Sentences with phrase «matches against top»

Betis collected only the two points from their 12 La Liga matches against the top six last season, so they can't exactly be backed to go out and pull off a shock win in this one.

However, they have kept just one clean sheet in fifteen matches against top - eight opponents this season, so they are likely to concede.

Two games against below mid-table teams and we are really struggling.Is Fabs the answer?I don't think so.The first game against WBA would easily have been a draw but we were lucky though not this time round on Saturday.It was difficult and frustrating watching my team fail to create any clear cut chances in 94 minutes of football.There was such a corridor in our midfield that fulham utilized to the maximum.If we start dropping points against the likes of fulham at this stage in the competition then what will become of us in the 6 matches against the top three teams?I can see why I need to lower my expectations early enough to avoid disappointment later on.Very poor performance from Denilson.But why was Theo sub'd instead of bringing in Song for Denilson early enough?!

Lukaku hadn't netted in any of his six previous matches against top - six Premier League opponents for United leading to suggestions the Belgian was a flat track bully.

Brighton have lost seven and drawn one of their last eight away FA Cup matches against top - flight opposition — their last away win of this kind was at Newcastle United in January 1986.

The Golden Eagles played just four matches against top 50 teams this season, and lost those matches by a collective score of 14 - 0.

Signing players like Ager Aketxe, Gregory Van Der Wiel and Auro has all been done with the hope increasing the talent pool for matches against the top Mexican sides.

Their inability to beat the biggest sides is reflected in the Premier League — in the last 3 seasons, Arsenal have won just 3 matches against their top 4 rivals, a run which includes 11 defeats.

We have been playing atlas 2 preseason matches against top teams in Europe during Emirates cup for past several years.This is not the first time.

We have won one only one of the matches against the top clubs, so it may have been very entertaining at times, but it gets us nowhere.

We have now for 2 seasons lacked miles behind Liverpool and Spurs in the PL, and also in performances in matches against the top 5 clubs.

We are increasingly finding it difficult to win matches against top sides.

Despite a somewhat disjointed performance from the Arsenal team we did at least manage to earn a point from the Premier League match against top four rivals Man City yesterday and the fans will be hoping that this can be the start of our usual strong finish to an EPL campaign.

I don't remember the last time we came back in a match against a top team.

Arsenal will play their next match against the top tier of EPL Chelsea in 4th February, 2017 and in same day Watford will play their next match against Burnley.

In a five - game match against top - ranked international Go star, Lee Sedol of South Korea, AlphaGo lost just one game.

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Not exact matches

This win puts England top of the group, and they will be incredibly confident of staying there with their next match being against Slovakia.

PG — I'm not sure we have a starting PG on the roster, would really like to see DJ run the second unit and match up with the Quinns of the NBA rather than the Curry's and Pauls SG — Green has moved into that unfortunate professional athlete phase of «living off past laurels» and should not be resigned SF — Not gonna even speculate PF — LMA is good to go C — Unfortunately stuck with Gasol who is unplayable against the top tier playoff teams

May sound perverse but I think a more evenly matched top 5 will offer us a better chance of at least still being in the mix later in the season — no one team likely to dominate and walk away with it and all dropping a few points against each other.

So 2 matches ago and a winnable one against Swansea and dismal performance against united makes Arsene Wenger from saying top 2 is an improvement to 3rd place is not secure yet and i mean what kind of average manager who lacks the interest in football and loves only 4th place is completely unchallenged for his position is the most Job secure man in the world.

We have already heard that Olivier Giroud has been sent back to Arsenal from the France squad and is out of the friendly match against Germany this week, but now we have even more worrying news from L'Equipe who have told us that our top defender Laurent Koscielny missed yesterday's training session with Les Bleus.

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!

No comments on this site about Martin keowns delusional pre match predictions against Monaco the guy is a hired voice for wenger... Only one change matters and that's at the top

we have at most 4 real quality outfielders i.e. players that other top european teams would take... ozil sanchez santi and kos... in my books you need 6... we are two short but worse the quality of others is lower than needed... only bellerin coq and wilshere have that potential... and there are problems with each still... we should have put in bids in june for griezman kondogbia and the Burussia striker as all could have been prized away with right bid plus players thrown in IMO... now its too late and wenger is in some weird gallic world of existential hope and denial and fans are just praying we do nt lose opening 2 matches for first time in over two decades... but no one is really confident against a team which is sure to finish around mid table...

So with a potentially difficult home game coming up against Hull City, a match which we really need to win to strengthen our case for a top four spot and stop the rot after two damaging defeats in a row, you might have expected the boss to be nice to us.

Villa, who was the top scorer at Euro 2008 and joint top scorer at the 2010 World Cup, broke his tibia playing for Barcelona in a Club World Cup match against Qatari side Al - Sadd way back in December 2011.

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

I got paired with Bjorn Borg (inset, second from right) in an exhibition tennis match at our hotel on Antigua, against the island's top two players.

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.

No manager will do better than top 4 with the funds available at the club, so we should all simmer down and enjoy matches like Arsenal — Brighton and an odd win against a top 4 side.

«We've had good results against some of the top teams, so let's see if we can do it again,» said Moyes, who has collected 26 points in 22 matches (6 -8-8) since replacing the fired Slaven Bilic on Nov. 7.

as much as people want to shit on Woodley, dude was alright enough to go with the rematch as opposed to sitting and pulling matches out of the air to avoid having to defend against 1 of his 2 top contenders (unlike Bisping).

