Sentences with phrase «stage of the season like»

I think one big difference this season is usually we suffer with a lot of players getting injured at the later stage of the season like Santi, where as this time we'll have players coming back from injury, any new players wenger brings in (if he does) wenger knows best.

Not exact matches

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This is a club that was at the door of greatness in 2006... Look at us now... Barely making the CL group stage (necessary in order to get the cash reward because we are million miles away from winning the competition) and falling short in the league every season like a tradition.

Wenger has staged a number of Bundesliga raids in recent seasons, bringing in the likes of Lukas Podolski, Serge Gnabry and Per Mertesacker and the Gunners boss may feel that Volland possesses the potential to make it in the English top tier.

i mean 2 - 3 rotation and wrapping the game up early and subbing extra 3 players would have been enough rest at this stage of the season after all, all our star players like koscienly, sanchez, ozil and cazorla completed and got more exhausted as we played with 10 men.

Wish we had of got knocked out of our group, Europa this season looked easy compared to Seville, and when Zenit and Leverkusen were still good, also a couple Italian teams like Napoli Fiorentina Roma, or a Porto, but these latter stages kept getting sh*t tier and sh*t tier.

In the early stages of the 2006 GP2 season, it looked like Hamilton was streaking to the title, but some bad races and a strong run of form from Nelson Piquet Jr closed things right up.

The Frenchman did accept that there was a clear problem and brought in a couple of fitness and conditioning experts to deal with it and in the early stages of the season it looked like it was working, but the Capital One Cup game this week saw Theo Walcott and the Ox added to our growing list of crocked players.

At this stage of his career, it seems like a sensible decision especially coming off the back of the serious knee injury that he suffered last season and having been pushed down the pecking order at Old Trafford by Romelu Lukaku.

We are not even gonna challenge for the league (maybe at some stage as every season) and Wenger will have to go by the end of it, as well as dead wood like Walcott and Wilshere.

Like Ramsey he only got consecutive full starts in the latter stages of season, he done well.

There is always a danger at this stage of the season, especially if like Arsenal a club is under pressure and still fighting on three major fronts.

I would have to say yes, because even at this early stage of the season it looks like Mourinho and United will not be the force that a lot of football pundits thought they would be.

Some good play today and some disjointed passages but at this stage of the season I would take 3 points like this every week.

i would just like to remind everyone that we beat city at the beginning of the season, (granted they had some players out, we should of beat them at home but for some stupid defending in the latter stages) and we where clear winners today.

It will be like the 2nd leg of the 2nd round knockout matches of the past 4 seasons, just this time it will be to qualify for that stage.

While some may point to us still suffering with long injury lay offs to the likes of Giroud and Wilshere, the stats show that the bulk of our injury problems were in the early stage of the season and it was always going to take some time for Forsyth and his methods to have an effect.

The boss put that right and we saw the value of this in the second half of the season, but could Mourinho really have done much better with Arsenal in the early stages, when we were ravaged by injury problems and had players like Ozil and Mertesacker woefully short of their best form?

Great to see the lads coming back... But for consistency and stability at a crucial stage of the season, I can only see Debuchy coming back in the starting 11 (not to say that Bellarin hasn't been doing a great job) and for players like Jack and Arteta maybe some appearances off the bench depending on how the match is going.

After exits from the competition at this stage in their previous four seasons against the likes of Barcelona, AC Milan and Bayern Munich and with the disadvantage of playing away in the second leg the pressure is on the London club to make it to the quarter - finals for the first time in five years.

players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes

den chills I agree AW saw something in the boy and as AlanFrank said its a scary stage on that pitch what ever hapened wether he was coached or found a bigger pair of balls the boy become a man overnight and his woted by us as the second best Arsenal player this season, may he get better and better injury free becouse it looks like AW won't buy another DM

It feels to me like Arsenal are at a crucial stage of the season.

Jordan Spieth, who staged a furious comeback Sunday to win the British Open and avoid another potential major championship nightmare like the one he endured at last year's Masters, has the chance to become the first golfer in history to complete the career grand slam at the men's final major of the season.

Sometimes I like to think that if Ramsey had catched on last season form, we would have been ahead Chelsea at this stage of the season.

