Sentences with phrase «injuries to key players at»

With a home crowd behind them, they could be very tricky to face and we have a plethora of injuries to key players at the moment.

Not exact matches

If all of the teams that finished 4th - 10th didn't deal with injuries to key players it's very possible that that Portland wouldn't have made the playoffs at all.

All Arsenal fans are up in arms about the Gunners dropping two points at Norwich yesterday, and even worse we have sustained three more injuries to key players that we can ill afford to do without right now.

What is interesting to note is that both Leicester and Spuds had no real long term injury casualties to their key players this season, whereas Arsenal had Cazorla, Coq and Sanchez out for a long period at one time or another... And we should not assume that even if AFC had purchased quality cover for their positions, we are guaranteed to be better off than where we are now.

Considering the injuries at the start of the season and to many key players 4 points less is nothing we've definitely improved.

Okay it will be a shock if either wins it but they have both been blessed with hardly any injury problems and things have just gone their way at crucial times, while Wenger has had to cope with dodgy referee decisions as well as big injuries to key players like Cazorla, Alexis, Coquelin, Welbeck, Wilshere and more.

Mind you, Southampton lost 8 key players plus a manager in the transfer window, they now sit fourth, 3 pts ahead of us.We can no longer use injuries as an excuse because we have always had them, and if wenger was a smart manager, he would have addressed this problem by having better squad depth, but instead he chose to send a defender out on loan despite being short in numbers at the back, foolishly chose not to sign a defender despite an array of good defenders on show at the world cup.So now who is to blame?I guess it's anyone or anything but Wenger.

But Roberto Martinez must do so without several key players as he is forced to deal with an injury crisis at DW Stadium.

Now lets look at our current team and try to analyse the key players who could hurt our BPL challenge should they get a long term injury.

Wish he recruits adequate «bench strength «to overcome a strenuous and tiring EPL and CL campaign at least in Summer 2016 so that his EPL Campaign does not fizzle out mid way thru the EPL through injuries to his key players..!!..

The injury situation at the Emirates may be easing, but Arsene Wenger will still have to do without a long list of key players such as Mesut Ozil, Theo Walcott, Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere, Mikel Arteta and Laurent Koscielny.

But for sure underinvestment doesn't deliver especially if u want to compete on two big fronts... Bellerin is the first of our young players to come through in quite some time lots of expectation in last 6 years but can't think of a real quality player from the academy... Wilshere might if injuries hadn't prevented... Spurs now looking better on that front Attitude is key I agree totally... love the way Leicester hunt down ball in packs and break with 3 or even 4 players moving at speed...

A limp performance like the one against Chelsea, mistakes at crucial times from key players at both ends of the pitch and the age old problem of injury problems and Arsene Wenger seeming to be the only man on the planet that thinks his Arsenal squad has enough quality and quantity.

Who knows what might have happened if we had not suffered all those injury problems to key players at crucial points of previous seasons.

At the end of the season, Peter Cech cited long term injuries to key players over the crucial run - in period as the main reason that we failed to win the league.

«You look at the A's [with all the injuries they've had to key players] and it's amazing that they're right in the race,» says Toronto manager Cito Gaston.

Big Sam has changed the formation to three at the back and he intends to stick with it, but he also has injuries to key players in his side.

One is that Arsene Wenger has had to cope with a number of players, and key players at that, being ruled out with injury.

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Maybe Ramsey could do a job with Flamini and Arteta behind him or maybe Wenger could use Alexis Sanchez behind the central striker but we are still waiting for those players to be fit, so are Arsenal at great risk of losing another key Gunner to injury?

From a few weeks ago when the Gunners were missing a large number of players and key members of the first team at that, the manager has revealed that the injury list is down to just two.

Arsenal spent more time than any of our EPL rivals on top of the table and had it not been for unlucky injury blows to big players at key periods of the campaign I reckon we would have done it.

Our battle with City (can't be bothered to think of Leicester or Spuds as realistic competitors at this stage) will probably be down to who sustains the least injuries to key players — would say that it is a coin toss looking at each team's injury record / history.

All that is bad enough, with the manager having to wonder if any or how many of his key players are going to pick up an injury and put our chances of success at risk.

None of this is difficult to figure - out, but somehow we always seem to have key players out with predicable long - term injuries (Like Cazorla at the moment) and then hear the team's failures blamed on injuries.

With injuries to key players impeding Arsenal during the first round of Premier League fixtures, what would be a good haul of points come the 28th of December, when Arsenal play their 19th Premier League fixture at Boleyn Ground against West Ham United?

As expected by most Arsenal fans and watchers, the manager has rung the changes for the EFL cup match at home to Southampton because of our numerous injury problems and also to allow a few of the key players to get some well earned rest after a hectic fixture schedule.

