Sentences with phrase «game against weaker»

Sure we should give him more game time, we can do that in other less important game against weaker opponents.

Overlooked for the Manchester City game last week, Drogba may be recalled for a game against weaker opponents, as Loic Remy has underperformed recently.

He is soft and only turns up every third or fourth game against weaker opponents.

Instead of using games against weak opposition as a chance to help himself to a hat - full of goals, he's looking over his shoulder at the development of an 18 year old.

However, Wilshere is clearly adding discipline, awareness, tackling and a great long range passing ability to his game and it might be a good idea for the Gunners to make use of that a bit more, especially in games against the weaker sides when we dominate the ball.

Those games against the weaker sides are very good for the youngsters, because they are real matches.

Yes ok, we can produce the occasional pretty game against weak opposition with only 10 men (Like against Everton), but against decent opposition we are unimaginative, weak, and boring.

Arteta is important, especially in games against weaker opposition.

Zero points from two games against the weak teams in our group would suggest that wouldn't it professor.

We have a relatively easy run during that period, 2 champions league games against the weakest team in the group and efl cup home game against reading, 1 away game at Sunderland and 3 home league games against swansea, Boro and the hardest one coming a month away against the filth.

They've won their past three games against weak competition — the Kings, Warriors and Blazers — but haven't performed up to snuff against tougher teams since March.

More to think about and less games against weaker opposition in between in which Jones will be able to rely on players of the calibre of Bothroyd and Bellamy to succeed.

Players like Rooney and Sigurdsson have the quality that means Everton will often win closely fought games against weaker or equal opponents, but just keeping it tight and organised will probably end up in a lot of draws too.

A draw at Atlético is fine, but a bad game against the weakest team in the group at home will really bring a lot of doubt and questions to a Barça side that's exceeded expectations in this young season.

Not exact matches

Critics point out that the open system can be gamed, especially when an incumbent's backers flock to the other party's primary to support a weaker candidate, who then ends up as the other party's nominee against the incumbent in the general election.

Remember chelsea are playing at home to a much weaker team while we have to travel and we have another away game against tottenham on the horizon which is a must win for obvious reasons.

Wengers method of bluffing the board & fans to keep him for a further season... > We loose enough games to take us completely off winning the league, then say it wasn't in our control, we then fight till the end and win last few games so we look good and like we worked hard to earn the 4th place trophy.He then links us with awesome transfers (which we all know wont happen), and finally while Man U / City and Chelsea organise pre-season friendlies against top clubs, we play the weak ones, win and look all good to go next season without any additions... AND THEN REALITY STRIKES..

chelsea are playing at home to a much weaker team while we have to travel and we have another away game against tottenham on the horizon which is a must win for obvious reasons.

All three of our away games in Europe are to be played on Tuesday, leaving plenty of time for the team to recover before the next league match and although one of those matches is the north London derby it is at the Emirates stadium and is going to be played on the Sunday, so the European game should not affect our chances, especially as it is against Lodogorets, the weakest team in the group.

A guy who never turns up in big games, and is happy to just coast from game to game, with the odd good performance here, and there, against weak opposition.

If we can get the Ramsey that gave us such a fantastic start a couple seasons ago then I could see a Ramsey / Wilshere partnership working against weaker opposition, if Wilshere holds for most the game but allowed to go forward OCCASIONALLY and only when Ramsey is covering then he could do the same job for us that he has been doing for England.

DFS edge: It's hard to trust TE Hunter Henry in cash games — he has three or fewer targets in five games — but his upside is undeniable, and he's made a habit of producing against teams weak in tight end defense: Dolphins (Week 2), Giants (Week 5), Raiders (Week 6), Broncos (Week 7), Cowboys (Week 12), and Browns (Week 13).

If arsene decided to line up with the weak team that play against zagareb tottenham must win the game, debuchy shld be out of our squad, kieran shld be giving a new role after atleast 70 mins or so, i thnk from the team that played chelski cech shld be left out to give him some resting moment bt if we dare repeated zagreb's mistake definitely spuds wl win the game.SALIS DALHAT KWANKWASO UP UP UP GUNNERS.

