Sentences with phrase «fragile confidence»

With injury problems mounting and another away game against Everton to deal with on Sunday, the boss was probably planning a fart of changes and a weakened team for the trip to face Red Star Belgrade, but what would another bad game and result do the already fragile confidence of the squad?
Chelsea held on to a 2 - 1 win over Crystal Palace which will do little to boost the Blues» fragile confidence ahead of Barcelona next week
We've seen it with Arsenal times before, and as a result we always have the lingering doubt that this team with fragile confidence will concede.
Whether it is stricter regulations, negative interest rates, or fragile confidence, banks and other market participants are less than keen these days to hold large piles of risky assets.
In the U.S., there has been a steady recovery in suburban housing prices over the past year, and some fragile confidence that it might continue.
I also would have feared that being part of another beating at the hands of Bayern would have done the German international's fragile confidence no good whatsoever.
Maybe spare him the City game so as not to dampen his new but fragile confidence...
As time passed the fragile confidence and erratic performance of the team served to erode his own confidence.
He started with giving excuse after excuse for his team's failures, apparently trying to protect his players» «fragile confidence».
It is about stupid formations with players and esp young ones played in totally wrong positions, thus undermining them and any fragile confidence ANY new player ever has, coming in to the first eleven at any time.
Disappointment that the side's detractors continue to be proved right in their assessment of our frailties; disappointment that a team so brimful of talent and determination still has no silverware to show for it, as well as concern that this defeat may prove fatal to our fragile confidence.
Watford came out in the second half determined to take advantage of our fragile confidence and certainly had some of the better spells at 1 - 0, but after Auba slalomed his way past their «keeper for 2 - 0, the game should pretty much have been done.
«It's damaging the fragile confidence that we have,» said Colin Beck, UN ambassador from the Solomon Islands.
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