Sentences with phrase «season against the best team»

We do this every season against better teams and we get humiliated, our players just don't seem to read the game or sense danger.

F# # k this when we went to bayern away last season against the best team in Europe We all thought we could get a result and had belief in the team

Not exact matches

Fans have a right to be extremist, after being given false hope on transfers season after season, knowing we could improve our team with better players but the manager refusing to do so because he prefers mediocrity like Arteta and Flamini, or having to endure humiliating thrashings against Southampton, Liverpool, City and Chelsea over the past 3 seasons.

Man we lost, you only say that we where much better because chelsea raped us last season, tactical ineptitude wont get us far, with wenger we only win against crap teams and tottenham.

I'm going to repeat what I said earlier... this team actively pursued a policy to undermine the relationship between the fans and the best player on this team... for all intent and purposes this is a traitorous act... so instead of spending money, which all pundits and fans agreed was necessary in order to compete at the highest levels, this club was wasting time and money trying to turn fans against Sanchez long before the end of the season (the real concerted effort started around the time that Wenger benched him for the start of the Liverpool game)... for a team that pertains to be different, like a FAMILY, and constantly questions the tactics of it's opponents, to engage in such a treasonous act is deplorable

Last season Arsenal came close to becoming the best defense in the entire league with good defensive stats, but this good news was smashed by the conceding 22 horrible goals against the teams in the top five, 20 of those on away games to those same top teams (Chelsea, City, Liverpool, and Everton).

thats right pathetic fans want their team to win stuff... what a weird thing to be... only 4th place junkies are real supporters... as to the idolisation of ramsey... well of course its part of being a 4th place junkie... copenhagen basel beisktas rostov have all qualified for the CL so did zagreb et al... but top teams rarely screw up against them and certainly not every damn season

Manolas scored five goals in 36 games last season which is a good return for an out and out defender so perhaps he could be utilized in games against softer opposition until he is ready to challenge the ageing Per Mertesacker for a first team place.

May sound perverse but I think a more evenly matched top 5 will offer us a better chance of at least still being in the mix later in the season — no one team likely to dominate and walk away with it and all dropping a few points against each other.

Giroud while a useful player against certain teams can't do that and Walcott is a waste of space and money... Dybala might have been and Pedro probably is (though not a big fan and anyway don't think he'll leave) Lucas might be or reus... But wenger better find someone decent for that position if we want to take on chelski and an improved man utd next season

Benteke is a better finisher, passer, and dribbler than Giroud and may even in this sh*t hold up play afc fans keep taking about (Watch him against so called big teams)... regarding stats, Benteke plays for AV for football sake, so he gets far less support and chances... Mind that I'm not criticizing and I'm not taking anything from Giroud improvement this season, it's plain comparison... Though, I want someone better than Benteke

predictable... perez and welbeck over walcott and iwobi for me... all depends on whether ozil and sanchez turn up and ox can cut it against big teams... without that can kiss this game good bye... and the season

Someone in club should talk with Wenger about his plans for next season as to how he is going to win trophies next season and what his best 11 will be.Currently it seems everyone in his team are so up his *** that they don't have the courage to speak against him.

Chelsea will lose, my prediction is 4 - 1, maybe i am wrong, maybe we will win 5 - 1, LOL Who knows what will happened, i am feeling that we will trash them, this is same chelsea team which lost against Psg, they are nothing special, they will win league, but to consider them that much better than us is crazy, for me they are in same hat with us, Bayern, Real and Barca are above, this is reality, we had awfull start of season due to bad preparation, but we need to give our players credit they deserve, we are equally good as chelsea.

Team Holway had been the League's best Hoops Team in the Regular Season and had a ton of momentum on their side after winning the Top2 Game the week previously against 1.

This was the best we've seen a Team play against # 1 Guggenheim all season.

Their Offense had the best Game of the young season as well against previously undefeated Team Purimetla.

First of all I would just like to say thanks to Alan Pardew and the Palace team for rolling over for United after giving their all against the Gunners, just like Stoke did with Spurs on Monday and many teams seem to have done all season, saving their best performances for us.

Team Robinson, aside from their slip against Team Harris, has looked very good this Season.

Their best is as good as anyone — which is evidenced by their W against Team Maione (only Team in the League that can tout that this Season).

Well, when you only get 2 - Losses before your Season ends, each and every Team that you get lined up against matters..

They got back on the right track with a hard - fought W against a sneaky good (and big) Team Gutman squad who has played many top Teams tough all season long.

I bet he even puts Mertesacker back in the team against Stoke ahead of Paulista whom by the way has been the best CB for us this seasons so far.

Looking forward to the next half of the season, if we wish to reach our goals, it is essential that the Men's Blues do not become complacent in BUCS — Cambridge are only 3 points behind us — and that we continue to believe we can beat the best teams in our league on Saturdays, while also fully focussing on picking up 3 points against the weaker teams.

