Sentences with phrase «good against poor teams»

Not exact matches

He has been thrown in against one of the best teams in world football with so many first team players injured, it was a poor team performance, not any individual.

Wenger is tactically poor and inferior if you are to compare him to his peers in the managerial side of football, it's not a coincidence that we can't beat any of the top teams anymore and that atrocious record against Mourinho says it all Arsene Wenger is now past his best!

Yess they all had a good game im happy for our boyz but im not going to rate anyone yet because for me thats a relegation tm & they're doing so poor right now, after the manure fa cup clash then ill rate the boyz, we always perform well against the small teams now is time to grow some serious balls & beat the hell out of manure when last we had a victory against them #COYG!!!

... Coquelin played great again considering that he was too often left too protect the back four against 2, sometimes 3 players... our team effort was poor after our goal... we needed to do better and the next few games will give us that opportunity I hope... Alexis please be back!!!!!

However, Army should do well enough against teams like New Mexico, Texas A&M, Utah State and, yes, poor Navy, to provide another winning season for Cahill.

Llorente won't be best pleased, but using Son as CF in front of of Lamela, Dele and Eriksen created a mobile offense against a poor defensive team.

giroud scores x2 and x3 against some poor teams and his numbers look good.

On a side note, I couldn't help but think 2 predominant thoughts when watching the game against Bournemouth on the weekend: (1) Wenger is still willing to put his own personal agenda ahead of the team's best interests when it comes to team selection, which luckily for us didn't cost us the 3 points this time and (2) if Eddie Howe is earmarked to be the successor we are in deep trouble because he's simply a poor man's version of our present manager, as he's tactically inept and has an even worse road record.

Big in your list I can agree that all these players would improve us, but let's look at our CB At the moment Kos, top player but is struggling with a inj which may or may not heal, at the moment he isn't match fit so not up to his own high standard, so needs help or a defender of his quality so he can go and recover properly So then we have Mert, too slow and no longer good enough, I'm not sure if he's even good enough for 3 rd choice CB, too slow, poor on the air for his size and not brave enough, he's lasted this long due to Kos he needs a Top class CB just to allow him to play against average teams Ok now Reid not top class we can all agree so we couldn't really play him with MERT as he isn't Kos quality so can't cover merits deficiencys He could be ok with Kos but Kos is struggling So is Reid what we need???? And finally Wenger if he has all 3 fit will still play Kos / Mert first choice Oh and God forbid we play MERT / Reid against the top teams like Chels / city / utd / Southampton Chuckle chuckle

Best formation i ve ever seen, actually with Flamini in our team, our chances are bigger by 50 %, he scored against strongest defence in europe against Spuds, he will score against poor side like Bayern, ALL HAIL FLAMINI

1) When you can not beat mid teams like Hull and Tottenham at home 2) You have no track record of beating top teams who you should be competing with 3) You struggle against any decent opposition that decides to play good football and apply themselves tactically 4) A confused manager with poor tactics, playing players in wrong position, throws a blind eye when a possible solution presents itself (Fabregas) and makes no move or poor moves in the market when he does GUYS to be honest we are at risk of losing out on 4th place with a resurgent Man U, fighting Liverpool and decent team like Everton and Southampton.

us scoring in the dying minutes wil keep the overall mood of the team good for UCL... This team played good attacking football but we need DM against Bayern... Case has been a bit poor lately but hopefully zidane trusts him and starts him...

literally saying he is prone to many mistakes for instance goal misses (1 on 1), retaining possession, hold up play, poor goal conversion rate against a «formidable team», inaccurate passes, struggles when backing a defender (s) and he's not good in the air.

The players have to recover from that poor result in the derby and there's no better fixture to restart the winning streak than against the worst team in the division — who's manager is expected to be sacked if his team loses against us.

England may be unbeaten in Qualifying, but they really have not come up against any strong teams at all, and Switzerland are definitely the best of a poor bunch.

