Sentences with phrase «games this season because»

Perhaps the return in December of steady, stoic power forward Charles Smith, who hasn't played a game this season because of a bum right knee, will change attitudes and fortunes for the Clippers.
We have drawn / lost so many games this season because our players just seem to go belly up second half with no urgency to carry each game through till the end.
Despite missing three games this season because of a knee injury, Gordon, who is also a strong candidate to play in Nagano, has 34 goals and 34 assists.
It is hard to rate Vermaelen because he played very less number of games this season because of the Achilles injury.
City are still fighting on four fronts this season but only have two recognised senior strikers, one of whom — Sergio Aguero — has started less than half of their games this season because of injury.

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Looking at the Toronto Blue Jays this season, the team has seen the highest attendance tally for its first three home games since 1994 — the year after the Jays won their second World Series (not counting years with weekend games, because they always draw larger crowds).
We did that ad, actually, because of - the new season of «Game of Thrones» coming, but when we tested, it didn't test that well.
I can not put spoilers for the 3rd episode of the 6th season of Game of Thrones, because HBO forbids it.
Every Sunday during the NFL season the FED will have control of the official balls for all NFL games because the central bank has proved it will never let anything deflate.
Well Right now I'm reading As.sholes Finish First by Tucker Max, just finished «I hope they serve beer in hel.l», right before then I read all the Game of Thrones books (I guess we'll have to cut out book one according to your rules because season 1 is book one), I'm also in the midst of reading the god delusion by Dawkins.
Saturday afternoon football games, Friday night TGIF - ing, or just because, Autumn feels like the most inviting season of all.
Arsenal are finishing the season with a flourish, with 7 wins in our last 8 games, so is he happy that his side are performing at the right time: «We won more games than last year, because we already have one point more than last year.»
I think we lost so many games last season because of poor tactics and planning....
«What we want is to be more consistent in our defending in 2015 because I feel that, compared to last season, we have improved a lot in the big games
When the fixture list came out, I thought we needed to be five points ahead heading into the last three games of the season if there were a chance for us to win the title exactly because of the games like this.
Hopefully we have recovered from our game against Besiktas and can focus on the Premier League, because that's one of the important targets of the season
i guess its better for sp * rs, they arent winnig it too, but their season is exciting, because they are in the race until 30 - 35 games..
Because Arsenal will not allow Southampton to do the double in the Cup games against us this season.
Wenger is actually reaching his half season point target because his season's target is 80, win his last game of the 1st half against C. Palace and it is 40/80 from equal no.
Maybe because we don't look at one - off games, and instead make a judgement based on trends throughout a season.
The match against Norwich in the 2013 - 2014 season, is a match I will always remember, because in that game, Wilshere scored a beautiful goal; he worked his way past several Norwich players, with the ball glued to his leg, before scoring a beautiful goal.
The back 5 anchored the team all last season while the midfield changed every game because of injuries.
He had a jibe at Wenger after the game at the Emirates last season because we didn't beat a Chelsea team that parked the bus.
Some fans forget he played every game last season prior to his injury because was in good form at that time.
I actually enjoyed our 3 - 9 season 2011, because we got better every game.
goodness i can't believe it people will still defend him.You know something when Giroud misses many chances like at Monaco i did not criticize him even based on that you know why?its because he has always not been clinical.The only way a team can improve is by indentifying its problems and solving them.Arsenal has Giroud as the main cf and Welbeck as backup to him.Giroud has done well scoring some goals some too important but collectively he does more harm than good.Do not use moments to judge a player judge him based on content.Giroud does not excel in many games than he excels in games.As a main cf you need to be consistent.I see people here saying Giroud can not dribble he cant do this he cant do that but its a bit crazy to criticize him for that because every player has his own style.Giroud limitations as a player costs arsenal and will cost us a lot.Most importantly his poor finishing which has cost us several times.Not good enough.His style of play is ok for us but a striker who can take on players and run behind defences very well would make us very strong and also should be clinical.For Welbeck he needs to works on his finishing and composure by doing the basic things right.He rushes infront of goal too much.For now he is just above average.However he can excel if he works on improving.Giroud and Welbeck will always be a pain in arsenal's neck for most part.Some will call me stupid but hey at least i want to analyze the problem.People may support Giroud or Welbeck to lead the line next season but as the saying goes if you fool me once shame on you but if you fool me twice shame on me.Will you let Giroud and Welbeck fool you again?
Because while the Dodgers won the Division Series, they might still have to play 14 more baseball games before the season is over.
