Sentences with phrase «picking up an injury in»

It turns out that the reason that Lukas Podolski was the only Arsenal player in the Germany squad that was beaten by Argentina 4 - 2 in a friendly repeat of the World Cup final, was that Mesut Ozil had picked up an injury in the Gunners» disappointing draw at Leicester City last weekend.

Arsenal Football Club and injury problems have almost become synonymous with each other in recent years, so I suppose we should not have been too surprised to see our first choice goalkeeper pick up an injury in our last Premier League match, the damaging defeat away to West Brom.

The right - back joined the Gunners from Newcastle in the summer of 2014, and was enjoying a first - team role until picking up an injury in September, which allowed Hector Bellerin to star in his place.

Welbeck picked up this injury in April and since then it has been a long string of revised dates for his return.

Wenger announced prior to Arsenal's upcoming match, that Bellerin had picked up an injury in training and as a consequence would not travel to Bulgaria with the rest of the squad.

Bellerin had, it appears, picked up an injury in the last 10 seconds against Spurs, and will not be available.

We appear likely to grant Granit Xhaka a rare start tonight, with Francis Coquelin having picked up an injury in our win against the Blues at the weekend.

Now that failure is coming home to roost, because Mathieu Debuchy picked up an injury in the game against Man City and, although we do not know how serious it is yet, it looks like the Frenchman will miss a good chunk of games.

Meanwhile the French side were without key midfielder Jeremy Toulalan after he picked up an injury in the league fixture against Caen last weekend.

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.

Nevertheless, Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde has two key decisions to make for the return fixture at the Nou Camp as Philippe Coutinho is ineligible to play, while Andres Iniesta is a fitness doubt after picking up an injury in the win over Atletico Madrid at the weekend, as per Marca.

However, they were rocked by the news that Paul Pogba was ruled out after he picked up an injury in training on Friday, and so he isn't part of the line - up to face Jurgen Klopp's side this weekend.

The chances of the Euro 2016 dream going on for Wales and their Arsenal midfield star Aaron Ramsey took a big boost today, with the BBC reporting that the Tottenham and Belgium defender Jan Vertonghen picked up an injury in training and will miss the game and the rest of the tournament.

Welbeck was leading the way for goals in the Euro 2016 qualifiers and when he picked up the injury in April we were led to believe that he would be back before the end of the season.

Hélder Postiga would have started both games if he didn't pick up an injury in the quarterfinal.

Lucas picked up the injury in the last round of the EFL Cup, when Arsenal came out as victors against Championship side Reading.

Liverpool's defensive crisis worsened on Tuesday night as Dejan Lovren and Kolo Toure picked up injuries in the Reds» 1 - 0 win at Stoke City, leaving Jurgen Klopp with ZERO fit centre - backs at Anfield — Martin Skrtel and Mamadou Sakho were already sidelined.

The England international is yet to feature this season, having picked up an injury in May of last year, but recently returned to training in hope of earning some playing time.

The Eagles have already brought in Jerome Thomas on a free transfer from West Brom, but the former Arsenal and Charlton midfielder missed the opening day Premier League defeat to Tottenham after picking up an injury in pre-season.

Until now that is, because the usual Spanish fiorst choice left back, Jordi Alba of Barcelona, picked up an injury in the draw away to Italy in the World Cup qualifiers last night.

At the same time Arsene Wenger is having to cope without Per Mertesacker, Gabriel, Danny Welbeck and Carl Jenkinson and the report does not even mention our Welsh international Aaron Ramsey who picked up an injury in our first game of the season and was supposed to be coming back after the international break but had his return to action put back as we reported here at Just Arsenal.

All we are to do now as genuine Arsenal supporters is, to start praying earnestly for the Gunners not to pick up any injury in their next 3 outings and also have a remarkable success by winning those 3 games.

-- Özil picked up an injury in this game last season?

Arsenal's official Twitter page did not initially state the reason for the change, and it was feared that Sanchez had picked up an injury in warm - up.

