Sentences with phrase «place teams face»

The winner of each division faces off against a wild card team, while the second - and third - place teams face each other.

Not exact matches

Better yet, it includes a team org chart that shows the faces of team members next to which little counts are placed, according to how many recognitions the person has sent or received, a feature senior leadership may appreciate the most.

Who hasn't faced the challenge of being asked for a document, looking fruitlessly across several shared drives, and then searching for clues among email and team messaging streams — only to be caught up in a fresh breaking issue that makes us lose track of whatever we were looking for in the first place?

The win means the Jags will advance to face the Steelers in Pittsburgh — the same place they walloped Ben Roethlisberger's team in a 30 - 9 Week 5 rout.

Despite being drawn at home for this FA Cup tie, Middlesborough will be feeling pretty hard done by as they'll be facing off against Manchester City of all teams as they compete to try and secure a place in the semi-finals of the domestic competition.

The Gunners will know this weekend could have serious repercussions on the Champions League places with Liverpool and Southampton doing battle, Man United facing a potentially difficult trip to Swansea and Spurs facing bogey team West Ham.

Next week they face the first place Team Maione which should be one of the most exciting games of the season.

If ranking teams 1 through 8 in each conference like the old format that was in place from 1993 - 94 through 2013, the No. 2 seed is facing the No. 4 seed, 3 versus 7, and 5 versus 6 in the first round in the East and the West this year.

This victory means that our team have secured their place in the semi-final of the BUCS trophy where they will face Nottingham Trent 1st team.

A solid performance from the home team saw the game finish up 80 — 50, cementing their place in the next round of the cup, which will see them face the University of Sheffield on Wednesday 11th November.

Despite working hard through the term — and even over the Christmas break — they are struggling to maintain a place among the elite teams of the south in the face of increasing professionalism.

They have booked themselves a place in the semi-finals, where they will face Northumbria 1st team at home on Wednesday 2nd March.

Glen Johnson faces a real battle to win his place in the team back from the impressive young Spaniard.

Baros, just about clinging to his place in the team, faces pressure from FC Nuremberg striker Tomas Pekhart, formerly of Tottenham and Southampton.

Lumbering Arkansas is replacing its top two running backs and its quarterback as well, so it'll be fresh faces in big places for two very different teams.

Wenger is footballs equivalent of the cheese eating surrender monkey... In the parlance of our times... and that's cool if you are a 4th place junkie... If you care about this team you will ask what it takes to start winning serious stuff given the opposition we face week in week out and act accordingly... wenger doesn't care bcse 4th place is all he needs to keep his paymasters happy... He might even sneak a third place get to the quarters of the cl and win a capital cup....

Can you blame Sanchez for not passing the ball to WIDEBECK, lately this man is never in position, WHY because he is defending and running all over the place, the clumsy GIROUD let's face it, he is better than WIDEBECK and works better for our team game, but far from being a surgical finisher.

The tournament hosts finished top of Group A and will now face the best third - placed team in the quarter - finals, meaning they are likely to be hot favourites to reach the semi-final.

Benteke will be hoping his goal can ignite his career for the Reds as he faces a fight to retain his place in the starting XI as fellow forward Daniel Sturridge is closing on a return to first - team football after five months out with a hip problem.

So now we're to believe, if we miss the CL places, that will somehow swing back in their favor whenever we face teams who've played in it.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

Arsenal now sit in second place, but the two teams below us, Man City and Man United, face each other next weekend so another win for the Gunners at Burnley will be crucial.

Now he has cemented a place in the Nigeria team as well, and having scored twice in the Super Eagles warm up game in midweek, the Nigeria coach, Gernot Rohr, is expecting him to repeat the feat when his team faces Zambia on Sunday.

The whole team supported each other well, and great teamwork saw us turn the game around and earn the place in the final where we will face a strong Huddersfield team.

After confirming their place in the cup final on Saturday with a 4 - 3 victory over Leeds, our team faced a strong Chester Warrington side in the final.

Day two saw some great rugby from everyone involved and saw wins for all NorCal teams advancing GB and Jesuit to their respective Finals, while NB and Sierra would face each other for 5th place in the Tier 2 bracket.

