Sentences with phrase «start at some point in the season»

He knows what he's doing when he doesn't start you at that point in the season, and how that's going to feel for you, so obviously he has his reasons — and I'll bet they start with matchups.

Not exact matches

Wenger has mostly used the second string squad at the start of any season to great effect, most teams aren't at full strength or match fit and he plays that Wengerball numbers game, throwing in squad players who are fit and raring to go whilst the first team get ready, we'll win 2 of our 3 opening games and he'd rather that than splash 100m on 3 players and get the same amount of points.

The Mountaineers, struggling through a rare losing season while a fine freshman team simmered, started shooting like Daniel Boone in their last regular game, embarrassing a good Virginia Tech team by a 54 - point margin at Morgantown.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

And all things being equal, Chelsea will drop all three points to Liverpool at Anfield on this same Saturday night to start a cave in journey in their Premier League campaign this season that will see Arsenal overthrow them eventually form the top of the table to begin to sit on it sooner than later.

City have started the season in scintillating form, and United, though slightly more workmanlike and shot through with the neuroses of late - era Mourinho, are better now than at any point since Ferguson's departure.

While the Spaniard started life at Goodison Park strongly after replacing David Moyes — guiding the Merseysiders to their highest - ever Premier League points tally — he struggled to build on that early success, and the Blues ended the season down in eleventh.

Nervous start — usual criticism at the beginning of the season, with the lack of spending Ramsey's first blood — Arsenal shocked the league, we played brilliant football, scoring beautiful goals, all seemed like a decent season for us Coq red card — injury crisis struck, the lack of bench depth put pressure on the team, the downfall of performance caused crucial points Alexis» goal when down to ten men - it all seemed like arsenal would lose out in the title race again but arsenal somehow surprised the league again, saying aye we got the quality but we just ai nt gonna show in week in week out Draw in NLD with 10 men — can't really complain about it but you ain't happy.

If you think about their fixture, they had a difficult start to the season, I mean they played against Everton and managed to beat them 6:3 on their home, they played City at the Etihad and they managed to take a point and they also played against Arsenal and took three points.So in terms of fixture it is the same as Arsenal.

Littlejohn, the Warriors» 6» 2» starting point guard, is in his second season with COF after playing at a junior college in Chicago and Lincoln University in Missouri.

At one point in the season, defensive end Justin Smith was the only member from the 2013 NFC Championship starting defense who was a healthy starter in 2014.

If it was not for the five wins out of five at the Emirates that awful away record would have completely ruined the season already but we are just about keeping in touch with the top four despite the away day blues, but obviously Arsene Wenger and the players need to start picking up more points on the road.

why was Sanchez truly playing... no one believes he was too injured to play to start the season, and some like myself would go as far to suggest he wasn't injured at all... so why play him... they can't say it was to appease the fans because when was that ever a factor at this club except when «panic buys» were in the offing... I believe that this was to give Arsenal a little leverage when it comes to negotiating his transfer... just imagine their horrible bargaining position if Sanchez never saw the field before the deadline then heading back to South America and played for Chile... regardless of the facts, this was sadly again another example of a team putting business ahead of fielding a team with the greatest chance to secure 3 points... of course, some will say that Sanchez is, or was, our best player, so obviously he's a no - brainer to start, but those who really watch the game know that his heart hasn't been truly in it for quite some time... even at the end of last season you could see a definitive difference between the Sanchez who played for Chile and the one that played for Arsenal... that being said, 70 % of Sanchez is still better than a 100 % of the vast majority of our remaining roster... shame on you Arsene and shame on you too Sanchez for that telling smirk... I've supported your attempt to push this squad to the next level but don't pretend for a second that you didn't know you were being watched... don't lower your standards or you'll end up like this club, on the outside looking in

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

He may have found another in Dockery, a defensive specialist whose off - season improvement has surprised observers (including, perhaps, teammates) who assumed Paulus would start at the point from Day One.

You may recall that he was more or less in this same position at this same point last season before he started to break down physically in the stretch run.

Its all very well stating that there are positives and «do nt worry» ect ect but if this is the state of play at the START of the season then how will things be in mid december when its the hardest point in the season and titles are won or lost??

Starting at their 21 - yard line, less than two minutes to go with two timeouts left, down three points, the Baltimore Ravens» season came down to Joe Flacco's ability to lead them in a winning drive.

St Mary's boss Ronald Koeman did well to keep hold of Schneiderlin and his south - coast side have started the current season in superb fashion, securing seven points from their first four Premier League fixtures and given that Southampton sit in fourth spot in the table one imagines the long serving midfielder may elect to remain at the club.

McKinney's individual statistics aren't eye - popping (5.0 points and 6.2 assists in 32.7 minutes a game at week's end), but the numbers that count most are terrific: From the start of last season through Sunday, the Bluejays were 18 — 2 with him in the lineup and 10 — 9 without him.

I think the point to all of this is if you sign your players early, they bed into the team, join in pre-season games and are ready to go at the start of the season.

It's very, very hard to win the PL, but Chelsea did not have the best start in history of the league for instance, at this stage man city did not have the same quantity of points as last season, I believe they had 2 points less, and they crowned themselves champions.

You have to start and finish well, which was Arsenal's problem last season — the points they dropped at the start of the season were costly for them in the title race at the end.

As Wenger explained yesterday after winning our seventh game in a row against Liverpool: «We missed important players at the start of the season where we dropped too many points.

