Sentences with phrase «hardest game of the season»

Even then, Everton away is definitely one of the hardest games of the season and we Wenger will have to manage the team so that we can get the result against Everton as well as having enough energy to beat Besiktas at home to qualify for the group stages of the Champions League.
Meanwhile the Monaco manager Leonardo Jardim is expecting his hardest game of the season, despite the two - goal cushion his side enjoy at the outset.
I reckon they gave us one of our hardest games of the season at Molyneux and did so by not trying to hack us.
Chievo was one of the hardest games of the season after two energy - sapping matches with Napoli»

Not exact matches

I learned a lesson from that part of the text when passing through a long, hard season of being caught in the Gotcha game.
This would have made it harder for the team to play well and made Wengers remaining games of the season even less comfortable than they have been.
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..
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.
There's nothing drastically wrong with Ozil, he is probably pacing himself for a long hard season by keeping his game extra simple, just like his passing of late.
very much like a lot of the successful teams in the c / l these days they might not have the big names but they have a successful organized game plan and passion, thats what gets them where they are at least, we need to be better organized in the c / l next season and go to teams with a set game plan and stick to that plan to see us through the hard games wenger need to find his tactical mojo for next season.
The paradox was that certain things were so easy — Dorsett didn't even start for the Cowboys until the 10th game of his rookie year, but he still set team records for most rushing touchdowns in a season, longest run from scrimmage and most yards in a game — while other things were so hard.
It's hard to say that there's a Game with true Playoff implications this early in the Season but next week they will take place in the co-Accelerated Games of the Week when they line - up against Team Zimmerman..
They were a Team during the Regular Season that let a couple of Ws they probably should have had slip through the cracks and because of that they come in seeded # 6 with a harder Opening Round Game than they'd like..
This might have been the hardest fought game of the Season.
So there has been hardly any pressure on our first team except for in five Cup games all season, whereas ALL of our main rivals have had to contend with much harder opponents in the Champions League on a regular basis, as well as the FA and League Cups.
im not defending jack but the blame should go the england manager for selecting him for the euros, the guy was injured all season and had played 2 games at most before the start of the tournament, no matter how hard you train the only way to get back match fitness / sharpness is to play competitive games same thing with henderson and to another degree sterling for not being a starter with his club & lacking self confidence by not having played well, do you agree??
Beat MD soundly to start the season... same for Tulsa... win at home two hard games to USC and TCU (we might lose the TCU game after an excessive high from USC, if we lose to TCU we bounce back and beat K St, if we beat TCU we read or press clipping an get a L handed to us in Manhattan)... we lose to OU, ugh, I hope I am wrong... and then finish strong with close games at Stillwater and Lubbock that are W's... and lay the wood to Baylor, ISU and put up a huge payback whomping on KU Thanksgiving weekend in Lawrence (which seems odd for UT to play outside of Texas that weekend.)
Definitely his best game of the season and proving that Debuchy will get a serious hard time in playing him out of the XI.
All well and good, but facts are facts (everyone seems to have a hard - on for stats right now) and that Man City performance was the only significant win against the top 6 this season — it's not a measure of how we typically perform in these games.
The MVP has had plenty of success against Deng this season, averaging 28.0 points on 63.8 percent shooting in the four games, however, the Bulls» All - Star always makes James work hard for his points.
Following Ferguson's retirement new manager David Moyes proved not to be as big a fan of the youngster and he found game time hard to come by, eventually being loaned to Cardiff City in the latter part of last season as a result.
It's my first pre-season for two years and I want to work really hard to make sure I'm in the starting line - up for the first game of the season
«I've been working hard to get back to full fitness and I've played the last couple of games, so hopefully now I can stay fit and have a good end to the season
We haven't even played 10 league games as yet, it's hard to make a judgement of how good this squad is, November statistically is our worse month and this season we have Spurs and United in that month let's try and manage our expectations as fans!
WOS is right and just to mention we have had the easy half of the season now comes the hard part with some of the away games,
After winning their first six games of the season and becoming bowl - eligible in the process, the Illinois Fighting Illini have fallen on hard times, dropping the last two games they've played.
Of course we have twice proved we can stay the course and win despite hard games with an FA Cup double in the last two seasons.
Burnley drew their final home game of the season against Stoke City, perhaps summing up their campaign with lots of hard graft but little cutting edge.
It was achieved through hard work, pressure, closing down and all those aspects of the game which have been lacking a few timers from us this season.
