Sentences with phrase «played against him a couple»

«I only know him really from the Bundesliga and I've played against him a couple of times in the Premier League as well,» Xhaka is quoted in the Independent.

«We've played against them a couple times this year and they are a really tough team to play.

As with You're Next, Barrett's screenplay moves quickly, the skills David picked up while serving coming into fast, impactful play against a couple of school bullies who have targeted Luke.

Not exact matches

I hope to see our players making amends and scoring a couple of goals when playing against Dinamo at Home.

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.

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.

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.

While his playing partner for the first two rounds of the Valspar, Jordan Spieth, gets around Augusta pretty well (one win, in 2015, plus two ties for second and a T11), Woods cautioned against overlooking old - timers like Fred Couples, Bernhard Langer, Phil Mickelson, and himself.

On Sunday Night they played without a huge chunk of their starting lineup and coupled that with a Game against # 2 Team Maione.

They came up against Team Apuli who shed themselves of a bad losing skid a couple weeks ago and are now playing their best ball of the year..

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.

Since we had played on Thursday, I had a couple of extra days to get ready for our next game against the Arizona Cardinals.

But 6 to 7 years ago, all young players were getting many first team opportunity in the form of substitution, CL matches were we already topped the group with couple of group matches to be played, PL matches where we already won like 4 - 0 score with 30 minutes to go against lesser team, Carling cups etc..

If we get through to the semis or even quarters and get drawn against a Man City or Man United we should play a strong line up with only couple of fringe players from Chambers, Holding, Elneny, Wilshere, etc and couple of youth players on the bench (Nelson, Maitland - Niles, Nketiah, etc)!

With Arsenal playing Liverpool this weekend, here's a look at some memorable Gunners strikes against the Reds, including some absolute beauties from the legendary duo of Thierry Henry and Robert Pires, as well as a couple from flops like Andrey Arshavin and Julio Baptista!

«I've played with Mikel for a couple of years now and I played against him [at Everton] when I was at Bolton on loan and he was the best player on the pitch.

I would expect Hernandez to play a part now that he appears to have recovered, and Carroll does have a very good record of scoring against Arsenal as witnessed in the 3 - 3 draw a couple of seasons ago, and even in his Newcastle days.

Cazorla, mind you, has started the last couple of games at central midfield — in the Champions League against Besiktas and in the Premier League against Leicester — and looks to have played his part to perfection.

watching my team against Ireland yesterday even tough we won i wasn, t impressedit, we only start playing with purpose when we go behind and when we, re in front we slow down our play, i thought koscielny had a decent game with a couple of good clearance and his job was made more difficult by adil rami who is a burden on the team and always one mistake away, giroud can, t be blamed for his first half performance the guy was starved of any service and it, s only when griezman was moved to his favourite position that giroud started making the difference what a great assist, by the way shane long dived for the penalty but that, s ok we are square now with the irish we had henry, s handball & they had the penalty!!

I have only seen kondogbia play 3 or 4 times.a couple of great performances against us and watched him a couple of times in the French league.

I mean, he hasn't exactly thrived so far playing in hand - chosen situations, so maybe throwing him into the deep end against a couple of the best is worth a shot.

The BCS Championship against Oklahoma was defined by a couple of plays, and the Gators made those plays.

Arsenal do not play again for nearly two weeks due to the international break, but after that great performance and result against Manchester United yesterday, at least it will be a happy and optimistic couple of weeks.

The Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey may have only played a couple of half games for the Gunners since returning from his hamstring injury sustained in our opening match against Liverpool, but he is certain to start tonight for Wales against Serbia in the crucial World Cup Qualifying game.

Opsina saved us a couple times already, we can't keep playing that high line against their quick forwards.

And it was the skipper that nearly got England off to a flyer, when he was played through in the opening minutes with a chance eerily similar to one he converted against Tottenham for Manchester United just a couple of weeks ago.

«I remember playing against Brazil a couple of years ago and thinking «wow, I've never played a team like it»,» Bent said.

Couple that with Wenger's own under - management of players and tactical laziness / disrespect to opposition, and you have yesterday at Anfield, the 6 - 0 at Chelsea, the 5 - 1 at Anfield a few years ago, the 6 - 3 at Man City, the destruction TWICE by Bayern (who claimed we were easy to play against), the weak - willed defeats against anyone well organised like Watford or West Brom, etc..

