Sentences with phrase «of quality opponents»

Haye's lack of quality opponents in over 3 years, Haye's inactivity and lastly Haye's injury troubles.

And while Fromm has been an efficient drive - extender against a litany of quality opponents this fall, he's never seen anything like the Crimson Tide.

Not exact matches

Instead of using a bad word to describe your opponent, the insult would instead be a subtle allusion to some bad quality of the listener's Mother or Sister.

However, a free man, and especially a sincere Christian, will know that only God is the infinite good without any negative admixture; he ought therefore to regard his own proposal in a spirit of criticism and to acknowledge the good qualities of that of his opponent.

«Rowan has enormous grace, he gives his opponents space, but he has a lack of killer instinct, which I'm afraid is a necessary quality for leadership,» says one ally of Williams.

I do understand that it isn't the quality of opponents we need to judge him, but he did seem to be playing with ease.

I rally don't know what is going on with Mr Wenger he let jensen go to spurs and now he is diddling his finger around It looking like «we didn't find the quality striker we needed» we have a tough start with new shrewd managers around by October we could be in the relegation zone God forbid I recommend we voice our concern now rather in the middle of the competition so not to embarrass our selves in front of our opponents in the stands

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.

As Thirdman implies, Ozil might have a purple patch when playing teams of lesser quality teams or if he happens to come against opponents with even less zest than he has.

And while our back four and the new keeper Petr Cech have done very well in stopping the opponents from scoring, our success so far this season has been mainly based upon the ability of top quality Gunners like Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez to make the breakthrough at the other end.

«We know that if you want to deal well today with a Premier League opponent the first thing you do is not look at the table, because that does not tell you anything about the quality of your opponent.

On the back of our recent trip to South Africa, it will provide us with another very tough and high quality opponent in what still is the very early stages of our pre-season program.

Note: Quality win data (the ratio in parentheses, see Jan. 26 post for more info) and RPI information are courtesy WarrenNolan.com and accurate as of the morning of Feb. 16, 2018 and only reflect games against Division I opponents.

Still, the eleven that started in Portugal is still enough to rival anyone in the world, with Manuel Neuer, Rafinha, Jerome Boateng, Dante and Juan Bernat at the back, Philipp Lahm, Xabi Alonso and Thiago Alcantara in midfield, and Mario Gotze, Thomas Muller and Robert Lewandowski in attack — world class quality in almost every position, and yet, no sign of being able to work a way around their tactically smart opponents.

If you didn't know who a fighter was and judged by the quality of opponents, DJ wouldn't even be close.

Not with our vulnerable holding midfielders, we need to play Kant's type of midfielder if we want take that risk, eleny and shaka don't retrieve ball from opponent, they run around the field all the time, giroud has prove himself but is time we look beyond him and sign quality players next summer

But the boss made sure to stress that it was not the quality of our opponents Norwich City that was giving him this belief, despite the fact that the Canaries have been struggling on their return to the top flight this season.

The next opponent could Atletico Madrid that are of Champions League quality in this season.

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

xhaka keep losing ball to opponent too bad of him, we need to sign quality players or else my fellow gunners we won, t make top 4, Ramsey 90 min of play why

The Spartans have the same record, they won a conference that was not far in quality from the SEC, and after beating four ranked opponents, their strength of schedule is better than the Tide's.

When the Gunners are up against lower league oppositio0n on a cup, for instance, we often hear the old adage that we have to match the work rate of our opponents first and earn the right to play and exert that superior quality.

In a game as tight as this was today, when the top quality of the Gunners is hard to find and the opponents have their tails up and are making things very difficult, little incidents and fine margins can make all the difference and that is why Alexis is such an important player for Arsenal.

Most Arsenal fans are looking at tonight's League Cup game away at Sheff Weds to be a piece of cake, whichever team Arsene Wenger puts out, but I think everyone is going to be mildly surprised at the quality of our opponents.

Problems: On the break both LB and RB are out of position, our DM is both slow and not strong enough to out muscle opponents counter, Per is good but Top teams have forwards with better speed and better quality to beat him.

why did we play Welbeck in the striker's role... no one can question his heart but to have a player with such limited first - touch and finishing skills against such a game opponent with Lacazette on the bench is almost unforgivable... maybe it's because Welbeck tows the party line or maybe it's because Welbeck doesn't know anything but 100 % on the pitch, unfortunately neither of these qualities makes him a capable starting striker on a team with any real aspirations... I can only hope that he was being showcased for a move elsewhere, as there was some talk last week about some interest from Everton... if he moved on that would be the only silver lining of this coach's decision, but once again it wouldn't excuse this club for putting business decisions ahead of fielding the best possible team to secure 3 points at Anfield

It's important to note that these are only rough guidelines and the strength of the backup as well as the quality of the opponent are crucial factors.

