Sentences with phrase «important league games»

He will undoubtably be a big miss in the heart of our defence, he's been a colossal and a leader for Bolton this season, but I'd rather see him fresh, primed and ready for our important league games.

Arsene Wenger had to make some changes to keep some key players fresh ahead of some important league games, so it wouldn't have been much of a surprise to see Arsenal let the FA Cup drift away this season.

Both sides have important league games on Tuesday, with Liverpool visiting the John Smith's Stadium and Birmingham playing Championship relegation rivals Sunderland.

Bayern Munich have two important league games coming up against RB Leipzig and Borussia Dortmund in March followed by a relatively easy April

How about important league games in four different power conferences?

If playing Theo Walcott as a center forward is an experiment still yet, then I say we avoid testing it out on important league games.

But because of these important League games I am sure that Le Prof will make some changes though, especially since the Saints» manager has already revealed he will be playing some of his academy players.

«Players can all of a sudden find themselves playing in a final or an important league game because that is the kind of squad I have.»

He had been home only three days after a month - long tour to New York and Mexico City; that night at 10, he would have to enter the team dormitory for «concentration» leading up to an important league game.

Next away to Burnley, the most important league game we have had this season.

Chelsea are set to take on Huddersfield Town in the premier league game on Tuesday night, 12 December 2017 at The John Smith's Stadium in Huddersfield in what should be a very important league game for the blues.

Real Madrid have struggled to get going this season but this competition not only give them a chance to get back in form but also get away from sheer competition in Europe and rejuvenate the players going into the important league game against FC Barcelona straight after the go back to Spain.

Its widely expected Jose Mourinho will use Europa League for his fringe players and might only take it serious if they get far in the tournament just to make sure main players stay fresh for important league game.

The Terriers had to battle through an FA Cup replay in midweek which could leave them a little short for this important league game.

Not exact matches

There is a long history of famous major league baseball players who missed important games since they chose to observe the Sabbath and not play.

They also pass well as «game day» fare, which is important around this time of year when you live with the quarterback of the senior boys school football team and there are fantasy football leagues and suicide pools you're trying to keep track of each week.

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.»

«We didn't start the season very well so it was very important to win these two games — Champions League against Maccabi Tel Aviv and the derby against Arsenal.

Arsenal are well aware that your position in the League definitely does not affect your performance in an FA Cup game, especially one as important as a semi-final.

«Obviously it is pleasing, first of all to be able to help the team with important goals in a Champions League knockout game [and] of course to come back to England and [win] against a team you're always motivated to play against,» Suarez told UEFA.com (via Daily Mail).

But ahead of Saturday's evening game at Old Trafford, in which United host Liverpool, we should acknowledge one significant change: these games, perhaps the largest exercise on mutual hostility and contempt that the Premier League has to offer, have suddenly started seeming very important to the men in the dugouts.

Both CL and League games are as important but whichever come first is what Liverpool needs to focus on first.

«Overall I believe that it is of course a good opportunity for us to go to Wembley where we want to go, but we know that Chelsea are a dangerous side, so that is why it is important until then that we win our Premier League games and prepare after.»

Only EPL / Europa League games, and important ones

Arsenal have come through the gruelling Christmas schedule with flying colours and have moved to the top of the Premier League, but it is also important that we now concentrate on our next game which is the first in our defence of our FA Cup trophy.

More important for this group is they went up against one of the biggest Teams in the League on Sunday Night, Team UC Booth, and got the W with only 5 actives in the Game.

We are just 7 days away from the League match against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, which could make or break our chances of catching our neighbours up in the title race, but conversely this FA Cup game against Southampton could also be just as important.

The Gunners have always got through those play - off games even though it was sometimes a close call, but for the first time in two decades the Gunners will not be involved with the elite of Europe and Arsene Wenger has admitted that this is not good, in a report by The Mirror, but he also played it down a little bit by claiming that the English Premier League and the title race is now more important and more of interest to fans than the UCL and maybe the fact that Arsenal have not looked remotely like winning it since we lost to Barcelona in the final makes that true.

