Sentences with phrase «of easy opponents»

Stoke City at home before our first European game is not bad at all but travelling to Chelsea that weekend is about as bad as we could have wished, so obviously we could do with the Champions League throwing up one of our easier opponents for that matchday.

Although no games are that easy, we have faced two of our easier opponents in our first two home league games, and for the fourth season in a row we've failed to take maximum points from our opening fixtures.

Not exact matches

Some opponents also pointed to provisions in earlier versions of the bill that could make it easier for drug companies to obscure their financial contributions to hospitals and doctors under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which is part of Obamacare.

Even for the mayor of New York, which has its fair share of mega-wealthy corporations, declining to court Amazon would have been political malpractice, giving easy fodder to one's opponents.

Once you have accustomed yourself to putting words in the mouth of God, it is pretty easy to start putting words in the mouths of your political opponents.

Many of its defenders were scientists and many of its opponents were religious, so it was easy to caricature the debates as a clash between the modern, rational, scientific view and an irrational, religious mindset.

It was so easy for Romney to evade and explain away those attacks because his opponents had developed a one - liner critique of the Obamacare and Romneycare.

It is easy to see that we are here not really confronted with an alternative because the empiricist can not wholly dispense with categories with which to organize his facts, nor can his opponent forego documentation and illustration of ideas by empirical (historical) facts.

It's easy to see how the 29 - year - old could do a job for this United side, who looked sorely lacking of creativity in their recent defeat to Manchester City, when they failed to get a hold of the ball and create much to trouble their opponents.

The hosts are certainly not an easy opponent especially when the big sides come visiting and so the Arsenal side are in for one of their toughest games of the season.

We have defeated Spurs in Round 3, one of the difficult teams provided others have to face much easier opponents.

A Good performance from all the players.no team is easy to beat at this closing stage of the league: If a half goal exists in the game of football and guarantees 3points, I had take a half goal and 3points against any opponent no matter how lowly placed.

It is certainly not going to be easy for Arsenal to make the top Four, considering our unfriendly fixture list, but if Wenger does manage to finish up there for the 21st season in a row, then it can only be considered another one of his great achievements with the quality of our opponents this season.

But when we have the likes of Iwobi, Chamberlain, Ramsey and untill this season also Walcott not being organized defensively, it is too easy for our opponents.

In every game that MD struggles it starts and ends on the offensive end of the floor - poor execution leads to poor shots, rebound for the opponent, and easy baskets for them at the other end.

The likes of Sheffield Wednesday (facing Rotherham), Brighton (facing Birmingham City) and Reading (facing Blackburn) will all be hoping to pick up what should be a relatively easy three points on paper when looking at the table, but each of their opponents will be desperately trying to secure what they can from the respective games.

The Gunners may have won two games in a row, but they have been far from easy wins over inferior opponents, which is what the fans expected at the beginning of this week and questions are now being asked about the lack of commitment from everyone in the side except for newboy Alexis Sanchez.

Of course, with their uprising they'd hoped to find an easier opponent..

Team Bulwa does have the much easier remaining schedule however as their opponents have a combined 3 wins over the final couple of weeks..

It is easy to blame the opponents who hack him down, but as I said after the Man United game, Jack does his utmost to to wind up his opponents and has been known to do his fair share of crunching and mis - timed tackles himself, mostly ending up with Jack being more in pain than his victims!

Denver did much of its damage in transition, where the baskets came easy and in bunches from outrunning their opponent.

Negligence of the opponent's threat, no urgency moving forward, no urgency off the ball, refusal to shoot when in front of goal and inability to convert the easiest chances.

Stand out ties are of course against Spurs, United and PSG, but the matches against the other opponents, including the EFL Cup match against Southampton will not be by any means easy.

The rest of her preliminary matches were boringly easy, because no other opponent won more than three games.

That belies a concerted effort to avoid exposing his quarterback, giving the QB easy pitches and catches on downs in which opponents are minding the run and keeping him out of hostile third - and - longs.

Arsenal is often too exposed and their style of play is so easy to the opponent.

many of which seem to have completely written off the Sharks, thinking we're the «easiest» opponent they've faced.

