Sentences with phrase «players at key times»

Not exact matches

You will always be missing your key players at some pt in time in the season.

Having your strongest players available at all times is key and we have only addressed fitness staff in the past two years which is beyond comprehendable considering how long it's affected us.

What is interesting to note is that both Leicester and Spuds had no real long term injury casualties to their key players this season, whereas Arsenal had Cazorla, Coq and Sanchez out for a long period at one time or another... And we should not assume that even if AFC had purchased quality cover for their positions, we are guaranteed to be better off than where we are now.

The Spain international became a key player at the Nou Camp during Guardiola's time in charge, and he seems ideal for how he likes his sides to play.

True that we are missing Cazorla and Coquelin badly and Alexis was out for a long time, but if you can't win at West Brom and Norwich without one key player it's sad.

And when you look at the table of top creators on Squawka.com you can see that the German is in a class of his own when it comes to actually creating, with his 113 key passes being twice that of great players like Lionel Messi and three times that of Leicester star Riyad Mahrez.

Having established himself as a key figure at Ajax with regular playing time, time will tell if the youngster himself even wants to make such a move so early in his career as he could risk being a bit - part player to start.

Okay it will be a shock if either wins it but they have both been blessed with hardly any injury problems and things have just gone their way at crucial times, while Wenger has had to cope with dodgy referee decisions as well as big injuries to key players like Cazorla, Alexis, Coquelin, Welbeck, Wilshere and more.

I mean people underestimate us we made defensive improvements / additions mid way through the season & we had many key players out injured at the begging of the season all at the same time missing 2 of our main goal scores.

The 31 - year - old has been a key player for Les Bleus in recent years, but his lack of playing time at club level could start to hurt his chances ahead of next summer's World Cup.

I just got excited that we're on a bit of a roll, key players hitting form at right time, others coming back from injury.

I believe due to the amount of competitions we are in that wenger could be trying to avoid overplaying key players but at the same time adapting new members to the team so they can gel.

But for sure underinvestment doesn't deliver especially if u want to compete on two big fronts... Bellerin is the first of our young players to come through in quite some time lots of expectation in last 6 years but can't think of a real quality player from the academy... Wilshere might if injuries hadn't prevented... Spurs now looking better on that front Attitude is key I agree totally... love the way Leicester hunt down ball in packs and break with 3 or even 4 players moving at speed...

A limp performance like the one against Chelsea, mistakes at crucial times from key players at both ends of the pitch and the age old problem of injury problems and Arsene Wenger seeming to be the only man on the planet that thinks his Arsenal squad has enough quality and quantity.

Good squad rotation (which our manager is not good at) will be key during these time and of course good form by the players too.

There have been promising signs and the international break comes at a good time so we can start again with key players like Walcott and Ramsey returning.

A club run by joe Lewis lol when was the last fuking time Spurs won a trophy give it a fuking rest Wenger has won more trophies then spuds in their whole fuking history Sick of plastic fans constantly knocking the manager and players like you are fuking genius experts in knowing all about football We have the worst fan base in football a bunch of ingrates Why would any top player come and join Arsenal when they see how fans treat their own players like ozil Lol at people talking about Spurs and pool fukers don't win any trophies but their fans stay loyal ours turn nasty every game werther we win or lose It won't change even if we get a new manager they will turn on him at first defeat What we need is for the vocal minority of plastic key board fans to fuk off and stop bringing the club down Coyg

so much goals from so many arsenal players with no news of injury on the horizon??? while city's key players aguero and silva get injured almost at the same time?

He also needs to stop giving the keys of the game to his pet players (Barton, Nelson at the time, Devon Harris).

overwhelm Stoke in the first 30 minutes of the match, then sub key players for the CL match at half time.

Arsenal spent more time than any of our EPL rivals on top of the table and had it not been for unlucky injury blows to big players at key periods of the campaign I reckon we would have done it.

He may have ended up an outcast at Newcastle, but there was a time when he was their key player.

At a time when we could have finished second and even first if Chelsea dropped points we had almost a full strength team, no key players out injured and almost finished the season 4th.

I absolutely appreciate everything that Arsene has done for the club, but I would agree that at this point, his inability to be flexible at key moments in time — tactics prior to a game, tactics during a game, player rotation, substitutions in key area, accurate purchases at key areas, team selection, etc. — continues to hold us back.

people are pointing out that is Kroenke's fault but the reality is Koroenke did not buy yaya Sanogo, Kallstrom, Park Yung and last year Takuma Assano (loaned to germany) to mention few of the average players got in transfers.Kroenke gave 100 million last summer so why not going for Abumayang at that time for 60 - 70 millions or Lacaztte (40 — 50 reports in Spain indicate he's going to Atletico) and another 30 - 40 millions for DM (we got Xhaka but i believe next season the guy will be much better) so the lack of reinforcing the Key positions needed is his fault.

