Sentences with phrase «important premier league»

Liverpool are gearing up for an important Premier League fixture this weekend against Aston Villa, but their manager, Brendan Rodgers is being troubled with injury issue for his main attacker, Daniel Sturridge.

Earlier in the season, I would have laughed at the suggestion that Joel Campbell might get picked ahead of Theo Walcott for an important Premier League game, but it seemed like the right thing to do on Tuesday night.

That is before two equally important Premier League fixtures against Swansea and West Ham United, but Højbjerg feels it is vital to never look too far ahead.

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As Pochettino now prepares Tottenham for an important Premier League clash against Leicester City on Wednesday night, his opposite number on the day, Claudio Ranieri, has gone on to make an interesting revelation ahead of the encounter.

Tickets are on general sale for Saturday's match — come and join us for another important Premier League fixture.

Although the niggles are thought to be minor ones, Manchester United need to assess the duo ahead of the all - important Premier League fixture against Tottenham this weekend.

There probably have been a lot more important Premier League moments, but for me nothing beats a local boy winning the derby for his team, with me in the crowd.

I sitting on the fence in this one and going with another high scoring 2 - 2 draw in this important premier league match.

The fact Alexis Sanchez traveled tells me that Wenger is considering a strong selection and although it would be nice to win the group I am surprised that we would take risks with the much more important Premier League game coming up.

Arsenal fans do not need me, or Olivier Giroud and Arsene Wenger for that matter, to tell you how important the Premier League clash at home to Liverpool tomorrow is.

With a really important Premier League game tomorrow, I think it might be time to hand the Ox his third start of the season, because Aston Villa are confident and flying high and there game is all about energy as well.

When Jose Mourinho's Manchester United were in the Europa Cup semi finals last season, the Portugese boss gave up on the title race and rested players in important Premier League games so they could be fresh for the infamous Thursday night competition.

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.

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.

In fact we even had the benefit of Mesut Ozil getting his first run out for some time to help him be ready for the important Premier League clash with Man City this weekend, while Alexis Sanchez performed heroics for Chile while proving that the knock to his ankle which saw him taken off at West Brom is not going to affect him.

Not exact matches

For Arsenal fans, the bragging rights this season are perhaps not the most important thing, because our hopes of the Premier League title are looking the most likely that they have since the invincibles season of 2003 - 04.

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.»

Arsene Wenger has brought plenty of glory to the Gunners, from winning the Premier League whilst going unbeaten, before helping the club through an important phase in their history, guiding them through tough financial issues whilst building the new top of the range stadium, and still kept us in the top four throughout.

«Without Petr this season I don't think the club would be champions because he played six important matches in the Premier League and without these points we probably wouldn't be champions.

It was lazy of Wenger to emphasize a family atmosphere especially in recent seasons, it almost, if not created a culture where everyone patted each other on the back fostering mediocrity, in the real world of the premier league and elsewhere, it is important to be fired up by competition even among the players, and with a manager of Wenger's stature, I'm sure he has enough in his locker to make sure said competition don't get nasty and counterproductive to overall team performance.

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.

As per BBC Sport, Ilori has sealed his move to join Jaap Stam's side and he will now hope to play an important role in their quest to secure promotion to the Premier League.

Although he missed the latter stages of the season through suspension, Palacios was one of Tottenham's most important players in the 2009 - 10 campaign, which saw the North London side finish fourth in the Premier League and book a place in the Champions League.

He has that kind of robustness to deal with body to body which is very important in the Premier League.»

Helen Lovejoy - handwringing aside, the more important reason that the 2014/15 Chelsea side are unlikely to go down in history as one of the great championships is because the 2014/15 Premier League is unlikely to go down in history as one of the great top division seasons.

«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.»

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.

Just how important is it to be the Premier League's Christmas number one?

Most important, though, for the Arsenal, fans, players and manager is how the Premier League campaign is going and you can not do much more than be on top of the table.

While he has certainly made an important contribution since his arrival in north London, there have always been question marks over whether or not he's the type of striker to lead Arsenal to a Premier League title and other major honours.

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.

We have taken the opportunity to identify each Premier League team's most important player, determined by their appearances and win percentages.

Nevertheless, the Premier League and La Liga boast with some of the fiercest rivalries both in terms of teams and players which is also important for fans that enjoy watching football, their financial strength and the power to bring players like Ronaldo, Messi, Aguero, Sanchez, Rooney etc..

So even though all three points would take Liverpool back above the Gunners in the Premier League table, you would say that United dropping points was more important.

Dier came through the ranks at Portuguese giants Sporting, and actually endured an unsuccessful loan spell at Premier League outfit Everton before he was able to establish himself as an important member of Sporting's squad.

Young's first effort wasn't bad either, and while it's taken a while for him to find the back of the net, he certainly did so in style as he continues to play an important role for Mourinho and Man Utd this season as they hope to remain within firing range on rivals Man City at the top of the Premier League table.

His huge physical capacity, that will be important in the Premier League.»

Having been pushed down the pecking order after the arrival of Dani Alves, the Ivory Coast international will likely welcome the chance to move on from the Ligue 1 giants, and a move to Tottenham will give him an important opportunity to play regularly in the Premier League and compete for trophies.

You're important to us and you could become the best centre back in the Premier League.»

The right - back has been a near ever - present this season and is one of the safest pairs of hands in the Premier League, while also having a knack for scoring important goals.

To place such important on an 18 - year - old though would seem quite a gamble, but evidently the current Bayern Munich boss has seen enough to suggest that Diawara is more than capable of being a success in the Premier League.

Having made over 700 appearances for the Premier League outfit during the course of his career, Terry's experience will be seen as an important factor for incoming boss Antonio Conte this summer.

We play in a very difficult Premier League and what is important is to show that we can move up to the next level now and continue to improve.

Shay Given is set to sit out yet again and a number of other important players are sidelined with injuries but the Premier League side should still have enough about them to get past an off form Salzburg side.

So will today be an important day for the Premier League title challenge as well as our defence of the FA cup trophy?

Of course, the Champions League is very important, but I prefer to see Arsenal win the Premier League this season and I know this is the objective for Arsène Wenger and all the players.

«In the Premier League every single game is important.

If the Gunners can add defensive solidity to the team moving forward as that remains their glaring weakness as evidenced by their defensive record in the Premier League so far this season, then all concerned will surely be hopeful that it leads to success on the pitch which is the most important thing.

Aston Villa host West Brom today in a hugely important Midlands derby for the home side, who are looking to put an end to seven straight Premier League defeats