Sentences with phrase «pick up injuries more»

It is bad enough that Arsenal continue to pick up injuries more often than Cristiano Ronaldo picks up a mirror, but we also seem to get a spate of players in the same area ruled out at the same time.

Walcott also seems to pick up injuries more often than not.

I think our constant injury worries could stem from the fact that we have overall had a young squad for a number of seasons, if young players are overplayed they pick up injuries more easily which stick with them.

Not exact matches

Pick up form over Christmas and then out of most comps come Feb and more injuries.

Santi Cazorla is another one who can be fielded more advanced, and was a huge loss for us when picking up an injury last term.

No player is immune from getting injury but some are more prone to picking them up than others.

I certainly hope that Wenger has got a surprise signing up his sleeve because any DM is practically guaranteed to pick up yellows on a regular basis and is more liable to injuries over the season....

I rate Gibbs and feel sorry for the guy but unless Monreal picks up an injury I can not see Gibbs getting much more than this year's two EPL starts next time.

Arsenal are in desperate need of more options up front, with Danny Welbeck having been ruled out until February following the knee injury he picked up in the latter stages of the Premier League campaign.

Arsenal have been plagued by injury problems a lot more than our Premier League rivals in recent years and there is a strong argument that our bad luck on this front has cost the Gunners at least one title win, so we are always concerned about one or more of our stars picking up a knock, especially when they head off on international duty.

He can do that with a bit more confidence, however, thanks to the return to fitness of the exciting and talented young forward Alex Iwobi, who like Ramsey picked up his injury against Liverpool.

As reported by Arsenal.com the boss went into more detail as to why Ramsey is still not fit to play and it appears that although he is no longer carrying the hamstring injury picked up in the first game of the season against Liverpool, the match fitness is not there and so Wenger is going to be patient and make sure that he is fully ready and not rush him back.

I don't like the idea about replacing him, but we have to be honest, he's getting older, which means he's likely to pick up more injuries, and the older you get, the longer it takes to recover.

-- We all knew Diaby is always a risk — We all knew it will take Theo a long time to get back — We all knew players coming from the WC could pick up knocks (OG / Ozil / Kos / Debuchy)-- We all knew Sanogo's record in the nursing room — We all knew Arteta / TR7 ages (with age, some players pick up more knocks than ever)-- We all knew Ramsey / Wilshere / Chambo / Gibbs don't go season long without injuries — We all knew Wenger's zip coat could start acting up

Dejan Lovren picked up an injury in the midweek league cup game at Bournemouth, joining Johnson and Flanagan in the Anfield treatment room and leaving Liverpool's defence just as stretched, if not more so, than ours.

We have already lost Francis Coquelin for the next three months and anyone who thinks that there will be no more injuries picked up by the Arsenal squad in the coming weeks and months is set to be severely disappointed.

Well at least we did not pick up any more injuries, although the damage to our confidence could be just as telling in the long run.

The Arsenal and England star has been hit with more injury woe after the club today revealed that his recovery from the injury picked up in pre-season training has not been going as well as expected and after sending the midfielder to see a specialist, the decision has been taken for him to go under the knife again, as reported by the Arsenal website.

We are likely to find out more over the next few days on the subject of Hector Bellerin, after the talented young right back was forced to withdraw from the Spain under 21 national team last week when he picked up an ankle injury.

It was reported that Giroud had a toe injury which he picked up in France, more recent reports have suggested that his injury was worse than first thought.

Jacksonville picked up his fifth - year option meaning he's set to make more than $ 19 million in 2018, but that's only guaranteed for injury.

While the Gunners have quite a few injury problems of our own to concern us, Jose Mourinho is not without issues in his Manchester United squad and he may just have been given one more as the BBC is reporting that the England and United captain Wayne Rooney will not play for the three lions in their friendly against Spain as he picked up a knock in training.

Even if we have the likes of Theo Walcott, Jack Wilshere and Alexis Sanchez fit and firing by then, the Frenchman should be aware that Arsenal are likely to pick up a few more injury problems throughout the second half of the season.

And of course it goes without saying that we really do not want to see any more Gunners picking up an injury.

Following on from Mustafi's injury concern that he picked up at the weekend against Stoke City, Gabriel had the opportunity to slot into his more favoured position at centre back.