Giroud has good games when he moved about, closes people down and use that frame of his to his advantage, a key player at times.

I think we still need a couple of players in key areas to make sure we have enough quality at all times even if players are out injured or lacking form.

The UFC simply grew too fast in relation their own organisational capabalities and it cannot / could not cope with it, hence Ferritta's sold it at the perfect time, now they have an aging staff minus some of the key players (e.g. Joe Silva etc.) with an old business model and old thinking processes with same old leaders (e.g. Dana), but now operating under totally new realities, many more fighters, fighters attitude have changed, different landscape in the sporting world in general (from how sport fans consume sports, viewing habbits,...)

U can't be an arsenal fan and at the same time you blast your key players.

Arsenal are also seeing the return of a number of players, and although key stars like Aaron Ramsey and Jack Wilshere still face some time on the sidelines, things aren't looking as bleak as they have been at times this season.

With the domestic title being our clear priority, the game at Stamford Bridge is obviously the most important and with the timing of the fixtures, we might have to rest a few key players in midweek because the Chelsea game kicks off at 12.45 on Saturday, giving the players just two days in between games and a long flight.

And at 3nil down at half time, he should have took the spuds game into consideration and took off 3 key players!

An all - time midfield great, Barcelona star Xavi is no surprise in this best XI, having shown himself to be a key player in Guardiola's style of play at Barca.

Although an injury to a key player is never welcomed this could not have come at a much more worse time for the Gunners as several other stars are already absent.

There is perhaps a small risk of a key player picking up a knock and being ruled out of the trip to Manchester but that can happen at any time and should not stop the boss using his players if it is the best thing for the club at the time.

Of course an injury can occur at any time, but with Arsenal missing key players like Cazorla, Bellerin, Welbeck and Mertesacker, are we hoping for Chelsea and Man City to have problems in order to even things up and give us a realistic shot at the EPL title?

With Arsenal failing to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in Arsene Wenger's tenure at the club, there are understandably a lot of question marks in regards to the futures of some key players at the club.

Five reasons: 1) our defence lacks organisation when key personal are missing (although having regular back line will help stop this); 2) we still play the old tiki taka rule game which doesn't work so well against the bigger teams; 3) we will have key injuries to players at the wrong times; 4) too many suicidal back passes in midfield against better opposition picks us off; 5) jury still out on Lacazette

All the financial figures (that you took the time to research) which proves that Arsenal had money to spend, the socialist wage structure, the tactical ineptness of the manager, the signing of rubbish players at high salaries and panic - buys, not strengthening key positions etc etc etc all became false to you.

BTW: other teams are praying to have their injured key stars back on the pitch in time so they could pick up form... But its only at Arsenal dat a player would be out for abt 6 months, returns to training 8 months Later and join d 1st team 4 months later... Who exactly is wenger reserving walcott for?

Song was a key player during his time at Arsenal, but has since struggled to find his best form after limited opportunities at the Nou Camp, plus a frustrating season for Sam Allardyce's side, whose own decline in form over the course of the campaign may have hindered his individual displays.

You can look back at the last few seasons and point to things that went wrong for Arsenal, such as the injury problems that hit our key players including Theo Walcott, Mesut Ozil and Aaron Ramsey at the same time after the Gunners were looking good to finally reclaim the Premier League title.

At any rate who cares if Le Coq ai nt going to the euro's it does nt affect us, it also worth noting that the season ticket letters go out in a few weeks wich means we will be linked to every player under the sun until that time is done and then we'll end up with noone new cos as Wenger said last season «there are no available players out there who are better than what we have» nice play on words there the key word being «Available» No one is available unless its on a freeand that means they are too old or are sh!t Wenger just wont spend the money that we do have but he has too if he wants to win anything worth a damn

Like all seasons — I pray we don't get smashed with too many injuries all at the same time... injuries will happen... let's hope nothing serious to key players and any injuries are spaced out!

As we saw with J.J. Watt and just about every major offensive player in the league, key injuries can come at any time.

There were times during Pep Guardiola's reign at the Allianz Arena when opposition coaches raised the white flag well before kick - off, sending out a weakened side to spare key players the futile effort and embarrassment.

But the loss of so many key players for months at a time (including the loss of an entire speciality — full backs — for weeks and weeks) has clearly had a big impact on our ability to get a consistent run of form going.

As this is pre-season this will be a time for the managers to look at new players of course as well as trying to avoid their key players picking injuries.

Senad Lulic 6: A player who has made the difference in the Derby Della Capitale a number of times, Lulic was, once again, one of Lazio's key players, making a number of contributions to attacks and not at fault for the goals conceded by his side.

Wenger still went out and paid 8M on him at a time when we needed strength and quality at the back, he told us in the summer he would rectify last years defensive frailties and this guy was to be one of the key signings, fact is, hes useless and always has been, as usual with Wenger his judgement was clouded by the fact that a player is French, it seems to be the thing that tips the scale with him in favour of some of these guys.