Sentences with phrase «playing strong sides»

With both clubs playing strong sides in the Europa League during the week, neither side will be at a disadvantage when it comes to fatigue.
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.
For now, we must take Southampton very seriously and play our strongest side and that means Alexis in from the start.
Simply by playing a strong side this week, which he can probably do without any worries this early in the season, could put Arsenal in a strong position that will allow him to be more carefree with team selection in the later clashes.
Wenger will play the strongest side every game till the end of the season.
That meant that the LEO would have to play the strong side.
I don't care if it was pre-season, but Chelsea played a strong side and we defeated them.
«Benitez didn't play his strongest side against us.
But our next EPL opponents will be coming to north London after more than a week without a game, so when next Tuesday arrives will Wenger regret playing a strong side tomorrow?
But how many of us before the Champions League away game against Dinamo Zagreb last night really wanted Arsene Wenger to play his strongest side, with less than three days to recover before the more important away game at Chelsea in the Premier League?
But he still played a strong side and I don't think it was entirely because he felt we could go through, but also that we needed a good performance to build some confidence and find some form for the title run in.
Wenger will most likely play a strong side against City as it may be our only real chance of a trophy (hopefully not).
Huddersfield have been decent so far this season, though, so you never know, and the Spuds may suffer from fatigue after playing a strong side in Cyprus this week.
You could win this FA Cup by not playing a strong side, but now they've got to beat two top teams - and they're in the bottom three.
We saw what happened when Man City played a strong side against Everton, and then they got blown away by Liverpool.
We will play a strong side against Porto and a strong side against United.»
For that reason, he has to play his strongest side in terms of form, and when you compare the two goalkeepers, there is only one outcome.

Not exact matches

Wenger is notorious for not playing his strongest Arsenal side possible in the Champions League, especially in the goalkeeping position.
This is the season of strong fast forwards coz everyone is playing 343 and welbeck can get up and down all day long with oxlade on the same side as him today we over ran Chelsea on our left and willian was a puny player bcoz of it!
We all know that if mou played a fundraising charity match against wenger he would start his strong side against us.
Our midfield is also extremely strong, and with various types of player who can play different roles for our side, it is difficult to pinpoint a weakness.
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....
I considered Sanchez a Walcott replacement and was happy to see Walcott leave after his signing, but he seems to be on the left side most of the time instead of his stronger right flank, so we have people like Ramsey playing out of position to cover for Walcott.
They've been strong this Season nonetheless and if they lined up and played Monday Night all over again, the result would surely not be as one - sided.
We played away against a strong and attack minded palace side on a resurgence under pardew.
Lets not be naive, Southampton will put out a strong side, we should play players that haven't played much and had a rest, lets go for the win and get our PL players better form for the PL!
The Seahawks would try to protect him versus the run with a three - technique by playing an over front, but Schofield wasn't going to be able to stand up on the strong side for a full game if the Incredible Hulk was lined up inside.
He could play as a strong - side defensive end on the edge like he did in college on early downs, like the Seahawks do with Michael Bennett.
The once - strong partnership never played for the national side together again.
PSG have a strong group of Brazilians in the side — with Thiago Silva, Marquinhos, Maxwell and Lucas all regulars — yet it was the legendary striker who told Luiz he «needed» to play for the Ligue 1 outfit.
The last time he won it almost 13 years ago he played a 4411, he had strong tall players throughout the side and physical aggression where it was required.
The fact the teams we played were awful doesn't matter he was the best player on the pitch both games and we had strong sides out for both meaning he was better than our other 9 outfield players
The formation was strong to Harrison's side, so this time they were trying to run away from him (to the defense's left), but it didn't make a damn bit of difference because he was still going to make a play.
All this means that Wenger now has the option to play his strongest Arsenal side in Monaco on Tuesday without worrying about his key players being burned out.
We need a strong DM to play along side Rambo or wilshire in the heart if midfield and we are sorted.
Arsenal are in fantastic form in the Premier League and FA cup and even though we had to suffer yet another disappointing early exit from the Champions League, the players did go some way to redeeming themselves by playing well and winning 2 - 0 away in Monaco, so Arsene Wenger will be hoping that we can continue our strong run and cement our place in the top four by beating a struggling Newcastle United side at St. James» Park today.
There were strong performances throughout the Arsenal team as we played host to a very strong and defensively organised Chelsea side yesterday, with players like Coquelin, Ramsey and Cazorla as well as all four defenders having a shout for the Man of the Match award but I am giving it to Mesut Ozil who linked our play and was all over the pitch and never stopped until the end.
«It's much better to have him on my side than have to play against him.He's so strong and powerful — we all know about his qualities.»
There is no top 4 finish for us, we mess everything up against Swansea, and our defence is as sh ** t as hell, look at spurs the way they played man u, strong in defence, dembele was fantastic not like xhaka lazy and always pass the ball backward sides.
We played against a strong Hull side in the FA cup last night and beat them 4 - 0.
«You can't say we've played badly against Chelsea, it's just that we've come up against a very strong side, probably the favourites to win the Premier League at this point.»
There is a theory that it is much better to introduce up and coming young players into a strong side so that they get a taste of what playing in the first team will be like, rather than struggling in a disjointed display because the whole team are unused to playing together.
I thought we played extremely well against a strong side that also played extremely well.
Sanchez wants trophies, a strong side, not a gutless one, to play in.
Salah and Messi play on the right side because their stronger foot is the left foot
No offence to Burnley but we should not have to play a strong strong side.
And the England side he was playing against are a very strong side that had not lost in 11 games prior to last night.
E.g. Cristiano Ronaldo's right foot is his stronger foot and hence he tends to play on the left side of midfield so he can cut in and score goals.
Will Wenger take the competition seriously when they inevitably encounter a strong side, or will he continue to play the kids throughout the competition despite the opposition?
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