Sentences with phrase «play against the league»

Seabrook and Keith, who've logged big minutes playing against the league's top lines, were crucial to Chicago's leading the Western Conference in goal differential in 2009 - 10.

They have been bitten by the injury bug and it is not helping their cause, especially when they are playing against the League's best.

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Not exact matches

Facing off against a Texans team that gives the fifth most points up to tight ends in the league, he's a good play this week as well.

He would repeat the trick as a teenager, playing in a professional league against grown men; even when he made it to the NHL, his stature and physical tools were dwarfed by his opponents.

In my opinion it would be silly not to play our strongest side against the strongest of European opponents and that of course means the Champions League winner Petr Cech in goal ahead of David Ospina.

He should play domestic cup games and league home games against relatively easier oppositions to make him grow further.

you also have to consider that giroud managed to do so in the world's toughest league as opposed to la liga where benzema only had atletico and barca as the only tough teams to play against.

We have a strong squad for playing in the Europa League, Premier League and the final of Capital One Cup against Chelsea.

Forster has shot to prominence with his displays for Celtic over the last couple of years, but has now moved on from the Glasgow club despite their Champions League reprieve and upcoming play - off tie against Slovenian champions Maribor.

He's just finally being exposed because every team in the league knows how to play against us now, and Arsene has no response.

Arsenal have gone seven home league matches in a row without conceding a goal from open play — all four goals against them in that period have been penalties.

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.

this is a man who played yaya sanogo against bayern munich in the knock out stage of the champions league rather than buy reinforcements

Wengers method of bluffing the board & fans to keep him for a further season... > We loose enough games to take us completely off winning the league, then say it wasn't in our control, we then fight till the end and win last few games so we look good and like we worked hard to earn the 4th place trophy.He then links us with awesome transfers (which we all know wont happen), and finally while Man U / City and Chelsea organise pre-season friendlies against top clubs, we play the weak ones, win and look all good to go next season without any additions... AND THEN REALITY STRIKES..

Arsene Wenger was never going to come out and say that Arsenal are out of the Champions League, as we still have the second leg against Barcelona at the Nou Camp to play in a couple of weeks.

The interviewer continued to question the tactics of the Frenchman, insinuating that it would be a risk to play openly against the Premier League leaders.

The Dutchman was forced to play alongside Chris Smalling at the heart of United's defence during their Premier League season opener against Tottenham Hotspur at the weekend and his performance was questioned by some in the media, who don't feel he is the long - term solution in that position.

They played their best line against us and while this game is not exactly a league game it is a way to measure where we are at preparing the season.

When the odds were stacked against us and the world predicted that we would be playing Europa league in a few weeks, we went to the home of the Greek Champions and won.

If you add to that the fact that Arsenal haven't lost in any of their last 10 visits to Wembley, and the obvious inferiority complex that Tottenham have when it comes to playing Arsenal, and also that the Spuds have to play a massive Champions League game against Juventus just three days later, then it seems ridiculous that Arsenal are such a large price to win this game.

I still am not sure why Mick McCarthy opted to play such a weakened side, I know some would point out that the club went on to win their next fixture but its worth remembering that Wolves had also won their previous two matches prior to the Old Trafford clash so they would have buoyed up for the game and who knows perhaps they could have gotten a surprise result against the Premier League champions.

In 2012, on the road against Ivy League rival Cornell, Princeton fell behind by 20 in the first half, but closed the margin to 22 - 15 in the second half before a failed onside kick attempt with 1:42 to play marked the end of the rally.

the problem with arsenal is the fans we forget very easily think about the game against Chelsea we can't be a top club with players like ozil think about the amount of easy chances that you miss do any of you delusional fan think if Chelsea didn't already win the league on they're mine on vacation you think we would have so much space to play and so easy.just think about we were winning the 50/50 challenge when does that happen we still need five new players

I think his only experience of premier league teams is playing in the Champions League, at home against Chelsea and wileague teams is playing in the Champions League, at home against Chelsea and wiLeague, at home against Chelsea and winning.

