Sentences with phrase «particularly well this season»

Despite that past history, however, Johnson has not played particularly well this season and talked about his inconsistent putting earlier this week.

The Trotters are there for the taking however, Bolton boss Owen Coyle without several key defenders but also manager of a group of players who haven't travelled particularly well this season.

Not exact matches

«Planting onions that spring was an act of faith in the future,» she writes of one particularly worrisome season in And It Was Good.

Christmas is a particularly tempting time to indulge in sugary foods, but the good news is that it is a short season of the year.

While oats thrive in temperate climates all across the world, they particularly enjoy cooler temperatures and some rain - meaning the growing season in Finland is not as short as you might think, and even a «bad» Finnish summer can be a good summer for oats!

Kale is one of may favorites, and the avocados this season seem to be particularly good.

The Moroccan seasoning ras el hanout goes particularly well with the veggie pairing.

Though most commonly served during the Lenten season, particularly on Good Friday, this sweet yeast roll with its signature cross topping is perfect all year long.

In fairness, Guardiola has looked like doing Wengerball better than Wenger ever since he started his managerial career with Barcelona in the 2008/09 season, but it's particularly humiliating for the Arsenal manager to now come up against it here in England, which has so long been his turf for stylish attacking football.

And now he's 32 and pitching better than he was in the first couple weeks of the season, but still not particularly well.

Last season United fell out of the top four and Chelsea was not playing particularly well yet we could only manage fourth.

Wenger started the season with a back three, but he's never been particularly comfortable with that system, though the is a collection of players who are quite well suited to it.

Van Gaal has opted to use the 3 -5-2 system that was so effectively employed by his Netherlands side at the World Cup since he took over at Old Trafford, with Red Devils stars Daley Blind and Robin Van Persie thriving particularly in the 5 - 1 victory over Spain, but it has not been quite as effective in the Premier League and United's best winning run this season actually came in the midst of a brief switch to a 4 -4-2 diamond system.

United looked far from their best against Zorya, but the first - half display against Leicester City after Chris Smalling gave them the lead should set the standard for the rest of the season, particularly at Old Trafford.

Sanchez is far from the only player struggling at United right now, with the whole team well below par in the big games this season, particularly in their recent shock exit at the hands of Sevilla in the Champions League.

I was particularly surprised that Fells was a pretty good blocker last season, too.

West Brom 0 - 0 Southampton — Two sides not in particularly impressive form at the start of this season, West Brom and Southampton look the best bet for the bore draw to go last on Match of the Day.

In turn, aside from the setback of losing summer signing Benjamin Mendy to injury, there doesn't seem to be a major need to buy more players as they look well equipped to launch a sustained bid for trophies this season with plenty of depth, particularly in the attacking places which makes this first report questionable.

Rakitic could be a particularly fine purchase after his influential displays for Barca down the years, and he'd bring maturity and experience as well as composure to the club's midfield this season.

I'll reserve judgement until next season, reducing the number of injuries (long term ones particularly) is just as important as signing good players.

According to FanGraphs» WAR, Kershaw had the best season in baseball, and it wasn't particularly close.

New England finished the season ranked eighth in scoring defense, allowing only 19.6 points per game, but has been particularly good recently, allowing only 13.7 points per game over the team's last six games.

Neither Monreal or Gibbs have particularly impressed this term, although the Spaniard was amongst the best in the division only last season, and our club will most definitely have to be assessing the left - back role this summer.

Asensio undoubtedly looks set for a big future in the game based on what he's shown so far, and Chelsea would do well to bring in a player of that quality, particularly after their difficult season this term and the doubts over Eden Hazard's future.

Last season was one of disappointment for Barcelona, failing to win La Liga or do particularly well in the Champions League.

He didn't shoot the ball particularly well early (this season),» Donovan said.

It is not something to do with you do particularly well in part of the season (no matter first, second or whatever part of the season).