We've had 5 players make over 30 starts; that's what happens when you're in Europe playing 2 games a week, you pick up more injuries & have to rotate the squad.

He returns from injury, gets his form back, picks up a niggle, comes back and plays a few more games, niggle keeps him missing the odd game and then BAM big injury.

Liverpool were already struggling with a long injury list before last night's Capital One Cup game and then lost two more first team stars as Coutinho and Lovren picked up hamstring problems.

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While Arsenal fans and Arsene Wenger do not tend to look forward to an international break with much more than gritted teeth and crossed fingers in case any of our players pick up an injury, we do also want the Gunners» form and performances to be recognised by their national coaches.

I do hope he stays fit as he has a tendency to pick up little injuries and as he has just returned make him more susceptible to muscle injuries.

Slaven Bilic will be even more concerned this weekend as he's struggling with injuries to key individuals as they look to try and contain Liverpool and exploit their weaknesses to pick up an important result.

More good news has come Wenger's way as German midfielder Serge Gnabry has also returned to training after recovering from a knee injury picked up in April.

While the boss was quite positive in an Arsenal.com report about the knocks picked up by Olivier Giroud and Theo Walcott in the win over Bournemouth he also suggested that the right back Matthieu Debuchy is more serious and with our first choice Hector Bellerin already on the injury list this is bad news and just highlights how bad our luck is.

Sasha Wallace deserves her due When Wilson went down with her toe injury, Holy Names junior Sasha Wallace more than picked up the slack, winning the 100 hurdles in 13.73, the state's No. 3 time behind Wilson and Hicks.

Toure is a proven asset in the Premier League and even at 33 I think he could do a job for us, especially if any more Gunners pick up an injury between now and January.

I still think NY was in the drivers seat with Melo I don't think this was necessarily Melo picking OKC over PDX I think NY management saw our offer of ex-scrap heap players and felt the OKC offer was better Maybe Noah injury played a role I think NO would not offer up what NYC deemed to be better then the OKC trade I do think Kantor and McDermott are better then Meyers, Harkless, Noah, etc... So without one of our draftees from this year or a high draft pick NY took the best offer I trust that NO is a good judge of talent and felt giving up anything more then what he offered was not worth an aging but talented Melo

Hopefully none of those changes will be forced on Wenger due to any more Gunners picking up an injury this evening.

As long as we don't pick up any more injuries, I also see us lifting it with a close shave.

Motormouth Morgan has made no secret of the fact that he is a fully fledged and paid up member of the Wenger Out Brigade and is probably just waiting for us to lose a game or pick up another injury so he can spout off once more and blame everything on the boss.

The chances are that, soon after writing this about the injury problems that Arsenal's Premier League title rivals are facing, we will see one or more of our own big stars pick up a knock and be ruled out for a long time.

Obviously what we all want as Arsenal fans is for the Gunners to go away to Crystal Palace and pick up all three points with lots of goals, a clean sheet and no more injuries.

Hope we pick up three more injuries to our no33 our no5 and no17 then I will be happy, did I forget to mention how they get injured from celebrating goals and it was the supporters shirt numbers.

We really have some win able fixtures coming up, going to be interesting to see how the team copes with all the injuries, let's hope and pray we don't pick up any more.

I would've agreed with you a few years back (reminding me of a tony adams at times) but Mert has picked up our injury virus of late and more to the point he ducks under balls coming into the box.

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The Arsenal boss may well be taking a bit of a risk, and the injury problems picked up this week by Aaron Ramsey and David Ospina were a stark reminder of what can happen to players coming back from the international break, but I very much doubt whether Arsene Wenger will make any more changes than he has to for the Arsenal starting XI to face Everton tomorrow.

More importantly, he has never picked up a serious injury this season or the last, which is a testament to the coaching staff that Mourinho has.

Van Persie will be missing for at least a fortnight with the ankle injury he picked up at the Liberty Stadium, which Van Gaal says will offer Radamel Falcao, who has scored four league goals since his loan move from Monaco in September, more chance to impress.

Potential replacement Reece Oxford has also picked up an injury which opens the door for the more probable replacement James Collins and his silky passing skills.