Sentences with phrase «play against his former club»

«Sometimes when you are too focused you are not relaxed, so it's a zone where everything looks easy and sometimes when you play against your former club you are not necessarily in that zone.»

While Robin Van Persie will have enjoyed playing against his former club more than Danny Welbeck did, it is Wenger who really needs to look at the upcoming January transfer window and make radical changes to his squad, with Vermaelen a potential loan target.

Pavel Pogrebnyak, playing against his former club, is likely to have a point to prove and should be the dangerman for the home side.

Judging by his performances since returning, Danny seems hungry to make an impact and playing him against his former club will give him an added incentive to put in a match - winning performance.

«We all want to do well when we play against our former club, to show we are great players, but it is not easy to deal with the mental aspect of it,» said Wenger, reports Guardian.

Aaron Lennon, playing against his former club, had his best game yet for Burnley and, although he won just 7 % of the vote, came in third whilst fourth place went to the returning James Tarkowski who just beat Ashley Westwood with both having a 5 % share of the vote.

Not exact matches

Salah was playing against Roma, his former club where he finished as the team's top goalscorer last season.

He has done it against Leicester and I won't be surprise if he scores against his former club (manu) or plays a huge part in that game.

The boss also revealed that our long term absentee Theo Walcott is actually fit to play and by saying that, I think that Wenger is seriously considering throwing the speed merchant on from the start against his former club.

Benitez played Bale in that central role last night against his former club and after scoring the second goal in their win, the Madrid star talked about his role and pleaded with his new manager to play him there all the time in order to get the best from him.

I don't think Walcott should start this gamHTMLe against his former club because he hardly does well there whenever he went there to play for Arsenal.

this man is so self - absorbed... does he really think that we should feel so honored that he chose to stay with little old us... does he not understand that many of us would have literally driven him to the ends of the earth if he promised never to return... has anyone noticed that the only teams he says are interested in him are some of the biggest clubs in the world whose managers spend freely, follow through on their promises or are terminated, listen to their fan - bases, have a lot of strong personalities within their squads, rarely play their top players out of position, win against their top rivals or suffer the wrath, don't blame the ref after every loss and embrace their former stars... even if his stories had any truth to them, he would last but a cup of coffee

The former England striker, who played for both clubs despite their historic rivalry, made the claim that United should have little trouble against the Spaniards, based on how Liverpool played against them in the group stage.

Blackpool's summer was played out against the backdrop of continued fan protests against the ownership of Karl Oyston and it comes as no surprise that they are struggling, but Ishmael Miller's equaliser against his former club at the Riverside Stadium gives them a platform to build on.

These were the players who had good preseason.Xhaka and Elneny played against Chelsea in their former club.

The Sky Sports pundit cited Arsene Wenger's poor record against Jose Mourinho as a reason behind why he doesn't believe his former club will return home with a win, while Lawrenson has questioned Mourinho's tactics and believes he'll play for the draw.

They are playing against Livermore's former club Tottenham on the weekend, and need a win to keep up with Newcastle United and Sunderland.

«I've played against Barnsley before and in your career you play against loads of former clubs,» said Heckingbottom.

He had the side playing some truly magnificent football, leading to «that» Battocchio goal against Huddersfield, commentators comparing the Hornets» playing style to Barcelona's and rumours of interest in his services from former club Chelsea.

The first time around Juventus played Fiorentina, Bernardeschi played the role of late - game substitute, only getting about 10 minutes of game time in his first appearance against his former club.

For Stoke, Blues loanee Kurt Zouma was ineligible to play against his parent club while Stoke were also without Ryan Shawcross, Bruno Martins Indi, Erik Pieters and former Chelsea defender Glen Johnson.

Leicester had to play the final four minutes with 10 men, after Danny Drinkwater saw red against his former club for picking up two yellow cards, but United should have seen Marouane Fellaini sent off earlier for a double assault on Robert Huth.

Petr Cech was always going to be a key figure in this fixture, playing his first real game for the gunners against his former club.

Conte thought that Alonso would be able to fit seamlessly into his new system after having played as a wing - back at his former club, but his performance against Hull left a lot to be desired.

Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho, has said that playing against Liverpool means more to him than facing his former club, Chelsea.

Now at the age of 40 he has admitted whilst promoting his new autobiography that he deliberately gave away the spot kick against his former club Sparta Prague's main challengers for the Championship title, Liberec, whilst playing for minnows Ceske Budejovice.

A weird trivia from the game: Dragan Stojković, the Red Star legend («Zvezdina zvezda», just like our ex-player Vladimir Petrović Pižon - Pidgeon) and one of favourite Arsene Wenger's players, played for Olympique against his former club but didn't want to be among the five designated penalty takers.

The fifth - round tie was the first game the striker had started in this season's competition, having previously played just 10 minutes of the replay against his former club Fleetwood last month.

The former Nigeria youth international missed his club 1 - 4 hammering in the hands of Zulte - Waregem in the Belgium play - offs due to an injury he picked up in their previous game against Kortrijk.

United still hold a club record today for the biggest victory, which was against Anderlecht in the game played on the 26th September 1956, a fortnight after the first match between the two clubs, with United winning 10 - 0 in a match due to be played at Old Trafford, but a floodlight failure moved the game to Manchester City's former home, Maine Road.

By Paul Nicholson March 4 — The five - year long New York court case following the sale of Liverpool Football Club to Fenway Sports Group revealed this week former owner George Gillett Jr is still paying # 125,000 a month in debt repayments for a loan secured against the club, and that the new owners felt that due to the aging playing squad the # 295 million price was in fact an overpayment for the asClub to Fenway Sports Group revealed this week former owner George Gillett Jr is still paying # 125,000 a month in debt repayments for a loan secured against the club, and that the new owners felt that due to the aging playing squad the # 295 million price was in fact an overpayment for the asclub, and that the new owners felt that due to the aging playing squad the # 295 million price was in fact an overpayment for the asset.