Sentences with phrase «performance against the best teams»

They've got to the final with better performances against better teams, they play the better football on balance and they've got the head - to - head advantage so far this season.

Not exact matches

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NOT a great performance all the same, but, it is NOT a EPL game where you have a 1 off 3/1 or 0 outcome, this, is the qualifier for the UCL, and as such is a 2 leg affair, and 0 - 0 away in Turkey, against a team that beat Chelsea pre-season, is a good result.
Between the halves, U.S. Coach Buzz Bennett, an earnest young man but hardly closer to first - rank as a coach than his players, tried to goad his men to better performances by saying, «Don't you guys realize that's a high school team you're playing against?
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.
Against united i think that was our best performance of the year, IVE NEVER SEEN AN ARSENAL TEAM DOMINATE MAN U THE WAY WE DID.
«I think it is a very good performance against a big team,» he said.
He has been thrown in against one of the best teams in world football with so many first team players injured, it was a poor team performance, not any individual.
Then you have the experience gained by young Gunners like Martinez, Holding, Maitland - Niles, Zelalem and Reine - Adelaide coupled with the idea that the good performance of the team against Reading should keep the regular first teamers on their toes.
First of all I would just like to say thanks to Alan Pardew and the Palace team for rolling over for United after giving their all against the Gunners, just like Stoke did with Spurs on Monday and many teams seem to have done all season, saving their best performances for us.
We need a strong performance, and match their home - advantage intensity with our newfound good form against big teams.
We will have to wait and see whether the Arsenal and England defender Kieran Gibbs is selected by his national manager Roy Hodgson for the friendly game against France at Wembley tonight, which is bound to be an odd and emotionally charged encounter after the terrible terrorist attacks in Paris, but with England wracked by injury problems and having to play a very young team, as well as the limp performance put in by Ryan Bertrand at left back against Spain, I will be surprised if Gibbs does not start.
The Wolfpack are consistently good but never experience true success, and because Doeren hasn't changed that, either overall or in single - game upsets — at NCSU, he's 0 - 15 against P5 teams that finished with at least nine wins and 25 - 11 against everybody else — he is facing more pressure than his performance warrants.
LSU came in 7 - 0 when leading at halftime, but protecting a five - point halftime lead against a team like Kentucky was going to require a better performance down the stretch.
a performance like that will make us receive a thumping against a better team and a different referee.
No one in this team wants to take responsibility for the dreadful performance against Liverpool.Why don't they come out and say «we were not good enough.»
Overall we showed that we are not that bad and that we can play against good teams, but we've seen good performances in individual games before, it's about making it through the entire season with that sort of commitment and it's all I've really asked for.
Let's hope that this revised team plays a little better than our insipid performance against Liverpool at the weekend....
The Arsenal and England international star Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain may not have had a very good season so far and he still needs to show us a lot more to secure more regular first team football, but after an impressive performance in the centre of midfield against Sunderland in the FA cup, I reckon he should start against Liverpool at Anfield on Wednesday.
Mesut Ozil cause he doesn't do anything for every 1 world class performance there are 15 dodgy ones, he doesn't work for his team mates and only shows up against small teams which just ain't good enough, he is a passenger which we can't afford in our team, and # 280k a week his performance's don't even warrant the # 140k a week we are paying him now.
Apart from the keeper who had a bit of a shocker with two big errors which he was lucky to get away with, this FA cup win for Arsenal over Sutton United came through a good team performance against an impressive and committed home team.
Combined with the guys who had one - off performances against his team, this leads to one pretty big conclusion: as an executive, Rivers seems to care a lot more about whether he once saw a player performing well than he worries about whether a player is actually any good.
Too close because if we repeat that performance against teams with better attacking potent like an Everton, Stoke or big guns like Man City... we would lose.
Mata has been central to some of our best performances against teams that sit deep.
That performance against Everton was some of the best football I've seen from any team this seaso ln especially since Everton are no pushovers.
It was a good all round team performance from Arsenal against Crystal Palace yesterday and there were some notable showings from the likes of Alexis Sanchez, Iwobi, Xhaka, Elneny and both full backs, but even though his overall contribution was perhaps not the best of the lot, I just have to give Olivier Giroud the Man of the Match for one of the best goals you will ever see.
I also feel that the 25 - year old will have a massive point to prove after the latest snum from the England national team, many of whom are in this Tottenham side, so a good performance against the likes of Alli and Dier would surely send a message to Gareth Southgate.
