) and show were prepared to pay whatever it takes (up to the point of being ridiculous) to SIGN the best and KEEP the best» These two are the best we have so get them sorted early to send out a message of how serious we intend to be.AUBAMEYANG - So what if he has a contract.So did Sanchez.Offer the right money to Dortmund and the player and he will be ours.What is there to question over this deal?He is a proven goalscorer.We have just lost one.Get the deal done.GIROUD - Get rid of him to Dortmund if they want him either by selling or if it sweetens the deal just loan him till the end of the season.He was a back up when Sanchez was here and will be on the mix of back ups if Auba signs.He has a World Cup squad to fight for just to be considered so needs to be playing every week.We do not need him if Auba signs and would demand better than him if the deal fails to happen.Just get rid.JONNY EVANS - I'm not sure.Agree Kos needs nursing through games and we do not have consistent performers to come in if he is injured or rested mainly due to both Chambers and Holdimg not progressing through as much as we first thought and hoped for.Gooners have always been patient and supportive of the youngsters as they have come through but question marks to the whole coaching staff as to why these two seem to have stalled as much as they have done.Steve Bould - What do you do?You should be ashamed.

Gibbs has been injured on average 2 times a season since playing in the first team regularly for us from 2009, all of which (bar 2 injuries in 2011/2012 which made him miss 17 & 11 games respectively) have been very minor where he has missed at most a handful of games.

cazorla — great player, just as with wilshere always injured ramsey — needs to play like he does for wales week in week out if not next season upgrade welbeck — cant see what he offers and lacazette / giroud looks way better, lots of injuries, do nt forget man u did nt want him in the first place.

Now, first game of the season Ozil and Sanchez is slated as injured, QUESTIONABLE!

But the oft - injured marksman endured another rash of injuries last season, missing the first 19 games of the season before a thumb injury in late January sidelined him until mid-March.

LVG set up all preaseason to have Jones plus Blind as his first choice [during his second season] Jones gets injured at the end of preseason and Smalling manages to stay fit and show decent form.

Ozil for instance got burnt out in his first season because he was not rested in particular matches and he subsequently got injured.

Podolski, Walcott and Campbell to still wait for their first start of the season, unless someone gets injured during the warm ups.

also since montreal when gibbs got injured he was given plenty of time to heal properly and not being rushed that, s why i think his injury record has got better with time, like wenger said we are lucky to have them both and kieran is an important squad player due to his versatility and will have a big part to play in the 2nd part of the season, also he is still young and will continue to improve learning from montreal and in the not too distant future he will be our first choice for many years to come, all he needs to do is to keep at it and be patient his time will come!!

no way wenger was gonna swallow his pride and bring him back, beating monoco is going to stretch our season, making an injured team harder to achieve 4th place, i think this year could be wengers first time out of top 4, unless he spends in january, and he never finds what he seems to want in january... first time i say, i see trouble on the horizon, seems our only durable players are Per and Santi,

Thats is what we spent quickly to get Xhaka which was needed, our season first started to falter when Cazorla got injured or are you too stupid to actually watch Arsenal all season long?

Jefferson injured his ankle late in the season and they were swept by the Heat in the first round, but by any realistic measure their season was an unqualified success.

Although the 29 - year - old has not yet featured regularly this season, his ability to play either upfront or out wide could prove crucial to the Gunners» chances of success, particularly with first - choice striker Oliver Giroud now out injured until at least January.

Silva has been injured or unfit for most of the season, while this is only De Bruyne's first season in the EPL.

Giroud being injured for the first 3 or so months of last season set us back substantially!

Welbeck was injured for the first half of the season last year too..

Seeing as how Gab was consistently injured last season due to an annoying groin strain it's kind of hard to know if Mert is still genuinely first choice.

Visitors Burnley will be relatively pleased with their start to the season, having drawn three successive games 0 - 0, but Sean Dyche's side are struggling for goals with both Danny Ings and Sam Vokes out injured, with the Clarets not having found the net since Scott Arfield's opening goal against Chelsea in their first match.

Paris is the first of three away games in the space of a week, and the second is a trip to Hull, who have had a brilliant start to the season despite having 50 % of their squad out injured.

At a time when we could have finished second and even first if Chelsea dropped points we had almost a full strength team, no key players out injured and almost finished the season 4th.

I very much doubt that Real would pursue Sanchez unless they were contemplating moving Bale, planning to play Ronaldo centrally this season and willing to upset their delicate wage structure... of course anything is possible, but this appears to be unlikely... the bigger question is the fact that Wenger was willing to risk losing the first few games of the season because he hasn't settled the Sanchez dilemma in a timely fashion... no one believes he was too injured to play so this is not too dissimilar from the Liverpool game last season, except for the fact that Sanchez was in street clothes and not in his warm - ups (much like Coutinho for Liverpool today)... we're existing in such a fragile environment because of Wenger and Kroenke... in the game yesterday, when Leicester scored to make it 3 - 2, you could cut the tension with a knife... can you imagine just for a second what the reaction might have been if we had failed to score in the last 10 minutes

All Arsenal fans are hoping to see Jack Wilshere get his first Premier League start against West Ham this evening, especially now that Aaron Ramsey is injured and Granit Xhaka is woefully out of form, but will that be enough to convince the Englishman that he will he will get even more gametime as the season progresses?

Last year he injured his knee in the first preseason scrimmage, underwent surgery and was out for the entire season.

Another factor is that Welbeck has hardly had any competitive minutes on the field since he went out injured after scoring lots of goals in first couple of months of the season.

Giroud: Who's injured till 2015 Podolski: Who plays striker once in a season Campbell: Who won't be given a chance Walcott: Who's mainly a winger and won't work against big defenders Sanchez: Who has only played the lone striker role for the first time in his life at Arsenal

Disciplined in his role, he is very rarely caught out of position, he is strong in a tackle and seems to relish a physical battle His technical ability also developed over the course of the first few months of this season, and his passing improved along with his ability to twist and turn out of trouble, but of course what we had all been dreading came to pass..., Coquelin was injured vs West Brom, and has missed the last month, and is going to miss at least two more, I am of the opinion that we would be in a much better position than we are now if Coquelin had stayed fit.

Here or not, Wilshere has no influence on our seasons, year after year... As a matter of fact it seems that while injured we get better runs because Wenger is not tempted to f*ck up and put him in the first team (15 first games: 5 wins in total... This is where we lost the league).

The reason why I think he hasn't done much rotations last season was, there aren't adequate quality Gunners in our first team and couple with some Gunners getting injured which can't guarantee us success on the field of play if the Gunners in question were played.

With a stronger Ozil, and all our injured players back, we can really look forward to a much more succesful season next time around, but first off all we have to finish this season strongly to give us extra confidence for the next campaign....

The oft - injured first baseman spent the off - season in a special program to strengthen the muscles in his neck, the source of the physical problems that limited him to a total of 23 home runs and 76 RBIs the past two years.

Trammell, who in 15 major league seasons never played a defensive position other than shortstop, will work at third base, first base, leftfield and centerfield because his successor at short, Travis Fryman, took over when Trammell was injured last season — and Fryman is there to stay.

At the start of the season he did not hold up well for the first couple of games after Giroud got injured so he needs to try and prove he can play regularly.

Jack has a 80 % pass accuracy for arsenal dm that's not good enough He has the lowest tackle succes rate in our first team this season He isn't as good a dribbler as he thinks otherwise he wouldn't end up hurt after each dribble (excluding the one that got him injured at Manu)