Sentences with phrase «latter stages of last season»

Arsenal fans could be forgiven for hoping that our England international striker Danny Welbeck suffers a setback on his road to recovery from the injury that has kept him out of action since the latter stages of last season.

I think the pressure may have gotten to Iwobi a little last season because even though he had a great first couple of games for the club, in the latter stages of last season, his form did dip a little and he wasn't having the same impact in the team as he did beforehand.

Not exact matches

The 34 - year - old centre - back was in fine form last season, playing every minute of the Premier League title - winning campaign, but clearly the club legend is in the latter stages of his career and moves to bring in a long - term replacement would appear to be sensible.

worried about sanchez in the copa america this summer - chile are decent an will no doubt get into latter stages of the tournament, so he had world cup last year, full season in pl plus copa america then back to new season.

Realistically, I'd say 3rd, retention of the FA Cup, latter stages (or winning) the C1 Cup, Last 8/4 of CL would be a good season (with the current crop of players).

For a player who has scored 50 + goals in six seasons at Madrid before dropping off last season to 41, this could be another sign of a decline in his performances as he edges ever closer to the latter stages of his career.

All in all, with these guys in charge, we are only papering over the cracks, the only clubs that made it to the latter stages of the Champions League last season were either owned by the fans, sugar daddies or family owned, go figure.

Whilst it can be a useful exercise to use pre-season to experiment with formations and tactics this should be reserved for the latter stages of a game once substitutions are made.Crucially Arsenal failed to use game time to acclimatise the players who are likely to start the Season to one another and to continue to develop a team philosophy which had proven so successful in a crucial game at the end of last Season.Reverting to type will only have one end product and it won't go down well with the Arsenal faithful.

We all know that lack of a reasonable striker played a big role in Arsenal's failure to win the league last season as Giroud got worn out in the latter stages.

-- These two fierce rivals have clashed seven times in the FA Cup, with Manchester United edging this particular head - to - head with four wins to City's three, although the latter were victorious at the semi-final stage of last season's competition, winning 1 - 0 at Wembley.