Sentences with phrase «performing at last season»

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Arsenal are finishing the season with a flourish, with 7 wins in our last 8 games, so is he happy that his side are performing at the right time: «We won more games than last year, because we already have one point more than last year.»

The former England defender played every single minute of Chelsea's Premier League title - winning campaign last season, but it remains to be seen how much longer he can perform every week at that outstanding level.

The Nigerian international defender spent last season on - loan at Istanbul minnows Kasimpasa and established himself as a first team regular in one of the best performing defensive sides.

He performed well at right tackle in nine starts (including the playoff game) last season but has barely played on the other side of the line.

Morinho had Tores, Ba and Eto who altogether had a good goal distribution last year but they all appeared incapable of scoring goals when the entire under perform with few chances presented to them and Morinho without any hesitation said we will not win the league this year because we don't have a proper striker and allowed Ba, Eto and Torres to leave at the end of the season.

Cesc did not start many games under Conte last season but performed spectacularly when called upon and may be feeling frustrated that he is no longer an automatic starter at the Blues but would be certain to play regularly back at Arsenal.

Hector told the Star: «We didn't do that great at the beginning of last season but we showed by the end how we can perform, that we have great players and we were really doing well as a team.

With 24 appearances in central midfielder last season, perhaps the 25 - year - old could be considered a replacement to the under - performing Fernandinho at the Etihad.

Wenger is the problem... last Season he had Lucas Perez and Joel Campbell at the club and when they played they performed but Wenger kept playing Walcott, Giroud, Welbeck, Iwobi....

It clear for everyone to see that sanchez is going to be a player of th year (if he avoids injuries) but F.A alwaya f*ck us up, last season koz wasnt even on the team of the year before that year it was carzola.for me chamers is my young player of the year.i know it stil early but if they perform at this rate nothing can stop them

Anderson spent the second half of last season on loan at Fiorentina, and did nothing in Italy to suggest he is cut out to perform in an elite European league.

We are still waiting for the Gunners to find the sort of form that made us the best performing EPL club in the second half of last season and there is a growing feeling that Arsenal are once again going to fall short in the attempt to reclaim the Premier League trophy that we have not had at the Emirates in over a decade.

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Leicester have performed admirably under Claude Puel this season with Vicente Iborra and Jamie Vardy on target in last weekend's 2 - 0 success at Brighton.

surely teams that performed well last season are strengthening a good example is juventus getting sandro, mandzukic, dybala, zaza, cuadrado on loan they want to show reaching the final of uefa was not luck... look at us the manager feels the team is good enough.gary Neville has spoken sense

Im not a ozil fan boy but last season he did nt have runners this season he does, wenger gave 2 games in a no. 10 and he performed very well, if wenger had conti to use the kid at no. 10 may he have had many assists by now

Im not a ozil fan boy but last season he did nt have runners this season he does, wenger gave 2 games in a no. 10 and he performed very well, if wenger had conti to use the kid at no. 10 he may have had many assists by now

Pep built the Barca sides of today and continue to win titles at BM... Simone continues to overachieve in every seasons at AM, and Alex, you just have to look at his track record and admit they are better than AW... Maureen would have made the list if I excluded this season, but for the simple reason AW is on record as having never let AFC performed as bad as the Chelsea side this season, Moureen would have to be excluded (plus he flop in his last season at RM too)....

Off topic anyone notice how ozil was used on the left wing last season and the first part of this season and he was under performing fans and pundits were all saying how wenger should build the team around ozil since that was his best position and he cost us 42m well since his return he has only played either cam or right wing (he said in a interview that those were his fav positions since he played them at real) taking the place of an in form cazorla and it all seems to work I think wenger has done this all on purpose because if u look at ozils overall performance after his injury its much better than before, he tackles, wins the ball back and covers more distance than anyone else wenger does this often using players out of position for a while only to make their overall game better and mostly it works genius

Now I think there is still reasons to be cheerful, I agree Man C & Chelski have spent & bought some good players, we all understand that 5 of those teams might be in the CL proper which is a huge distraction for those 4 - 5 teams.Chelsea will not be able to field the same 13 - 14 players all season, as for Man C they were very frail at the back last season, add to that 2 flying wing backs and I'm not sure they will be any better this coming season.LFC will most probably have CL as well if they qualify and haven't exactly bought great players apart from Salah who could be a good aquasistion for them.Spuds have sold a good player & strengthened a rival & still not bought a single player yet, Man U have bought 2 good players & in Lukaku have a proven goal scorer in the PL but if they play the same dour way they did last season & with the added games the CL brings will they perform week in week out in the league??? As for Everton yes they have released a lot of players and also brought in a lot too to give better quality in the squad as they have Europa league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in the race.

Chelsea have looked an unbalanced and unconvincing side in most areas of the pitch, with Hazard one of the few to keep performing at the high level set last season.

Last season Larry Bird showed that a former superstar can win as an NBA coach, but apparently his success with the Indiana Pacers didn't blot out the memory of how other great players had performed at the job.

Our last 9 games are tough and they test our limits for 3rd place and we need to finish games fast and not let the foot of the gas in second half MAN UTD I feel that the way Manchester are going they may leapfrog us to the 3rd place cause in the first half of the season they had the greatest luck in football since dominant era of football refereeing decisions and penalty appeals etc LIVERPOOL They have a good chance to finish top 4 before int» l break but have performed admirably at high tempo and looks like it will be pressuring for them to play us cause we have better functioning squad.