Let's give credit where its due, spurs gave a good account of themselves drawing against a double defending champion real Madrid side, who last season ruthlessly dispatched a Munich team that had walloped us 10 - 2 the round before

There are so many knee jerkers on this forum it's laughable.Spurs were better than us today.Accept it.We played the same way against Man City we won, Wenger is a genius.We play the same way again Spurs and loose.Wenger is crap.If we had played free flowing football against Spurs and lost, Wenger would have been blamed for not playing defensively.Sometimes you have to accept when a team is better.Harry Cain is a great player at the moment but lets see whether he is any good next season.

and as for teams getting breaks against us, well unless one is a new AFC fan that has been the case for more than just this season and its simply borne out of the fact we are one dimensional and very very predictable; set your stall out strongly, be a bit physical, hit them on the break....

However, Army should do well enough against teams like New Mexico, Texas A&M, Utah State and, yes, poor Navy, to provide another winning season for Cahill.

In two seasons, McElwain is 14 - 0 against teams ranked 61st or worse in S&P + and just 5 - 8 against teams ranked better.

Both teams have played extremely well this season and if it wasn't for Cincinnati's stumble last week against the Texans, this game might be getting tons of hype.

It was easy to make obvious jokes about the Browns during that first half against the Steelers, but the team may now be on its way to a much better season than many expected in Mike Pettine's first season.

but a damn good effort to get a point against the # 1 team in the West that just lost their last three games, and didn't want to lose 4 of 5 for the season to an upcoming playoff opponent (maybe).

I think our best football this season was against man city at the emirates, i have never seen arsenal put up that sort of fight against a top team in a long time, although we didn't win I was satisfied with the hunger we showed, i would always prefer le coq to Flamini but that is not what would win us this game, we need to show the right attitude, go there to win it, and When I say go there to win it, i don't mean throw everybody forward, I mean go out there with a winning and commited mentality, being ready to throw yourself at the shot, make the all important tackle instead of ducking when the cross comes it, all 11 players need to be ready to fight for the win, we need the boys fired up, COYG.

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.

Arsenal were the better team for most of this away tie but it just would not quite click up front, while yet another in a season full of dodgy penalty decisions going against us meant that the Germans were able to score the opener and then hold on valiantly for what is a huge result for the team rock bottom of the Bundesliga.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

lst season at stamford bridge, was the first time i saw that 4 -1-4-1 formation being used, and for some weird reason i feel a very strange negative vibe and well all know the outcome.the manager has come back with this formation and its not yielding result, but he still sticks with it.i do nt know much about formations dear friends, but if you are playing a slow dm in arteta and a very very slow cb, then you are toast against quality teams with sound tactics.wen playing wellbeck as a lone striker, i think 4 -2-3-1, will work better, but if we have a big player like oliver (boooos), thn we can try the 4 -1-4-1, thingy cos he can hold the ball for our midfielders to run in.but on the overall, shame on wenger for not giving our defence a good cover DM.NO BODY PLAYS A SLOW DM / CB AND EXPECT TO B REGARDED AS CHAMPIONSHIP MATERIAL.IT HURTS GUYS, REALLY HURTS.

The Retrievers had by far the best shooting game any team had against it all season, and they also scored the most points — six more than the next - closest team.

Against better prepared teams next season, Arsenal will struggle to score using 3 -4-2-1 and will have to be smarter.

We gifted the Merseyside team our 4th spot, by being not prepared and then not playing our best player against them last season and I still think if we keep Sanchez we are the better team overall, and they didn't play Europe, so I expect them to drop out of the top 4 this year.

We need his salary to sign other players on the team and maybe to get 1 or 2 impact players in free agency and with Mahomes performing that good against Denver, i also think we can move into the future for the 2018 season.

Even then, Everton away is definitely one of the hardest games of the season and we Wenger will have to manage the team so that we can get the result against Everton as well as having enough energy to beat Besiktas at home to qualify for the group stages of the Champions League.

However, the team he put out got a good point as with the league win against the saints this team has shown that without a first team starting they are capable of getting results last season and in previous seasons would have lost both those matches.

Oklahoma City put forth the best effort imaginable against the best regular season team in NBA history.

of course the games against stoke, leicester etc would have gone a long way to seeing us challenge for the title last season but for a long time now we've been labelled flat track bullies i.e we are generally very good at beating opponents outside the top six but our record against man utd and chelsea maybe even city quite recently has not reflected a team on the same level as those going for the premier league title.

It's a very important challenge for us as well because we dropped points against teams between fifth and 12th at home last season.

«We want to show against a very good team like Arsenal that the quality of play in our league is at a very high level, while at the same time not getting injured and getting ready for the second half of the season,» Kljestan said.

The odds are against a championship run for every team, no matter how good, before the season starts.

The Arsenal and England international star Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain may not have had a very good season so far and he still needs to show us a lot more to secure more regular first team football, but after an impressive performance in the centre of midfield against Sunderland in the FA cup, I reckon he should start against Liverpool at Anfield on Wednesday.

A game against the best mls team of the season so far would've made more sense, it would've give us a better workout and test because that team is already gelled together and organized.