Sentences with phrase «play against better players»

You have to play against better players to improve your own game.
It is a great challenge to be playing against the best players in the world and I always wanted to play in the Premier League and be a part of this league.
Imran Tahir's broken finger means he will not play against the best players of spin in the world.
I am looking at it as a great opportunity to play against the best players in the state.»
«Layla Guscoth has come of age this season — defensively she has been fantastic she has played against the best players in the league and she has got the ball off them.
«You are playing against better players and it raises your concentration levels.
«it's a pity that he (Ibrahimovic) can't play — he's a great player and you always want to play against good players.

Not exact matches

Walmart's scale and presence as the world's largest retailer not only starts to level the playing field with the world's top e-commerce player, Amazon, but it also puts the company in a better position to win against competing budget - friendly retailers like Costco, Target and Kroger.
Mertesacker is the type that will win headers that go towards him, but if he has to move for it then he's in trouble, but he's very good at positioning himself so it's not that big a deal, though when he does get caught out it seems to stick in my head for a while, like against Anderlecht... Players like Koscielny and Gabriel are a lot more mobile, they move and attack the ball when it's played into their area.
«In terms of the players that played well against us, there was Lewandowski, Alaba, Boateng and Xabi Alonso.
Positives: We played much better against the parked bus of Chelsea, Wilshere looked very good, Flamini had a surprisingly good game, If that had been at the Emirates I believe we'd have won, we got no injuries also, all our players had a good game apart from a certain German.
With his doubles against Sunderland and Burnley, the 25 - year old has bagged eight goals in those six games and for a player that does not even play as the main central striker, it just shows you how good Alexis is and the fantastic form he has found since swapping La Liga for the English Premier League.
Between the halves, U.S. Coach Buzz Bennett, an earnest young man but hardly closer to first - rank as a coach than his players, tried to goad his men to better performances by saying, «Don't you guys realize that's a high school team you're playing against?
it is his fault Bolly from Borehamwood He gets paid in excess of eight million a year to have alternatives when things go bad, to motivate players when the run of play is against them, to buy players who are capable and good enough to NOT hit the woodwork time and time again, to sell players who are off form and who fail to deliver on thier promised talent, in effect TO MANAGE the team.
after our loss to everton i'm more confident now that we're going to win against man city we are going to want to bounce back and city missing key players like aguero, fernandinho, gundogan is a good time to play them and i want yaya toure to play we know that defensively he is useless so we can hit them on the counter attack!!
Did he became bad player by coming to arsenal??? 3) Arsenal best wins like against Borussia dortmund away, Liverpool at home, napoli at home, where we totally dominated the opponents, came when wilshere was not playing??? 4) Our worst defeat like BD at home, Liverpool away, Manchester City away came when Wilshere played??
Not only was SMU forbidden to compete against NCAA teams for a year, it also lost 1988 thanks to being barred from playing home games and dealt with a player exodus, a financially disastrous bowl and TV ban through 1989, as well as heavy recruiting and staffing penalties.
Perez was playing against Barca, Real Madrid, against some of the best players in the world and held his own.
The Championship club are well safe but have no real chance of the play - offs so will probably rest key players and go easy against Leeds on Saturday.
I am not against rosicky getting playing time, just think we have better players in need of more playing time at the moment.
Ozil is only very good if you have a better team than all the teams you are playing against, he needs to be in a team that has top players in every position and they all basically have to be very comfortable on the ball.
Some could say their PDO is low because they play against top players and they start in their own zone more often... But Emelin - Subban's PDO is very good, despite being used in similar situations.
For one thing the players will have been blasted by their manager and will be keen to put their disappointment behind them and to be honest they did the same against us recently, playing much better than they had in Europe a few days before.
Saw him play recently against Juve and he was Roma's best player hands down.
One of the other reasons we lost I believe was because we didn't play our best players of those who were available and played a midfielder in defence who hasn't played there before against the best team in England, yeah of course that doesn't mean we would have won.
You are spot on on Perez being better than ozil if he's given the chance, but neither of them are at wilshere's level when fit Wilshere is aggressive, you can't get the ball off him unless you foul him which gives us enough set pieces, he's a big game player, watch our games against Bayern, barca, Chelsea, man city, man utd e.t.c when he plays, he creates more chances You just need to watch his games even at Bournemouth against Chelsea, which brings me back to the point that, no coach will ever play ozil while Wilshere is fit except wenger............ Plus, ozil is a pu ** y or a weakling rather
That Goretzka fellow looks an awkward player to play against, good feet for such large dude, he reminds me a little of Fellaini or how I'd imagine we'd have used Fellaini when we wanted him that time.
Tiger's job is to play golf and prove to the world that he can compete against the best players in the world, not to make racist statements.»
