Sentences with phrase «side of defence against»

The Liverpool midfielder, who many expected to see start on the left - side of defence against the Gunners had he been fit, sustained a heel injury against Barcelona last Saturday.

Not exact matches

Man United's danger - man Romelu Lukaku will take most of the plaudits today, as the Belgian did well against a big West Brom defence as his side won their sixth games in their last seven.

With Luke Shaw sent off against West Ham for a quite needless second yellow, Rojo would be an able deputy on the left side of defence — switching from the central role he played against the Hammers.

The home side will be built to counter attack according to Sam Allardyce, in hope of picking holes in our defence, and we will have to be wary of their in - form striker Jermaine Defoe, although he does not have a great record against us.

Walcott have good off ball movement and finishing is good and he scores against big team.but he lacks other aspects of the game.our left side of defence is covered.right side also with Berlin and ox, but don't know why our back 3 sometimes look shaky.

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.

Arsenal should not expect it be attack against defence though, because in the first leg at home the Saints were the better side and created a lot of chances, so we must be ready.

It's that kind of play that made us much harder to defend against especially when Ramsey and Alexiswere poping up behind opponents defences on either side.

In his defence, the curly - haired Manchester United badman at least picked on a worthy opponent when he decided to unleash his nasty side during the first half of Sunday's Premier League game against Leicester City.

Luis Muriel's pace on the counter-attack coupled with the likes of Franco Vazquez and Joaquin Correa will mean that Vincenzo Montella's side can cause United problems, but with Eric Bailly back in the heart of the defence after returning against Liverpool at the weekend, the hosts will hope to deal with them more efficiently.

I am a little disconcerted that Wenger didn't request a personal hearing so he could give his side of the story, as he actually had an extremely valid defence that Dean made it look like he had a vendetta against the Arsenal boss.

However, their defence is still considered vulnerable, particularly against better sides and «Both Teams to Score» was one of the advised bets in the Arsenal vs Chelsea tips August 6th, with each side finding the net inside 90 minutes.

Statement is Partially correct that we dominated Man Utd but we were certainly not unlucky... When you do such 2 school boy errors and when you miss seater Like Xhaka missed it then you don't deserve to win... We certainly don't deserve to win that game because it's criminal to do such mistakes in defence and that too against top 6 clubs... Xhaka should have buried that one in... We dominated the United Side but were not unlucky... We lost game because of our own impotency in the game...

In turn, one of the worst defences in the top flight is about to be left short of some of their first choice defenders against a Liverpool side with plenty of attacking quality, and so it does look concerning from a West Ham perspective.

Whilst the Frenchman has struggled with injury this season he's looked typically composed whenever in the side but he will be up against the 20 goal forward who has already decimated the previously robust defence of Jose Mourinho's Chelsea.

Antonio Conte's side will have been confident of breaking down our defence at full - strength, and will be licking their lips with the likes of Eden Hazard, Diego Costa, Willian, Pedro, Michy Batshuayi and Cesc Fabregas available to lead the attack against us on Saturday.

Against a PSG strikeforce vaunted even without the injured Zlatan Ibrahimovic that was no easy task, but the defence held their side of the bargain as the attackers tried to fulfil theirs.

On the flip side, of course, they're only 12th in the goals - scored column, meaning that if Liverpool can get a goal or two past goalkeeper Mathew Ryan, they may have trouble getting themselves back into the game, even against Liverpool's occasionally porous defence.

Back in August at Stamford Bridge on the opening day of the season, the defence of our league title began with defeat against Sean Dyche's side, heralding the start of an impressive campaign for Burnley who currently sit in seventh place.

No use crying over spill milk, it was there in writing when da 11 was chosen, weak defence that neva play regularly n unknown forward line so da expection were low, either draw or loss.i hate havin 2 c man city n chelsea havin n easy run playing n full strenght side, so much anger against wenger 4 in da fa cup we had 50/50 chance of winning it n now it gone n what wil da arsenal mood b when facing da next opponents.anyway it bridge over water.

On Saturday, Mario Gomez's side always looked vulnerable in defence, and will have to tighten up against the formidable attacking talents of the Bangkok Angels.

Blind could partner either Axel Tuanzebe or even Matteo Darmian in the centre of defence against the Spanish side, which would be a makeshift back four, but one which could still work well for Mourinho's side.

While they were not in danger of losing, it was difficult to get the goals in against a solid and stodgy Soton side that never really gave the City defence much of an examination.

In the match against Spurs however, there was an obvious hunger and desire to penetrate the right hand side of the opposition defence with more passes, more successful take - ons within the final third (shown by the green and orange stars) and even a goal to sum up his performance.

This could see academy product Joe Riley, who only made his debut against Shrewsbury on Monday, fill in on the left - hand side of Van Gaal's defence in Thursday's clash.

And with Liverpool having the joint second best defensive record in the league, the accusations levied against the defensive work of the side, although some of them are pertinent, seem to have not as much importance in comparison to the issues raised here, although with the slight caveat that there is a noticeable drop off between the two seasons in terms of interceptions from midfield and the forwards, which has lead to Liverpool not being so strong on the counter attack and the fact that the majority of the shots Liverpool have conceded seem to be in the space in front of the defence and behind the midfield.

You just can't trust the defence of Crystal Palace, not when they give up three goals against a low scoring side like Hull.

Hughes» men found a way around an excellent Blues defence, and they'll be confident of scoring against a side who have looked more open in recent weeks.

Overall though their defence hasn't been all that bad because three of their defeats have only been by a 1 - 0 margin and they kept the score down against Barcelona which other sides have failed to do as well.

There are plenty of players who can ping the ball around the pitch, especially against a side as defensive as Galati who hardly sent anyone upfield to put pressure on the ball in the areas where Rooney received it, but how many can unlock defences in the way Rooney can, score spectacular goals or just make things happen in the final third?

The crowd will be baying for Blackpool blood on Saturday, demanding another clinical displays from their side and against a Blackpool side with a similar leaky defence to that of Burnley last season, who went on to ship a Premier League record 82 goals, the fans should get what they ask for.

So 3 - 2, and for a few seconds I still felt confident we would pick up 3 points but the defence just continued to capitulate and we witnessed a complete turnaround by the home team against a side of superstars.

Although we, along with many others, have criticised their lacklustre defence of late, shipping five goals in their last two matches alone, neither against sides quite as good as Aston Villa.

Unsourced briefings to several newspapers over Christmas, attributed to people in Corbyn's camp, claimed that members of the shadow cabinet — including Dugher, as well as the shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, and the shadow defence secretary, Maria Eagle — could be removed as revenge for siding with the government over the question of whether to extend airstrikes against Isis to Syria.

It acknowledged there were valid arguments on both sides of the issue but preferred the conclusion that the expiration of the limitation period for P's hypothetical damages action against D2 — hypothetical because P did not sue D2 in time or did not sue D1 at all — did not provide D2 a defence to D1's contribution claim.