Madrid have been disappointing domestically this season and have been far off the pace of La Liga leaders Barcelona from the start of the season with the gap between the two clubs even exceeding 20 points at earlier points in the season.

Starting in 2007, he spent six seasons at the University of Oregon, where his dizzyingly fast squads ran an assortment of trick plays and scored points at a historic rate.

In his final four years as a coordinator at UNH, Kelly's unit averaged nearly 36 points per game, and starting in 2004, the Wildcats have made the postseason nine straight seasonIn his final four years as a coordinator at UNH, Kelly's unit averaged nearly 36 points per game, and starting in 2004, the Wildcats have made the postseason nine straight seasonin 2004, the Wildcats have made the postseason nine straight seasons.

Looks like Evander Kane was back in Las Vegas at some point before the Winnipeg Jets season started and decided he should honor the infamous photo from the lockout with an updated version.

The former starter and first - round pick will likely compete with Christian Ponder and Matt Cassel for starting snaps in practice and will look to become the Vikings quarterback at some point this season.

Byron Scott, at the start of his season coaching Ellington in L.A., claimed that three - point shooting didn't win championships.

But not happy Korpi got the start, not at this point in the season.

while on the other hand arsenal r going to play for the title... losing 3 points at the start or end or in mid season ll be big loss... and one game does makes a difference just check last season table nd look at how many points rather how many games separated mcfc and lfc

This would indicate that players are not assured of a starting place if their performances drop and players are being dropped / rotated; I would point to changes at centreback - Gabriel coming in for Mertesacker & vice-versa, on the wing - Iwobi displacing Walcott / Campbell, central midfield - Elneny displacing Coquelin / Ramsey, up front - Welbeck / Giroud / Walcott competition over the season.

I said in my post Gabriel will most likely take over Mertesacker at some point next season, but why should we start the season with an unfamiliar Cb partnership, when we already have a proven one?

Chicago, who will start Jimmy Clausen in place of the injured Jay Cutler, opened as a 15 - point underdog against Seattle after being listed at +9 before the season.

Arsene Wenger made an illusion about the temperature that water boils at and compared it to the almost very good performances that Arsenal had been putting in at the start of the season, suggesting that the Gunners just needed a few extra degrees of temperature before we hit our own boiling point.

It's no secret that Arsenal hasn't been in such great shape at the start of the Premier League's season and many have pointed to Arsène Wenger's inability to discipline the team and negotiate better transfers.

I believe the carry on of some supporters last season and season before are to blame some here were looking for loses just so they can prove a point to me they are not Arsenal at all some have been even worse they embarrassed Arsenal in away grounds what a bunch of red necks I am frustrated at Mr Wenger but I will always respect him he is a legend I would love to see the academy win their tier We don't seem to pick the right players as most of them do nt make it luckily this issue has been addressed Once again I need to emphasize the importance of being united behind the club and very vocal sometimes it so quite I am surprised that players have not fallen asleep and now with the new trend of empty seats I start to believe we are going into a self destruct we need to wake up and shake down the bad dust and stand up to be counted before it becomes to late Wishing Arsenal a Prosperous successful New Year Happy new year folks

It's worth noting that before the start of the season, the Patriots were only listed as 4 - point favorites in the lookahead line at the Westgate Superbook.

As they sit in fourth place in the league table, 19 points adrift of leaders Barcelona and having failed to entirely convince in the Copa del Rey or Champions League this season, big changes may well be needed at the Bernabeu, and that process could start with the arrival of Icardi in the summer.

Champions League starts this week and on Wednesday night, in Group E, we will see a match between two teams in two of the topmost leagues in Europe — both hopeful of at least a top - four - finish in their respective leagues, both on 7 points after three game weeks, and both with a similar start to the season.

We are at a point in the season where we can start to see this teams strengths and weaknesses, and none are more poignant that the state of our secondary.

Spurs dropped seven points in their first three league games at Wembley but after a stuttering start they have recorded landmark wins against Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Liverpool, United and Arsenal there this season.

Having been 2 - 0 at half time Saints had managed a 2 - 2 with Chelsea with substitute Rickie Lambert and a screamer from Jason Puncheon giving Nigel Adkins a point that you would think could kick - start our first season back in big time since 2005.

If he finishes the season in last place — which seems quite possible, as L.A. continues to pencil him into its starting lineup, day after day, despite his poor numbers — Pujols will become the first modern2 position player ever to be both baseball's best and worst player at various points in his career.

The 25 - year old still has a long way to go this season but should he stay fit for a sustained period and replicate his good form, there is no reason why he can not nail down a place in the starting lineup as Mourinho clearly prefers him to his international teammate Chris Smalling, at this point in time.

By Christmas, Leeds were nine points clear in the promotion places, and when 2010 started with an FA Cup third round win at Manchester United - the club's first win at Old Trafford for 29 years - the season was shaping up to be a memorable one.

After being a hero for the North London club at the start of the season, Alexis Sanchez does not look to be enjoying himself too much at this point in time.

Read Madrid's fine start to the season continued last weekend as their 4 - 1 victory over rivals Atletico Madrid put them three points clear at the top of the table with a game in hand over Barcelona.

Spurs missed out on Champions League qualification by one point in the 2012/2013 season, with a total of 72 points - the highest point total for a top flight team outside of the top four - ensuring Balemania would start as soon as the last kick of a ball was kicked at White Hart Lane.