«I knew there was interest in me when I came over last year and trained for a couple of weeks, then after Christmas things started to ramp up, being able to play against Paris Saint - Germain and Arsenal in the Emirates Cup [last summer for Red Bulls] gave me an insight and knowledge into what I need to be successful here.»

His best bet is either the Seahawks if he wants to stay in the NFC and top to play Dallas multiple times over the next couple years, or the AFC South matches up against Dallas this year.

By making him captain it could create an Arteta type situation, where hes not good enough to get in the team but he must play cos he's captain.Although i have to say Ramsey is good enough to get into the team, but in central area not on the wing, it might work against the average epl team but against the better teams it doesn't work, like wen we tried that a couple of seasons ago.

With countless internationals with experience of playing all over Europe, coupled with their ability to compete against the likes of Chelsea and Man City in the Champions League, they have enough to suggest that they certainly would be involved in the title race at the very least.

Giroud may not be good enough to lead the line BUT he is good enough for Arsenal, he has a habbit of scoring when he hasn't played a couple games and I do think he has a role in the team against the «bully boy» oppositions who think football is Rugby.

NY - Gunner I am a realist I have an understanding of business, finances, and long time ago a little time in owning, managing, and playing in a non professional fotball club / legue, untill recently I was a strong suporter of AW and the business model of Arsenal FC but last couple of seasons I don't like what I see and it goes against everything what a competitive football club is all about, personally I have nothing against AW but a lot of fond memories but all good things come to an end, knowing when your time is up is a true professional I just hope AW knows what his doing.

The Gunners have needed extra time in all three of the games played at the home of English football in the last couple of years and we even had to endure the tension of a penalty shoot out in the semi-final against Wigan Athletic last season.

the very first game they played was a couple miles from my home town against the Arcola Independents.

But if you were to tell me Juventus would go through this eight - day stretch where they play at Napoli, at Olympiacos and at home against Inter and pick up seven of nine points a couple of weeks ago, I'd probably would have been totally okay with it.

He has been left on the bench for the past couple of games, but somehow I can see him being picked for our visit and we all know what an impressive record he has when playing against us.

We can not say Rosicky is a dead body and cant score goals it is just the injury that reduced his quality.I hope everyone knows how Rosicky was in his form b4 injury, and i appreciate what Wenger is doing to play him for a couple of time and see his improvement.Wish to see the combination of Cesc, Song, Nasri and Rosicky on sunday match against Man city.

Sadio Mane, the team's best player, missed all of January playing in the African Cup of Nations tournament, a couple of key pieces picked up injuries, and Liverpool went 0 — 3 — 1 against Sunderland, Swansea City, Manchester United, and Chelsea.

Right now in the Academy, it looks as if winger Madger Gomes has been spending time at left back, as he has come in and played at left - back a couple of times in preseason and in the League Cup match against Port Vale.

Team News & lineups: One problem for Barcelona is the fact that they are playing so many games since the start of the year that Luis Enrique might choose to rest a few players in next couple of games including Sundays clash against Levante and midweek Copa Del Rey dead - rubber second leg tie against Valencia.

The former has played against us a few times and I've thought he was pretty lively on every occasion, and the latter has won the League One title in the not - so - distant past, and scored a screamer against us a couple of years ago.

I think playing at home against a dodgy defense he will be the key for Arsenal and I expect him to add couple of more assists into his already impressive season.

Should United play the way they did against Stoke, few would bet against them putting together a winning run, particularly in this most unpredictable of seasons, where Arsenal, everyone's favourites until a couple of weeks ago, have now fallen to fourth, just five points clear of Van Gaal's side.

The news piece made up a construct of inane syntaxes coupled with dismal play of words made a bold prediction arguing the reasons as to why Stoke City would triumph against Crystal Palace.

We spoke about this couple of games in the period when we played against Spurs, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool.

He has played with and against Carlos Tevez for many years and seen him in training every day for a couple of years so he was giving me little bits of advice on how to play him.

Their slick build - up play was virtually none existent in a mundane 0 - 0 draw against Chelsea, and worryingly Robin van Persie has barely had as sniff of a goal in the last couple of games.

He's a nightmare to play against, and the idea that his presence inherently restricts us to hoofing it up the pitch was just an overreaction to a couple of games where we did that as a last resort.