Sentences with phrase «struggle against the big sides»

Not exact matches

While Mourinho struggles in the big games, managing just one goal in his last ten away games against fellow top six sides, Manchester City have already beaten Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal this season by a 9 - 1 aggregate scoreline.

If Arsenal do as we expect them to this weekend and run out as winners of the home game against a struggling Southampton side getting used to their new manager Claude Puel, while he gets used to the English Premier League for the first time, then we will be heading into the next round of matches a bit closer to at least one of our big spending Premier League rivals.

What is for certain though is that Lukaku will be keen to put Saturday's game behind him as having failed to have a positive influence in another big game, he was unable to silence his critics who continue to point to his poor record against the top six sides in recent years where he has struggled to make a big impact.

Our problems seem to run in cycles of a few seasons, we can challenge against the big teams but struggle against mid-table sides, or we can beat the mid / lower - table teams and get d*ck ed by the big guns.