Losing key men like Ramsey, Walcott and Giroud at key stages of the season had seen Arsenal lose a winning position one year and then allow Chelsea to build a huge lead the next.

Rankings Ramifications: Neither of these teams have to worry about silly things like rankings at this stage of the season.

You may recall that at this stage last season, Liverpool played a number of second string players and it looks like it could be a case of history repeating.

Watford, Stoke have done it this season, then Monaco knocked us out a few seasons earlier... Teams like Sevilla might drop out of the CL into the Europa as well... The competition will get hotter once the knockout stages start.

It is strange that Wenger always seems to find his perfect line up in the closing stages of the season, and we all remember that the Gunners won 8 of their last 9 games last season to leaprog Tottenham into Third Place, and obviously Wenger feels that the side is perfectly capable of having another run like that now, but the difference is that we are actually within striking distance of the title in this campaign.

I like your optimisim Kos but I am sorry our season is over again at this stage of the year like last year.

A bit like ourselves, they began the season disastrously, and at the end of September after six games, they had been beaten four times and drawn two games to leave them in the relegation zone at this early stage.

The European soccer season is heading into its home stretch and with three, if not four, of the top five league titles wrapped up, it may seem like there aren't many reasons to watch the closing stages.

For all the build up to what is effectively United's last chance saloon in terms of achieving at least the bare minimum — reaching the group stages of the Champions League for next season with the added bonus of silverware, the players somehow managed it — like they did in the last few minutes of the EFL cup final, when at one stage the odds were stacked against them.

A lot of managers worked on similar stuff - like Conte, Guardiola, Klopp, and Mourinho himself, have shuffled their teams to see how things work, and it's still the initial stages to the new season.

As much as a club like Parma would have liked to actually have something go right in their 2014 - 15 season for once, they almost certainly wouldn't be able to hang at this stage of the game.

It promises to be yet another exciting season of European football, and TheHardTackle would like to see the knockout stages feature an array of fixtures like this.

United have looked vulnerable at the back all season long, but even more so since Vidic was ruled out for the rest of the season because of injury, and it could take something like an effort from a set - piece to liven up what could be a cagey affair in the opening stages.

At one stage this season, it looked like Amkar were going to break their mould of «mid-table stability» for the worse, as they began with four straight defeats to leave them bottom of the standings.

It may still seem like the early stages of the season, that would be because it is, but the challenge starts here if the Gunners are to challenge.

I would expect Arsenal to field weakened line - ups in the Europa League, certainly in the group stages as they focus on their Premier League position, which may mean players like Giroud, Welbeck, Iwobi or even Jack Wilshere, who has yet to play for Arsenal yet this season, could represent outstanding value, certainly until the end of the group stages in mid-December.

While his Sevilla are winless in five in La Liga and were knocked out of the Champions League at the round of 16 stage by Leicester City, they have at times looked like worthy title challengers this season, and remain on course for a first top - four finish since 2010.

With the opportunity to go ahead of Sp * rs and Chelsea being presented in the form of cannon fodder teams like Norwich City, it looked at one stage that Arsenal would be making it harder for themselves from now till the end of the season.

For Milan, it is looking like the season is already doomed and Montella's men does nt seem to qualify for the UCL by finishing among top 3 in Serie A. However, Milan do sit at the top of the table in EUL group stage and a win over Austrian side will see them qualify for the next round with a match in hand.

Our family eventually settles into a good rhythm with each age and stage but somehow I'm always anxious about what the NEXT season will look like and eager to see a day in the life of others.

This looks like an awesome pre-fall primer to set the stage for Netflix's massive October, which includes the second season of «Stranger Things».

While the 2016 - 2017 season didn't see any new show rise to Hamilton - like popularity — it's hard for any TV show, film or stage production to reach that level of pop culture zeitgeist — there are plenty of standout showcases of what fans have come to know and love about the New York City theater scene.

One after another, seasoned female performers walked off stage with the SAG award, «the Actor,» who like Oscar, is a figurine of svelte young male.

Already an Emmy behemoth and a ratings winner, Big Little Lies looks likely to keep scooping up awards once it arrives at the various industry awards that mark the next stage of awards season, including a few — like the Producers Guild awards — where it's been classified as a drama series, thanks to the fact that it will have a second season coming at some point.