Sentences with phrase «played against a side»

If we are playing against a side we are expected to beat, well then yes it can look special.

I say we concentrate on sending them down a division or 2 so they can get used to the propect of playing against sides they'll actually face on a regular basis... especially if they play in the FA cup and Carling Cup we begin to understand how they'll stack up against Premier league opponents.....

I don't know who came up with this nonsense that you have to be samson to play against sides who sit and defend in numbers but it's one of the biggest myth I've heard.

Le Prof said in the Mirror: «We play against a side who will be motivated, but we face that every week [in the Premier League].

«In these types of games, playing against a side of that calibre, to be 1 - 0 down is difficult.

They've suffered a string of defeats since jumping up to the top flight, and it's hard to see them adapting well to playing against the side who finished top of the league last term.

He said, «It was a great feeling to finally get there, and to play against a side like that, it was an amazing day and a very proud one that I'd dreamt of for a long time.

Certainly not the performance of a team trying to break into the top six, playing against a side still not yet mathematically certain of avoiding the drop.

We are playing against a side that has won so much but our aim is to get through the group stages.

Not exact matches

It's not the first time a late, broken play has changed the outcome of bets and fantasy matchups across the country — earlier in the season the Chiefs had a similar play on «Monday Night Football» against the Redskins, leaving bettors elated or furious depending on which side of the game they were on.

Similarly, NAFTA talks are faltering because Canada has failed to play the «special relationship» card and side with Trump against Mexico's unfairly low wages of US$ 3 - 6 an hour compared with the average of US$ 30 an hour for Canadian autoworkers.

It's their way or the highway and to compromise is to show a lack of faith which means you have one side willing to make exceptions for all peoples religions as long as they don't force it on others, and the religious side that says making exceptions or compromising is against their religion so if they are not a majority in the democracy they instead decide to play obstructionist.

Imagine how calamitous Chambers was against Pool, could he have played along side Sol?

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.

We'll come up against a compact and rigid side playing on the break, first goal should be huge.

Coming up against Arsenal, it would be a no brainer to see the visitors have large spells of possession and nullify whatever little threat the home side may pose; but Johnson, playing as the Right - Winger, could initiate counterattacks with his deceptive pace and has the ability to deliver that final ball for the likes of Steven Fletcher and Conor Wickham — who could start upfront for the Black Cats against Arsenal, to finish off a goal scoring chance.

But it was over all good performance... But being Arsenal, they are very unpredictable... We can not assume that we would win comfortably against West Brom next Monday night... They are very hard to break down and it's Tony Pulis side who only play with air balls... Corners and Free kicks... So we have should not feel any euphoric feeling by this point... This should be happening week in week out....

With Luke Shaw sent off against West Ham for a quite needless second yellow, Rojo would be an able deputy on the left side of defence — switching from the central role he played against the Hammers.

We played against a Norwich side that was at the top level physically and focused.

Alexis has to play, as he has a lot to prove against the side who let him go so even though he is playing like a 1 legged donkey at the moment he could produce on the night!

For how long will this continue??? Which top side in Europe will play Sanogo in a quarter final tie against Bayern?

Arsenal have been playing pretty well, to be fair, and were the better side against the Spuds again, but one stat has made Arsene Wenger pinpoint one particular area in which we could do better and that is the set pieces.

We all know that if mou played a fundraising charity match against wenger he would start his strong side against us.

In a way I hope the young striker does get another chance to play against West Brom because we have seen signs of some real talent and the more he plays the more comfortable he will feel in the side and the better he should perform.

The 22 year - old scored against England in Turkey's recent 2 - 1 loss, and I expect him to play a key role in his side's upcoming Euro 2016 campaign, despite his young age.

Playing Flamini and BFG is more then a liability against a side like Barca, so who knows?

Arsene playing a balanced team will give you positive results, especially playing against a big team, over the past years we have continued to use players not suited for certain positions, we actually had a player who used left foot on the left side of the field who got in attacking position, Kolasinac to me was the most important player going forward and defending.

He put in a good shift but we have to remember he was playing against a Reserve Championship side at HOME.

Arsenal played brilliantly against Monaco away from home and made them look like a championship side in an FA cup game.

Against other sides, or even at home where teams come to defend an we will dominate possession then yes play him as a no 10 but away from home.

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.

We did however play with guts and good attitude today but came up against the best side, by far, in the Prem.

He said: «[There was] the one that won the treble with Ribery at full power, Robben at full power and Kroos, Schweinsteiger and Muller in midfield so I believe we have played good Bayern sides and got good results against them.»

Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, spoke of his side's disadvantage of playing at home first — therefore the north London outfit will be looking to take a big lead against the Russian side — as the Gunners» record away in eastern Europe is patchy to say the least.

I would love to see Arsenal get strong and overly physical against a liv side, they are like us they prefer an open game, I'd love to see us keep organised go strong at them and let the forwards play.

Play whoever wenger wants against bate, but I hope that he plays a strong enough side once the knockout stages begin coz it will not be easy now especially that now there are atletico madrid and bvb in the mix, plus there are already lazio, a.c.milan and I'm sure they will also want to win it....

The Bayern performance at home proved that we are a force but this demonstrated that we are a force to be reckoned with, a side that no - one wants to play against, a side by which if anyone switches off for a second, they will be forced to pay.

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?

-- Sanchez — Played 85 mins in a nil nil game against a tough Mexico side, am sure this helped in him getting his full form back.

«Monreal is playing very well, he doesn't get enough credit for the quality of his performances because against Manchester United, against Dortmund, he was in the top three for me,» said Wenger, whose side travel to West Bromwich Albion today for the early kick - off.

You as a visitor know it is going to be a tough task to play against technical Arsenal sides and it was always a big test for us but we seemed to have success in recent years.

Chambers, Holding and Bielik are not ready for prolonged spells at centre back, one or two games partnering Koscielny would be OK (depending on the opponent) but we could in theory find ourselves playing catchup with the top sides after a couple of weeks if things go wrong against Liverpool and Leicester.

Watch the 2003 - 04 game against Tottenham and let us know who was playing on the right side most of the game.

Now although this is not a given, playing it safe against a Spurs side high in confidence seems like like the right approach to take.

If wenger tries his usual Amc on the left wing against chelsea, then he is mad.Although prandelli made a mistake playing the 3 -5-2 formation in the first half against such pace in the arsenal side which clearly showed but lets not take anything away from the boys tonight.

... 2... we need a third CB... Holding is good but still too young to play weekly in EPL, Mertesacker is slow n in his final year, Gabriel is not too intelligent n flops against technical sides like Bayern, City, Liverpool... Monreal like mertesacker struggles against fast forwards plus he gives them too much space in d box with his archaic style of shadow marking..

Jabrill Peppers was making plays on all sides of the ball against Colorado.

Ozil has been questioned when it comes to the big games, that he's invisible when we play against top sides.

The lads played a good game AWAY from home against a milan side that hasn't conceded in somewhat 600 mins and we bettered the without conceeding and people come up here to make funny comments??