Sentences with phrase «senior squad for the games»

Alvaro Dominguez, 23 * (Atletico Madrid): Like Montoya, Dominguez was called up to the senior squad for the games against Chile and Liechtenstein.

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Thought Chambers had a good game in midfield on Monday, he looks as though he's now recovered his confidence after Hodgson foolishly selected him for senior England squad.

The Arsenal defender Calum Chambers was watched by Roy Hodgson in a few games recently, including at right - back against Chelsea, and it seems that the England boss has decided to pull the 19 year - old out of the U21 squad for the important European Championship play - off against Croatia to give him his first taste of senior football at Wembley, after coming on as a sub in the last friendly in Norway.

Good win, competition like these are good for our large squad, senior and junior players can get a lot of game time, which will put them in the eyes of the manager and also for there own development.

There are other central defenders in the squad but Southgate used our young Gunner in the final warm up game and with Chambers having dropped down from the senior side to go to these finals, you would think that he would get the nod for the opening game against Portugal tonight.

While Hiddink may well have received some criticism for not starting the younger players in his squad to give them an opportunity to gain experience, the senior individuals were tested by their opposition at various times of the game.

Now I think there is still reasons to be cheerful, I agree Man C & Chelski have spent & bought some good players, we all understand that 5 of those teams might be in the CL proper which is a huge distraction for those 4 - 5 teams.Chelsea will not be able to field the same 13 - 14 players all season, as for Man C they were very frail at the back last season, add to that 2 flying wing backs and I'm not sure they will be any better this coming season.LFC will most probably have CL as well if they qualify and haven't exactly bought great players apart from Salah who could be a good aquasistion for them.Spuds have sold a good player & strengthened a rival & still not bought a single player yet, Man U have bought 2 good players & in Lukaku have a proven goal scorer in the PL but if they play the same dour way they did last season & with the added games the CL brings will they perform week in week out in the league??? As for Everton yes they have released a lot of players and also brought in a lot too to give better quality in the squad as they have Europa league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in the race.

It would be ridiculous to play Walcott in saturdays match, he needs to be gradually integrated into the squad, personally i would not even let him see the senior team for another month, he needs some practice games building from 10 — 90 minutes in, then doing the same in the senior squad.

Shkodran Mustafi was a practically unknown defender for Sampdoria when he was inexpicably picked by Joachim Low to play his first game for the German senior national side in May 2014, so it was even more shocking when he was picked for the provisional World Cup squad just a couple of months later.

As a senior for Cardinal Newman (Florida) High School, Collins averaged 20.3 points and 10.2 rebounds a game as he carried his squad on his back en route to its first state title game in 15 years.

As evidenced by the unheralded emergence and blossoming of youngsters like Rashford — who has scored four goals in his first two senior games — and the successful adaptation and upgrading of squad members such as Fellaini, Ashley Young and Chris Smalling, there have been individual improvements, especially with regards to players ready to work for the system over themselves.

The squad should return to a more senior looking line - up, with Gerrard and Suarez set to start, having almost pulled off a rescue act by coming on for the second half on Wednesday's game against Swansea.

With everyone being given a fresh start, our squad is rather extensive — with twenty - eight senior players and multiple youngsters knocking on the door of the first team — so predicting the starting XI for the first game of the new Premier League campaign is rather difficult.

Sterling is expected to be in the Liverpool team for the game at Dean Court, with only Glen Johnson — who was injured against Manchester United in the defeat on Sunday — missing from the senior squad.

After being promoted to the senior squad in 2013, he managed to score twice against Sunderland in a game that also happened to be his first start for the club.