Sentences with phrase «successful time last season»

The youngster enjoyed a successful time last season, having his best performance ever making a total of 21 appearance in all competition.

Not exact matches

Arsenal have now started the short run of pre-season games in preparation for the tough start to a crucial Premier League season in which the pressure on Arsene Wenger and the players to mount a serious title challenge is greater than ever after blowing what appeared to be a golden chance last time around and with the gap since our last successful campaign now more than 12 years.

The talented winger has spent much of his time in recent seasons with the club's B team and enjoyed a successful loan spell at Villarreal last season.

Borini spent last season on loan with Gus Poyet's man and had a successful spell, persuading them to go back for the Italian on a permanent basis this summer — but the former Chelsea trainee would rather return on loan rather than full time.

The 27 - year - old spent last season on loan at La Liga giants Real Madrid, but didn't impress enough to be signed on a permanent basis and could once again be surplus to requirements at Old Trafford should manager Louis van Gaal be successful in his attempts to bring in another forward before the transfer window closes in just under a month's time.

Whilst it can be a useful exercise to use pre-season to experiment with formations and tactics this should be reserved for the latter stages of a game once substitutions are made.Crucially Arsenal failed to use game time to acclimatise the players who are likely to start the Season to one another and to continue to develop a team philosophy which had proven so successful in a crucial game at the end of last Season.Reverting to type will only have one end product and it won't go down well with the Arsenal faithful.

The Frenchman has become the most successful manager in the club's history in his time in charge, but if it was not for that dramatic FA cup final win over Hull City last season, his reputation would be under threat and the media would no doubt be on his back.

Last time I predicted a seventh place finish for West Ham to match the successful season that preceded it.

His position last season didn't stop him scoring 19 times last season, including 11 in Atletico's successful Europa League campaign.

Let's not forget what this famous club is all about, though; they are the most successful club in English football, having been crowned champions nineteen times, while they're also the reigning Premier League champions and last season's beaten finalists in this very competition, and they showed exactly why they've been champions on numerous occasions when grounding out a narrow victory away at Everton the following weekend.

As many of my long time readers know, I've been very successful in predicting home heating oil prices over the last 6 or 7 years and readers keep coming back each fall to get my recommendations for the upcoming winter heating season.