The 23 year - old Argentinian lad performed well at Wolves last season, but is he ready to step up to the Premier League at such a tender age?

«Let's be honest, we didn't really perform [at our best last season], especially in the final run - in, but we still managed to finish second.

I have just looked back at my player ratings towards the end of last season and I gave the Man of the Match award to Ozil in the FA cup semi / final and the BPL games against Chelsea and Liverpool and they were certainly big games, so was Lehmann wrong to accuse the German of not performing in the big games?

I can't see him performing at the top level beyond another two years, making a five year deal worrying, but maybe he gets the benefit of the doubt as a result of last season's injury.

During the stretch run last year, Jimenez started the final seven games of the regular season and the first three of the playoffs at left back over other, more natural players at the position and performed well.

Aston Villa needs to be wary of Leeds as they have nothing left to play for this season which as we saw at Carrow Road last weekend, can mean that there is no pressure on the players to perform as there will have been for the rest of the season.

Having clinched a historic treble last season, the players would not be that hungry to prove they are the best and emulate the previous success, so eventually that hinders them from performing at their best.

If Strootman was better than or equal to the average relative to these players in the relevant statistical categories and ranks among the top 10 within each data set, it is fair to say he performed at a world - class level last season.

Guys why are we comparing arsenal to barca i love arsenal it my club but i must be realistic barca is lite years infront of us look at the champions league last year no match they have won the champions league twice in the last five years and the last one with kids just like arsenal so its not about how young players are because if your good enough your old enough and am afraid the arsenal youngsters walcott, deneilson, nasri, diaby, bendtner, even the great vanpercy who all arsenal fans rate who as i mentioned before (Has not scored a free kick in god knows how long) world class right these players so far have not been good enoughso do nt blame injuries too much do nt blame refs look at the way arsenal do things something is wrong here is a prime example eboue joined arsenal in the 2004/2005 season to date now tell me that a long time right would you say he is a much better player than when he arrived i think no he has improved but only very little and thats the point football is a short business at a big club you spend three seasons for the most and then you must perform.

The 30 - year - old also demonstrated his versatility by performing at centre - back for a short time during Arsenal's injury crisis in the first half of last season, and all the signs suggested that Arsenal had acquired a valuable squad option.

Saville spent the first half of last season on loan at Brentford, performing so well the deal was extended for the remainder of the campaign, and the midfielder played a pivotal role as the Bees secured promotion to the Championship.

But it was yet another example of how he's struggled mightily all season (and last) to take a deep and talented squad and from them pick a team who can perform game in, game out at the consistently high level required to be near the top of the PL.

If you needed proof that teams perform better at home than on the road, here it is: looking at just the last five seasons of EPL action (discounting now relegated sides), you see some startling numbers.

In the meantime, with Brisbane Roar being held last night to a 0 - 0 draw at home, and Adelaide United so far having a lamentable domestic season, it would need a supreme optimist to think that an Aussie team will «over perform» in the 2017 ACL.

They should keep hold of Ashley Young but he only performed in patches last season and will need to come on leaps and bounds if he's to make an impression during the new season, although with the way Villa are shipping their talent at this moment in time, a dazzling season from Young could be a bad thing.

On paper the names on the Leicester team sheet are not vastly different from those that graced the Stadium of Light turf at the end of last season but the manner in which they are performing is.

Kante's ability to perform as a box - to - box midfielder could spell good news for Nemanja Matic, who was heavily criticised at times last season for his poor performances.

As I mentionned above that ive just watched all the Arsenal game 2007 and 2008, Ive personnaly gave up with this idea of strngthenin our defence.Its obvious, we need CDM, and I strongly recommend Toure for that job, but finally, I found out our main PBM: AW is a man who beleives in: THE BEST DEFENCE IS ATTACKIN.He has built the team that way.When I watched our 2007 games, i could see that most of these teams who has defeated us this season played exactly the same style of game last season but they couldnt perform so much as our attackin side were so strong for them so that they were always held at their own defensive side.The game is completely Psycological.At the 1st 10mn of the game, they try to attack @their best, but just when we start attackin then all their mdlfldr start to pull back coz most of our attack are all dangerous.And this is what makes the diffrence between the so called BIG 4 and the rest of the league.The Pbm isnt really that our defence is so weak, It is our attack which is WEAK.Durin the first half of this season, Our guys couldnt perform any attackin strategy planned by AW, coz 1st: they were new to it, coz they have only practiced it durin trainin session.2 nd: Some of the key players are gone.3 rd: Even AW did nt know where exactly is the best position for those new players, the likes of Nasri, Vela, and some of them were all subsitute last year.Plus they are all young players who can improve and change their style game after game.

Yes, he has not performed as efficiently as last season but at the same time he has not been given quite of proper game time to settle in.

Petr Čech performed solidly enough last season but with David Ospina wanting more game time elsewhere there will definitely be the need for another keeper at the club.

It is easy to look at CSKA's last few seasons in Europe and dismiss them, but they have performed much better under Goncharenko so far in Europe than in recent seasons under Slutsky.