Sentences with phrase «playing against these poorer teams»

Not sure if Bvb is playing very impressive with an striker who brings ours to shame, or they where playing against a poor team in spurs.

Not exact matches

Some will say no Santi after his blinder against saints & though I agree I would still play El Neny reason being, Psg are low on confidence they have had a poor start to season and their fans are already on managers and teams back, therefore we need a fast start on the front foot pressing harassing not letting these players who are top class majority of them to settle & El Neny loves to press has unbelievable energy can run all day, and most of all keeps it simple with his passing.

Leo you said remy was crap against spuds but you have got to consider who he is playing with he is in a very poor team who create nothing for him put him in our team and with chances we create he will score goals he is a natural goalscorer and i think he would do a great job in girouds absence, think we should keep podolski for extra cover in forward area be realistic we will not get falcao or cavarni therefore remy would not be the worse option!!

But I have been saying the same thing about Sanchez since last season, his first game in the Charity shield and then that game against Villa earlier last season when he played striker, I noticed that he was so poor in possession and can't link up play with his team mates, he has the worst passing for a player of his calibre..

... Coquelin played great again considering that he was too often left too protect the back four against 2, sometimes 3 players... our team effort was poor after our goal... we needed to do better and the next few games will give us that opportunity I hope... Alexis please be back!!!!!

Big in your list I can agree that all these players would improve us, but let's look at our CB At the moment Kos, top player but is struggling with a inj which may or may not heal, at the moment he isn't match fit so not up to his own high standard, so needs help or a defender of his quality so he can go and recover properly So then we have Mert, too slow and no longer good enough, I'm not sure if he's even good enough for 3 rd choice CB, too slow, poor on the air for his size and not brave enough, he's lasted this long due to Kos he needs a Top class CB just to allow him to play against average teams Ok now Reid not top class we can all agree so we couldn't really play him with MERT as he isn't Kos quality so can't cover merits deficiencys He could be ok with Kos but Kos is struggling So is Reid what we need???? And finally Wenger if he has all 3 fit will still play Kos / Mert first choice Oh and God forbid we play MERT / Reid against the top teams like Chels / city / utd / Southampton Chuckle chuckle

We still struggle, look shaky and uncomfortable when we come up against any team that plays a high intensity game, teams that don't give us time on the ball, in your face etc all give us a hard time, Watford did that in the first half but poor final 3rd quality saved us, in the second half they were tired and knackered so we took advantage.

I agree with benching non-performing players, but of the squad that played only Cazorla and Monreal have been particularly poor, and against Anderlecht, any Arsenal team should be able to hold onto a 3 - 0 lead.

1) When you can not beat mid teams like Hull and Tottenham at home 2) You have no track record of beating top teams who you should be competing with 3) You struggle against any decent opposition that decides to play good football and apply themselves tactically 4) A confused manager with poor tactics, playing players in wrong position, throws a blind eye when a possible solution presents itself (Fabregas) and makes no move or poor moves in the market when he does GUYS to be honest we are at risk of losing out on 4th place with a resurgent Man U, fighting Liverpool and decent team like Everton and Southampton.

us scoring in the dying minutes wil keep the overall mood of the team good for UCL... This team played good attacking football but we need DM against Bayern... Case has been a bit poor lately but hopefully zidane trusts him and starts him...

literally saying he is prone to many mistakes for instance goal misses (1 on 1), retaining possession, hold up play, poor goal conversion rate against a «formidable team», inaccurate passes, struggles when backing a defender (s) and he's not good in the air.

Sanchez was very poor 2day & shld have been substituted earlier bt the boss decided 2 remove Walcott instead, the 1st goal against us was supposed 2 be disallowed as Bellerin was struck down & injured, arsenal played the 1st half without a recognised striker on the pitch meanwhile we had 3 recognised strikers on the bench & finally why do we always play with fear when we play against a big team?

Every game, against small or big team, are like finals to us, that poor we are playing.

Unless there is a huge gulf in class with us playing against a really poor team, we should kick goal kicks long and we should try for balls over the top, that way we are either creating a chance or we are giving them the possession so we can set up to counter.

Saying Ozil has been poor for us is an understatement, in fact he has been very woeful for the past 10 matches and I totally agree with you that we have been playing 10 against 11 all these while, he just can't fight for the ball or his life and whenever he doesn't play very well, he puts the whole team in big danger and i still don't know why Araene can drop him for at least 2 matches and play Iwobi in his position

Preseason projections still account for 30 percent of teams» ratings, which doesn't help, but neither do Arizona's poor performance against UTSA or Utah's plodding offense, which has been outgained by the opponent, on a per - play basis, in every game so far.

