Sentences with phrase «home against better teams»

Away from home against better teams we have no width and no defensive cover.

Not exact matches

Definitely the home fans (for West Ham) will throw some tantrums against an Arsenal player especially when their team is not at their best or possibly boo an Arsenal player as an indication of rivalry that exists between the two sides.

Now it's another game, and another game at home, against another team and it will be important to have good possession, good possibilities to attack.»

playing draw on our own home soil against the big teams is total crap if we think we are a big team as well.

Perhaps he knows something we don't about the Man United line - up ahead of their match against Hull City, a match that if Phil Brown's side wins means that whatever Shearer's team does they are as good as down unless Sunderland also fail to get anything at home to Chelsea.

As we saw when we were against Bayern and home, his ability (as well as Mesut's) to retain the ball in tight spaces under pressure, allows us to beat the first two lines of the high pressing FCB teams.

Not only was SMU forbidden to compete against NCAA teams for a year, it also lost 1988 thanks to being barred from playing home games and dealt with a player exodus, a financially disastrous bowl and TV ban through 1989, as well as heavy recruiting and staffing penalties.

but its a bit sad to see that i as i know more about arsenal fans than other fans, to say from the bottom of my heart, that the fans on here are as worse as the worst if not the worst fans out there... arsenal being on a run, with özil scoring one of the best goals i have ever seen on tuesday, draws against the best defensive side in the league and no they arent stoke city or something they are SPURS equally title challenger as any of arsenal man city, man united, chelsea, liverpool, a team that sent man city home when they (city) looked unbeatable..

We need a strong performance, and match their home - advantage intensity with our newfound good form against big teams.

Look the Bayern the barca and co are top top teams with huge history We need to concentrate to build up wins we need to win cups then league than we go and win the champion league the result today show that we are Lincoln in front of Bayern and a bit better as we scored against Bayern and Lincoln did nt score against us >> > I had a busy Tuesday as I was coming home I guessed we were 1 2 down I turned on the match to be 1 2 to see it go down hill I wished I never turned it on

They play well against contenders at home but plays like a lottery team against actual lottery teams on the road.

Again, shame we got a decision against but why is a team that couldn't be bettered in the summer not peppering a mid-table Liverpool team at home that was pieced together 3 weeks prior?

Only good thing was seeing Chelsea lose and tott and liv failing to win at home against relegation teams.

Importantly, a step in becoming a «good» team is winning the games you should... which we really never did in the Pablo era... our draw at home last year against Minnesota being a great example.

Having to score three goals is a tough task against any team, let alone in the champions league, in the last 16, away from home, against the team with the best defensive record in the competition, on a narrow pitch with little space to create chances...

shame on us for being flat at home vs monoco, no doubt we would be in the top 4, i would love to see this team as playing now line up against real madrid, I think we have good odds, vs munich or barca, not as confident,

Lets not forgetting we lost against Watford recently at home with a strong team, we have to field our best eleven man tomorrow

We got a point away from home in Europe against a very good team which gives us a great chance to win the group imo.

The Gunners need an early goal to quieten the home crowd and get the nerves jangling among the Monaco players so I expect to see an attacking line - up and despite how well the team played against West Ham on Saturday, I do not think that Wenger will stick with the same starting XI.

Catching Chelsea would mean, an abundance of luck, no more injuries (When Chelsea will get crucial ones, Fabregas, Costa, Courtois and defenders as examples), a tactical enlightenment from Wenger (that would call for a miracle), beat Man United, Man City, Chelsea at Home and not waist points against Liverpool and win all the odds games against the lower teams (as well as being kicked out of the CL and not go far in the Uefa Cup as we don't have the squad to do either anyway).

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.

But we should have beaten Liverpool in the second leg.There was also no justification of that.We might as well lose all our matches against the big teams and justify on the basis of it being a match against a big team.I mean home and away defeats is just unacceptable.Champions must also find ways to possibly win all their matches against the big teams no matter which ever way it goes.This is because that can make all the difference in winning the league.

It's a very important challenge for us as well because we dropped points against teams between fifth and 12th at home last season.

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.

I wanted to know we could challenge the best to win, and I just don't think there is as much appeal in a victory against this liverpool team as there was last year, just feel like I'm waiting for that game where we turn up away from home against a big club and show them we can play and win

Lets go for City, Chelsea and United then we can see if we are good enough... We have not had that many problems beating smaller teams in our EPL history so winning against Stoke at Home is not the gauge of our brilliance.