this season was supposed to be about the epl not fourth place.just seeing how empty the Emirates was yesterday I expect it to be even worse in the upcoming games.wenger blew it in the transfer market, I think that in itself shows how we lacked ambition and we settled for a top four from the beginning and if by a chance we managed to win epl then thats it.lossing some games, crucial points and the feedback we got back was just covering the real goals of the club top four.soton home (a team challenging has to win this game), Crystal palace, swansea, just add those points and see where we could and should hve been.everyone here is a die hard arsenal fan whether an akb or aob but fact remains we love the club, we want the club to move forward, we want the club to be a superhouse, its got nothing to do with wengers last year or his last chance of epl.this sort of thinking is running our beloved club to the ground.whether u like it or not a change is needed and a serious one.at the moment we hve so many bogey teams do u think arsene will beat them nxt season!!!
«At the end of the game I was over the moon because it was a big point in the season to beat them, but getting sent off and knowing that I wouldn't be able to play in the next few games was hard to take.
Barcelona are yet to lose a game so far in the league this season, despite the fact that they've had very difficult away ties to all of Valencia, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid to contest with, and their 3 - 0 win over Real showed exactly why Barca are so hard to beat under Valverde.
Over the course of a 162 - game season, we expect the BABIP to regress towards the mean assuming the frequency of hard - hit balls remains consistent.
this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all
The lack of belief was hard not to miss, how can players not be fired up for the biggest game of our season.
The Angels and Giants clubbed more home runs (11) than had been hit in the first two games of any World Series, prompting both sides to suspect that the specially marked baseballs were harder, smaller and livelier than the ones used in the regular season.
You're up against scrappy, die hard players who see this as the biggest game of their season, if not career, whilst playing with team members who are finding it hard to get motivated, having just been battling it out with the likes of Real Madrid and Juve days before.
I just don't believe the rants of pundits and journalists... Jack leaving Arsenal is hard to accept but the fact that he has played 11 games in the last two seasons proves that we can't depend on him at Arsenal.
It is hard to rate Vermaelen because he played very less number of games this season because of the Achilles injury.
Yes AW knows that OG12 is not enough thats why this season he got AS17 and he states that he got him to be a striker but the everton game gave him a picture of how EPL defenders will make it harder for a small sized CF playing as a target man so now the old man is in dilemma on whether to buy another striker or improvise he will definetly sign a defender and another midfielder but for a striker AW is undecided yet
Preston North End may not be up with the front - runners in the Championship due to losing their first 3 League games of the season, but they are notoriously hard to beat recently with 3 wins and 2 draws in their last 6 League games.
I really hope Bellerin becomes more consistent with his quality.That's what will make him world class.He really needs to improve.His main problem is that he's not yet been able to create a balance between all of his abilities.Hopefully with more game time and less injuries this season he can play more maturely and improve his decision making.The talent given to him is so huge that he can be one of the very best RB in Europe if he wants to.He just needs to try as much as possible to maximise his potential by being patient and working hard.He can be so so good if he works hard.
I love FSU football, but it's hard to watch these spring games... kind of like watching the first or second NFL preseason game when a lot of the playing time is with guys who won't see the field during the regular season.
So as well as it seeming as though Maitland - Niles has gone to the right club this season, where he will be appreciated but also made to work hard on his game, the player that Wenger has already called something special, seems to have the right attitude as well and will surely soon be impressing in the red and white of Arsenal.
It is hard to believe that Arsenal have now played four Premier League games so far this season and the only one of our star studded squad to get his name on the score sheet is Olivier Giroud, the player that a lot of Arsenal fans think is part man, part donkey and can not understand why Arsene Wenger keeps putting him in the team.
I am sure that Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal coaching staff and medical team will be working as hard as they possibly can over the next week in an attempt to make sure that our German international defender Shkodran Mustafi is fit enough to face Stoke in Arsenal's second game of the new Premier League season, but I think we have to accept that the German may not be ready.
I would like to meet 1 yes 1 Arsenal fan who is behind Wenger he's a blatant liar, and I predict this is the end for him, we may win a few games this year but we are an embarrassment, how can a manager turn down Balotelli Remy Vela and then agree to Welbeck I'm lost for words, wil will suffer this year, I don't blame welbeck he's a genuine lad who works hard but he's not a CF who will bang in 25 there are teams who are better then us and I hate to say it but City Chelsea Liverpool Even Man U at the end of this window will be better Then Everton Lukaka Swansea Bomy I'm devastated this is the worst ever time as a gunner at least I forgave him when we built the ground but now we have No excuse I will not be spending # 250 to travel to see them this season
The Raiders play two of the worst teams in the league over the next two weeks — if people won't let season play out, can we at least see those those two games go before we starting making comments like «Del Rio needs to go down hard»?
With the reigning Premier League champions struggling to defend their crown having lost eight of their first 15 games of the season, the Portuguese tactician is seemingly in desperate need of bolstering his squad and adding goals which have been hard to come by this year.
This is one of the hardest working player in our squad and the fact he carried Arsenal all thru last season coupled with the number of games he played (WorLd - cup >> EPL >> UCL >> Copa America >> EPL) incessantly... it was bound to take a toll on him!
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