Sentences with phrase «quality opponents with»

Why is everyone so surprised that Arsenal struggle to consistently score goals against quality opponents with OG leading the line?

Not exact matches

I do understand that it isn't the quality of opponents we need to judge him, but he did seem to be playing with ease.

I rally don't know what is going on with Mr Wenger he let jensen go to spurs and now he is diddling his finger around It looking like «we didn't find the quality striker we needed» we have a tough start with new shrewd managers around by October we could be in the relegation zone God forbid I recommend we voice our concern now rather in the middle of the competition so not to embarrass our selves in front of our opponents in the stands

It is certainly not going to be easy for Arsenal to make the top Four, considering our unfriendly fixture list, but if Wenger does manage to finish up there for the 21st season in a row, then it can only be considered another one of his great achievements with the quality of our opponents this season.

As Thirdman implies, Ozil might have a purple patch when playing teams of lesser quality teams or if he happens to come against opponents with even less zest than he has.

«We know that if you want to deal well today with a Premier League opponent the first thing you do is not look at the table, because that does not tell you anything about the quality of your opponent.

On the back of our recent trip to South Africa, it will provide us with another very tough and high quality opponent in what still is the very early stages of our pre-season program.

Still, the eleven that started in Portugal is still enough to rival anyone in the world, with Manuel Neuer, Rafinha, Jerome Boateng, Dante and Juan Bernat at the back, Philipp Lahm, Xabi Alonso and Thiago Alcantara in midfield, and Mario Gotze, Thomas Muller and Robert Lewandowski in attack — world class quality in almost every position, and yet, no sign of being able to work a way around their tactically smart opponents.

Not with our vulnerable holding midfielders, we need to play Kant's type of midfielder if we want take that risk, eleny and shaka don't retrieve ball from opponent, they run around the field all the time, giroud has prove himself but is time we look beyond him and sign quality players next summer

But this is a time - honored tactic used by teams with lesser quality to negate their opponents» superior quality.

January = lots of matches to play with easy opponents, but its the month that test consistency and quality Febuary = we got Chelsea and Southampton, crucial first knockout round UCL March = tough game at Liverpool, Leicester and 2nd leg of first round knockout UCL April = Man City, tottenham and UCL quarter final May = Man Utd, Everton FA cup Final

Bear in mind in his glory days Arsene only had one real opponent in Man Utd, but now there are 5 - 6 clubs all looking at the top 4 with a much smaller quality gap.

Problems: On the break both LB and RB are out of position, our DM is both slow and not strong enough to out muscle opponents counter, Per is good but Top teams have forwards with better speed and better quality to beat him.

why did we play Welbeck in the striker's role... no one can question his heart but to have a player with such limited first - touch and finishing skills against such a game opponent with Lacazette on the bench is almost unforgivable... maybe it's because Welbeck tows the party line or maybe it's because Welbeck doesn't know anything but 100 % on the pitch, unfortunately neither of these qualities makes him a capable starting striker on a team with any real aspirations... I can only hope that he was being showcased for a move elsewhere, as there was some talk last week about some interest from Everton... if he moved on that would be the only silver lining of this coach's decision, but once again it wouldn't excuse this club for putting business decisions ahead of fielding the best possible team to secure 3 points at Anfield

UAB deserves a trip to the Bahamas to cap its first season back after the miraculous resurrection of its football program, and although Ohio played its way out of a shot at the MAC title with a puzzling late - season loss to Akron, the Blazers get a quality opponent to measure themselves against.

Arsenal rarely turn up in the first half of games, which results in us just about getting away with it against the lesser teams, but getting found out pretty much any time we come up against quality opponents.

While we were also strong with the back three, I still think that was the best football we played all season (considering the quality of the opponent).

Like I mentioned with Coquelin, he has done a fantastic job at protecting our back line and has often dominated that midfield by getting stuck in with his opponents, however now we have someone else in the team that can show the same qualities and not be left stranded when the Gunners need that type of player most.

