Sentences with phrase «games against minnows»

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.

Arsenal fans have been so well manipulated by ozils pr team that they would swear Mr turn up once every 6 games against minnows is Andrea pirlo in disguise

Not exact matches

We had another late season revival where some of the injury prone starred against minnows in meaningless games.

Although we also have the Europa League games to come, our next round against the minnows from Sweden, Ostersund, it is hardly likely to be as stressful as playing teams like Barcelona, Juventus or Sevilla and I am sure Wenger will still be rotating players for these games.

The group stage of the 2014/15 Champions League kicks off on Tuesday evening, with two English teams in action — Liverpool return to the competition with a home game against Bulgarian minnows Ludogorets Razgrad, whilst Arsenal face a tough trip to Borussia Dortmund.

The youngsters were both named in the starting XI for the game against international minnows San Marino on Saturday evening and Shaw, who has begun the season with Manchester United in good form, saw his cross turned into the net by Cristian Brolli for an own - goal to give the visitors a 2 - 0 lead at half - time.

Chelsea look safe in their game this evening after taking a 2 - 0 lead against the ten - man minnows, who lost 6 - 0 to the Blues at Stamford Bridge earlier in the season.

Balotelli only arrived at Anfield in the summer from Lazio's Serie A rivals AC Milan, but despite his impressive goalscoring record at the San Siro, Balotelli has been unable to translate his performances back into the English game, with only one Liverpool goal to his name so far — in the Champions League against Bulgarian minnows Ludogorets Razgrad.

I for one will be analysing every piece of the new Gunner's game against European minnows Albania.

stats are great to show number of assitsts etc and one can argue he needs someone to put those away... however he needs to turn a big game in Arsenals favour rather than just shining against the minnows... Chelsea on Saturday would be a great game to do that!

Kane will be hoping his goal against the international minnows will earn him a start in the game against Switzerland at Wembley on Tuesday night as the hosts look to maintain their 100 % record in Group E.

England travel to Turin for their next international game, coming up against a big - name opponent in Italy after a fairly comfortable 4 - 0 win over minnows Lithuania at Wembley.

I feared the worst and it sounds like we had our problems containing the Triple S threat but some interesting team selections and now some interesting decisions required for the game against the German minnows!

We now possess a sterling ZERO points from two games against relative minnows.

Panduleni netted the only goal of the game in the 92nd minute - replicating Namibia's late strike against the Ivory Coast through in their opener - as the minnows secured their place in the quarter finals with a 100 percent record.

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Sigurdsson is expected to retain his place in the Spurs starting XI for Thursday night's Europa League home game against Norwegian minnows Tromso.

In the last three games alone, the Portuguese hitman has found the net eight times, aided in no small part by a four - goal plundering against Catalan minnows Girona.

Minnows Luxembourg await, irrespective of the result against Slovakia; a game which presents the perfect opportunity for Costa to get some goals and appease La Roja supporters.

However, poor performances against minnows in the qualifying rounds of the Europa League have intimated that there remains much work for Bilic to do — not least in instilling discipline in a side that is competing in Europe thanks to the Fair Play Award and yet has somewhat ironically had three players sent off in five games.