Oklahoma lost two games before Big 12 play, and outside of West Virginia's win over BYU and Oklahoma State's win over Pitt, the conference lost almost every important non-conference game, tanking the league's perception and strength of schedule metrics.

«Now you have a Friday night fixture, so if an English club is in an [important] Champions League [game] on a Tuesday I'd expect that they would be given the Friday fixture, to have one more day to rest.

In an unprecedented move, the league opted not to flex a game to Sunday Night Football, bunching the most important games together in the late afternoon slot.

The goal completely changes the complexion of the tie... Chelsea have got an all important away goal in their Champions League Last 16 tie against Paris Saint - Germain, as they now have something to defend it is likely we could see Jose Mourinho's side defend what they have for the remainder of the game.

I love Barcelona always will and been loving this club since the Ronaldinho days, but it's been about 2 to 3 years now that this club is showing stupidity and no ambition whatsoever, bad signings, a dumbass coach that has never won anything important, and loosing the future of soccer and not realizing it, also used that money on a player that gets benched for champions league??? This is driving me crazy the more I think bout it, I'm so sad and still so hurt, Iama wach the game because of the love I have for this club, but honestly I don't see our ambition, we have Messi another two to three years, please Barca don't fuck those years up I beg you!!!!

It will be very interesting to see if we can scare a record - breaking team like Bayern Munich just as easily, but it is far more important that, whatever the result on Tuesday, we go into next weekend's game against Everton with the same attitude we have had in the League recently, and go and kill those Toffees off too!

We are more focused that it is a home game, and whether it is Tottenham or somebody else, we want to win our home games because our position in the league is very important.

As the current season hots up and enters one of the busiest and most important periods, for clubs like Arsenal that are still in the Champions League and the FA cup that is, Arsene Wenger knows that each game takes on more importance and a bad performance or two could really damage our hopes of success.

«In the Premier League every single game is important.

Before you mention rotation keep in mind we have other important games in FA cup and champs league so the idea of using reserve players should be thrown out of the window.

Chelsea may not even be bothered if they lose this game, as they still have five more easier games to get the two wins they need to win the League, but Wenger feels that a win is very important for Arsenal.

As Charlie Nicholas says, Arsenal are slightly on the backfoot already this season given we already find ourselves five points behind the league leaders after three games, but we will undoubtedly catchup and once we do, it's then important that we don't drop anymore points due to lacklustre performances.

He's become an important member of the team and we've seen on more than one occasion in the Premier League, just how much of an impact he can have on a game.

Now the boss and players have almost two weeks before the next game and they need to use it wisely because our next match is away to Liverpool in the Premier League and that could be huge in the fight for a top four finish, which is still very important.

This was certainly a night to forget for Arsenal, and one that the Sheffield fans will no doubt remeber for a long time, and we are left hoping that it does noit have a negative effect on the confidence of the team ahead of the more important Premier League and Champions League games to come.

There are far more important games coming up in the league this month then vying for top spot in the group.

I get that the internationals and the upcoming Champions League game at PSG is important but the priority is still to win the Premier League right?

This is now a key part of the season for Wenger and his players, with a period of Premier League games and the first rounds of the FA cup to deal with and it could be the most important part of our campaign.

The race to the finishing tape for the Premier League title is really heating up now and although there is a long way to go for Arsenal, it is really important that we keep our noses in front after the round of games this weekend.

It seems to me that a more important factor would be the number of games played (rather than when they were played): last season they played only four matches before the start of the Premier League season; this year it will be seven.

Just over a year ago, Arsenal visted the Etihad stadium to face Manchester City in a hugely important Premier League game and were in need of an excellent defensive performance to keep out the star - studded City attack.

I am sure that Wenger is keen to drill into the Arsenal players this week that the job is not yet done, even though the away game at Man City was the really important one and that the chances of us missing out on the Champions League are fairly small.