The big man has allayed those fears this week and declared that he knows he faces a fight for a place in the first team and has no intention of giving up on his career as a Gunner, even if his Chilean rival does also commit his future to the club.

they had at least one ligitamate goal, they are 17 pts ahead of us, they are better, giroud does not belong on the same pitch as kane, he has been a 5 yr joke, we always talk about getting a world class center forward, we never do, gabriel is a disaster in the box, lets face it, we are a 6th place team...

Wojciech Szczesny expects to regain his place in the Arsenal team to face Stoke City on Sunday, despite the furore over him smoking a cigarette in the shower area of the dressing room after his most recent appearance...

Wayne Rooney has told reporters that the pride of Manchester is at stake this weekend as United face City at Old Trafford, with both teams looking to consolidate their places in the Premier League's top four.

Los Cafeteros are set to face Argentina in the quarter - finals, having escaped from the group stage as one of the two best third - placed teams.

I thought he made the wrong choice, I must say, though he would have faced more competition at our place to make the first team.

Leicester city has gone into 2nd place, and are proving to be a difficult team to beat and not to be taken lightly when facing!

Segura flipped on the game and saw her country reflected like never before in the faces of its team: Jewish Mexican - American Jonathan Bornstein, Jersey boy Michael Bradley and Nigerian - American Oguchi Onyewu placing their hands over their hearts during The Star - Spangled Banner even as the Obama Administration announced plans to use drones along the southern border that the relatives of U.S. players José Torres and Herculez Gomez had crossed.

Whether Ronaldo moves on any time soon remains to be seen as he still has a lengthy contract in place, but Bale will also have his own aspirations of wanting to become the face of the team and a leader on the pitch as his ageing teammate will surely start to show signs of decline before too long.

We all love giroud but there game s where we need a cf which is speedy when facing teams that place their hopes on defence like chelsea which is not his game because he does not contribute nothing.if wenger still places his hope on giroud next season im afraid we will be in trouble.what we need during the transfer is a young cf who wont demand game time but willing to improve fast someone like leccazete the french kid, now that should be our target

If Arsenal are going to keep hold of Olivier Giroud this summer as Arsene Wenger has suggested he will, then the big centre forward will be only too aware that he faces a fight for his place in the first team.

The team will look to build on their lead over second placed UCLAN, when the face University of Manchester next week.

With Arsenal taking a 4 - 1 win to Russia in the Europa League this week, even the fact that CSKA Moscow are a tougher team to face on their own turf, the feeling is that the tie is abut over, so with the Gunners also now in touching distance of Chelsea in the fifth Premier League place, there is an argument that Arsene Wenger should have one eye on our EPL game at the weekend.

They will get a chance to take over 1st place in the Standings on Wednesday Night when they face Team Gphi / Sammy's who are currently up on them by 13 points.

On the face of it, the appointment could simply look like a team owned by Christian Horner opting for a driver who showed some great racecraft on his way to securing third place overall in GP3.

Arsenal's second team is preparing to face Cologne in Germany tonight hoping to secure top place in our qualifying group, and it is fair to say that if our reserves play with the same heart that the First XI did on Saturday then they will win this match very easily indeed.

Jackson was adamant about playing quarterback in the NFL — which shouldn't have been in question in the first place — and a team like the Dolphins could make him the face of their franchise.

The draw for Round Four took place shortly after the end of the game, and of the ten Premier League teams left in the competition, eight have been drawn to face each other with some mouth - watering ties.

On Tuesday, Manchester City went to Romania to face the team currently sitting in second place in the Romanian League, Steaua Bucharest.

Only Wanyama retained his place in the starting line - up from the team that faced Rochdale in the FA Cup last week.

David versus Goliath once again happens in this Serie A weekend as relegation zone team, Carpi, faces Napoli, the league's first place...

Manchester United was the first team out of the draw and therefore placed in Group A where they would be joined by a team from Pot B, Pot C, and Pot D. Turkish side Fenerbahce joined United in Group A, which will be the first time Robin van Persie will face his former club, providing he remains at the club.

However, Tottenham will face four teams who are currently placed in the bottom - half of the table in their next four games after this international break.

What could give Ireland hope is that while they are facing the one team in the playoffs with the highest UEFA co-efficient, Bosnia take the worst defensive record into the playoffs of all the third - placed teams from qualification.