«They've been playing particularly well, been very solid at home this season, only conceded two goals and they are well organised and very hard to break down at Turf Moor.

Starting the season off with baseball's best record at 10 - 2 is successful in its own right, but what makes Detroit's start particularly impressive is the versatility in which the Tigers have found ways to win.

Chris Smalling — A better season from the England defender, who showed real leadership particularly in the second half of the campaign.

The start to the 2017 Formula 1 season didn't go particularly well for Stroll, but in all fairness, he did suffer a few problems — and he's only 18, after all.

He's not 18/19, he's 23 before the season ends and I think if Wenger doesn't particularly fancy him then we'd be as well selling.

According to Arsenal fans, Petr Cech is not as good or as fast as he was in previous seasons as age catches up with the ex-Chelsea shotstopper, and it is particularly galling that he has never saved a penalty in all the time he has been at the Emirates.

Like the others, this has worked particularly well in recent seasons, with close to 28 units won and an 8 % ROI since the 2013 - 14 season.

1996/7 was his first (part season) where he formally took over at (If I can recall correctly) around mid-late October.We had actually started the season fairly well with Pat Rice holding the reins until Wengers contract was up in Japan.And that was following a particularly bad run of pre season results I remember.Anyway you will recall we qualified for the UEFA CUP with a late Bergkamp screamer (oh how I worshipped that player) against Bolton.Were we pleased with this?Absolutely we were.You could see the progression in the team and with talk of more top players arriving we were all very encouraged and dare I say it?

After a particularly good year during which he won his first major title at Augusta in April, Sergio entered the European Tour's season - ending tourney claiming he would not be disappointed if he failed to win the Race to Dubai title.

Wentz is actually at his best when the pass rush is bearing down on him, and he particularly shined against Washington this season.

However, as the season goes on and they encounter their troubles, it will surely be a department that is exploited when they pressure builds and the level of the opposition increases, particularly in the Champions League, and Guardiola may be well advised to address it.

I don't particularly like that solution, but if you're skeptical of Easton as a starter and Isidora as a backup and you believe Hill could be a decent starter, then IMO it seems like a better plan than drafting two centers with the Vikings» first two draft picks and pairing them with the center they drafted last season.

Over the last 66 years of following the Arsenal win, lose or draw, good seasons and poor, I always saw fight and playing for the badge; but not for the last 3 and particularly this season.

Neither played particularly well, but Kizzire emerges with what is already his second win of the season.

There is increased public attention as we near the NCAA Tournament — so Betting Against the Public works particularly well at this time of the college basketball season.

When you consider that Sanchez, Welbeck, Ozil, Oxlade - Chamberlain and Gnabry can all play in his best position, then it's difficult to see how much time he's actually going to get on the pitch in the next few seasons, particularly if Ox continues to develop and if Gnabry starts reaching his potential.

Taking teams getting 30 % or less has done particularly well in recent years, too, as they're 11 - 3 ATS over the past three seasons.

Our research has also found that it's often very profitable to bet against the league's best teams, and that trend is particularly true in late season games.

After the race, Magnussen didn't want to dwell on it too much and was a bit speechless, but his talking on - track, particularly the overtake and defence against Max Verstappen early on showed a tenacity that could serve him well this season.

Oklahoma's Lon Krueger (4 - 8 ATS) has historically underperformed as well, which is particularly interesting given the Sooners performance against the spread this season.

As good as Tottenham's season was last season, the club have struggled to make much of an impact in the off - season and Pochettino will surely want to strengthen his side ahead of the new season, particularly having lost Kyle Walker for # 50million earlier in the window.

While Song was our best player for the umpteenth time this season and Fabregas did well with the space that was provided, Rosicky and Nasri were particularly disappointing.

And yes, statistics of any sort, particularly defensive football statistics, are opened to a host of interpretations, the data we do have on hand supports the claim that Davide Astori was perhaps Roma's best defender this season.