Sentences with phrase «pre-season games the manager»

Not exact matches

The Barcelona manager Luis Enrique certainly seems to think we should after Manchester United beat the Spanish La Liga champions in a pre-season friendly game in America last night.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has heaped praise on new signing Joe Gomez following his assured performance in the Reds» second game of pre-season on Friday morning, Mirror Sport reports.

But Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson insists he will not change their approach to the game and will treat it like any other pre-season warm up.

The Red Devils have struggled with the right - hand side of their defence in particular during pre-season and manager Louis van Gaal flagged up the issue in the aftermath of the game against Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint - Germain.

It must have been a huge relief for Arsene Wenger as well as for the Arsenal and England international star Theo Walcott when he broke his pre-season duck against the Norwegian side Viking FK on Friday, as the manager is going to be without his main centre forward Olivier Giroud for at least the first game of the season.

Pre-season lineups, even games like Community Shield, are notoriously unreliable predictors of how a manager will approach the regular season.

There is usually at least one young player who grabs the chances handed to them by Arsene Wenger during the annual Arsenal pre-season training and friendly games, impressing both the fans and more importantly the manager with their ability.

Jose Mourinho and his expensive bunch of players have still not won a game in normal time since the beginning of their pre-season preparations and even though they have been struggling, it looked like their manager was taking a leaf out of Arsene Wenger's book and sticking with the players he already had in the squad.

However, it seems that the French manager may not have to dip into the transfer market for a new forward after all, following a stunning performance from youngster Akpom during the club's first game of their pre-season tour in Singapore.

He staked his claim to be involved in manager Arsene Wenger's plans for the new campaign by scoring a hat - trick in the Gunners» first pre-season game against a Singapore Select XI in the Barclays Asia Trophy earlier this month, and also impressed as a substitute against Lyon at the weekend.

«The pre-season programme has been put together to ensure the manager and his squad have a great platform to prepare for next season with games against top - class opposition.»

The booing sunday was a disgrace, I was there with my younger brother having come across from ireland and even he couldnt understand such crap for a pre-season game, especially with king Henry there for the day, but hey, whos worse, a disloyal paying fan, or a lying neglegent board and manager, who does the book stop with?

There is a good feeling about United right now, with confidence oozing out of the club again just compared to 12 months ago when we were losing pre-season games to the Thai All - Star XI and Yokohama F. Marinos, playing as if the players had just met each other, and a manager complaining about our fixtures.

Leeds began life under new manager Thomas Christiansen with a 4 - 2 win over Harrogate Town in a pre-season friendly game at Thorp Arch yesterday.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has confirmed that midfielders Aaron Ramsey, Granit Xhaka and Alexis Sanchez will all feature in tonight's pre-season friendly game against Manchester City.

It was a pre-season game and a friendly as well, but the competitiveness of the players and the reactions of the managers, after each goal said it all.

Pep Guardiola will start his reign as Manchester City manager with a friendly game against his recent former team FC Bayern Munich in a high profile pre-season friendly game this Wednesday night, 20th July 2016 at the Allianz Arena in Munich.

Anyone who pre-purchases Football Manager 2018 (for PC, Mac or Linux) through a SEGA approved retailer * will be able to start pre-season at least two weeks prior to the official street date through a fully - playable Beta version (single player careers started in the Beta can be continued in the full game).