Sentences with phrase «playing against the best team»

No point playing him against good team an he is rusty.

This defense reminds me a lot of the Joe Lee Dunn era, dominates inferior teams and gives up huge plays against good teams.

You should see how good England are when they play against a good team even with Wilshere.

When you get to play against good teams you can get better.

«But there's nothing better than playing against the best teams.

Overall we showed that we are not that bad and that we can play against good teams, but we've seen good performances in individual games before, it's about making it through the entire season with that sort of commitment and it's all I've really asked for.

Koscielny said, «We don't have pressure like in the first game, because we play against the best team in the world.

But we played against a good team tonight as well.

We played against a good team who are very well organised and play very quick on the counter-attack.

When playing against the best teams in the world, it is the opponent who fears to step foot against that team.

as soon as we play against a good team our defense is left exposed too often.

And Guardiola said, «It is a good step to say that once in our lives we played against the best team in the world and we beat them.

We have earned the right to play against the best teams in the world because Arsene Wenger always persuades his team to play their hearts out and get a result when it is most needed.

I believe you can trace the resurrection of Spurs back to that dreadful day in Oct 2008 when we drew 4 - 4 at THOF; for the first time in an epoch, we let them off the hook, we gave them the belief that it was possible to get something from a lost cause playing against a better team.

«We don't have pressure like in the first game, because we play against the best team in the world,» the defender told Arsenal Player.

City had not beaten Barca in five previous attempts in Europe and Guardiola said after the Group C game on Tuesday: «It is a good step to say that once in our lives we played against the best team in the world and we beat them.

«Now it's important to come back with good concentration for the first game after ten days off, and I prefer to play against a good team for the concentration and the good spirit.»

When you are playing against the best team in the world, if you are not brave, it is so difficult.

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.

«We played well but they played better» this is becoming the theme song for arsenal when matched against big teams.

I notice we select teams we cheer our team against and we cheer when they are playing well as if we are neutral fans.

Only then we can really tell how well hw will do, when playing against top teams.

It is an effective strategy against Arsenal and teams use it because they are not good enough to play against Arsenal in an open game.

now that's a problem Ribery can play well against Sevilla and Leverkusen but Madrid are a different team altogether.

Not being forced into the team or to play on an injury will do the kid good and he is still remarkably good in tight situations and being able to pivot defence into attack which is something we sometimes struggle to do against high press teams.

Arsenal always plays well if there is no heavy pressure from their opponent, unlike the previous matches against the other big teams.

They seem to brush us aside with ease and we only seem to play well against teams that sit back and like to play themselves..

Between the halves, U.S. Coach Buzz Bennett, an earnest young man but hardly closer to first - rank as a coach than his players, tried to goad his men to better performances by saying, «Don't you guys realize that's a high school team you're playing against?

it is his fault Bolly from Borehamwood He gets paid in excess of eight million a year to have alternatives when things go bad, to motivate players when the run of play is against them, to buy players who are capable and good enough to NOT hit the woodwork time and time again, to sell players who are off form and who fail to deliver on thier promised talent, in effect TO MANAGE the team.

The charity shield is still a trophy and I agree, however we need to play better against big teams.

playing draw on our own home soil against the big teams is total crap if we think we are a big team as well.

The combination of the compressed post-London schedule and the mental / emotional toll of playing these every - possession - has - to - matter basketball games is leading to an understandable lack of sharpness and execution against good teams.

It's exciting to play a derby against Arsenal, the most important thing now is for the team to try to be ready after the international break, all in the same condition and a good condition to try to be competitive.

The Englishman can make runs down the flanks, catch on to quick through balls and would be better suited to play on the counter attack, which we may have to do against a team like Manchester City.

you must be kidding, maybe against mid-table teams... Walcott is only good against teams play with high defense line....

Totally agree with you twig, an those people thumbing you down are idiots who don't know football, we've been disjointed an uncoordinated so far this eason the only game we played well in was against city.Once again Wenger's laziness in preseason means the team has no chance of winning any major trophies.Wenger out.

With Giroud against better teams we don't really have the option to play on the counter attack which has become part of the modern game.

Not only was SMU forbidden to compete against NCAA teams for a year, it also lost 1988 thanks to being barred from playing home games and dealt with a player exodus, a financially disastrous bowl and TV ban through 1989, as well as heavy recruiting and staffing penalties.

However our best team is the team we played against Chelsea.

In a very real sense, sending this team to Santiago was an insult not only to the host nation of Chile but to all who expected to see and play against our best.

They are playing very good, but like us who always crack against teams like chelsea, manure, bec we are so damn used to lose against them no matter their form is, spurs will also lose against us bec we are that boogi team to them.

I know I'm going to get red arrows, but against Southampton, we played better before he came on, more like a team.

Matt Rhule's Bears played like a real football team for the first time all year and threw a scare into Oklahoma, but they were being propped up by positive preseason numbers, so phasing them out offset anything good they did against the Sooners.

Seriously if ozil was in the team it wouldn't have made any difference to the scoreline.I think it is a blessing in disguise that he wasnt there.How many more games does he need to adapt to premiership only game he played good was against crystal palace in rest of matches he just made these ordinary passes.

i have been saying this for along time arsenal would be better surve with a defrent stile of play maker one who can shoot head the ball take on defender dribble into space.we all see it over on over again you don't need one killers pass to win game alot of team don't have ozil on create lots of chance against us.

So if he's not going to play against the other team's top line, might as well give him Girard and give him the mission to help and «guide» the kid.

I'm wondering if we were playing against teams at the best times (injured qb's, rb's, or wr's) often or were teams scoring less against us compared to other teams.

like who really expects not just a rookie, but a 19 year old rookie with only a dozen professional games under his belt, to just come into the playoffs against a veteran and physical team like the Heat and play really well?

«But if we have shown something over the past weeks and months, it is that we have a plan against good football playing teams.

Ozil is only very good if you have a better team than all the teams you are playing against, he needs to be in a team that has top players in every position and they all basically have to be very comfortable on the ball.