Sentences with phrase «performance comes against»

The performance comes against a side which is still easing into pre-season action.

Two of his top 10 all - time scoring performances came against Rivers» Celtics teams, a 20 - point night in 2012 and a 19 - point night in 2011.

Last season one of our best performances came against Milan at the Camp Nou, but then the first leg exposed all our weaknesses also.

His shining performance came against Manchester City at the Etihad.

At Anfield, the only genuine shocker of a performance came against Swansea on January 21st, with the 3 - 2 loss still their only home defeat of the season in the league.

Not exact matches

With over 200 years of outstanding performance, and the best years yet to come, it is hard to even contemplate placing a long term bet against those odds.

The US dollar looks to be on target for its best weekly performance against the Japanese yen since early June, despite yesterday's slip on the back of concerns for the stability of the US economy with the potential tapering of the Federal Reserve's $ 85 billion a month bond purchasing program once again coming to the forefront of investors minds.

The ASX query came after analysts also raised concerns following last week's earnings downgrade because just a month earlier QBE provided upbeat commentary, simply noting that «our internal review of the first - quarter performance continues to indicate our ability to execute against these targets for 2017.»

Robinson was to be a warrior with a difference, however: Rickey, an adept psychologist who believed in the essential fairness of the American people, wanted a man with the courage not to fight back against the racist slurs, beanballs, and spikings that were sure to come his way — except by giving an unforgettable performance on the field.

The reports of the Polish international smoking in the showers comes at the back of a disastrous performance against Southampton and one can begin to speculate about the future of the outspoken Pole with both his behaviour and performances coming into question.

And now that the 27 - year old has put in two excellent performances with some top class saves against Tottenham and Hull, we are starting to remember the way he impressed when coming in for the out of form Szczesny in the second half of last season.

Thomas was obviously a key to last year's defense, not only because of his production (15 TFLs, and no, they didn't all come in that masterful performance against UNC) but because of the attention opponents had to give him.

This will come as a big blow for Arsenal, who have made Monreal first choice at left - back this season after a string of fine performances to make that position his own against Kieran Gibbs.

Here we go again.Let us be positive going into our first match.So we were very wary of the team selection against chelsea but we came out strong.All this team need is total support from fans.I watched the Manu match yesterday we all saw some of their weaknesses considering how much they've invested the last 4 yrs.Players should judged based on their performances not on transfer fees.

This pattern went on until Arsenal pulled some pretty powerful performances in the UEFA champion League in 2006 especially, coming to just 15 minutes away from a famous win against Barcelona.

So of course fans are going to fuming with negativity when, for example, they have to travel all the way to Germany to watch the players put in a shocking performance against Bayern, and then most of them not even bothering to come over and applaud the fans (including the manager).

First and foremost, Carolina really needed him — or hell somebody, anybody — to come up with a big time performance against the Cardinals the way he did.

While the Chilean international has now registered 14 goals and 12 assists in 23 appearances in all competitions, his teammates has come under heavy criticism over the last week or so with abject performances against Everton and Manchester City.

Fekir came up against the Gunners during the Emirates Cup last month and he would have undoubtedly been impressed with the performance of the North London outfit as they eased to a convincing 6 - 0 victory over Lyon.

Whilst the result against West Ham may have come as a surprise considering our good pre-season, the performance certainly shouldn't.

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.

Smith's post-Heisman performance was definitely worse than Jackson's, but at least it came against the national champ.

His best performance came on Oct. 11, against the New England Patriots, when his fourth - quarter heroics — six carries for 47 yards and one touchdown, plus four catches for 25 yards and another score — brought the 49ers from behind for a 24 - 12 road win.

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.»

McGuire only had one breakout performance his first year in the league, which came when he had 131 total yards and a touchdown in Week 4 against the Jacksonville Jaguars, arguably the best defense in the NFL this season.

I can't believe we will ever come up against a more rubbish Man Utd side again, and rather than bury them for once, we yet again put in a poor performance, and I think a lot of it is down to Wenger.

The way I see it Chelsea will make the top 4 and probably win the league with City coming in second, they just haven't been at their best in recent times and are powering through matches off player quality as opposed to a well drilled and coherent outfit e.g. Dortmund's performance against us.

What I find hard to stomach is not one player or the management, have come out and said sorry to the fans about the performance against West Ham.

