Sentences with phrase «game against the press»

One of the most interesting guest appearances, however, was made on the MPs» team in the annual Labour Party Conference game against the press lobby, when Ed Balls met Bryan Robson at a reception the evening before our match and casually offered him a game.

Not exact matches

Christen Press, who netted a goal in her first World Cup game with the United States on Monday against Australia, may have become America's new sweetheart.

Whether Arsene Wenger chooses to rest a few first team players for the Champions League away game against Barcelona on Wednesday night remains to be seen, but judging from his comments in the press conference today reported by The Mirror, I would not be at all surprised.

Besides if you and I can see that Arsenal struggle against teams who play a pressing game, surely any experienced manager with the players capable of carrying out the tactics would just use that on Arsenal as Dortmund did

He said it was to increase the aerial threat by having Welbeck and Giroud on but that sort of thing would usually work only in a game where you are pressing forward against a deep sitting defence.

yeah, i expect to see the pressing game from monaco against us.

We can beat any1 of those teams on our day, we have trouble like teams against dortmund who press us high up the pitch, those 3 you just mentioned don't play a pressing game and i truly believe we are capable of beating them.

The summer signing of Charlie Nicholas had sparked a fresh wave of optimism amongst the Arsenal faithful, and after a brace against a poor Wolves side in just his second game, the press went into overdrive.

When asked about the 27 - year - old in his press conference today, Conte had to slip in that he felt he'd had a poor game in the last match against Southampton.

Jim Harbaugh said during Monday's presser that they knew before the Colorado game that senior cornerback Jourdan Lewis wouldn't be playing, but he's very hopeful the All - American will be back against Penn State:

There has been and will continue to be an awful lot of talk among Arsenal fans and in the football press about various behind the scenes goings on at our club, but right now the manager and the players need to focus on the next match and taking all three Premier League points from our home game against Manchester City.

Jim Harbaugh said at a press conference on Monday that DE Taco Charlton and DT Bryan Mone will be out Saturday's game against UCF.

palace played the same kind of pressing game against us that dort and tottenham had success with.

During a press conference Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has revealed that Theo Walcott is not yet fit enough to start this weekend's game against Burnley at the Emirates Stadium.

Tech, meanwhile, tarried for a while against TCU's vigorous press, but got away from the Frogs in time to win 108 - 94 for a two - game lead in the conference race.

The Tennessee Fraternity Pi Kappa Phi has held a mock press conference to deny that any member of their fraternity was butt - chugging wine the day before their game against Akron.

In his second day back at practice Tuesday after injuring his knee, Kolb was impressive enough to prompt coach Doug Marrone to suggest the quarterback could be ready for Friday's preseason game against the Minnesota Vikings, according to the Associated Press.

ALBERT D. SIMPSON, MUHLENBERG The football moment Albert Simpson best remembers was when a hard - pressed Muhlenberg back suddenly threw him a lateral in a game against St. Lawrence.

One thing I didn't like about Collins's play against the Broncos this past Sunday was he didn't really try to jam Julius Thomas at the line even though he was lined up in press coverage out wide with him several times during the game.

did u also see they were imitating the pressing game dort / spuds used against us?

Wenger, in his press conference after the Everton game, proclaimed that Giroud had incurred an ankle injury, which could potentially rule out the Frenchman from Wednesday night's clash against Besiktas.

All good students of the game know you do not run on the Bearcats, because they laugh if you try it and steal your passes; nor do you pressure Cincinnati, because the Cincinnati press sticks three ways faster, including under water; and you do not play slow and careful against Cincinnati, because this is Cincinnati's specialty and what is the use of being the first basketball team ever held scoreless?

Liverpool's high pressing game will come to not in this big PL game because the Gunners have more than prepared themselves to negate whatever the Reds have on offer against them in the game by making themselves bigger in the game than the Reds have imagined by inflicting on them a heavy punishment on the field of play during the playing of the match to make them pay for the sin they've committed against Arsenal by giving them a dose of their own medicine for having the audacity to come to the Emirates Stadium and took away all the 3 points that were at stake in an opening day PL game without at least leave a point for Arsenal to collect in the match..

Here you can watch the whole of yesterday's press conference from Wenger and Coquelin ahead of Arsenal's home game against Ludogorets....

This was the perfect game to gain us some confidence, against the SPUDS and other pressing teams should show where we are.

Arsene Wenger will definitely not be using the England forward Danny Welbeck against Burnley as he spoke on a press conference you can see in full on the Arsenal website about the striker's length of time out of the game and how it would be a gradual process back into the first team for Welbeck, including a least one game for the Arsenal under 21 side.

