Sentences with phrase «injuries to key players like»

Without long term injuries to key players like Sanchez, Ozil, The Boss and others then we'll be crowned champions by May next year.I yearn for the return of Welbeck and Lucas as Girroud thrives amid competition especially when coming on as a substitute.

Beset by injuries to key players like Brett Hull, Pierre Turgeon and Al MacInnis, they have put together a corps of former minor league workhorses, including Blair Atcheynum, Jim Campbell, Chris Conroy, Pavol Demitra, Scott Pellerin and Terry Yake, who refused to give up their NHL dream.

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.

I think it's fair to say that Wenger was lucky to have such a young talent as Joel in his rank when he has had injuries to key players like Alexis and Theo, rather than it being good news for Joel.

Not exact matches

They are same like us injury to key players.

Typically these periods in past few seasons has seen us chasing the top table team with average of 10 points, then comes our end of season charge which has seen us having more points than any other epl team in the final two months of the season over the past few years as well.This is mostly due to injuries plaguing key members our team around this period every year, apparently we've gone through our rough mid season patch again or might still be going through seeing as we have list some key players like carzola, bellerin to injuries again.

Others could point to injuries — key players like Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery and David Alaba sat out the game in midweek, while other members of the squad were not fully fit after only recently returning.

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.

Our key players like Fabregas and van Persie were too injury prone and that, in one way or the other, caused our success to be minimal.

it will be a tall task to win this season almost every team in the EPL has strengthened their squad, its all down to experience and key players injuries will be the decider, we have to treat every game like a cup final this season and even then it will be difficult, but how exiting the EPL has become top players and top managers.

While some will point to bad luck, as it is those pesky away goals that look like costing us top spot in Europe to PSG, and some will point to the injury problems keeping key players like Cazorla and Bellerin out of the team, our former striker Alan Smith has another theory.

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.

No matter how confident our players are this season, any bad moment such as being cocky, selfish, over confidence, slip up, complacency or an injury to a key player in a key position where there are no key back ups will break that confidence...... CONFIDENCE IS LIKE A PACK OF CARDS

There was also a theory that Wenger might drop the struggling Ozil for this game but losing the Spaniard decreases the options if we ware to do that, so his injury could have a big impact and we are, as usual, already missing key players like Cazorla and Ramsey.

We have seen it before, though, and there are some key players in that City side like Aguero and De Bruyne who would be hard to replace if they pick up an injury.

I don't need to remind you that key players like ozil, arteta, ramsey, walcott, diaby, kos, debuchy, giroud are struggling with injuries, so basically Wenger is out of options yet he still manages to keep the team afloat.

This is mostly due to injuries plaguing key members our team around this period every year, apparently we've gone through our rough mid season patch again or might still be going through seeing as we have lost some key players like Cazorla and Bellerin to injuries again.

And with City picking up injury problems to key players like Aguero, Silva and Sterling, we can hope that their 100 percent record in the league will soon disappear.

While long - term injuries to key players and lack of defensive depth are two obvious reasons, there is also one more which I would like to highlight.

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?

Would love to see them make it in the 1st team in EPL games... im sure if we have injuries to key players, instead of players like Flamini and Arteta we could give some of these youngsters a chance.

With the Gunners already missing 10 players due to various injury problems, we are teetering on the brink of a crisis and really can not afford to lose any more, especially a key man like Mesut Ozil.

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!

In a report on the Arsenal website the Frenchman explains that he is targeting a very positive month and that the return of key players like Alexis Sanchez and Francis Coquelin from the injury list should help the team to push on and take control of the title race.

It is like a mantra in his head, «it's all about wanting more» is a regular phrase, and it is an opportune moment to discuss the journey he has made from bit - part player, from someone who was even offered up as a makeweight in a failed bid to sign Clint Dempsey from Fulham in 2012, to being shunted around the team, then hampered by a chronic heel injury, fretting about his future, to now being a captain, a leader, a key player for Klopp.

Arsenal had to bare without key players like Alexis Sanchez, Jack Wilshere and Danny Welbeck for the majority of the campaign after their seasons were curtailed by injuries.

Finally, what alien magic keeps a team like Spurs from longterm injuries to key players?