Then he must show that he wants to challenge in the summer by first getting rid of the deadwood (Flamini, Mertesacker, Ryo, Campbell, Podolski, diaby)... loan out future prospects (Sanogo, Gnarbry, Akpom, Hayden etc) and bring in quality palyers to replace the needed positions (CB, DM, LW, ST)... after this he and his fitness and medical team must show that they have improved the injury crisis that we have... then finally he must show that he can motvate and rotate his squad well and tactically outclass our opponents with good squad selection and game plan.

We have a large squad with lots of quality for one thing and with the quality of our opponents surely down on what we get in the Champions League you would expect Arsenal to at least get through our group if not win it.

If we improve the quality of the squad and the lead our opponents with 3goals on regular basis, the academy players can be introduced more frequently in the epl thereby aiding their development.

As I said I have no problem with the narrow victory but is there an excuse for Wenger to be surprised about an opponents fitness, quality, and level?

It's a real slog with lots of tough games against high quality opponents.

The difficulty with taking the bare statistical facts from his latest game as proof of a true upturn in form is the quality of his overall performance against Liverpool and those of his opponents and teammates.

«But looking at the bigger picture in terms of confidence and building as a team, we can take a lot of confidence from putting in a performance like that against an opponent with the quality that Chelsea have.

A multiple winner with Chelsea, Cech will not just provide the experience of handling pressure but also he will have the quality to deal with opponents.

Asked about this wekeend's opponents, Wenger said: «They have a good squad and one with quality.

The problem with Liverpool is the quality of chances the team gives away — we need only look at Liverpool's opponents» xG — which is always rather high considering the low frequency of shots the team usually faces.

On the one hand, they rode out the kind of boisterous performance you would expect from lower - division opponents; on the other, a side with more quality at the sharp end might have given them an even tougher night.

Selecting Oscar over Mata was a bit of surprise considering the importance of the game and the quality of opponents but if there were any doubts that the Brazilian will not settle well in the blues squad then he absolutely blown it all away with a brace against Old Lady.

I think we can all agree that the quality of research on planned home birth is varied, and proponents and opponents will find flaws with respective studies.

Any woman that marries a man like me, who is generally seen to be fearless and courageous and who is vulnerable to attacks by political opponents, can not afford not to have a woman with her sterling qualities as wife.

What the opponents say: «The ballot language is laced with marketing spin, from the title, «Smart Schools Bond Act of 2014,» to highly dubious promises that the $ 2 billion will «equalize opportunities for children to learn» and lead to «high - quality» pre-K programs,» E.J. McMahon, president of the fiscally conservative Empire Center, wrote in an op - ed published in the New York Post.

With tens of thousands of students on charter waiting lists and multiple high - quality operators poised to expand, opponents and proponents of Question 2 agree that the stakes are high.

As DFER president Shavar Jeffries said in a response to the dustup in Colorado this week: «If our intra-party opponents would prefer counter-productive family warfare as opposed to unity around shared values, this should be clear too: We stand with the millions of families across our country demanding access to high - quality public schools and the thousands of elected Democrats who fight tirelessly to ensure they get it.»

The game also features some mini-games, although I was a little disappointed with the quality — while I enjoy the artistic style of the game, the mini-games often had more basic designs, such as a sword fight which consisted of simple controls and cartoony «chibi» renditions of Morgane and her opponent — while I didn't expect anything too complex, it would have been nice if these parts had all been designed in the same visual style as the rest of the game, as they felt a little out - of - place.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Please know and understand, we will always prioritize quality over quantity but with a game this polished, ready to play, we know it shouldn't be long before it's in your hands and your opponent finds themselves in the morgue.

Featuring a single - player campaign with four playable characters and an offline multiplayer mode against AI opponents, Killzone HD has received a thorough audiovisual overhaul: the game boasts 720p graphics at a steady 30 fps, with MSAA filtering, sharper textures and higher quality sound effects.

Online mode is vastly improved not only being less clunky but also offering all the quality of life that was missing (inv for friends, search conditions for opponent, bot option, battle boxes to have your builds ready to go, etc.) participation now rewards coins that can be used to further customize digimon and avatar appearance in addition (accessories, titles, different avatars, etc) there are also event battles with great rewards and special rules.

A mind - wrenching amount of qualities of vehicles to mess with makes it as fascinating to spend time hunkered down in the garage and on the practice tracks as it does clashing against opponents in live races.