Can any of the premier
league teams match the quality of PSG and Monaco in France, Bayern in Germany, Real Madrid, Barcelona Atletetico de Madrid in Spain, or Juventus in Italy.
Not exact matches
According to Paul Merson, if Arsenal are serious about competing for the Premier
League then they have to
match the other top
teams in the transfer market as well as on the field.
Arsenal are readying a bid for Barcelona attacker Pedro Rodriguez as sources within the Nou Camp have confirmed that high level scouts from the North London side have been spotted at
matches state Tribalfootball, even before the two
teams were drawn to meet each other in Champions
League action.
It isn't enough to simply get Under 21 games and a few cup
matches with the first
team, because those fixtures don't necessarily offer players the true physicality, feel and experience of playing in the Premier
League.
From reserve
team to Champions
league starters... injuries are a blessing to others Come On You Martinez and Huddart (both were in reserve last year, both start in ucl
match)
But comparing Olympic
teams is hardly like
matching up the National
League East, in which everybody has 25 players and 81 games, home and away.
While Green Bay has been one of the
league's hottest
teams recently, only one franchise in the NFC can
match the Packers» seven - game winning streak.
I appreciate the talent of Bellerin as much as the next man but let's not forget this is an away
match in the Champions
League against the next best
team in the group.
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Still, Mourinho is extremely pessimistic about English success this season, telling the Daily Mirror: «I don't think so because I always say the Champions
League only starts in February and in February, the English
teams are after December and January where we can play 20
matches over two months and the Germans, the French, the Spanish, the Italians, they all come from a winter break.
This media hype of Arsenal winning the
league is so delusional.Arsenal stands the same chances as all the other big
teams including Liverpool.Wait for a lost
match and and a draw then u will see how this same
team will be bashed by the same pundits.If u want avoid disappointment, don't raise your expectations to high especially looking at a
team that has only made one signing!
@rkw Though Barca was a good
match to watch, they did it against a 10 man Valencia in freefall, in a 3
team league... Would that same Barca
team be killin it week in and week out in the BPL?
Santi Cazorla has missed Arsenal's last 14 Premier
League matches due to injury and former Chelsea player Pat Nevin believes the Gunners aren't the same
team without him.
teams that win
leagues have almost 6regulars who plays over 30 epl
matches.
NorthEast United were the whipping boys of the first - ever Indian Super
League season, winning only three of their 14
matches in the eight -
team division.
This is not a
league match but a cup final and we now have players that their reputation is at stake and others after their positions in the
team.
This season we had Arteta as our club captain, who did not start a single Premier
League match, and was not expected to be a regular in the first -
team either.
Tottenham are the only unbeaten
team left in the Premier
League this season and, although nobody is tipping them to lose at Bournemouth, Merson thinks they will concede two goals — something Spurs are yet to do in a domestic
match this term.
Example - in a crucial football
match against your closest rival you leave out your best player who is the highest goal scorer in the
league and also an assist number 1 of your
team and then lose the
match and drop down the peck.
All three of our away games in Europe are to be played on Tuesday, leaving plenty of time for the
team to recover before the next
league match and although one of those
matches is the north London derby it is at the Emirates stadium and is going to be played on the Sunday, so the European game should not affect our chances, especially as it is against Lodogorets, the weakest
team in the group.
Anyway we can all now relax and look forward to seeing if the 24 - year old can settle quickly into the
team and adapt to the rigours of the Premier
League / Paulista himself sounds like he can not wait to get stuck in and try to make his new club as solid at the back and as hard to beat as he made Villarreal, who have not lost a game in their last 18
matches.
Arsenal players haven been overly played this season because of the Europa
league where we have been playing mainly our B
team and Ozil and MK haven't had too many games before Christmas so i think our first 16 players are not heavily over worked and will have less to do in the coming weeks, we should be more worried about
match fitness then fatigue,
«The Europa
League has helped him more than any other player, giving him time to build his
match fitness and the chance to break into Arsenal's first
team.
If they can take care of business this Sunday they'd be looking at a
match - up with # 7
Team McNichols next week, a squad that they may feel stole their BYE on the
League's final night.
The 19 year - old has not yet played a
League match for Leicester's first
team but won the Academy Player of the Year last season and played a full 90 minutes against Hull in the
League Cup this season.
These
teams are contending because of the second wild card, but they're also contending because of the weird sub-parity in the American
League right now, and I'm not ready to pretend like they're truly excellent
teams in a truly excellent steel cage
match.
