Sentences with phrase «less goals against»

Not exact matches

Two of our wins have come against teams really struggling in Stoke and Newcastle, while our goal return compared to the amount of possession and chances created is less than impressive.

Get real in his almost 5 years at Arsenal his scored less than 15 goals in all his games played.He is great on the wings and should stay there, this converting a winger in2 a striker talk is ridiculous, the striker we are looking for belongs to another team, so let's just go out and buy him, SIMPLE!!!!!! But yes the goal Ox scored against Chivas was pure class.

When's the last time we failed to score a goal at home against a lesser side?

«The reason we have less than 10 goals against us the whole season is because of her.»

Gurugu — who had polio as a child, according to Goal — was less than impressed with Nigeria's 1 - 1 draw against Egypt last week.

That total is even more worrying when you consider that Liverpool have managed a grand total of four goals against «lesser» teams QPR, Fulham, Swansea City, Norwich City, Sunderland and Stoke City.

Despite scoring four goals, this performance from England was less than convincing, with the Three Lions definitely needing to step it up a gear should they want to secure all three points against Slovakia at Wembley on Monday.

Lethal combination as both are known for scoring goals (Giroud some what less effective but sometimes he can score good goals like last against man utd last match, Pod needs gametime but once he get chances we all know how lethal he is).

People then say well «they were all important goals against big teams» again a boll ** ks myth — if they were they must be under performing against the lesser teams.

Costa has scored less Champions League goals than Rickie Lambert this season, while he failed to find the net at any point during the Blues» triumphant Capital One Cup run — although he did strike via a deflection during the final against Tottenham Hotspur.

Maybe starting the first half with 4 -3-3 formation against the so called lesser teams (get the goals in early) and then switching to a more midfield controlling formation in the second half 4 -5-1 (to see the game through) Or vice versa depending on our opponents.

Giroud's Europe stats ARE less then impressive, as are his goals against big teams.

That result leaves Brendan Rodgers» side seven points behind their fiercest rivals and will be fully aware that anything less than a victory against the Blues Chelsea would almost certainly end any chance of a top - four finish because of their inferior goal difference.

Result is that against lesser teams we control the ball and look good but we don't have real bite and lack a real goal threat.

If for this goal he has an excuse (though a weak one), there were other ones which he more or less enabled for our rivals to score against us.

This thing is now gonna help us through the whole season, whenever a team will try to score against us they will feel the need to score a perfect goal and thus they will end up with less goal attempts.

Gibbs should NOT start, he offers much less defensively than Monreal and every goal against us will be a mountain to climb.

We know he scored 1 goal per match and a hatrick against a lesser team before now but is he reliable?

He used plenty of them — a game - deciding fake field goal against Southern Miss in 1982, the famous «puntrooskie» against Clemson, a double - pass long bomb against Florida in the 1995 Sugar Bowl — and less frequently once he had a talent advantage, but reserved the right to call them.

My fellow gunners Wenger is a failure either you admit or not, though this is a preseason match which is less important just to make the players gain fitness, before the competitive matches commence, but at the same time Wenger's tactics and formation should be questioned especially against big teams, he had conceded numerous goals against big teams in which today's match is a reflection of what we are talking about, his old and out dated philosophy is no longer valid in modern football, no wonder Alexis Sanchez can't confide in his plans to propel the team in winning major honours, Wenger still believe in some of the bunch of fringe players he should have gotten rid of in the team and replace them with world class players or players that are hungry for success like Alexis, anyway there is still much time in the transfer window presently to do that, if he can change the hands of time and stop being too stubborn.

In the past going a goal up would have been guarantee of victory, but they have dropped points after going ahead, they are less impressive from set - pieces in both boxes, and showed against Sporting that now the squad has become smaller, players are becoming affected by injuries and tiredness.

Anything less than 3 points is unthinkable for us tonight, infact we need to boost our goal difference up, just in case WBA do the unthinkable against City?

Only +3 goal difference separates the two clubs in the league, Burnley have lost two less games than us, and perform better against the top sides.

Other than a game against the Vikings, oddsmakers project all five of the Jags» potential matchups to be very close affairs, with point spreads of a field goal or less.

He is a relative late - bloomer, does not have a very special career goals / game ratio (less than OG in fact), scores fairly straightforward goals, is very awkward to play against and works incredibly hard for the team all over the pitch.

Knowing that our optimal moneyline range was underdogs of +130 or less, the next goal was to implement our betting against the public philosophy to increase the ROI of our system.

Walcott scores three goals in a totally meaningless game against an opponent who could care less about the result and someone has the balls to suggest he is one of the best strikers in the Premier League.

After Danny Welbeck enjoyed a dream return to the Arsenal team with a goal after less than 10 minutes and an absolutely crucial and well taken goal as well, I have been seeing various reports suggesting that the England international is set to be rewarded for his role as super sub against Leicester with a first start of the season against Hull on Sunday.