And now some of our curent players know this too, I read the Cazorla article here where he said we have to be smart in some games... Our victory against ManCity last season was planned by the players... Our team in my opinion should either play pressing football (as we did against UTD at home) or be pragmatic... possession footbal now is not really working for us

Roberts previously stated that he only wanted three outs from Jansens in Game 6, so he's especially lucky this one worked out in the Dodgers» favor because having to explain why he went against his own logic in the postgame presser if Jansen blew the save sounds like an absolutely miserable task for him to face.

In the press conference ahead of the Arsenal home game against Premier League strugglers Middlesborough this weekend, reported on the Arsenal website, Arsene Wenger revealed that there is still a little doubt over whether Santi Cazorla will be available after the Spaniard picked up a knock in the Champions League win over Ludogorets Razgrad on Wednesday.

Arsene Wenger and the lads have also answered a few questions and proved wrong some doubts that were being aimed at us by the football press, like when we changed tactics and played on the counter attack to win a game against a big rival way to Man City.

Crystal palace, Leicester, QPR, Newcastle etc all stepped up their pressing games and we were all over the place, having more quality individual players gets us out of problems, but when we come up against teams on somewhat our level or better then us we mostly lose or draw at best.

Chelsea looked a shadow of last season's team in that game against Southampton, while the Saints pressed them all over the pitch.

The website note that coach Slaven Bilic insisted the player was suffering from an injury in his post-match press conference, but Goal note that the forward only informed the club of a problem after he was informed — by means of a training game lineup — that he would not be apart of the starting XI against Arsenal.

«It's the same as playing an entire basketball game against a full - court press,» says Frank Satterthwaite, a touring pro from New York City.

After Man City, Man United and Chelsea all won before we kicked off and with the weight of expectation pressing on Arsenal shoulders, the game against a resilient Watford was a potential banana skin and Sky Sports pundit and former Gunner Thierry Henry seemed more relieved than anything at the final whistle.

They will press and score against most defences let alone a weak one like ours but they are vulnerable to speed... as we saw again today... So what does the fossil do puts in a couple of lightweight midfielders who are completely dominated... Wilshire left in no mans land with no support... Ozil and miki misplaced... Pea isolated... Equals no threat but lots of sideways passing... Did you watch the game or just high on wenger juice?

And before the AGM even began, Arsene Wenger addressed the issue in his press conference ahead of the Premier League away game against Watford on Saturday, replayed in full on Arsenal Player.

Last nights performance by Arsenal was a replica of the game we played against Barca a few season ago where they pressed us into submission and the ball became a hot potato with everybody wanting to get rid of it.

The most consistent problem we came up against last season was teams that pressed us hard and choked the midfield of the space required to be effective in a patient passing game.

We can't play a pressing game, and any team that plays a pressing game against us makes us gives us a hard time..

This isn't just team against team or footballers against footballers (or, whisper it, luck against luck); this is one man against another one man (always a man, of course), a battle of wills and press conferences and mind games and shouting at fourth officials.

So, as I said on a number of posts, good team effort against Chelsea, loved the pressing and discipline and now let's hope the boys can reproduce that for every game because that is what it takes to get back to the top 4.

Arsene Wenger revealed today in the press conference ahead of the home game against Stoke City on Sunday, that the keeper had apologised for apparently smoking a cigarette in the showers after the defeat at Southampton, but I wonder just how thin ice he is really on.

But instead, the Royals have continued to press on and are in the thick of the AL Central race, coming off eight wins in their last nine games, all against division rivals.

A DM will not make a difference as long as we play the way we play, Sanchez still has that Barcelona «press as a pack mentality», the way he was pressing and kept asking his team mates to join him in hunting for that ball was amazing, but non of our players had the same attitude, I don't know why but our play changed since 2010, we don't dominate games any more, we look so slow to close down, it always feels like we are just waiting for the opposition to misplace the ball and then we he ago, it is so easy to play against as their is no intensity and the other team has all the time to run at us and play defense splitting passes..

i feel its AW fault that we do nt have a solution to the pressing game opponents play against us.

Our game against Dortmund was a game where we did press for the full 90 minutes and it showed as we played really well.

Poor old Steve Bould took today's Arsenal press conference ahead of Sunday's game against Stoke because Arsene Wenger has caught the dreaded lurgy and lost his voice, and the assistant manager was just about as interesting as watching him sit on the bench beside wenger during games!

Pace is the one thing you can use against the Pochettino - Spud high pressing tactic, and it will easily defeat that, causing the Spuds to use a lot of energy for no gain, so they can be easily picked off later in the game.

It's not guaranteed that liverpool and their pressing game will prevail against us regardless of past history.