I am very baffled as to why we haven't signed a striker yet.I liked diego Costa as he was that finisher in arsenals mould and he went to chelsea for not an astronomical figure.The quality and quantity of strikers have dropped drastically.I saw Harry Kane's performance against us and i think he is that striker with vision as well as finish like costa.But he is at Tottenham so i think he wouldn't come as well.Benzema maybe better than giroud but is he the finisher we want (i don't watch la liga).

Arsene Wenger will be hoping that the players produce a better performance against Manchester United than they did against the spuds, but the boss will need to get his tactics right as well, especially as he is coming up against his old enemy Jose Mourinho who the Frenchman has got a terrible record against.

An another time when he came back from a long term injury and put in a fine performance was against Liverpool (a 2 - 0 win).

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.

Rambo's battling performance in the middle for Wales against Belgium will certainly help his form and help him to ignore that criticism and the same can be said of all of our international players, who should all come back in good spirits.

Coming off a 28 - point performance against the Los Angeles Lakers last Thursday, it was the first time Nurkic has scored at least 20 points in consecutive games this season.

Due to the poor performance from Radamel Falcao against the League One side, he could end up coming straight back in to the side for the Colombian.

As for the transfers, I said he could have done better, but we are starting to buy the world class players that arsenal deserves... My point is that on the day it's arsenals 11 against the opposition 11, and it's up to the players to get the win... Wenger plays a big part in the tactics and formations yes... However ultimately it's down to the players to come up with the result... I think the players get away with poor performances too lightly as wenger gets the brunt of the criticism, ultimately it was a poor performance by the players yesterday not by wenger

while toying with the guy and practicing striking??? If that's a weak performance but you having to come back against a gassed staph infected Kevin Lee who was beating you down in the first round.

Arguably, Iwobi's best performance of the season came against West Ham United in early April, when he contributed two assists in a 3 - 3 draw.

It was a performance that stood out above the rest on the last weekend of the regular season, and it was certainly enough to earn him his first Hoss of the Week award, even if it did all come against the lowly Rams.

Our best performance of the season so far and it has come against our bitter rivals.

Eli's heroics against New England a year ago came as no surprise, echoing as they did his Super Bowl performance four years earlier.

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

Am I the only one who thinks that come February, our performance against big teams will be back to normal again?

Maybe it was the young Spaniard himself that was lacking confidence, but that now seems to have come, helped by his very capable performance out of position at left back against Galatasaray.

De Gea had his critics at the start of the season following poor performances against Liverpool and Blackburn respectively, yet the 21 year old has come on leaps and bounds in the second half of the season, putting in some impressive match winning displays for Sir Alex's side.

Lazio produced an impressive performance against Fiorentina in what could prove to be a crucial result come the end of the season.

no i havent based it on just that game i have clearly said that he is a talented player i just do nt see it working out for him at this club and also 10 minutes or not if your a professional footballer you shouldnt lose the ball everytime you touch it he and sanogo looked great against benfica but who was better that fact is weve seen campbell have one good performance in an arsenal shirt in preseason he coudnt even be arsed to track back at everton and he had only just come on........

Totally agree Chris.He is now well past his sell by date and defeats like have suffered against Bournemouth and Swansea are not only embarrassing but unforgivable.The results were bad enough but the performances are now all too familiar against theses lower ranked clubs.To expect us supporters to be blinded by League Cup Final and only a couple of decent performances so far this season is misjudging our feelings about his position This is a very well educated and intelligent man who can have no doubts about our attitude and utter disgust for him.He has allowed for us to make this personal now and he is deluded if he thinks e can collect another years salary out our expense.He knows his control is slowly being wrestled away from him and that really says it all.Ivan G is taking control and Wenger will be raging inside with this.Did he seriously expect things to continue until he felt it was time to just walk off into the sunset?Well he now knows his time at OUR club is fast running out.The day can't come soon enough for me.

James Rodriguez was once again superb against Brazil this evening, despite his exciting Colombian team finally crashing out of the World Cup — and his performance came despite a huge green insect landing on his arm during the second half.

Barring his brilliant display against Aston Villa — in which he scored and assisted a goal, and looked like the player we've come to know — Ozil's performances have put him under spotlight for all the wrong reasons.