In this case however, more goals get scored in the Prem than Serie A where defending is more of a focus - and although you might have a point if you say that there are less strong teams in Serie A than the Prem currently - what Higuain has done this season is so exceptional that it's surely impossible to argue against him improving any team besides Barcelona & Bayern.

If it's not Niles well then Elneny because even Wenger must be adding up the cause and effect with allot of our goals against, I would say that we'd have at least a quarter less shots on our goal this season but for one lackadaisical individual.

In Spain's opener against Russia he headed home the only goal of the game less than 20 minutes after entering the fray.

As a manager if you have to play against Bayern a young player who scored less than 6 goals in the French second division last season, what does it say about our strikers and our team?!

Erratic results against the league's lesser lights plagued Liverpool's 2016 — 17 campaign (they conceded twice or more to non-top-six rivals on 10 occasions), but since conceding twice in a 3 - 2 victory over Leicester in late September, Liverpool haven't conceded more than one goal against a team outside of the top six.

«Next season we have to improve even more, because this season we improved in relation to last season, more points and more victories, more goals scored, less goals conceded, better results against the top five teams, we improved at every level, but it was not enough.

How they've earned that has been a little different from the sides around them, though, as they have been one of the stingiest outfits in the league while scoring just enough to get their share of results — they have the sixth best goals against record, letting in only one per game on average so far, and are the only side below Tottenham to have conceded less than 15 times.

My only real concern about playing Sunderland is the speed and awareness in front of goal of Defoe against our less than quick central defenders.

It was Hazard's second goal of the season and while his penalty against West Ham was no less important, this was a strike that epitomised a player brimming with confidence.

Only games against Chelsea, Liverpool and Swansea at the Stadium of Light have seen less than two goals.

Jeffrey Monakana joined Preston North End; Oguzhan Ozyakup joined Besiktas, and faced up against Arsenal in the Champions League qualifiers; Alban Bunjaku joined Sevilla; Gavin Hoyte went to Dagenham & Redbridge; Pedro Botelho joined Brazilian club Atletico Paranaense; Kyle Bartley moved to Swansea City for # 1m; and perhaps most regrettably, fan favourite Henri Lansbury moved to Nottingham Forest for # 1m, having netted one Arsenal goal in his entire career — against Tottenham, no less.

We may have a precious two - goal lead - two away goals no less - heading into this second leg against AC Milan, but results in Europe over the past week should have cleared minds of any complacency.

Bayern were beaten twice in their group stage and got through on away goals against Florientina yet put us out easily, with cheating, but nonethe less we excited the competition.

Crystal palace kept with the clean sheets as they played a goal less draw against The Toffees then another draw against Arsenal in an away match.

Well Tevez scored five penalties to Aguero's three, Tevez scored his 23 goals with four shots less (126 to 130) whilst both average one shot on target in each of the games against the Top 6 teams.

While Lionel Messi pours the goals in against teams in bankruptcy protection, when Maradona was in Serie A even the likes of Brescia, Udinese and Cremonese had world - class players in their ranks... And no - one can argue that Messi has a far more talented team around him both at club and international level, and far less competition at club level than Maradona ever had.

The Germany international has already scored seven goals this season - just one less than in the whole of the 2015/16 campaign - including a first ever career hat - trick in the 6 - 0 Champions League win against Ludogorets Razgrad.

Ramsey's darts forward have several purposes, beyond trying to get into goal - scoring positions, which he did less of against Bournemouth.

To come so close was hard but the performance the lads put in was amazing — I was incredibly proud of all of my team - mates for the way they battled.A lesser team would have thought, «we are four goals down against AC Milan, it's not going to happen,» but we went out there and gave everything.

Fury against Schlossberg was manifesting online in classically snarky ways, too: his law office was inundated with one - star reviews on Yelp, forcing the site to suspend reviews for the business; a Google listing for his business briefly turned up a sly one - line description reading «Spanish restaurant»; and a GoFundMe page was set up to send a mariachi band to Schlossberg's office («We are requesting the band to sing the famous, endearing and warm Spanish children's song La Cucaracha,» declared the organizer of the fundraiser, called Mariachis for Aaron; it raised $ 1,000 of its $ 500 goal in less than a day).

However, a research facility at a major university is always under such constant scrutiny, lofty personal goals are even less likely to be achieved at all because it isn't a setting conducive to such reckless, singular behavior — especially in an environment where major acts of terrorism against that very kind of research is running rampant in the world.

Goals for the Japanese automaker's perennial globally best - selling eco car have included 55 mpg, sportier handling, and — while it's less than vocal about it — to stay fresh against a growing field of plug - in cars.