Sentences with phrase «odd goals this season»

Both strikers seem to suggest 40 odd goals this season, hence why they have been picked and are the best in the league this season.

Looking at our defensive line up, it's no wonder we were shipping 80 odd goals a season.!!

Not exact matches

Yes Giroud is not a 30 goal a season striker, but he does have his place, when we are struggling to get the ball out of our own half as a target man, and in set pieces, and defence, and he does score the odd goal from free play as well.

Douglas Costa is another option but he isn't really a goalscorer, dnt think he can give 20 odd goals per season, a great dribbler nonetheless.

Chambers would have been playing the holding midfield / 3rd Central Defender Role (Its still beats me how and why wenger didn't even try Vermaleen in that role — his cautious attitude is one of Arsenals biggest albatros) If Arsenal had started playing Joel Campbell on the flanks since the beginning of the season, when it was obvious Carzola was misfiring, Campbell will be getting used to the league by now and will have been chipping in with the odd goals time and again - but NO Arsene will stick with Carzola and even play him in the wings thereby putting pressure on gibbs because he lack the discipline to stay there and will rather keep roaming to the certain.

Theo fit throughout a season guarantees between 20 odd and 30 odd goals with his assists and goals, thats not to mention his ability to scare the life out of defences making them likely to error.

We saw the odd flash of the old brilliance, like the two goals that won the EPL goal of the season in successive years, but they were all too few and far between.

Dzeko only scored four goals from thirty odd games last season.

The only striker that thrived at Arsenal in the last 10 years was Van Persie and he soon realised that in order for him to compete for the big prizes he had to move on.30 odd goals for Manure the first season he is there and he wins them the league.With the form he was in and the team that he led in his last season it needed 2 - 3 players and we could have won the title ourselves but that was Wenger and nothing has changed for the positive since.We WILL NOT win anything big all the time he remains at the club

Didn't podolski score 15 - 16 goals last season from the wings and didn't Walcott score 20 odd goals from the wings season before last?

Whilst I hate Antony Krastrinakis with every fibre in my body he did make a good and reasoned point regarding Bale yesterday — said the world record deal to RM was stupid and undeserved — Ronaldo went to RM as PFA Player of the Year, Ballon D'Or winner, UCL and PL winner and 40 odd goals under his belt in the previous season — Bale went there on the back of his first good season, half a dozen wonder goals and no medals and titles.

The Uruguayan international has long been one of the most solid defenders in Europe, and was in particularly inspirational form last season as he helped Atletico to the La Liga title and Champions League final, showing an eye for the odd important goal along the way as a bonus.

Another target rumoured to be on Liverpool's agenda in midfield is AS Roma playmaker Miralem Pjanic, who has had another superb season in Serie A as he shows himself to be one of the best passers of the ball in Europe, with an eye for the odd spectacular long - range goal as well.

If you look at the whole goal - scorer thing from high up there are only 2 guys who get close to a god - like «guaranteed goals» status; Ronaldo and Messi and even they have the benefit of world class team mates, 30 odd «easy» matches a season where they can fill their boots, operating from a stable system for a long period of time now etc..

Just to add, Cavani has still bagged 20 odd goals the last two seasons playing on the wing and second fiddle to Zlatan.

Giroud has 4 goals in his last three matches... haha actually he has 50 odd goals with 30 - 35 assists in the last 3 seasons for probably around 10ish mil more investment.

Providing Wenger plays him down the middle and not on the wing, which is not a guarantee, he'll score you 25 + goals a season and their's no where in the world you'll find a better striker for # 50 odd million, some people talk out their backside.

As usual Jon you make some good points but with all respect to Leeds, Villa and Forest, no way would Spurs spend the amount of time in the lower leagues [just one year] that those three have spent recently and I'm sure you remember that great Spurs side in their double year dropping their first point after 14 games to Man City and suffering their first defeat to Sheffield Wednesday by the odd goal in three on Boxing day and almost beating our 66 point record [2 points a win in those days] which stood from the glorious thirties thanks to a shock home defeat on the last day of the season by West Brom with their frightening forward line of Jones, White, Smith, Allen, and Dyson and to make things worse the following year the signing of Jimmy Greaves, and don't let anybody tell different without doubt the greatest striker the English game as ever seen.

Too often Liverpool have in recent years shelled out big money for players who have ended up with a frankly embarrassing goals to games ratio and while you don't expect central midfielders to bang 20 a season, it's nice to see them contribute the odd strike here and there.

KEY FACT: Burnley have kept four clean sheets at home in the Premier League this season MATCH ODDS: Burnley 8/5 Draw 9/4 Watford 2/1 bet365 Pick: Ben Mee anytime @ 14/1 ANDY SAYS: Burnley are strong at home so I think they will come out on top... 1 - 0 GRAEME SAYS: I can see goals here, maybe Watford just sneaking it by the odd goal... 1 - 2 SILKY SAYS: Tough one and I can see this being a draw... 1 - 1 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Chris Wood at just over 60p looks a very good buy

These results pulled the Stags out of the bottom two and for the rest of the season with the odd game won and the odd game drawn, Stags managed to finish fifth from the bottom and hence outside the bottom four, though only on goal average from Exeter City.

Towards the end of last season many Villa fans were claiming that Lowton was on the verge of breaking into the England squad due to many solid performances at right back as well as the odd wonder goal.

Last season's first win in 50 odd years brought the total of away victories to an unimpressive 3 in a series where we have only scored 36 goals in 60 matches.

Mistakes crept into his game last season — a couple of odd shots from range got beyond him, a few times he was caught wandering outside the area — and those little wobbles were compounded by a horror show in goals for Poland in their Euro 2012 opener against Greece where he was sent off.

Rooney was more of a passenger for much of the season, scoring the odd goal, his last in the 2 - 1 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur — the last ever game played at White Hart Lane as we know it.

whilst I believe we have a few good options in attack, our biggest worry should be our defence, too many times this season we have lost by a late winner or the odd goal, smithies and hall apart, I would get rid of the rest and start again.

The Les Bleus playmaker was brilliant for the Ligue 1 side last season as he directly contributed in over 30 goals in 50 odd appearances.

Last season, Burnley were hesitant and defensive in the first half dozen away games, then, despite playing a lot better they kept losing away by the odd (sometimes late) goal), until the «Burnley can't win away games» seemed to get into their heads and stuck there almost the entire season.