Sentences with phrase «goals than the opposition»

For the second rule to work at team has to defend better than its opposition and score more goals than its opposition, in each game.

Perhaps Redknapp's policy of aiming to score more goals than the opposition is working then, but tightening things up at the back could do no harm.

Not exact matches

Giroud misses more than he hits, Walcott has NEVER delivered his expected talent, Welbeck will NEVER be the striker to score 20 goals a season Coqellin will NOT go a whole season injury or suspension free, Sanchez and Ozil WILL have down period during the season, all teams have these problems to a greater or lesser degree but most of the top teams will address these problems and players either inprove or are sold and replaced with better or at least more consistant players, NOT Wenger he keeps doing the same thing over and over with the same players and he expects a different result but gets the same outvome time and time again, yet its ALWAYS someone else's fault be it the Ref or the linesman or the opposition or bad luck or whatever and whoever and its NEVER the fact that HE has done nothing to change the situation and LOOKS LIKELY to not change it next time around.

Our biggest problem is throwing away games having taken the lead, or while putting tons of pressure on the oppositions goal, and while Ospina is better than Schez, a World class keeper will help us stop this most annoying habit.

If Arsenal allow opposition teams a good foothold in the game as they seems to always do nowadays and continue to play with less than 50 % possession, they will have to score at least 3 goals or more per game to win matches.

He knows that he can run about all day long, harrying opposition and giving them hell whilst at the same time providing some sublime football coupled with even more sublime and necessary goals but, for all his efforts and his honesty towards the team and the club he see's as nothing more than the nearly men.

He chips in a goal every 4 league appearances roughly, has bagged a few hat - tricks, has had good games against top opposition - he's not the player we hoped, but he's a far better bet than Oxlade - Chamberlain.

other than the deflected cross cum own goal he did almost nothing against Man Utd... so a full game (albeit) against poor opposition should be enough confirm (or correct) my own feeling that he is an average footballer and one of the obstacles to us moving to the next level... so bring him on!!

He always bottles it in front of goal, can't pick out an ambitious pass and, on more than one occasion, has misplaced a pass to the opposition to nearly costs us a goal.

Aaron Cresswell has made more errors leading to an opposition goal in the last 3 Premier League seasons (10) than any other outfield player.

This will co-exist with Wengers plan to get a front of consistant goal scorers over a single CF goal scorer, Wenger doesn't care who scores the goals as long as the team does score more than the opposition.

Leeds on the other hand have proven their a hard team to beat, no matter the opposition, boasting the 3rd best defensive record in the league with just 36 goals conceded all season, just 3 more than that of Brighton and 4 more than Newcastle.

They'd rather wait for the one time it fails so they can bash You blame the manager for being favourist yet a fellow blogger praising a player he previously bashed is called being two faced You kill Ramsey for a blind pass attempting to enter the opposition final third yet you won't blame Sanchez for turning over the ball in a pointless dribble with three free team mates You kill metersacker for deflecting a shot into his own net but won't touch kos for getting out of the way of a shot he could have sufficiency blocked You claim with no substantial proof that arteta, mert, Ramsey, can not lead arsenal anywhere substantial yet they have each at a point been a massive cause for stability and progress when called upon Even after reading this comment, you will ignore the fact that kos was awful until partnerd with mert, our defensive mid with song leaked more goals than the one with arteta and we've struggled to win without him at least until late last season.

The goals stats make him look better than he was an most of those goals were against very poor opposition in the cup competitions.

... he played there against crystal palace, Everton 2 season ago and it was a disaster... our build up is majorly done closer to d centre circle than d oppositions box... that's y girouds hold up play is vital... either we go with dat path or we look for a striker who is lightning quick (so when we make d final pass, it doesn't get wasted), uses both legs to shoot on sight, with good accuracy... playing Sanchez, who is not very good with his back to goal as a 9 is useless and though fast, holds on to d ball a lot tryn to get d best angle to shoot... we need a striker who is very intelligent with d timing of his runs... too bad Walcott is as intelligent as a sheep, cld have been d perfect cf...

(The goals stats make him look better than he was an most of those goals were against very poor opposition in the cup competitions.)

Strikers score, defenders defend, midfield keep the ball and work hard Would rather have a striker who will gurantee goals than one who will run the whole pitch and be ineffective in the opposition box

How many games did we play where the opposition scored more goals than us?

Laca will be more than just someone to pull CBs though, the ability to play smart passes and a deadly shot will force the oppositions to mark him hard or he will get goals.

Xhaka is nowhere near any of the midfielders clostest one is Tolliso but that kid actually runs around and defends making him miles better than Xhaka who loves to gift the opposition goals is it 4 or 5 this season?

