Sentences with phrase «team against top clubs»

Not exact matches

Salah was playing against Roma, his former club where he finished as the team's top goalscorer last season.

Try flipping the argument and ask why so called top teams drop so many points against the bottom 6 clubs?

Buffon + BBC always got breached against top attacking talents be it in the national team or club football

WTF??? One good game against a top team in 5 yrs and you expect everyone to forget the bizarre way Wenger has been running the club?

Arsenal may be a big club on paper, but we are far from it on the pitch, and that can be reflected on our league position & our record against top teams.

this man is so self - absorbed... does he really think that we should feel so honored that he chose to stay with little old us... does he not understand that many of us would have literally driven him to the ends of the earth if he promised never to return... has anyone noticed that the only teams he says are interested in him are some of the biggest clubs in the world whose managers spend freely, follow through on their promises or are terminated, listen to their fan - bases, have a lot of strong personalities within their squads, rarely play their top players out of position, win against their top rivals or suffer the wrath, don't blame the ref after every loss and embrace their former stars... even if his stories had any truth to them, he would last but a cup of coffee

Considering we had four games remaining, needed to secure 9 pts minimum to qualify and two of those games were against BAYERN MUNICH, an undisputed top - 3 club in the world, I dare say you were already talking of Europa League... So please don't try to come across as any form of high - standards fan when you bash the team constantly, you can't have it both ways.

Besides, the Arsenal team Ii who is the club's Europa League Cup, Carabao Cup and FA Cup team but only if Arsenal is not playing against a Premier League or top European club side opposition teams is more than capable to put any Forest team down in this FA Cup 3rd match today.

While other top flight clubs gauge themselves against the very best in the world, we gauge ourselves against mediocre or less capable teams.

Why the media got it for Arsenal, we bottle some games we are expected to win, proving some pundits that hates the club right time after time, games are not comfortably won, last season we had a better away record than home, We have an overall poor result against the big teams for the past 5 years, we haven't won the league for 12 years now, we haven't made a proper challenge in Europe for 10 years and on top of it we have an Owner who doesn't care about football, just the money he makes, so many reasons.

Against us they do show a mark up in performance / effort but that is the case for allot of teams playing top clubs.

Although I think he is still good enough to play against the big clubs (he is still sharp, and is in the top 5 fastest players at Arsenal), he should at least be starting games against the mid / lower table teams to give guys a break and to keep him motivated and content!

Recognise the improvements and give AFC a break... and do have a bit more class than to rubbish Wenger and the club on the back of a defeat against consistent finalist in the Cl, the annual runaway winners of the Bundersleague, and arguably Europes top football team....

Mourinho will set his team up to get a draw, just as he does against other top teams away, despite him slagging off other teams who do the same against his club!!

The FA like to have minnows against the top teams aired and the so called shitter matches for the benefit of the fans of those respective clubs.

The fact still remains is that Tactically the team and the manager were inept on Saturday and while I agree that the team is slowly getting there and we are far closer to being a top notch team we are still NOT a top notch team and until Wenger either get the ability to alter his tactics against different teams to suit how they play OR rediscovers it then we will not ever be a top notch club again.

The image of the club in the minds of the players probably is — «yes a very good team which plays attractive football but not sure I can win titles with them» The only top team who we can win a battle against in terms of reputation and ambition right now is probably liverpool.

He was proud of his team's effort against the top seeded club and seemed eager to get his guys ready to go for next season.

Yeah and look how he is treating US FANS at the end of his career.He just doesn't care.This is an intelligent man.He knows he no longer has the ability to Manage a top level Football Club.His tired and outdated methods have left us trailing the very clubs we used to dominate.Wenger has left us 5 years behind these Clubs.The younger modern manager know how to get results.Even against each other.Wenger can't even get a result away from home against teams in the relegation area.These teams used to FEAR playing us.Now they look forward to it.They know we will be playing with the same old tactics with plenty of the ball that gets us nowhere.No spine to the side.No passion in the side.No confidence from the players in the Manager.He should have been replaced 7 years ago

Despite such success, until last spring no Navajo team had been able to play in the off - season against top clubs from Phoenix and Tucson.

Its not only the top clubs that know it, teams like Watford know exactly how to set up against the Gunners.

Xhaka was much needed player for the club in that defence midfield role and should be starting most games along side Coq especially against the top teams.

Arsenal are a successful club and will always be seriously last season was not that bad for the past 21 years we remind a the top four no club in England had achieved that 21 years on the trot I believe we needed a new look at ourselves and the reason why we have not won it we have not won the premier league in the past 12 years while clubs such Leicester have won it having said that we were the only team to have won them home and away we seem to be a little short at every term in one stage opponents literally broke our players and some were very viciously broken every one ganged against us and we crumbled to the pressure we need to assert our self by winning lower tear competitions and grow to be strong and fight it hard and give other teams what we were giving Firstly we need to unite and create a fortress at the emirate stadium become the twelfth team player once we get the fundamentals right I know and guarantee we will win it all we need to plant our feet in the ground we need unite become one strong unit

The Gunners are now winless in their last 13 league away games against last season's top six teams while - in contrast - the vibrant Reds are unbeaten in their last 11 league matches versus the same clubs.

Theres nothing else for it now boys we have to just get together as a club now, no - one outside our club gives us the respect we deserve, what other top four side, or any other PL team gets a man sent off and TWO pens against them in one game????? What top four side repeatedly has controversial incidents overlooked by television and media «experts»????? These tossers actually get excited at the prospect of a team battering Arsenal.

Under SAF I felt towards the end of his career that he couldn't win the big games and we would play for a draw against top teams but what he was so good at was not slipping and losing points to the smaller clubs.

Germany's top football teams are discussing plans to sweep away rules prohibiting foreign investors from owning Bundesliga clubs, amid concern they lack the financial firepower to compete against rivals in the English Premier League and Spain's La Liga.

There are 10 Blues in the starting XV and Taylor's team will be hoping to come out on top after two narrow misses in recent season's against the now Aviva Premiership club.

«All that counts is that we got to the semi-finals against the best team on the planet,» Manolas said after a historic night for the Serie A club, who have made it through to the last four of Europe's top competition for the first time in three decades.

As a club, we've shown with that result against Man City, who are a top - class team, that we can beat them in the big games.

It was one of the several heavy defeats for the club when it comes to games against the top teams.

Last season saw some remarkable successes against top clubs, who we were able to hit on the break, while we often struggled against teams who were more defensive minded.

song, a blundering third rater good only at passing the ball to an opponent and giving away free - kicks, denilson a chicken going nowhere, diaby a headless donkey, rudderless vela, error - prone clichy and buttered fingered» alumuniam: have been provided enough opportunities and they had failed and should be off - loaded if to succeed against top clubs and buy couple of top class players and not cheap french fries.To top it the team have too many softies rvp, gibbs and now cesc who for the past two seasons seems to be watching from the comfort of home or in the stands..

Germano Vailati misses out for the home side, and they also have doubts over Luca Zuffi and Eder Balanta KEY FACT: Basel have won four of their last five home games against English clubs in the Champions League MATCH ODDS: Basel 10/1 Draw 4/1 Man City 1/3 GRAEME SAYS: Only going one way, the Champions League favourites will win this... 0 - 4 BOYLESPORTS PICK: Man City win and Both Teams to Score @ 21/10 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Kevin De Bruyne outside the top - ten — you still need to get on him