My advice to wenger, he should simply resign at the end of the season, either quietly or openly, because I don't see us competing in anything next season having him and Stan still working together, with the very low mentality in the club, listen to wenger's press conferences, he seems to have one excuse after each poor game, yet he can't correct it there on the field of play before the game ends, I have never heard the players saying he shouted at them or he was angry with their first half performance, he doesn't have a winning mentality.
I think one of the reasons they did well late in the game last season is because Musgrave was running plays to set up other plays later in the game, like running a play 3 - 4 times early, then showing the same look later while changing it enough to surprise the defense.
It is hard to say they didn't deserve their point either because they were at it from the first whistle and played their best game of the season.
But I think we may lose one of our best midfielders at the end of this season due to someone being unhappy with a lack of game time because there's so much competition.
Because second half of the season presents us beautiful away fixtures against manure, spuds, Liverpool, mancity, everton and a home game against chelski.
People keep using stats to defend him because that's the only way to defend him.When you watch him most at times you he hardly wows you or is any special.Can i ask a question couldn't Chamakh or Bendtner or Aliadiere score about 15 - 18 goals with this super super creative arsenal midfield.I mean lets be honest if Chamakh in his first season should have scored 20 goals in EPL many people would still want him out you know why because watching every aspect of his game and also analyzing every aspect of his game he was below average in his time at arsenal to be honest.So its not only about stats because stats do nt tell me the whole story about a player though they are facts and don't lie the eyes do nt lie.And with this same eyes we look at players and say Aguero is better thab Bony, Costa is better than Remy, and so on.
Man, if you tell me at the start of the season I'd be worried because Lovren will be missing a game through injury I would have laugh my ass off
«We know, in fact, that that the history of this game is in favor of MLS because from what I've heard, they've won in former seasons.
And although the attendance figures in the papers the next day would still show 60,000 because of season tickets, on the evening of the match on the TV (MOTD) it would be visible by millions of people and the pundits would go wild at such a strong visible gesture particularly if a lot of publicity was made prior to the game about the plan.
The lesser fans of lesser teams will say it was because the Vikings got the game at home (as if the NFL knew back in 2014 when they gave the game to Minneapolis that the 2017 Vikings were going to be really good), but really it's because Mike Zimmer and Rick Spielman have built the best defense in the National Football League over the course of the last four seasons since Zimmer's arrival.
Because of the Cardinals» sentimentality, they handicapped their club in two games of a seven - game series and helped ensure that the fate of their 2012 season will be decided in a Game 7 on the road against Matt Cgame series and helped ensure that the fate of their 2012 season will be decided in a Game 7 on the road against Matt CGame 7 on the road against Matt Cain.
because winning a division game on the road, which may put us up by two games on Atlanta, will put us in a great position by mid season.
The game is also massive for Mauricio Pochettino and his men because the way things are going for them so far, including the 3 - 1 defeat of Aston Villa last night and the struggles of Chelsea, it is looking like they could finally make a decent go of getting into the Champions League next season.
But then again it does not seem to have hurt the spuds this season, perhaps because they are used to it, and Arsenal are certainly used to midweek games so it might not be much of a change.
there is still time, but the idea should be to get players in early so they are settled for the next season, tis waiting game whilst most of our rivals improve their squads is frustrating, because this happens ever year.We've needed a Dm and a St for at least the last 3 seasons at least
Maybe not right now, but at some points during the season because he's going to have moments like Leicester again... And that's absolutely fine, it's part of his journey and he'll be world class by the time he's 25 - 26 even without playing every single game this season.
Not necessarily, because he's never faced MLB pitching and he's only played 11 games so far this season.
No, we need a top quality centre back to partner Koscielny because to be honest Koscielny's injury record isn't that great either (he's missed 22 games in the last 2 seasons), so we need at least 2 top players for that position to cope with the inevitable injuries / suspensions / fatigue.
You don't stay in the team because of your performance last season, its the last few games that should determine if you should play or not, until someone else has a bad run.
But that doesn't sit well with me as an explanation simply because the reason why we pushed last season so hard to finish in the top 3 was to avoid having to play AGAIN CL qualifiers and be fresh come 1st game now we go the other way to explain WHY we lost.
The reason they are not slated like us, is because their manager has been there for just two seasons and nine games; ours 21 seasons and nine games.
We are stronger this season because we now have different play makers and players capable of winning us games.
Last season Chelsea didn't win every game 4 - 0 infact they beat bottom sides by single goals BUT even beating a bottom side by 1 goal is good because they got the job done.
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