1) On the pitch: - we always start 3 -4-3 but always switch back to a back 4... it isn't tactical as we look bad in both - Bellerin playibg LWB when you have the best in the bundesliga last season on the bench - Welbeck playing the striker role when he can do everything but score when you have Lacazette a record signing on the - Monreal in back 3 when you have Kostafi who can flank Per in the middle protecting him against pace as well as having a commending figure and - Telling Xhaka to not play as a 3rd offensive player when Ramsey dashes - Playing a guy in Ox so out of position and persisting with him over preseason as if he would be there for years when it is clear he doesn't want to play for us (his case is a weiplaying the striker role when he can do everything but score when you have Lacazette a record signing on the - Monreal in back 3 when you have Kostafi who can flank Per in the middle protecting him against pace as well as having a commending figure and - Telling Xhaka to not play as a 3rd offensive player when Ramsey dashes - Playing a guy in Ox so out of position and persisting with him over preseason as if he would be there for years when it is clear he doesn't want to play for us (his case is a weiPlaying a guy in Ox so out of position and persisting with him over preseason as if he would be there for years when it is clear he doesn't want to play for us (his case is a weird one)
When you are playing football and you got a high ball to control the slightest touch will push you off it for sure eguaro pushed mustafi but mustafi should have stock his leg out to bring him down or elbowed him in the face well i would have done that Arsenal were not hungry enough for the cup if they were we would have seen some blood running down of some Manchester players Arsenal need to defend in packs of wolves The first half was not to bad we should have scored though but yes no back bone no hunger and no fight What is going to happen on Thursday how are we going to line up against them??? I need to see Arsenal fight like man stand up like man and use their skill and agility to turn Manchester to a loosing side Well if we do nt we need to separate the real man from the phony ones pewell i would have done that Arsenal were not hungry enough for the cup if they were we would have seen some blood running down of some Manchester players Arsenal need to defend in packs of wolves The first half was not to bad we should have scored though but yes no back bone no hunger and no fight What is going to happen on Thursday how are we going to line up against them??? I need to see Arsenal fight like man stand up like man and use their skill and agility to turn Manchester to a loosing side Well if we do nt we need to separate the real man from the phony ones peWell if we do nt we need to separate the real man from the phony ones period
The best player on the pitch was always the biggest grafter of the lot of us, people hated playing against him.
Expect both players to bounce back next week against the Kansas City Chiefs playing in (hopefully) better conditions.
If Sanchez is fit, its a no brainer for him to play however if he's not 100 %, I would rather he's rested against manure.he's a very important player in our tittle chase, so I prefer he's missed in one game rather than miss a couple of weeks, which could happen if he's unduly risked.for the midfield, le coq and boomer.yea carzola's absence has been felt however xhaka had his best game so far against spuds, only problem was the massive physical presence of dembele and wanyama, which fortunately manure can not boast off.so I expect we dominate them with combination of lecoq's tackling and xhaka's intricate passes and his extra physical presence.
I would just like to add as well that we played against a good Bayern team who have won this competition [recently], and who have 11 top - class players.
There are so many knee jerkers on this forum it's laughable.Spurs were better than us today.Accept it.We played the same way against Man City we won, Wenger is a genius.We play the same way again Spurs and loose.Wenger is crap.If we had played free flowing football against Spurs and lost, Wenger would have been blamed for not playing defensively.Sometimes you have to accept when a team is better.Harry Cain is a great player at the moment but lets see whether he is any good next season.
Elneny was the best player on the pitch yesterday.Surely be will play in the return against Milan?
We can always rest a few players against Burnley Also there will be 2 week international break (not all players will play) Also FA Cup Home against Reading end of next month is good time for rest
Some players though want to prove themselves and try and aim to be the best... If you want to be the best then you play in a good league and for a team who can display their quality against the other top teams.
No we hv a very good U21 side, most of our players are 16/17 year old and they play against 21 - 25 year old lads, so they are actually punching about their weight, so by the time they get to their 20s, they will either be loaned out, or given time in the first team for experience.
... Coquelin played great again considering that he was too often left too protect the back four against 2, sometimes 3 players... our team effort was poor after our goal... we needed to do better and the next few games will give us that opportunity I hope... Alexis please be back!!!!!
when we played against Monaco in the 2nd leg, the team played with what you call players better than Walcolt in more than 70 minutes and created only four goal scoring chances but after his introduction he created a chance in just 1 minutes and another chance followed after just six minutes which resulted to Ramsey's goal.
«It was very similar to the Stoke team, with a big team playing against a small team with very good players, trying to defend, trying to keep the score»
«If it happens, I could say I have made it because I have played against the best English player or Andrea Pirlo, the best Italian player».
Likewise Mertesacker has been well rested he would love to play against Koln, whilst former Southampton player Chambers would love to turn Bournemouth over.
Except for maybe Achraf, who has been playing for Castilla, players like Theo and Lorente should have done a better job against Leganea, considering they have already played against Good laliga sides prior to joining Madrid.
A claim was made that it should be obvious that the reason any player would play better in a bench role is because they'd be playing against weaker opponents.
«We played a match against our under - 18 team at the Academy the other day and it was good to see the players.
The player involved, German international winger Karim Bellarabi, must be feeling quite good about himself after scouts from Arsenal, Man City, Liverpool, Man United, Tottenham and Newcastle all turned up to watch him play for Bayer Leverkusen against the Russian club Zenit St. Petersburg in the Champions League this week.
Meanwhile, Altuve might end up with the best season ever from a player 5» 6 or shorter, even though a) he's probably shorter than that, and b) being compared against early 1900s players, who played in a league where half of the players had rickets.
Wenger from time to time has been known to play players in wrong positions and not started his best players ie Lacazette and Giroud were both on the bench against Liverpool and Welbeck started.
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