Wenger blamed the 12 day gap between games as the reason for Arsenal's poor start against Liverpool a few weeks ago, then he claimed a lack of confidence for the start against Lincoln last week, but as most of our first team played last weekend and scored many goals in the second half then neither of those should apply this time around.

And for Aaron, if we're being honest, he hasn't been playing well lately, except for the first half yesterday against a poor Gala team.

Last season was a mirage — we played 4 -2-3-1 and — against lower opposition only — defeated mid-table and poor teams.

Qualities: Giroud - Hold up (but not against top defenders Tery, Cahil, etc), short pass, hard working, team player, defensive duties (set - pieces), injuries Benteke - Hold up, short pass, better dribbler, long shots, finishing, positioning, defensive duties (set - pieces), can play with his back to the goal and also drop deep and face the goal when marked weakness: Giroud - very slow, easily marked, poor finishing (not wc finisher), technique Benteke - injuries, not a hard worker If you look the stats for the since 2012/2013, they have almost similar records except that Benteke scored like total of 19 goals (correct me if I'm wrong) in his 1st season and also have a decent record against top teams, keep in mind he plays for AstonVilla not Arsenal where you get much more chances and better players around.

There were games last season where we played well under par against poor teams eg.

negatives -LRB--)-- terrible result — wengers team selection (arteta + ozil in particular)-- generally poor work - rate across the pitch and nothing like the backbone we showed against man city — handing dortmund initiative to top the group (we all know what finishing 2nd means)-- lack of hunger + desire — welbeck misses — still no joel campbell (who in my personal opinion is a big game / stage player)-- in all our «set - piece» training we totally forgot about the bread and butter of football which is making an impact in open play

Some 2013 - 2014 problems 1) Injuries 2) Players played out of position 3) Mental block against big teams 4) Poor timing of substitutions 5) Crazy substitutions 6) No tactics

I wonder how arsene prepares our team for them to produce such lacklustre performances.Its very perplexing for us to lose or draw against poor teams like chelski and looserpool.I was always a wenger out due to I being a frustrated fan.When our players are on the pitch they show no desire and no hunger at all.They produce such mediocre performances in front of fans whove paid so much to watch these games.It makes you womder why on earth they have such heavy salaries only to put on a flabbougasting show in front of 55000 fans.Its very ironical that we here on this site shower praise on such performances.players like ozil recieve such unwarranted praise you might think they are from another planet.Then we have an extremely overrated english core of gibbs ox and walcott Sorry to say this but players like draxler and rodrigiez are twice these players.This is food for thought for you who support the team blindly due to wengers compulsion that makes you believe that we are playing the worlds finest brand of football and have a large array of talent that excused him for not going into the transfer market as at the moment we are currently losing the clubs most coveted round of 16 trophy and putting such dissapointing performances in the league.

Theo is no ST, I agree he needs to prove himself there but I don't see it working aside from against poor teams and in the last 20 mins to play counter attack.

Remember people, our only convincing performance in the EPL this season was against Everton: a team that is piss poor and not playing for their manager.

Or they might be playing against a team they have a poor record against; trends like this tend to repeat themselves!

So there, playing against a team that came to get a draw, in horrible conditions, against a bent ref, and still we hear how poor Arsenal were.

I just wonder why we had no subs We could use the speed and creativity of someone like Santi in the last moments of the game Mesut was tightly controlled and played nervous, so he or Theo who was invisible today, could be changed with him Olly was very poor, and I hate his early frustration against big teams

Leeds are desperate for points, and while the reverse fixture, despite the scoreline, went largely against Leeds, Hull don't seem to have the quality to make teams pay for poor play.

Look past the poor performance and you got a team with a stout defense (3rd in DVOA) that plays an easy schedule (4 games against Jets / Dolphins, plus Bengals, Saints and Colts).

Arsenal played the game against Crystal Palace in the manner of a team who are prepared to fight for title, and almost highlighted how poor the performance was last week against West Ham.

Played OK against a pretty poor team I thought.

Despite playing out of their skin and winning the first leg against the best football team on the planet 3 weeks earlier, the Gunners fell victim to poor refereeing decisions and a passing masterclass as they succumbed to a 3 - 1 defeat.

This was the Terps» first friendly against a Premier League farm team during their spring break trip; they were slated to play a similar group from Stoke City on Monday, but that match was canceled due to poor pitch conditions.

As poor a signing as he has proven, Sissoko showed promise against the tougher teams he played against last season — performing particularly well in a 2 - 0 home win against Manchester City.