The line up will have a pretty comical defence but you still expect us to do well considering it's a weaker team at home we're playing against.

Apart from the keeper who had a bit of a shocker with two big errors which he was lucky to get away with, this FA cup win for Arsenal over Sutton United came through a good team performance against an impressive and committed home team.

Jesus wept — we won, against the best CP team in years, away from home and with our confidence low BUT the negatively on this site would make you think we couldn't beat Sunderland!

You get two bites at the cherry, CL then home and away games against the best, also you test your knowledge v the most expensive teams and the highest earning players on average.

He scores a hat trick here and there against small teams at home for Everton but for very much of the season, he contributed better when they played away, as Everton overall form this season has indicated.

Behind a slow start from the newly acquired Albert Pujols -LRB-.217 batting average and zero home runs in April), Los Angeles sat in last place with an 8 - 15 record after the first month of the season and were the best team to bet against in the league.

Our record is so bad against top teams, especially away from home, that I wouldn't be surprised if teams at the bottom of the table have a better record than we do.

We all know their hot start was aided by a home - heavy schedule, but even after a brutal stretch of 13 straight games against.500 or better teams, they were still 19 - 14 with Reggie playing.

Did you see him in the two games against Man City, hardly had a sniff in the first leg, and may well have stayed at home for the second leg, is that what happens when he's up against a decent team.

this is the kind of win which is equally important as win against manu as all our rivals won today even chelski won courtesy brad guzan this shows the mental toughness which we r getting it could have easily been 1 - 0 at half time but players kept calm and in the end 3 pta came home.Now about match this game shows exactly the importance of having a player like giroud u just see the impact of giroud against bottom half teams so both giroud and wallcott are necessary depending on opponenets also ozil had a very good game glad that Rambo scores now come on u Bavarians just please home supporters please make arsenal a fortress like Highbury rest our players will se interesting times ahead

Also encouraging that we play against a big team away from home and are able to get the better possession and more shots.

The article rightly points out Lec deficiencies in keeping clean sheets as well as us not being able to get one against a team that scores allot when at home.

I fully understand we just lost one game and uts not the end of the world but am struggling to deal with is the consistent lack of mental toughness that are the hallmarks of all title winning teams... we need to be proactive and stop been reactionary, simples... we had what is in all honesty a good couple of matches begining of the season WINNABLE games but we already fell short at the first hurdle now all the talk is about bouncing back, whatever happened to eyes on the ball straight from the off... a Westham side with a new manager, some new players and a 16 year old making his debut beating Arsenal at home is just plain disgraceful and whatever happens next does not in any way mitigate against that.....

At The Emirates we have a good record against Stoke our problems are away at The Britannia, the team that we can't seem to beat is Swansea they beat us at home and away they're our bogey team!

When you analyse last year, last season at home we did very well against the top five and we dropped points at home against teams in mid-table.

I'm also selling high on both home teams — Everton have been able to win and draw games without playing well, so I expect that to end against a quality Chelsea side.

For them to become the future of Arsenal and England they need to be playing more than they are, we could play them together against the weaker teams at home in the Prem so they can build a better understanding and bond that good CBS have but at the moment even the so called weaker teams are a challenge for us.

We played good on St. Patrick's day, but scoring 3 goals against monaco (who's only conceded 8 goals in total at home this season before the match against Arsenal) is something not many teams in Europe would manage.

Not when your the «captain», not when we had arguably our best XI with the players available against a Swansea B team that you allow to make a comeback and win at home specially when your other direct rivals had negative outcomes!

433 is a very good option for the home games against the smaller teams for we have to dominate and control the game like we have done in the last three matches.

Am going to the game at home to Man U in a couple of weeks, we can never ever beat them, I'm not getting my hopes up, everyone beat United last season apart from us, the only half decent teams we can do well against are Liverpool and Spurs at home, that's it, we are Arsenal for goodness sake.

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.

Yes, he might have his best games against teams like Crystal Palace, Queens Park Rangers and West Ham United, but this season Giroud can also boast strikes home and away against Liverpool, away to Manchester City, and at home to Manchester United — only the latter was a defeat.

Hopefully we'll look better against Chelsea, but we look like same old Arsenal against the 4th best team in Spain and we lost at home.