Sentences with phrase «own midweek game»

Tuesday will see the bulk of the midweek games for Championship clubs, and although there is nothing too exciting, there are a lot of fairly evenly matched contests, which should prove to provide some well fought matches and interesting games.

But then again it does not seem to have hurt the spuds this season, perhaps because they are used to it, and Arsenal are certainly used to midweek games so it might not be much of a change.

Apart from the final week of the Premier League, Arsenal have no more midweek games to play and that means the players can give their all one weekend and be well rested for the next game.

Arsenal are in a good position right now, despite the theory that no midweek games would hand a big advantage to Liverpool and Chelsea, but it would be a lot better if the Gunners could be top at christmas and I believe we might well make it.

The Gunners are away as well so you can see why we could do with Norwich City winning and as the Saints are involved in two midweek games against Liverpool for a chance to reach the EFL cup final at Wembley and after their Europa League involvement then we can hope for an FA cup upset.

Shkodran Mustafi has since arrived at the club, and has knocked Holding down the pecking order, but Koscielny has now joined Gabriel Paulista and Per Mertesacker in the physio room, although is not 100 % ruled out of the midweek game just yet.

It is a fact that we all know Arsenal have little hope of winning the biggest trophy, and with two games a week Wenger made a concious decision to play his reserves in the midweek games (i.e. Champions League and League Cup) and save his A team for the Premier League.

In the same week, one is a midweek game, so I'm oretty sure the team will make one trip out of it.

Where as our players should be used to the cycle of the weekend followed by the midweek game, it might come as a shock to the system for Everton, particularly in the dying quarter of the game.

Arsene Wenger is going to have a dilemma on Tuesday if he is intending to rotate his starting line - up like he has done in Arsenal's last two midweek games, with the massive game against League leaders Man United next weekend.

Since the 1976 merger and before the WBA, the only options for players like these were to play in Europe (and inevitably become lost or abandoned) or to go to the Continental Association, which is nothing but the old Eastern League (plus the Anchorage Northern Knights), basically a part - time, weekend endeavor, although the schedule includes some midweek games this season.

The midweek games do us more harm than good.

Now we are entering December, and the Arsenal starting XI have played 5 intense midweek games less than every single other rival in the Top Six, as all of them have had tough Champions League matches to contend with.

In the Premier League's only midweek game, QPR will travel to Villa Park hoping to dump their opponents further into the relegation mire, whilst taking themselves — albeit temporarily — out of danger.

Well the team might not have played to their best but I think the midweek game took its toll on the team plus we missed Carzola's creativity a lot at the middle and Girouds presence up front..

At least the current league leaders did not win their own midweek game against Liverpool, but they did get a point and all Arsenal fans know that nothing less than a win will do for us at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.

The whole team is fagged out I guess due to the midweek games but that is out of it now.

As Rifer pointed out on the podcast last week, NYC has a midweek game against SKC leading into our game.

We have seen clubs like Liverpool and Chelsea thrive without all the extra midweek games and the toll they take on a squad and we know that Arsenal are beset annually with more injury problems than most.

There are no more midweek games for the Gunners so we will have the whole seven days to prepare for the return of Watford to the Emirates.

They have a midweek game, we don't.

Unless Arsenal win the Europa League this year that would leave us without those lucrative and exciting midweek games and although some people think that would help us in the league, it is not really what the club wants.

After a terrible new year fixture schedule that saw Arsenal, who have already had the drawback compared to Premier League rivals Chelsea and Liverpool of having to play the six extra midweek games in the Champions League, have to play two games in two days and get the shortest recovery time of all the clubs chasing the EPL title, we now have a well needed breather before the next league match.

In addition, midweek games would definitely have an adverse affect on League performances at this late stage of the season.

TBH I think we play better with midweek games like the CL.

I hope he does though, like how he was right to rest the starters in midweek game in preparation for Wham.

More good news for Arsenal is the fact that the Tigers also have a midweek game before they come to the Emirates for the 5th round of the FA cup and it is a massive game as well, against another team in the mix for promotion in Brighton.

We had more players in the World Cup that are just getting back to speed and we played a midweek game in Turkey, yet it was still their team that tired first.

I can see him perhaps being on the bench for cup matches or maybe not in the squad at all, and maybe being rested following midweek games, if we have games on the weekend or visa versa.

Arsenal are currently in 5th place in the Premier League after unbelievably losing to Man United at home this weekend, and it has been great to see the teams in Champions League having tough midweek games today and tomorrow.

With no midweek game for the Gunners to have to deal with this week, the inquest goes on among the Arsenal faithful about the recent run of disappointing results.

And how many times have we heard Wenger say (after a bad result) that we where a bit jaded from the midweek game.......?

The first is also the reason why, even though I want United to win I do not want them to win easily, because their midweek game is the FA cup replay against West Ham who Arsenal face away in the Premier League on Saturday.

Must be honest, I thought it might be a mistake using Xhaka in the midweek game, one reason is similarly how we used Cazorla that time even though Xhaka was missing for three prem games.

You could see that we were tiring and with Everton having no midweek game, they smelled blood so the Frenchman was delighted with the way we dug in.

7points gap combined with the advantage of them not having any midweek games / European games to play.

With Ramsey missing the midweek game, he should definitely start and Arteta's injury should see Flamini alongside him, which will give us a bit more steel and energy in the middle, which we need.

The theme for Arsenal's midweek game at Olympiakos is clear, and the message we need to get through to the players is simply Attack!

This isn't some random midweek game vs a AA team.

Indeed the Scottish League has already committed itself to starting on July 23rd for the 2011 - 12 season, 3 weeks earlier than this season, to lessen the threat of midweek games in the winter months.

There are a number of midweek games on tap, including tonight's showdown between UL Lafayette and North Texas.

u can blame the weather or midweek game but the fact of 6.000 man city fans made it down I find it hard to believe that 30 odd thousand arsenals fans didn't make..

But because of the midweek game I think Per will play.

I know negativity is in fashion, but let's not kid ourselves - Arsenal are the bigger club, he'd have teammates like Ozil, Cazorla & Sanchez - household names around the world, instead of Vardy, Drinkwater & Albrighton, Leicester will not replicate the same form next year with the addition of European competition to work the squad - flying around, extra midweek game.

However, our research indicates that underdogs have vastly more value in midweek games.

With the midweek game against Besiktas in mind and some of the Arsenal squad still to get up to speed, Arsene Wenger opted for a bit of an experimental selection for the away game with Everton.

This must definitely be worth a punt, especially as all of our rivals in the betting will have the distraction of the Champions League and the subsequent fatigue that goes with playing top European teams in midweek games.

It was always going to be a balancing act for Arsenal in the second Europa League quarter - final against CSKA Moscow, with a 4 - 1 lead almost securing progress but the other midweek games offering a telling reminder of what can happen in football.

It became a bit of an issue for Arsenal last year and I think it got into the players heads that an early kick off in the Premier League on Saturday following a midweek game in the Champions League would give the Gunners all sorts of problems.

It's not like we have a midweek game so anyone not playing will get a whole 2 weeks worth of rest.