Sentences with phrase «key injuries to key players»

A few exits and key injuries to key players and Dortmund were in relegation for a large portion of the season..

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.

More Quality players allow for competition and rotation, which is key to preventing burn - outs and injuries.

Santi is one of our most important players but can you call an injury prone player «key» to winning?

Arsenal are use to loosing key players to injury for most of the season which seems to be why we still manage to finish top 4 regardless.

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.

injuries every week to key players.

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.

Our current fitness coach and his assistant have stayed the same since 2001, and a slight shake - up could well be needed, especially with our title credentials having been dented year - in year - out due to injuries to key players.

They are same like us injury to key players.

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.

Long - term injuries to key players without adequate cover (Cazorla).

The Gunners have been plagued by injuries to a number of key players already this season and with Chamberlain continuing to struggle to fully establish himself in the side this will come as another setback in his short career.

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

It's been eight years and 20 matches since Arsenal and Tottenham ended goalless and with a number of injury doubts concerning key defensive players such as Shkodran Mustafi (Thigh), Hugo Lloris (Groin) and Toby Alderweireld (Hamstring), Arsene Wenger and Mauricio Pochettino may have to reshuffle their back - lines presenting a potentially open North London derby.

Much has been made about the Cherries losing some key players to injury, but their most important figure is Eddie Howe, who has masterminded their recent triumphs over Chelsea and Manchester United.

We have either started well or finished well in previous seasons and as always the injuries to key players have played a big part in our failure to win the premier league.

I think put the starters in to work out the team chemistry but resting as much as possible and preventing any more injuries to key players.

But if the boss wants to make sure that this key player does not suffer another injury setback then we can not complain or second guess him.

With 23 points in 22 games, the Panthers weren't doing that bad — especially considering the injuries to some key players.

The injury status of several key players will be imperative to monitor.

I must admit to being worried about what could happen to our title challenge if we lost a key player to injury.

We are already limping into the season with injuries to key players.

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.

-- If we can stay off injuries to key players — Maintain our compactness and our found solidity in defense — Having a good golie has Oooospina has so far shown — No complacency in games — Keep bagging in those goals (goals wins games)-- Get rid of some ageing / underperforming players in the summer — Recruiting a few more for an even improved squad, and — Continuous improvement to our academy

Our main problem is injuries to key players.

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.

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.

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.

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

That has now gone of course, and there will be plenty of debate as to where the blame for this lies, with Arsene Wenger a prime candidate but a lot of injury problems, bad luck and poor form from certain key players along the way.

The Niners entered their Week 1 matchup without key offensive role players Ted Ginn and Brandon Jacobs but left Green Bay without adding anyone notable to the injury report.

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.

Fails to mention the Panthers had a 11 - 5 record and made the playoffs despite injuries to some key players on the offense (Olsen, Kalil).

I don't know what more he could have done over the winter the basketball and football teams tanked due to injury from key star players.

The preseason run of luck continues and the Stars suffer long - term injuries to key players that are too much to overcome.

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.

With three of the Suns» key players — Barkley, Johnson (chicken pox) and Danny Ainge (sprained left ankle)-- out with injuries and another, last season's rookie find, forward Richard Dumas, undergoing drug rehab, Ceballos has done more than his share to compensate.

With a below average line, and injuries to key players, some can fairly be blamed on those factors.

They play the Oakland Raiders in Philly and not only are the Raiders traveling across the country they are also dealing with injuries to key offensive players.

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.

Going a full season without an injury to a key player or two is not something we could gamble on....

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.

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Please just mention one manager that you know, who will be competing on all three fronts, with these amount of injuries to key players, as we are having?

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 team is missing a lot of key players to injury and suspension and we are going to be tired after the game against QPR with 10 men.

lets not cry over Rosicky he wouldnt be in starting 11 anyway firstly lets hope we do nt face more injuries to key players secondly i think AW should realize that Ramsey is a better goal scorer that Walcot and Campbel and physically stronger.

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.

Currently the team can make it into top 3 without injuries to key players and consistency in form (ai nt sure which position exactly though.