Whilst we like to beat up on OG his goals / game ratio in PL over the last 3 years is pretty similar to Benzeman — who plays in a team that creates far more chances against arguably weaker opposition week in week out.

The QB has been throwing touchdowns at a record pace and the net result has helped Seattle to a 5 - 0 record ATS aided in part by games against the 49ers, Browns, and Ravens, three of the weaker defenses in the game.

i've been saying that we do nt need Mert in most of our games, he is the weakest link and if you play against a top team, you will be stupid not to say they will map him out to attack.

- bad at set pieces - crosses never finds target - lack of lob passes / long ball through out the game often weak against counters after over committing players to attack.

Now that injuries have exposed our dire CB situation, and games against the likes of Chelsea (who are on fire with 9 point gap above us and with a balanced team at that) have shown how weak our midfield core is, I have to come to see that we are still a bit far from winning the league.

haha Wenger is responsible for this mess, last year and this year we had chance to do it, next year will be much tougher, if you can see wenger adopting some new skills, good for you, cuz he wont, i watched arsenal on regular base for 3 years, we did nt have good game exept UCL against Napoli, we are weak, lower demand or ask for changes!!!

I personally feel that Giroud should be benched and Theo given a good chance to prove himself for more than a single game, Giroud has failed to win us the game and I think he was a weak link in the team against l'pool.

Yes we have done well but when you think that the teams of Henry's day were much weaker until we came up against Bolton, Stoke Middlesborough we never did well, why because they had a game plan and Arsenal did not, and it's those games that you need to win with the right team on that day.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

So giving him games now against the weaker sides is probably the order of the day.

One could argue that the games were against weaker opposition, but when you consider that Arsenal has laboured against teams like Leicester and Hull earlier in the season, then it is fair to say that the team has made progress in the last two games.

We all know our two weakest areas, but in coquelin, arteta and flamini, we have 1 outstanding dm and to OK ones good enough to cope with the dead rubbers and games against minnows in the league and domestic cups.

So should Arsenal take advantage of their injury crisis and treat this game like a home tie against a weaker side and go for all out attack?

Ozil is great playing against weaker teams, I do nt remember him in games against top teams though Auba, Ozil, Laca, Mikhi, Ramsey, Bellerin, are good for next year, all the rest need better alternatives.

I just stated that we already did in the first game at home against a weaker side.

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?

We do nt need to play with a DM every game, at home playing against weaker opposition I can see us using a midfield of Ramsey - Wilshire and Ozil but against tougher opposition we can bring Carvalho in instead of Wilshire and drop him a bit deeper.

Maybe they're not dazzling, like Destiny Littleton's 42.7 points per game against much weaker opposition, but 25.0 points and 13.4 rebounds a game against that level of competition is an amazing feat.

Let's not forget other rotation options like Prince Podolski, Rosicky the little mozart, Diaby when fit, Coquelin as a 2nd backup when needed, Zelalem in cup games and against much weaker sides, Gnabry to help Walcott and OX, Sanogo with his surprises and finally Campbell.

If he goes missing in big games it is because our back 6 are so weak against the big sides that they can't control possession and play out from the back.

The geriatric point guard missed four games in late November and early this month, and although the Knicks went 3 - 1, it was against weak competition and anyone watching those games saw the same thing: it wasn't the team that started the season white hot with terrific ball movement and lights - out shooting.

it takes a specialist in failure to lose the first game at home against a weaker side like West ham.

Given the weak competition, the Hokies season could come down to an October 20th game in Clemson and a November 8th matchup against Florida State.

Wilshere looked good... needs more game time but could be an ideal foil for Xhaka against weaker teams and let Ramsey play the no 10 role.

Which means these three play well in less than 12.5 % of the teams games and half of those games were against weak opposition.

Despite scoring two touchdowns, he only mustered 55 combined rushing and receiving yards against a pretty weak Rutgers team, marking the third straight game that he's failed to eclipse 100.

We panic in big games even if its against weaker teams.