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Already missing some key players, including the Arsenal transfer target and their best centre back Mats Hummels, their star forward Marco Reus had to replaced yesterday after picking up an ankle injury that will almost cewrtainly see him miss the game at the Emirates.

I don't know about the rest of you Arsenal fans, but I am still scratching my head trying to figure out just what the hell Arsene Wenger was thinking by only completing the one bargain basement transfer deal on the January window, despite the club being sat on a mountain of cash and having our best chance of the Premier League title in a decade put at risk by losing a number of key players to injury.

Although an injury to a key player is never welcomed this could not have come at a much more worse time for the Gunners as several other stars are already absent.

I mean when is it your fault as a coach for not setting up the team properly, training them properly, having a proper medical team making sure injuries (and bad ones at that) to key players are minimized!!

I guess avoiding injuries to key players would be a good result for Arsenal at the Nou Camp.

The options available to Arsene Wenger when selecting his Arsenal line up for today's game against Sunderland at the Emirates stadium are smaller than they have been all season and with three key players in Alexis Sanchez, Santi Cazorla and Francis Coquelin being on the injury list and after the Gunners» recent struggles in the league, what should have been an easy three points is now looking like a tough and pressure filled match.

Of course an injury can occur at any time, but with Arsenal missing key players like Cazorla, Bellerin, Welbeck and Mertesacker, are we hoping for Chelsea and Man City to have problems in order to even things up and give us a realistic shot at the EPL title?

While this is often due to a sudden overload of money placed at multiple sportsbooks, you'll also see instances where the entire market moves a line in the same direction because of breaking injury news about a key player.

-- A lethal ST & Competitive DM — Less injuries to key players (Alex, Kos, Ozil, Santi etc.)-- Consistency from August to May — Turning up with the right mentality whether it's Norwich at Home or Chelsea away

I doubt that any of us has forgotten or forgiven the winter window a couple of seasons back when the Gunners were in the middle of an injury crisis and were desperate for at least two key players to see us through the second half of the season.

Five reasons: 1) our defence lacks organisation when key personal are missing (although having regular back line will help stop this); 2) we still play the old tiki taka rule game which doesn't work so well against the bigger teams; 3) we will have key injuries to players at the wrong times; 4) too many suicidal back passes in midfield against better opposition picks us off; 5) jury still out on Lacazette

You can look back at the last few seasons and point to things that went wrong for Arsenal, such as the injury problems that hit our key players including Theo Walcott, Mesut Ozil and Aaron Ramsey at the same time after the Gunners were looking good to finally reclaim the Premier League title.

OT Aguero broke his two ribs and Mendy got a serious knee injury Mendy will be out for 9 months and aguero for at least two months after a car accident in Amsterdam, that's curse of overspending playing fringe players in eurpa is blessing in disguise as we avoid injuries to key players thatsy big blow to city quick recovery

Overall you can not ignore the fact that our squad lacked stability at the beginning of the season due to a number of reasons some of which include injuries, new players, and fatigued players in key positions from the world cup.

Like all seasons — I pray we don't get smashed with too many injuries all at the same time... injuries will happen... let's hope nothing serious to key players and any injuries are spaced out!

Any injury to key defensive players and we are struggling but we do have versatile players to at least cover.

As this is pre-season this will be a time for the managers to look at new players of course as well as trying to avoid their key players picking injuries.

Chelsea were pummeled by Burnley in a shock 3 - 2 home loss last weekend and with the loss of key players through suspension and injury they are not going to be at their strongest by any stretch of the imagination.

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Since arriving at the club the German has had to contend with an array of injuries to key players, a relentless fixture list leaving little time for recovery or tactical drills and a lack of attacking options to turn to in tough moments.

i'll be honest, i'll be gutted if we go out tonight.when you look at the teams left in the carling cup only man utd & villa possibly stand in our way from winning it.i honestly reckon that if it was an arsenal v man utd final every single arsenal fan would be up for it, i know i would.the good thing is as well the carling cup final is in feb and winning it could give huge confidence to the squad especially if we are in contention for the other trophies.the biggest thing that worries me is injuries to key players, but imagine arsenal parading the cup at wembley and every one of those players having a winners medal on their sideboard, the team's belief would be an all - time high.while i agree with you that the 3 other trophies are more important, but don't you think it was great to hear wenger being positive.i thought it sent out a message of intent and belief although we all know it's difficult winning one trophy besides 4.

Iwobi is still raw in some aspects of his game, and can occasionally struggle when under pressure, but the impact that he is making at the moment is such that there is no reason for Wenger to consider dropping the Nigeria international, even when key players return from injury.