He was a non-playing substitute when Manchester United triumphed in 1968 and was in goal when Aston Villa triumphed in 1982, but was replaced by Nigel Spink after picking up an injury in the opening stages against Bayern Munich.

Robin van Persie pulled out of the Netherlands squad on Friday after picking up an injury in the 4 - 0 loss to France.

Marouane Fellaini — Picked up an injury in Bosnia and Herzegovina — a blow for United with Paul Pogba also sidelined.

Lallana picked up the injury in Liverpool's pre-season game against Atletico Madrid and, as a result, he is set to miss the Reds» crucial...

Nasri picked up the injury in the latter part of the game.Samir Nasri had to remain on the pick after picking up the injury because City boss Manuel Pellegrini made used all three substitutions in the match.

Henderson picked up the injury in training last week and the Reds had hoped it would settle down in time for the game against the champions after initial concerns that the 26 - year - old had broken his foot were allayed.

Madden played 22 minutes in the game against UWM but was rested against Butler, While Beard picked up an injury in the last game and did not make the trip to Indianapolis with the team.

The pair picked up injuries in Barcelona last week but Turan could make the squad for the final.

Rodriguez, who recently picked up an injury in Real Madrid's clash against Celta Vigo echoed the words of manager Carlo Ancelotti on the Ronaldo matter.

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Sigurdsson received treatment after picking up the injury in the first half of the game but played on until the end of the match.

Brozovic picked up the injury in Croatia's crucial FIFA World Cup qualifying match at home to Finland, a match he started along with fellow Interista Ivan Perisic.

The Brazilian striker picked up an injury in July and has been out ever since.

Philip Billing and Elias Kachunga joined Rajiv on the bench, with the latter featuring in the matchday squad for the first time since picking up an injury in the victory at Watford before Christmas.

Benjamin Mendy is set to miss out after picking up an injury in midweek, while the Blues are set to face former player Kevin De Bruyne.

The Blues started the game without goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who picked up an injury in training that could keep him out for up to two months.

Lucas Perez was signed from Deportivo La Coruna for # 17m, and his attempt to settle have been completely disrupted by injury, with the striker now facing up to 8 weeks out after picking up an injury in the EFL cup tie with Reading.

Arsenal's Thomas Vermaelen was substituted while on duty with the Belgian national team after the defender picked up an injury in the first half of their match against the US.

The Dane may come in the team in place of Moussa Dembele who picked up an injury in the goal-less draw at the Lane against Everton and may not recover in time to face Sunderland.

Instead of just being a simplistic career mode in which you control one player, just like other EA Sports games from previous years, the developers took their time to come up with a nice little introductory story revolving around you picking up an injury in college that nearly made you quit basketball, as well as a small prologue chapter with you and your childhood friend playing amateur basketball in some of the United States» most famous street courts.

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There is some bad news for Arsenal on the injury front, as the England international forward Theo Walcott is still not ready to come back into the team after picking up what was supposed to be just a minor calf problem in the Boxing Day win over West Brom.

The 27 year - old picked up the Arsenal Player of the Month award in September, having been successfully challenging first - choice Olivier Giroud for a central striking role, and the pair seemed to be excelling in their rivalry, until an injury never - the-less ended the run, and the pair have not been the same since.

Wenger said as much that he Coquelin was on his way out, in addition remember that his loan deal was for two months and at its expiration Wenger agreed to the extension, only to have Ramsey and Arteta pick up injuries, then he was forced to call back Coq.

Before he picked up a knee injury in the first Arsenal match of pre-season that forced him to have surgery and miss perhaps the whole first half of the new season, it was being reported that the German centre back Per Mertesacker was going to be given the task of replacing Mikel Arteta as club captain.

Before the Frenchman picked up his knee injury he had been racking up some amazing stats which suggested that he was actually the best in the Premier League in his position and he was at it again at Goodison Park.

Gabriel Paulista is expected to return for the Gunners but Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain is out after picking up a knee injury against Barcelona in midweek, with Tomas Rosicky, Jack Wilshere and Santi Cazorla also unavailable.