Wenger just can't teach the players to defend high up and it gives us 2 problems.1) We don't get enough «easy» goals form the opponents mistakes, 2) Even very mediocre teams get plenty of chances against us and usually also goals.

January = lots of matches to play with easy opponents, but its the month that test consistency and quality Febuary = we got Chelsea and Southampton, crucial first knockout round UCL March = tough game at Liverpool, Leicester and 2nd leg of first round knockout UCL April = Man City, tottenham and UCL quarter final May = Man Utd, Everton FA cup Final

so teams just get past our midfield the way they like... and the likes of the wingers to support the full backs are always jogging as well instead of closing down opponent... so it makes it so easy for us to concede cheap goals no matter how you blame our cb... although I don't bliv in the likes of Gabriel and mustaphi either....

Of course Mert's tackle rate is higher, he doesn't have the speed to chase an opponent down so takes the easier ones that are coming to him whereas Kos is chasing the players that just ran straight past Mert with no tackle attempted.

Arsenal may look to make some changes in what is supposed to be the easier opponent in the group, but with the potential chance to go six points clear of third place in the group, we should give ourselves our best chance to do so.

Now most of our Premier League competitors have lost their interest, therefore it is easier to go back to winning forms without heavy pressures from the opponents

It is not easy replacing Alex with his workrate, in terms of goals Aubaya would be a perfect arsenal type forward, height, pace, skill and finishing, otherwise if we lose Alex i feel we need a finisher and a wide player who takes on opponents.

2) Invitation to attack us — Arsenal football philosophy had quietly shifted and now we were inviting opponents to come and attack us as they would see we were not operating in full attack gears and it was easy for them to get into our defending side of the pitch much quicker as they countered lesser bodies on the way.

Basically having a no D PG or SG on the floor kills the D dynamic of our bigs, this leads into easy layups or easy hoops by unguarded opponent bigs.

Southampton's schedule is about the same as Swansea's (the two opponents not in common have 85 points for Southampton and 88 for Swansea) except Swansea has an extra home game and gets a tough opponent and an easy opponent instead of two mid-table ones.

We'll qualify from an easy group, people will wax lyrical about Wenger's fantastic record in the group stages, and we'll then crash out in the last 16, irrespective of the opponent, throwing the tie away in the first leg.

Because there are no easy solutions in life, the benefits of starting three feet from your opponent on the line come with some definite disadvantages.

Ideally, I hope for a young team we get to play the easier opponents first, and then the more difficult opponents towards the end of the season.

Behind Billy McGill, their 6 - foot - 9 center who has the speed of a dash man, Utah accomplished what it has done so often this season — exhausting an opponent with its fast - break attack and then romping to an easy win.

Because of Oregon's tendency to move very quickly from play to play, it would be very easy to simply chalk up these late surges with a «The opponent gets worn out and collapses» narrative, and quite often it seems announcers do just that.

Due to past experience I can't help but feel jittery when Arsenal are on a brilliant run of wins, and then we are poised to face a so - called «easy» opponent.

She wasn't necessarily the product of all hype either - ask bjj black belt Nunes how easy it is to submit Cat Zingano in less than a minute, or any of Ronda's other first rd finishes that her and Nunes share common opponents.

Too much of their play is in front of their opponents and that's making them predictable and relatively easy to play against.

South Korea are looking a much improved team from the one that suffered a couple of small setbacks in Asian World Cup qualifying, while Greece look very much the part of a team that barely qualified for the finals by finishing second in an easy group and beating an average playoff opponent.

A home game against Cologne should be an easy start for the Gunners, considering that our opponents have lost all three of their opening games in the Bundesliga this season, but like Arsenal they finished 5th last season which is why we are meeting them tonight.

We don't struggle to create chances or open up defences of our opponent whenever Jacky or santi is playing...... others make Arsenal boring and easy to predict....

These two other semi-finalist are not easy opponents, especially because of the kind of adrenalin drive football they displayed to seal their place in the semi-finals.

While most of the talk about Arsenal today will revolve around the Champions League competition, which the Gunners are still in while our next Premier League opponents Liverpool crashed out at the group stage despite am easy looking draw.