The home side will be without the on - loan midfielder Renato Sanches for the
match - up, although he has hardly set the Premier
League alight since arriving from Bayern Munich, while our
team will be boosted by the return of Olivier Giroud.
It was a
match - up of 2 of the X Hoops
Teams in the
League as well..
We can only hope that the
teams leading the way so far in the Premier
League drop points before our
match, but with Man City going to bottom club Crystal Palace who have yet to pick up a point or even score a goal, while their local rivals United play Southampton the chances are not good for us.
It's a
match - up of the only two
Teams to have ever worn the Crown for the Chicago Hoops
League.
Team Clark has the athletes to
match up with any
Team in this
League.
Regardless of the outcome of this
match, it will be interesting to see how these two
teams evolve between the final whistle and the next time they're slated to square off, in the CONCACAF Champions
League quarterfinals in February.
The current top
teams will slip once they are busy with the Champions
League and the player's international
matches.
They'll finish the season with head to head
match - ups against the top
Teams in the
League which is a great preview for their Playoff run!
Also playing in the Europa
League match were defenders Stefan Savic and Domagoj Vida,
team - mate of Yarmolenko, with a centre - back firmly on Spurs» summer shortlist.
The Dutchman said, «As you know, when you see the score of the last 19 or 20
matches we are the best
team in the
league.
Look the Bayern the barca and co are top top
teams with huge history We need to concentrate to build up wins we need to win cups then
league than we go and win the champion
league the result today show that we are Lincoln in front of Bayern and a bit better as we scored against Bayern and Lincoln did nt score against us >> > I had a busy Tuesday as I was coming home I guessed we were 1 2 down I turned on the
match to be 1 2 to see it go down hill I wished I never turned it on
But no one care to mention it is one of the best performance in defence — rather giving credits to Sunderland as the worst
team in the
league (fact is they never lose a single home game this season before this
match).
Callum Wilson of Bournmouth has more goals after 6
matches than the whole of Arsenal
team in the
league.
The
teams go into Monday's game in third and fourth in the Premier
League, separated by just one point; as cup
match - ups go, it literally couldn't be closer, Clive.
Arsenal have to secure the attack and get Alexis ready for the
match against Barca and the remaining fixtures against top premier
league sides.The
team has to win against Barca and then beat them at Nou - Camp causes it really is irritating to see Wenger playing bad players in the big
matches in the past, Arsenal have allowed themselves to be weak where Wenger is after the
league means these Southhampton, Stoke, Chelsea get the luck against this side.
Only one
team has ever avoided defeat from the Premier
League after accruing 10 points or fewer after 19
matches — West Brom, who stayed up by a point in 2004 - 05.
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Recent Premier
League champions, including Chelsea and City themselves, have found it difficult to put two strong seasons together in succession in the league, while Guardiola's own record in previous jobs has seen his teams dip significantly after winning the title with matches to
League champions, including Chelsea and City themselves, have found it difficult to put two strong seasons together in succession in the
league, while Guardiola's own record in previous jobs has seen his teams dip significantly after winning the title with matches to
league, while Guardiola's own record in previous jobs has seen his
teams dip significantly after winning the title with
matches to spare.
This weekend, it could be that Spurs supporters seem to have their Tottenham back, that Thierry Henry's pre-match motivational hugs for his
team mates seemed less somewhat forced, that West Ham owner «Eggsy» Magnusson looks even scarier when he's upset, that Cristiano Ronaldo's acting
matches his makeup, that Reading are Champions
League bound or that both Martin Jol and Rafa Benitez need to ease up on that rotating business.
The 21 - year - old caught the eye after netting his first goal for the club in a man - of - the -
match display versus Sunderland in January, but struggled to make an impact on the Reds first -
team, having made just 11 Premier
League starts in his first season at Anfield.
Fortunately for the Blues, their road looks to be a lot safer than Spurs», playing three
teams currently in the top half of the
league in their remaining six
matches.
But that only applies for a
match in isolation; across a
league season, when those qualitatively inferior
teams have longer term goals than just this game, here and now, then other factors come into play.
In addition to honest and open communication concerns, there are also fundamental issues of managerial incompetence, poor negotiating strategy, procrastination, dithering, lack of ambition, lack of willingness to compete with the top
teams in the
league despite supposedly being financial heavyweights, desperation at the very end of the window, compounded by promises made when Arsene was re-signed and poor
team selection decisions for the first three
matches, further compounded by a pattern of incompetence during transfer windows and in general management of the
team in recent years that understandable has fan patience at a very low level.