Mbappe is kinda more strikerish than Robbin tbf, I'd expect more goals than he did but look I agree it's an exaggeration to say we were world class at every position but I think we def had a better team then than we do now and similarly it's accurate to say the opposition now are better than they were then

All players should give 100 % in every game and if that means running non stop for 90 minutes plus or taking the ball in the face to stop a goal bound effort from the opposition then so be it, us fans should expect nothing less weather or not we are fans of Arsenal, Leicester or whoever, the players get paid thousands to do what i did for fun growing up only i ran for longer than these so called professionals.

Even more than that, I wish Wenger would start bringing in players that are not scared to shoot and can at least score the type of goals we used to see RvP, Bergkamp, Henry, Wright etc score (in situations when the opposition parks the bus).

It spread through the side... The defenders felt safer, and the forwards thought if we could nick a goal, there was more than an evens chance that the opposition wouldn't score at the other end.»

Only at times, mind, given that they made such hard work of beating such modest opposition, but still it feels like progress... The fervour of the celebrations reflected the nature of England's victory, in a back - and - forth game, rather than the significance of the goal.

Neither do own goals — if you've backed a defender to score first then he puts one in his own net rather than the opposition's, you don't win, but usually the next goal of the game will count as the first.

Having scored less than a goal per game on the road in the league this term, which doesn't bode well for a clash with Premier League opposition.

Over the last seven matches, Vardy has two goals and three assists, but his contribution has been much more than that, as he has caused opposition defences lots of problems, while his link up play has been brilliant to watch.

Perhaps it need not be a single player that makes up for Suarez, but a few: Daniel Sturridge can directly replace the goals that Suarez provided, and also has his individual flair about him, but that magical quality that Suarez had, whilst unique to him, is remarkably alike to a young Brazilian no. 10 with more than a touch of flair playing for Liverpool, a player very similar to Suarez in some ways — his quiet nature off the field, and dazzling on the ball skills when on the pitch — yet also different, a creative player rather than a destroyer of opposition teams.

For the opening 20 minutes, Newcastle failed to push their defensive line up to a position closer to the halfway line than their own goal, and they didn't complete a single pass in the opposition third.

Although he is averaging more than a goal a game against German opposition — 16 goals in 14 appearances — that figure is boosted by his five - goal haul against Bayer Leverkusen in the second leg of the Champions League round - of - 16 tie on March 7, 2012.

Song, arguably our most improved player is on 4 yellow cards and we should ensure that he doesn't miss the Chelsea game.The partnership of Gallas and Vermaelen is outstanding, yet one can not expect them to play in every game, and it is in that are we are weak in cover.With regards to the full back situation, perm any two from four, that is Clichy, Gibbs, Eboue, Sagna and even Traore they are attacking wing backs and are always at risk on the quick counter attack by the opposition.Almunia still doesn't impress me and his command of his area is still indecisive and he is still vulnerable to letting goals in, especially to his near post.Wenger being Wenger, I doubt he will buy in January, and it is a pity we didn't go for Given months before he joined City, when he was available for a comparatively cheap price.This new diamond shape or 4 -1-4-1 is working well and we have an abundance of quality to interchange, which bemuses the opposition more often than not.We have every chance this year, and we are also being helped by the fact that the other so called big four sides are showing their vulnerability.A couple of decent signings, not squad players in January, and hopefully we are in the mix.

He has a game - high 64 touches in the opposition half, more than double Arsenal's highest of 31 from Mesut Ozil, and kept his calm to set up Jesus for City's vital third goal.

It's a flash game (to be played in browser) that tasks you with redistricting given populations to achieve specific goals, for example depriving a surefire opposition candidate of votes, consolidating opposition in one area leaving one opposition candidate with almost all their voters and all the rest with less than enough to win, or just assuring status quo between the two parties by marginalizing uncertainty coming from undecided voters.

Yet on too many occasions in the past the leader of the opposition has fluffed open goal chances like this and left himself even more red - faced than the prime minister.

If our goal is to help them rather than simply to add another grade level onto our public schools, then let's stop demonizing opposition to pre-K, attacking the bearers of bad news and making pre-K just another tool of partisan orthodoxy.

When it works for you it's great, but when it goes against you there is nothing more frustrating than seeing your keeper gift the opposition a cheap goal.

If opposition movements are to do more than burn bright and then burn out, they will need a comprehensive vision for what should emerge in the place of our failing system, as well as serious political strategies for how to achieve those goals.

Like you, I believe that there are strategies the LSUC could pursue which would achieve their substantive goals, strategies which accurately reflect existing (and unambiguous) legal and ethical obligations and which are consistent with constitutional requirements and principles (as I've noted above, if the current requirement around a Statement of Principle merely required acknowledgement of our actual existing obligations under the Rules, rather than a general duty to promote equality, diversity and inclusion which is found nowhere in the Rules, I suspect much opposition would melt away and the LSUC would be on far stronger Charter grounds).

Coach Loomer says «A primary goal of every coach should be to hustle more than the opposition.