Sentences with phrase «longer at the top of the game»

Now its just a self serving billionaire who likes to shoot lions and a manager who is no longer at the top of the game.
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The Spanish international turns 32 in December, and our club are not big on offering long - term deals to people of that age (excluding goalkeepers), but Cazorla is already proving that he is still at the top of his game.
But yes he is getting old and will not be able to continue for long so I hope that either we find a solid young replacement for him, or at least one of Holding or Chambers step up their game upto the top level.
The Predators will be pretty much unbeatable as long as they can tilt the ice like that while Rinne is at the top of his game.
He has a manager who no longer is at the top of his game and Kroenke is fine with that because he doesn't expect to win trophies.
# 1 Team Wellek has been at or near the top of the Standings all season long and went on to Win the Top - 2 Game last weetop of the Standings all season long and went on to Win the Top - 2 Game last weeTop - 2 Game last week..
9/10 of Arsenals remaining league games are easy so with the international break and catch up games it will be late April at the earliest before top 4 from the league is no longer possible.
Well, it didn't take long for Ohio St. to fire back at Michigan St. with a complaint of their own, following allegations that Urban Meyer's team handed over game film late and, on top of that, doctored it beforehand.
The 32 - year - old Brazilian may not have long left at the top level of the game, while Weigl looks one of the top young players in Europe in that position.
I think our best football this season was against man city at the emirates, i have never seen arsenal put up that sort of fight against a top team in a long time, although we didn't win I was satisfied with the hunger we showed, i would always prefer le coq to Flamini but that is not what would win us this game, we need to show the right attitude, go there to win it, and When I say go there to win it, i don't mean throw everybody forward, I mean go out there with a winning and commited mentality, being ready to throw yourself at the shot, make the all important tackle instead of ducking when the cross comes it, all 11 players need to be ready to fight for the win, we need the boys fired up, COYG.
It's not the first time that we lost our first game of the season and then went on a long unbeaten run and it won't be the first time if we are at the top of the league during the Christmas period, only to drop out of the title race in the following months.Lets just enjoy the Good times and wait and see how it pans out.?
of course the games against stoke, leicester etc would have gone a long way to seeing us challenge for the title last season but for a long time now we've been labelled flat track bullies i.e we are generally very good at beating opponents outside the top six but our record against man utd and chelsea maybe even city quite recently has not reflected a team on the same level as those going for the premier league title.
Though for the most part I'd say that the great players have longer spells at the top of their game and for the most part thrive on the biggest of stages.
The long and short of it is, however, that even though Arsenal will go to the top of the table if we win away at West Bromwich Albion tomorrow, it will be a short lived spell on top if Manchester City win their own game later in the day.
Add to that that Brozovic is only 22 years old so could have a long and illustrious career ahead of him, BUT he already very experienced, having played over 100 games at the top level in Croatia, and also has six caps for his country.
Players scores Chech 8.5 top saves when needed Monreal 7 good steady game as always Mert 6 did ok The boss 6 looked tired Bel 7.5 good game needs work on crossing Walcot 5 did less than iwobi Cmpbell 7.5 worked hard, in front of ox and walcott anyway Flamini 7 steady Ox 4 poor all game not a clue how he gets a game Ramsey 5 very selfish player, if barca pay 50m take it and sigh Barkley for 35 Giroud 6.5 missed very good chance and doesn't hold the ball up at important times but had an ok performance Iwobi 7 did more than walcott in 15 mins Chambers not on long enough
We are at the top and its important we cement this position if we intend to become champions of this league, our long term injured players can not be depended on to win the title, when they may need 5 or more games to get into top gear, which may cause the lost of valuable points, so this janaury window may be the most vital window for arsenal in many years.
One year ago we brought Petr Cech to the Emirates across London from Chelsea, and he has been a huge hit in the North, but he is 34 years - old now, and there is no telling just how long he has left at the top of the game.
On the back nine he began to play at the top of his game and got a stroke back from round Harry with a birdie on the 11th hole and another with a long putt on the 12th.
After that, he'll be 35 and, although I hope I'm wrong, he may no longer be at the top of his game.
ken1945 Ken I am in London 2 - 3 times a year catching games at Emirates Quite a different experience watching from your sofa but the distance does not matter We are still connected somehow and long for a day when Arsenal will sit on top of the league again.
Both teams have been at or near the top all season long and it is only fitting that they have both Clinched a spot in Top 2 Hoops game in the Opening Round of the Playoffs before the Regular Season even finished top all season long and it is only fitting that they have both Clinched a spot in Top 2 Hoops game in the Opening Round of the Playoffs before the Regular Season even finished Top 2 Hoops game in the Opening Round of the Playoffs before the Regular Season even finished up.
This is a decent article, yet the negatives from fans are still there, I would love to see arsenal like I did at the end of the 90's and at the beggining of the 2nd millennium but it doesn't mean in order to do so I would buy all the best players in world, I would get a rich owner to put his filthy money in, change the manager every 2 years to do so, there's so much wrong in football nowadays that yes it's still a sport but there's more focus on the filthy amounts of money being spent on clubs and players that I think attracts more attention than the game itself, now that is wrong and it's very wrong, even our owner though not like the arabs or Russians, yet the yank is clueless about the tradition of our game, it's just sad, so the fact that Wenger has remained for this long through all these changes that have occurred whilst the money game has elvolved, it makes me happy that arsenal do not spend stupid amounts of money on players, we don't try and buy the league, hell we even tight with wages and transfer fees, I'm glad it's like that, though our season ticket is a rip off I still don't mind it because at least we are not like the other supreme teams, there's a bit of tradition left at our club, yet you go to man shitty or Chelski, there is no tradition, it's all about buying ur way all the way to the top, on the other hand spuds don't know what to make of them besides how the heck have they finished above us?
