Sentences with phrase «forced by injuries»

I have to admit that I am still surprised about Wenger rotating players when until now he rotates only if forced by injuries.

He refused to play with a DM until he was forced by injuries to recall Francis Coquelin, and until then everybody been telling him to get a DM.

It seems our best performance so far this season will be forced by injuries.

I just don't understand why Malone has to have his hand forced by injuries before looking like a coach that actually realizes what kind of talent he's got!!

Basically, he doesn't make any substitutions before the last 10 minutes of the game unless his hand is forced by injuries or a red card

Forced by injury to JC to take on captaincy in the varsity match, he led from the front with an outstanding display that challenged Sam Egerton for the man of the match award.

Wenger carries out his substitutions at the 70th minute except when forced by injury.

When does he get the actual retirement match he should go out with instead of one forced by injury, and who retires him?

I forgot the last time Wenger made substitutions before 70th minute (when not forced by injury, of course).

United have a tradition of providing young talents with an opportunity to prosper, and, although his hand has been forced by injury in some instances, Van Gaal has had no qualms about playing talented prospects.

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Ranked second in the world by the Women's Tennis Association after Serena Williams, Sharapova said she first conceived the idea for a candy business when she was forced to take a break from tennis due to a serious shoulder injury, and did not know whether she would be able to play tennis again.

As you say, wilshires injury was a mechanical injury caused by an external force.

For the remaining part of this season, save for any strong reason like injuries or outright loss of form by a particular Gunner that has forced the Boss» hand to make changes, the list bellow should be my preferred Gunners 1st starting team and backups: Cech.

OR... the only way wenger will get serious in the transfer window is if we get a thorough thrashing by one of the big boys, remember the 8 - 2 defeat?unfortunately that's the only thing that can force wenger's hand in the window, not even injuries.

(2) somewhat linked to the previous comment in that we never seem to be prepared to hit the ground running with our best potential lineup come opening day... it's become so common, in recent years, that many fans actually hope we stumble a little in the first couple games just so it forces Wenger to bring in reinforcements... unfortunately this can be problematic, thus one of the most common phrases associated with Wenger, «panic buy»... this situation is also negatively impacted by the ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the summer months... right now I'm watching the Super Cup and not a single player is unavailable to either manager, including Ronaldo, yet somehow we have a list of players half a mile long that haven't seen game - time so far this preseason... I can only assume this is a reactionary policy created due to the multitude of injuries this club has faced over the years... just another sign of the fragility that permeates this club

Much has been made of Arsenal's glaring defensive shortcomings this season, but despite the continuing errors this season, Wenger has mostly persevered with the ageing Laurent Koscielny and Nacho Monreal while only using Rob Holding and Calum Chambers when forced to by injuries to his first - choice defenders.

As noted by Sport, midfield ace Ivan Rakitic was forced to undergo surgery this week on a hand injury picked up against Roma, and he will need to be replaced.

After making it through most of his career without missing serious time, Lynch was plagued by an abdomen injury that required surgery, forcing him to miss half the season.

«I want to stop playing when I decide, not because I have been forced to by an injury,» he told Brazilian magazine Trip.

The game of trying to drop the kick in between the 5 and the goal line and force the other team to return it while you attempt get them behind the 25 yard line does not seem to work consistently enough to make up for the kicks out of bounds, kicks that don't go far enough, and times when the coverage doesn't get the guy down short of the 25, and the injury risk that is being taken by covering the play.

Ben sprained his foot last week by forcing it to support his own body weight for the last 3 years, but he battled back big time to beat the Browns after Landry Jones had to be taken out of the game for a bullcrap injury with a sprained foot.

what a tool wenger is: by not buying enough defenders, and letting jenkinson go: once the inevitable & predictable injuries came, we're forced into a makeshift defence time after time.

Roy Hodgson's men dominated the clash with the Russians for large parts, but were eventually pegged back by an injury - time equaliser from Vasili Berezutski which forced them to share the spoils.

Alexis move on the right (forced by a poor Walcott run and Ramsey injury) is also something very nice to look at.

Playing Ox in place of Campbell is the same like playing with 10 men» seeking in the field, I am sorry to say he is helping us by being sidelined, only injury will force Wenger to leave him were he can't harm our chances of winning EPL.

Mertesacker was forced off with a head injury just before the half hour mark and was replaced by Kolasinac who continued to look a threat.

