Sentences with phrase «key injuries picked»

Let's be honest though, Gooners, and say that one or two key injuries picked up now could have a very negative effect on our chances of beating Aston Villa at Wembley and lifting the FA cup trophy in back to back seasons.

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And, with both sides plagued by injuries to key players, Wenger and Pellegrini will have their thinking caps on, when it comes to picking their strongest possible starting lineups.

Meanwhile the French side were without key midfielder Jeremy Toulalan after he picked up an injury in the league fixture against Caen last weekend.

The Arsenal boss will still, I am sure, be on the lookout for any late deals and he may have to leap into action if any of our key players picks up a bad injury in pre-season or the three Premier League games due to be played before the window slams shut.

Nevertheless, Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde has two key decisions to make for the return fixture at the Nou Camp as Philippe Coutinho is ineligible to play, while Andres Iniesta is a fitness doubt after picking up an injury in the win over Atletico Madrid at the weekend, as per Marca.

The defender had to be replaced after picking up an injury against Reading but he had already played a key role against a fiercely determined Reading side.

With Alexis being a key player for Arsenal, we can not risk him picking up an injury so Wenger will have to be very careful as he prepares the team to face Everton.

In an interview with BBC Sport, as seen in the tweet below, Pogba suggested that he hoped some key Man City players picked up injuries to give United a better chance of catching them in the Premier League title race, although you can tell he was hesitant in admitting it.

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.

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.

Even if both of our stars do commit their future to the Gunners, I still think that those are two key areas where Arsenal need to strengthen, not only to cover in case the Chilean or German inyernational picks up an injury (God forbid).

Both Victor Wanyama and Vincent Janssen had to be replaced too, and so although it was a successful weekend for Tottenham in the sense that they picked up a really good win away at Burnley and closed the gap on Premier League leaders Chelsea, they could be left severely weakened in the weeks ahead with several key first - team stars out with injuries.

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.

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.

Slaven Bilic will be even more concerned this weekend as he's struggling with injuries to key individuals as they look to try and contain Liverpool and exploit their weaknesses to pick up an important result.

Instead, he now finds himself in a situation where his key players keep picking up injuries, with N'Golo Kante, Alvaro Morata, Bakayoko and David Luiz among those to miss significant numbers of games this season.

With the heavy rotations we have seen this week, Giroud starting against Dinamo told me that Walcott would be starting the Chelsea game, but then the injuries picked up by Pedro and Willian, two key attacking players, could have Wenger thinking that Chelsea might bring out that famous old bus.

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

The injury news has been good so far, not only with the Arsenal players getting through the games without picking up any knocks, but with out Premier League rivals Man City and United losing key players and with our next Champions League opponents Bayern Munich losing Mario Gotze to injury.

Sadio Mane, the team's best player, missed all of January playing in the African Cup of Nations tournament, a couple of key pieces picked up injuries, and Liverpool went 0 — 3 — 1 against Sunderland, Swansea City, Manchester United, and Chelsea.

It is always a worry when a club's players head off for an international break, and Real Madrid's fears have been justified with a few key players picking up injuries while away with their national teams.

An easy win and a key player picks up an injury and gets sidelined for a few weeks.

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.

Wenger generally picked a stronger team than I expected ahead of Wembley, but there didn't appear to be any injuries, so it was positive that most of the key men for the final were able to sharpen their match fitness.

With Alderweireld sidelined until at least January with the hamstring injury he picked up against Real Madrid, Sánchez will be a key figure at the back for Pochettino throughout the hectic Christmas schedule.

Spartak is missing key defender Georgi Dhikiya, as aforementioned, who picked up a nasty ACL injury in the friendly game against Shanghai SIPG while on a winter training camp in Abu Dhabi.

More worrying for Guardiola was the hamstring injury picked up by David Silva - the Spanish playmaker is a key cog in his system and not having him available will be a big blow.

David Luiz, though, misses out for Chelsea with a knee injury whilst Juanfran is a doubt for Atletico KEY FACT: Atletico need to win and hope Roma do not to finish second MATCH ODDS: Chelsea 6/5 Draw 12/5 Atletico 5/2 ANDY SAYS: Close game for sure, can see it ending in a draw... 1 - 1 GRAEME SAYS: I think Atletico need the win here and might just sneak it... 1 - 2 SILKY SAYS: Don't see much in this, be close and hard fought, goal-less too... 0 - 0 BOYLESPORTS PICK: Draw half time, Chelsea full time @ 4/1 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Antoine Griezmann has dropped out the top ten and is just over # 4