Saying Ozil has been poor for us is an understatement, in fact he has been very woeful for the past 10 matches and I totally agree with you that we have been playing 10 against 11 all these while, he just can't fight for the ball or his life and whenever he doesn't play very well, he puts the whole team in big danger and i still don't know why Araene can drop him for at least 2 matches and play Iwobi in his position

Ozil is only good against poor defending teams, this is why he goes missing in the big games.

And for Aaron, if we're being honest, he hasn't been playing well lately, except for the first half yesterday against a poor Gala team.

Why the media got it for Arsenal, we bottle some games we are expected to win, proving some pundits that hates the club right time after time, games are not comfortably won, last season we had a better away record than home, We have an overall poor result against the big teams for the past 5 years, we haven't won the league for 12 years now, we haven't made a proper challenge in Europe for 10 years and on top of it we have an Owner who doesn't care about football, just the money he makes, so many reasons.

I knew Salah would be pretty poor in terms of finishing yet he scores against us then misses 15 chances in the next game, you know why we just make it that good damn easy for opposing teams.

Qualities: Giroud - Hold up (but not against top defenders Tery, Cahil, etc), short pass, hard working, team player, defensive duties (set - pieces), injuries Benteke - Hold up, short pass, better dribbler, long shots, finishing, positioning, defensive duties (set - pieces), can play with his back to the goal and also drop deep and face the goal when marked weakness: Giroud - very slow, easily marked, poor finishing (not wc finisher), technique Benteke - injuries, not a hard worker If you look the stats for the since 2012/2013, they have almost similar records except that Benteke scored like total of 19 goals (correct me if I'm wrong) in his 1st season and also have a decent record against top teams, keep in mind he plays for AstonVilla not Arsenal where you get much more chances and better players around.

There were games last season where we played well under par against poor teams eg.

After last match against Bournemouth you and your pessimistic kinds were telling us not to celebrate for beating poor team and that Chelsea at Stamford bridge will be a better gauge to see how far the team will go this season.

Players who arent good enough starting with Holding had a few good games when on a winning streak against poor teams last season now looks like a 2 million pound player.

Overall the entire team was poor, strikers would have scored more, defenders would have defended better, Ospina should have been sharper, Wenger should have fixed such in training as what we saw happens almost always against Arsenal, etc..

Good team performance against a very poor side.

Having said that Dean was still poor on the night, though of course that doesn't excuse the frequent poor performances against the best English teams.

The Warrington - born academy graduate has been sensational away from home in December — but the brace against Burnley in midweek taking his Premier League tally to six (best return) after a poor miss earlier in the week against Leicester is testament to his resilience that has seen him sustain a first team career at Manchester United under three different managers.

So, in my eyes despite the recent supposed good form, and a few» results» against average to poor teams, an a win against Leicester, you still SICKEN ME!

Blackburn Rovers put their strong home record of just two Ewood Park defeats well and truly to the test on Saturday against a Birmingham side whom, despite some poor recent away results, have been a difficult team to overcome on the road this season.

Despite playing out of their skin and winning the first leg against the best football team on the planet 3 weeks earlier, the Gunners fell victim to poor refereeing decisions and a passing masterclass as they succumbed to a 3 - 1 defeat.

He performed well against Atalanta and Cagliari, and had an average / poor performance against Sampdoria, however the team couldn't care at all in that last match.

As poor a signing as he has proven, Sissoko showed promise against the tougher teams he played against last season — performing particularly well in a 2 - 0 home win against Manchester City.

Far too many firms view the goal of compensation - setting as simply «making as many people as happy as possible», which a) often leads to poorer performers being overly - compensated at the expense of the generous, strong performers who «leave money on the table» for the good of the firm, and b) ignores a golden opportunity to set performance goals and expectations for the firm and for each lawyer and staff member (one of which can be a defined role on a team) and then make the performance against such pie - growing efforts a factor in compensation.