How long can Alexis stay at the top of his game for?
He'd be a good signing for any top club, free or otherwise, as long that club can accept he does have an at times rather poor reading of the game defensively and lacks truly elite technique and agility.
The titan of tiki - taka — a concept he hates but can't escape, like the Beatles and «mop - tops» — isn't exactly joining Long - Ball Rovers, though: City were involved in three of the Premier League season's five passiest games (the others being at home to Watford and at West Brom).
After one of the biggest and the BEST games I have seen in a long time at Wembley the lads are going to be the top scorers again.
Not only did he win the Champions League five times, but the first two times he did so the competition was known as the European Cup — that's how long he remained at the top of his game.
Am reading all over the net and hear as well that people are blaming the players fabianski for not getting his angles right, he had an ok game but a top class keeper would not be beaten at his near post, song who out of nowhere has become an attacking midfielder, chamaka for missing two easy headers, diaby for taking too long on the ball, Squillaci, Koscielny i know they new but they are making some mistakes that school boys would not basic mistakes rosciky for blasting a penalty over the bar when a cool head was needed, deneilson your team leading 1 nill late in a game and you shoot rather than take or pass the ball to the corner i can go on almunia whose technique is horrible and you say this team has improved.
We get back underway following the international break with a huge London derby against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Easter Sunday — a game which could go a long way to deciding who finishes in the top four at the end of the season, with the fifth - placed Blues currently five points behind us.
They also rewrote a raft of other single - season top - flight records, among them the longest winning sequence in a season (14), the best start (eight wins), the most away wins (14 by early May), the longest spell without conceding a goal at the start of a season (495 minutes) and the biggest goal - difference (+76, with three games to go), not to mention the most points and the most wins.
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Christian Benteke has should have scored for Palace earlier and he's 13/2 to provide the first goal of the game, with Shane Long top of the betting at 9/2.
Few would argue that Villa have it tough over the festive period, with Tottenham Hotspur first up on Boxing day at Villa Park — A game you can see live on Sky Sports — before they tackle the wealth of Manchester City at Eastlands in a match which last season, because of their 3 - 1 defeat in the closing stages of the season, meant they could no longer finish in the top - four.
The Gunners started on top with the pace of Walcott causing problems for Paul Robinson at left back but once again Theo lacked that cutting edge and final ball that has been missing from his game for too long.
The Leipzig bubble bursts No need for the Leipziger to panic or be downcast in the wake of their shock 1 - 0 loss at lowly Ingolstadt on Saturday, Just one defeat in 14 domestic league games this season is a feat the newly - promoted club should be immensely proud of and though no longer top of the Bundesliga pile, only trail Bayern Munich on goal - difference.
You want to be the best parent you possibly can be to your children - this includes teaching them healthy sleep habits for life - long benefits, and making sure you are fully rested and at the top of your Mom - ing (or Dad - ing) game.
PLAN FOR THE LONG - TERM If you want to stay at the top of the game for almost two decades, like Emile did, you can't afford any dietary problems.
That means getting more reps on sets of squats, presses, and other weight - training exercises in the gym, running at your top speed a few moments longer on the track, and maintaining your hops late in the fourth quarter of a basketball game.
DERMA E has a long history of making sustainable, natural products and have managed to stay at the top of their game and evolve as decades have passed.
At the outset of the story, top - of - his - game sports agent Jerry Maguire (Cruise) suffers a pang of conscience that causes him to stay up all night and write an impromptu 25 - page - long rant entitled «The Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of Our Business.»
On top of that, the two minute and ten second piece also gives us quick looks at Anne Hathaway, Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon - Levitt as well as a nice long shot of some incredible mid-football game destruction.
Moi drug Boris Nemtsov (My Friend, Boris Nemtsov, Zosya Rodkevich, 2015) For the Russian slot, I long hesitated between Ivan I. Tverdovsky's Zoologiya and Kirill Serebrennikov's (M) uchenik — a newcomer to keep an eye on and a director on the top of his game, nevertheless at the very last moment my choice fell on Zosya Rodkevich's documentary on yet another Antichrist figure in contemporary Russia, only a real one.
When we sat down to decide which actors to interview for this season's The Actor's Side, my Deadline video series dedicated to exploring the art of acting with those at the top of their game, I said No. 1 on the list had to be Richard Jenkins, whose work I have long admired and followed.
ThinkSpace Education's partner institution, the University of Chichester also has close links with the games community and the program liaison tutor Dr Stephen Baystead has a long list of credits as a top game composer (NEED FOR SPEED, PROJECT CARS and many more) as well as audio director at Slightly Mad Studios.
«When you've been at the top of the game for so long, how do you stay there?»
It was tempting to look across the hills to Nebraska and imagine long trains of white - topped wagons for many miles, with men hollering at teams, whips cracking, and hundreds of wheels raising dust, while outriders galloped through the grasses to flush up game.
The inability of these games to sustain long term success at the top of the charts does raise some questions as to how many new people these games are bringing onto current - gen hardware.
For those of you that can't wait that long, we have a game here created by the Modern Warfare creator's, top ex-Infinity Ward folks at the new Respawn Entertainment.
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