Not only that, but Arsene stuck by his side through all of his injuries, and the rat still had the guts to force the transfer after one good season.

One sour note was the injury sustained by Pedro after he collided with David Ospina in the first - half, and he was forced to leave the pitch with a bloodied face.

Another defender who hasn't been helped by the ongoing injury crisis, the Argentine international has played more than any other defender for United this year, and suffered badly from being forced to play with a different backline every week.

What the injury does mean though is that the pressure will be on Valverde to manage it appropriately by resting Messi when possible, and so to ensure that it doesn't worsen to the point he is forced to miss key games not out of choice to end the campaign.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

We just saw Booker, the youngest player in his draft who was supposed to ride the pine in year one, play his way into the rotation by the end of his first month in the NBA — well before injuries forced the issue.

Villas - Boas is being forced into a speedy move due to Jermain Defoe's pelvic injury and is further hampered by the fact that Emamnuel Adebayor is on Africa Cup of Nations duty with Togo.

There are a few changes to the team made by Arsene Wenger and not all force on him due to injury problems.

What really worries me is that Le Coq WAS about an inch away from being binned by AW when injuries forced his hand, surely he should have seen that a) the postion needed filling in the previous summer and B) that Le Coq was potentially the man to fill that role, but no.

But to more than balance the pole vault, there was Jim Beatty, the tiny distance runner from the Santa Clara Youth Village, who won the mile in 3:58.8, although he was handicapped in his bid to regain his American mile record when his teammate and pace setter, Laszlo Tabori, was forced out after the second lap by a week - old hip injury.

The Canaries decided to swoop for the 33 - year - old Nigerian international after an injury sustained by regular centre back Michael Turner forced manager Chris Hughton into action.

[It's the Broncos» Super Bowl ring from last season, given to him by Denver coach Mike Shanahan to replace the one Shannon gave to Sterling, who was forced into early retirement by a spinal injury.

WEAKNESSES: Adequate height / length, but lean - framed with a slender, unimpressive build... marginal play strength and allows physical defensive backs to slow his route and disrupt the timing... struggles to gain body position downfield... lacks the body power to force his way through tackle attempts... tends to get alligator arms on in - breaking routes as footsteps hurt his concentration... underpowered blocker... body isn't constructed for routine punishment — hampered by a left ankle injury (Nov. 2017) down the stretch... production dropped in 2017 without John Ross drawing attention on the other side of the formation.

The full - back signed in the summer, and has been forced out of position to centre - back recently by injuries.

Not only did Kevin Love (Cleveland's second - best player by a mile) shoot 31 % from the field, but he tweaked an ankle, took a hit to the knee and was forced to exit the game in the final, climactic minutes with a hand injury.

He is very risk averse when it comes to purchases unless he's a very young player or a proven world - class player... anything in between and he'll default to what he has, unless his hand is forced by way of injury.

Another change in defensive midfield was forced onto him by injuries to first team players like Ramsey, Flamini, Arteta and Wilshere.

He showed moments of promise but generally lacked a quality final ball, and by the time Tosaint Ricketts was forced off with an injury it was beginning to take its toll on his confidence.

Unfortunately for Zuniga, his performance was so good that it upset the opposition's striker, who vented his frustration by kicking the stand - in goalie in the groin with such force that he subsequently died from the injuries sustained in the attack.

Sané went close with a volley following a chipped pass from Fernandinho, before Salah was forced to come off with what looked like a groin injury, replaced by Wijnaldum.

Aguero saw a well - hit shot deflected over before Danny Welbeck was forced off with an injury Arsene Wenger later admitted was worrying and replaced by Jack Wilshere.

We did start quietly, but overall we were by far the better side and despite the hint (well, more than a hint) of handball on the goal, the win was fully deserved with Barton and Jeff Hendrick running the show in the midfield after Steven Defour had been forced off with an injury.

Deployed out on the right wing in the slot he has been fated to fill for at least three seasons, without putting in a convincing claim — Joel Campbell and Theo Walcott have shown enough to see off his challenges, which have so often been snuffed out by injury if not poor mid-season form — he was both the driving force and cutting edge for the Gunners against the Royals.

Wilshere has been plagued by injuries throughout his career and has struggled to force his way back into Arsene Wenger's plans this season, playing just 25 league minutes so far.