Tottenham aren't going to want to see any of their top players leave this summer, but with the pressure of being unable to match wage offers from rivals coupled with their track record of failing to win major silverware, it could all count against them if United really do come knocking.

Outside their elite top line, they had no forwards over 35 points, which made them a rather easy team to match up against.

It appears to be something like cover 2 man with corner David Amerson (yellow circle) matched up against Hilton (yellow circle) and safety Phillip Thomas helping out over the top of the route.

They have already secured the top spot in Group K of the UEFA Europa League, as the only team that can match their points tally of nine is Napoli, and Liverpool's head to head record against the Italians of an away draw and a home win mean they can not be overtaken.

Big in your list I can agree that all these players would improve us, but let's look at our CB At the moment Kos, top player but is struggling with a inj which may or may not heal, at the moment he isn't match fit so not up to his own high standard, so needs help or a defender of his quality so he can go and recover properly So then we have Mert, too slow and no longer good enough, I'm not sure if he's even good enough for 3 rd choice CB, too slow, poor on the air for his size and not brave enough, he's lasted this long due to Kos he needs a Top class CB just to allow him to play against average teams Ok now Reid not top class we can all agree so we couldn't really play him with MERT as he isn't Kos quality so can't cover merits deficiencys He could be ok with Kos but Kos is struggling So is Reid what we need???? And finally Wenger if he has all 3 fit will still play Kos / Mert first choice Oh and God forbid we play MERT / Reid against the top teams like Chels / city / utd / Southampton Chuckle chuctop player but is struggling with a inj which may or may not heal, at the moment he isn't match fit so not up to his own high standard, so needs help or a defender of his quality so he can go and recover properly So then we have Mert, too slow and no longer good enough, I'm not sure if he's even good enough for 3 rd choice CB, too slow, poor on the air for his size and not brave enough, he's lasted this long due to Kos he needs a Top class CB just to allow him to play against average teams Ok now Reid not top class we can all agree so we couldn't really play him with MERT as he isn't Kos quality so can't cover merits deficiencys He could be ok with Kos but Kos is struggling So is Reid what we need???? And finally Wenger if he has all 3 fit will still play Kos / Mert first choice Oh and God forbid we play MERT / Reid against the top teams like Chels / city / utd / Southampton Chuckle chucTop class CB just to allow him to play against average teams Ok now Reid not top class we can all agree so we couldn't really play him with MERT as he isn't Kos quality so can't cover merits deficiencys He could be ok with Kos but Kos is struggling So is Reid what we need???? And finally Wenger if he has all 3 fit will still play Kos / Mert first choice Oh and God forbid we play MERT / Reid against the top teams like Chels / city / utd / Southampton Chuckle chuctop class we can all agree so we couldn't really play him with MERT as he isn't Kos quality so can't cover merits deficiencys He could be ok with Kos but Kos is struggling So is Reid what we need???? And finally Wenger if he has all 3 fit will still play Kos / Mert first choice Oh and God forbid we play MERT / Reid against the top teams like Chels / city / utd / Southampton Chuckle chuctop teams like Chels / city / utd / Southampton Chuckle chuckle

The Danish midfielder delighted fans in Orlando as he picked out top bins from 30 yards in a glorified friendly, also referred to as an International Champions Cup match, against Paris Saint - Germain.

Giroud has difficulty against top teams and big matches BUT I would most definitely play him against United

But 6 to 7 years ago, all young players were getting many first team opportunity in the form of substitution, CL matches were we already topped the group with couple of group matches to be played, PL matches where we already won like 4 - 0 score with 30 minutes to go against lesser team, Carling cups etc..

Against De Gea, Courtois and Lloris, the Arsenal stopper still comes out top, over a 90 minute average, in the overall scoring, clean sheets, goals conceded, saves per match, saves per goal and catches per match and he is just behind Lloris on punches per match.

The way I see it Chelsea will make the top 4 and probably win the league with City coming in second, they just haven't been at their best in recent times and are powering through matches off player quality as opposed to a well drilled and coherent outfit e.g. Dortmund's performance against us.

There have been many posts and comments rueing Arsenal's performance against Chelsea at the weekend, but the Gunners midfielder Jack Wilshere feels that we were on top for a lot of the game, but just didn't take advantage of our chances when they appeared during the match.

they look good against weak teams but are weak mentally against the top 6 Also goes to show what a shocking decision by Wenger to have Laca and Kolasinac on bench for Liverpool match....

But we haven't challenged for the PL title for many years, and these are the problems, that we seem to have constantly: 1) We are letting in too many goals 2) «Physical teams» often seem to be able to beat us 3) We always loose too many points in the internal games against top opponents 4) We always have too many injuries 5) We have many matches, where the team seem unmotivated for at least one half In a single match or even a few matches, you can blame individual players or even the whole team for problems like the above.

When you consider we've been poor in Europe and against top 6 match ups though, this isn't surprising though.

His side have not only failed to win any of their matches since 2015, but have only scored one goal away goal against the top six sides in their last 10 outings, which should surely give us some confidence no?

Hope many have seen Gabriel is capable of even putting up decent performances...... He was tested against a top team (Liverpool) even when less match fit and rusty after so on the bench and don't forget he's got pace too........

I would place Coq on top though, the only match he has not quite delivered must've been against manure and Southampton.