Dan said he didn't want to rain on the parade but (I paraphrase) the quality of their opponents has been pretty low.

UAB deserves a trip to the Bahamas to cap its first season back after the miraculous resurrection of its football program, and although Ohio played its way out of a shot at the MAC title with a puzzling late - season loss to Akron, the Blazers get a quality opponent to measure themselves against.

This fallacy is evident when Barnhart lists his selection criteria — «record, strength of schedule, strength of opponent's schedule, quality wins, quality road wins, and the all - important eye test» — and omits the factor whose exclusion from the computer rankings after the 2001 season — margin of victory — turned the subsequent rankings into «nonsense math.»

He need to strengthen the squad (CB, CDM, CF & wingers), value fans feedback, improve his tactical approach depending on the quality of the opponent.

Arsenal rarely turn up in the first half of games, which results in us just about getting away with it against the lesser teams, but getting found out pretty much any time we come up against quality opponents.

the team has lost urgency the thing most important to the team of highest caliber, here there is no intention to do things of any kind only flamini intentions are clear to take out opposition player get his customary yellow and monreal's irritation is soon going to hit the papers.Wenger's verdict «at the moment we are a good team good players good atmosphere and players are slowly coming back from injury, monreal is solid CB and he has accepted his role also flamini is taking the opponents nuts to the cleaners which is very viera like quality which i like also Diaby is ready is 2 months cause the surgeon got bored of opening up him lost a screw inside so therefore fourth place is ours».

England's opponents this week are decent demonstrations of this: for all the quality in the Dutch and particularly the Italian squads, they couldn't get through qualifying.

so if we had two quality strikers, DM, (AM - As we have), then we can rotate comfortably hence change of style according to the opponent as well as remain unpredictable can be achieved

When we had teams like 1997 - 98 and 2001 - 02 double or THE INVINCIBLES, the opponent felt intimidated even in the tunnel itself due to the shear quality and the character of the personnel involved, let alone fear playing against us on the pitch.

While we were also strong with the back three, I still think that was the best football we played all season (considering the quality of the opponent).

Like I mentioned with Coquelin, he has done a fantastic job at protecting our back line and has often dominated that midfield by getting stuck in with his opponents, however now we have someone else in the team that can show the same qualities and not be left stranded when the Gunners need that type of player most.

Then he must show that he wants to challenge in the summer by first getting rid of the deadwood (Flamini, Mertesacker, Ryo, Campbell, Podolski, diaby)... loan out future prospects (Sanogo, Gnarbry, Akpom, Hayden etc) and bring in quality palyers to replace the needed positions (CB, DM, LW, ST)... after this he and his fitness and medical team must show that they have improved the injury crisis that we have... then finally he must show that he can motvate and rotate his squad well and tactically outclass our opponents with good squad selection and game plan.

In 2010, Berry did his best to do things a bit off - kilter — running when opponents expected the pass, passing when opponents expected the run, keeping things fast - paced (possibly not the best idea for an underdog), employing the underdog - friendly 3 -3-5 defense, etc. — and the results were decent; despite low overall quality, ULM won five games, three by a touchdown or less, and came within a one - point loss to UL - Lafayette of finishing bowl - eligible.

I mentioned that the quality of the opponent plays a large factor in line movement and that can clearly be demonstrated in those first four Patriots games.

There are many factors that are taken into consideration when oddsmakers adjust their spread to account for an injury including the weather conditions, the strength of their opponent and the quality of the backup quarterback.

The Huskies» first win over a sure quality opponent of the entire year, and on the road, too.

At that point, against that type of opponent, Argentina has to take on reptilian qualities.

Now that is highly unlikely to happen under Wenger, because of our record away from home, our record against quality opponents, and Wenger's record in Europe.

This is what Wenger feels about these coming games: «What I expect from China is that we play against opponents who are certainly as well in preparation, it will be less robust physically but as well of course you play against teams who have top quality going forward as well.

We have a large squad with lots of quality for one thing and with the quality of our opponents surely down on what we get in the Champions League you would expect Arsenal to at least get through our group if not win it.

If we improve the quality of the squad and the lead our opponents with 3goals on regular basis, the academy players can be introduced more frequently in the epl thereby aiding their development.

make life somewhat miserable for him in terms of lower quality opponents w / o cutting him.

We will see some better opponents drop into it in the next round, so we will have some good quality to face at some stage, but it will be the sort of quality that we were used to knocking down into this competition.