Sentences with phrase «selected strong sides»

Pochettino has selected strong sides in the cup this season — especially in Europe — but now is the time to have faith if he wants to avoid the burnout of his best players.

With Alan Pardew having impressed since taking the Eagles managerial job, Arsene Wenger will not want to gamble on his team selection — he'll select a strong side and leave the football betting to the fans.

So there is no surprise to see that the Frenchman has selected a strong side tonight, although I am a bit surprised with a couple of his selections.

Zinedine Zidane selected a strong side and was rewarded with a routine victory that could set the tone for another superb season in Europe.

Not exact matches

To be fair to Arsene Wenger, the warnings did not go ignored as he selected the strongest possible side.

Not only have Arsenal had to deal with more injury problems than all of our Premier League rivals over the last 10 years, but we also seem to lose players from the same area of the pitch at the same time, making the job of selecting a strong and well balanced side something of a nightmare for Arsene Wenger.

With Arsenal facing a trip to the in form Premier League leaders on Sunday, you would expect the manager to be planning to rest all of his key players this week for the Europa League game against Red Star Belgrade and then select as strong a side as possible at the weekend, and Arsene Wenger may still do just that.

Even if he were to play a dramatically weakened side, it would still be prudent to claim that it's a «strong team» as to keep the selected players» confidence high, and make clear that pressure is on the first choice players for places in the remaining fixtures of the season.

The FA cup tie against Middlesbrough was a different kettle of fish though; the gaffer placing a relatively strong side is no doubt a statement of purpose while the BFG got a much deserved rest, our latest Brazilian import from Sao Paulo was selected to keep Kos company at the back.