watching my team against Ireland yesterday even tough we won i wasn, t impressedit, we only start playing with purpose when we go behind and when we, re in front we slow down our play, i thought koscielny had a decent game with a couple of good clearance and his job was made more difficult by adil rami who is a burden on the team and always one mistake away, giroud can, t be blamed for his first half performance the guy was starved of any service and it, s only when griezman was moved to his favourite position that giroud started making the difference what a great assist, by the way shane long dived for the penalty but that, s ok we are square now with the irish we had henry, s handball & they had the penalty!!
Pessimistically speaking, We just can't beat the others in the long run, they have more committed and success driven players and coaches (unlike wenger) Optimistically speaking, If arsenal can keep up a good performance till January, let's say we beat all the small teams and and draw against other big teams (plus one or two wins or losses), come January if cazorla comes back (and stays injury free) and wenger gets a winger then we could actually have a chance
Rodgers will be hoping that his team can take advantage of a good first leg performance against the Stamford Bridge outfit on Tuesday night.
These were Valdivia's two big, noteworthy highlights, but they were just small parts of a very complete attacking performance against a Uruguay team that defended very well until even as they melted down in the second half, picking up two red cards.
The writer of this article is a bluff... claiming Krychowiak is inferior to Schneiderlin or kondogbia... u need to watch LA liga more... Spanish team of the year over Busquets... Motm performance against Barca... Mr writer am sure u are happy with the Gabriel signing... this could even be a better one
While it has been a very good week for Arsenal with three good performances, although a better result in the first against Manchester United would have been nice, it has been the exact opposite for the team we beat in the second of our games, Borussia Dortmund.
Williams» good performances for Athletic also earned him a call - up for the Spanish national team, where he made his debut for his country against Bosnia and Herzegovina last May.
Yes Wenger is a stingyman, but he thought the team set out against Dinamo and Olympiakos we're good enough to win if they had performed, and that is true, but their performance wasn't there.
The rest of the team is easy to predict with Arsene unlikely to make any changes despite some good performances on Thursday against Red Star.
Second half was better performance but let's be honest, We played against some unknown team.
Most Arsenal fans are in a far better mood after last week's brilliant performance against Man City and we now go to Brighton to face a Championship team with a week's rest as well as the promise of Walcott, Ozil and others starting the game.
There is a quite widely held theory in the football world that Arsenal have become a team that just can not seem to produce our best performances when it really matters and there is evidence that the proponents of this theory can point to for support, most recently the slips against the likes of Swansea and Man United that effectively ended our chances of the Premier League title.
The board has their fault which we all know but performances on the pitch should be better especially against teams we should be beating, teams that don't spend as much as us on transfers and wages.
both of their performances from around november to march were very average and including crucially against Bayern... so its a fair comment the author makes and they cant say arsnal are not good enough when the two of them (20 % of the team!!)
Er better performances against the «top teams»... and if you're able to be at all balanced you will have to agree that in some games we dominated and were pretty unlucky not to get better results.
Good team performance against a very poor side.
The only performances in last 2 seasons against big teams, I remember where we played good football are Man U home (2015), Leicester Away (2015) and Chelsea home (2016).
«It was a great performance from us, we got a good result against a very good team with really good players,» he said.
Well Team Apuli learned that no situation is too big for them this week when they won 20 - 14 in 2OT against Team Feldgreber (EFT Sports Performance).
We do not have world star players in every position, but neither did Leicester, in fact we have a good team that could be a great contender even against the big spenders, just look at Ramsey, he was key for Wales magnificent performance (just see what happened when he did not play), the point is that is not necessary to splash the cash, what we need is a new Manager with a different vision that understand and demand from his players not indulge them....
Coquelin will surely prove himself but he alone can't stop Mancity.If we expect a good performance against Mancity then all our players must turn up, defending as a team each player covering for the other.Defensive responsibility should not be left for koscielny, Mertasacker, Bellerin / Chambers and Monreal alone.Midfield shouldn't be for Coquelin, Cazorla and Rosicky and Goal scoring responsibility should be for everybody, i mean any player can score goals it must not be Sanchez or Giroud.If all our players turn up there is no way we won't come back with a positive result.
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For the first two months of the campaign, he seemed to be a lock to become a Heisman finalist, but as his team faded down the stretch, he did as well, with quiet performances against Michigan State, Rutgers and Maryland.
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