Playing for England against the likes of Estonia and Slovenia is completely different to playing for Arsenal against any Premier League or Champions League oppoPlaying for England against the likes of Estonia and Slovenia is completely different to playing for Arsenal against any Premier League or Champions League oppoplaying for Arsenal against any Premier League or Champions League opposition.

We do have a Champions League game against Dinamo Zagreb on the Tuesday after the international break but it is at home and we do play on the Saturday beforehand.

There have been suggestions that the boss made some sort of promise to Ospina about his playing opportunities and from the first two games in the Champions League, especially the second game against Olympiacos when we were under great pressure to win, it seems like the Colombian is the first choice for all of the Arsenal cup games.

The games against Cornell and Penn, the two other Ivy League schools playing sprint, always mean just a little more than the others.

What has changed is just because we want to play against the top teams and we want to be in the Champions League.

Hopefully, we grind out three points against a tired Lazio side that has been stretched between serie A, Europa league and 120 minutes of coppa italia while we've played just once in almost two weeks.

He played reasonably against the Italian side when we played them in the Europa League, but was he really that impressive?

«Obviously it is pleasing, first of all to be able to help the team with important goals in a Champions League knockout game [and] of course to come back to England and [win] against a team you're always motivated to play against,» Suarez told UEFA.com (via Daily Mail).

All three of our away games in Europe are to be played on Tuesday, leaving plenty of time for the team to recover before the next league match and although one of those matches is the north London derby it is at the Emirates stadium and is going to be played on the Sunday, so the European game should not affect our chances, especially as it is against Lodogorets, the weakest team in the group.

He's in the league's concussion protocol now, but the team is «optimistic» that he'll be cleared to practice and play in the Super Bowl against the Eagles.

The players will know they need to bounce back this weekend and with the Champions League trip to face Bayern Munich coming up they are playing for their places, so expect a strong response against Hull.

We also know how the FA cup draws have been very kind to Arsenal (e.g. playing a weak Man Utd in transition under Van Gaal, sending offs going in our favour, and drawn against countless non league or weaker teams compared to our EPL rivals etc)

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 lLeague and be a part of this leagueleague.

The Ivory Coast international was denied entry to the UK last season as a result of his conviction, meaning he was unable to play against Arsenal in the Champions League.

We've played against every team in the league now and only one of our 5 losses did we feel that we got outplayed and did nt deserve to win.

As if I didn't know that Flamini left because of being subbed off in the champions league final against Barcelona, He was playing as a LB that day.

For starters we all know for sure that Santi Cazorla will not be playing, in fact it is now a full year since he last took to the pitch in a Champions League game against Ludgorets.

They play like two different teams against Team Apuli and against the rest of the League... They'll need to figure out how to treat everyone like Team Apuli and then they will be unstoppable.

Arsene Wenger will hopefully not have to look for any reasons why Arsenal do not win away against relegation threatened Sunderland tomorrow, as we really need a good performance and the right result from the lads to go back above Man City and take a step closer to ensuring that we have a place in the Champions League next season and do not have the stress and inconvenience of a play off.

They went up against Team Zimmerman who is one of the most dynamic in the League and they just didn't play their best..

They have been playing many of the League's best Teams and tough over the past few weeks but this one just got away from them against Team Deutsch.

We all know that Danny Welbeck is really Arsenal's third - choice striker behind Aubameyang and Laczette, but with Lacazette out injured Arsene Wenger had no choice but to play Danny Welbeck in the Europa League game against Ostersund.

Natomas, which has not exceeded six wins in a season and has qualified for the Sac - Joaquin Section playoffs only twice since nearby Inderkum opened in 2005, entered their October 27 meeting against Capital Christian - Sacramento with a 5 - 3 record and a 2 - 1 mark in Golden Empire League play.

The 19 year - old has not yet played a League match for Leicester's first team but won the Academy Player of the Year last season and played a full 90 minutes against Hull in the League Cup this season.