Sentences with phrase «team at this point in the season»

Was frustrating to watch us lose to this team at this point in the season, but it happens, teams get hot, we get hot headed, whatever.

Not exact matches

Amid the toughest stretch of the Cavs» season in which the team has lost five of their last six games, blame has reportedly been passed around the locker room, with players pointing fingers at each other, the coaching staff, Cavs ownership, and most recently, Kevin Love.

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.

It was the teams only points finish all year and although it was enough to allow March to finish ninth in the Constructors» Championship, the team folded at the end of the season.

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.

Wenger is just too stubborn is the problem.we have a very strong chance of winning it this season (bpl) but if Wenger had gotten two outfield players in d summer (a fwd and cdm) we would have been sitting at d peak with at least 9 points off the rest d rest by now.but alas his egocentric stubbornness and blind loyalty to some average players in d team is giving us heart aches.however I still see us winning d league this season only that we'll b doing it in a cinderella story way

A 12 points gap is certainly a stretch, but if the team shows the fighting spirit that Shearer and the fans of Arsenal so desperately want, then at least we can finish the season in a stronger fashion.

May sound perverse but I think a more evenly matched top 5 will offer us a better chance of at least still being in the mix later in the season — no one team likely to dominate and walk away with it and all dropping a few points against each other.

10 goals in a one team league that is 21 points clear at the season halfway point.

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

Neither Chris Smalling nor Phil Jones have put together a particularly pressing case for a first - team spot, and there can't be many defenders in Europe that haven't been linked with United at some point over the season.

There better be a «Yeah Jeets» T - Shirt giveaway at some point in their inaugural season or the team will be mired in mediocrity forever.

It is only halfway through the season for Arsenal, but Arsene wenger has already seen his team descend to 23 points behind the League leaders Man City and crash out of the FA Cup in the Third Round for the first time in his 21 years at Arsenal.

Team Kaplan is better than their record indicates and at one point in the Season it's going to show through..

After their OT W on Sunday Night and Team Lalez's L, they are the owners of the longest - active W - streak in the League — 8 Games — and with two more Wins they'll have the longest this season... Most notably, they are 4th in the League in Points Per Game, a stat that would have seen remarkable a year ago at this time..

Nine different teams ranked No. 2 in either the AP poll or BCS standings at some point in the weirdest season ever, and it wasn't just the volume that was unusual.

Each Team has played every Team in the League at this point, and it provides a nice snap - shot of where everyone lines - up through most of the Regular Season..

In other words, these are years in which the losing team would've been favored by at least three points if the game had been played after bowl seasoIn other words, these are years in which the losing team would've been favored by at least three points if the game had been played after bowl seasoin which the losing team would've been favored by at least three points if the game had been played after bowl season:

It was deserved at one point, but park effects obscured the real strength of the 2014 team in the regular season, which was the lineup.

George is putting up career - highs in points, rebounds and assists in his third season while also emerging at the team's new leader.

Although Bowen scored 1,133 points in his four seasons at Cal State - Fullerton, he didn't receive an invitation to any of the NBA's postseason camps, and no team picked him in the 1993 draft.

The Scarlet Knights have allowed more than 15 points in a game just once all season, and that was in a 35 - 26 win at Arkansas, a team that still has a rock solid offense.

«There's no question that teams have more confidence that they can beat Jimmie than in seasons past at this point,» says driver Greg Biffle.

Denver players are already used to the altitude, but it's still the point in the season before teams have gotten fully conditioned, so the visitors are at a disadvantage.

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.

@ 007 good point man but this is purely based on everyone's view on what factors they judge greatness in my perspective greatness is not only about winning I agree sir Alex was the most successful manager in the history of bpl but if u see the team he left behind then u will certainly doubt his legacy this is just opposite with arsene after giving us the hint that he might be leaving at the end of next season the other statement he makes is to leave a platform for incoming manager so that he can do well.This is the difference between him and arsene.

To be playing Derrick Rose this way, at this point in the team's season and his career, beggars the imagination.

Claude Puel has seen his new Southampton side struggle to only gain one point from the first three games of the season, but he believes his team is better than that and will give Arsenal a run for their money in Saturday's game at the Emirates.

They'd rather wait for the one time it fails so they can bash You blame the manager for being favourist yet a fellow blogger praising a player he previously bashed is called being two faced You kill Ramsey for a blind pass attempting to enter the opposition final third yet you won't blame Sanchez for turning over the ball in a pointless dribble with three free team mates You kill metersacker for deflecting a shot into his own net but won't touch kos for getting out of the way of a shot he could have sufficiency blocked You claim with no substantial proof that arteta, mert, Ramsey, can not lead arsenal anywhere substantial yet they have each at a point been a massive cause for stability and progress when called upon Even after reading this comment, you will ignore the fact that kos was awful until partnerd with mert, our defensive mid with song leaked more goals than the one with arteta and we've struggled to win without him at least until late last season.

Arsenal will NEVER catch Spurs if Spurs open a 6 point gap.4 THE END OF WENGER AT ARSENAL!Wenger has spoken in the past about how he might have stepped down had Arsenal not beaten Hull in the FA Cup final in 2014 to end a nine - year trophydraught.Well the same must surely apply this season if he allows Spurs to win and for Spurs / Leicester to overtake his team and win the title.

On the outside looking in at the moment with a 16 -15-2 record and 34 points, a good stretch could help a team that mustered just 48 points all last season climb right back into the picture.

Some might say a Title Winning team in a season won't see such a result at any point in a season, so I think that's fair, and for Arsenal to avoid such results, they either expect everyone to be 100 % 100 % of the time (unlikely) or they get themselves a 20 a season scorer who will send shiver down the spine of opponents and offer a solution to his colleagues every time they want to attack.

And that is important because veterans who aren't on the active roster in Week 1 can be cut at any point after they do sign, and the team won't owe them the balance of their salary for that season.

this is exactly what I mean, there comes a point in the season where he just resigns to the fact he cant take this team beyond fourth and he doesn't seem too disappointed at that.

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

These were the top two teams in point differential during the regular season, with New England outscoring opponents by 11.9 points per game, and Atlanta at 8.4.

Everton were a notoriously hard team to beat in the past, especially at home, but there are reasons why I believe Arsenal can take all three points and get their season back on track.

We dominated Sp ** s at The Emirates earlier this season and with better finishing and composure in the second half we could easily have doubled that score.The team were focused and kept a good shape all through the game.We should not need motivating for a game as big as this.The fact it's a NLD is important enough but 3 points will put us in with a chance of getting back into the mix for a top 4 finish.Anything less and we will struggle.

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

Schalke 04 have become the first team to take points off Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena in the Bundesliga this season as they hold the reigning champions to a 1 - 1 draw.

Chelsea's midfield struggles earlier in the season cost the team an early exit from the Capital One Cup tournament as well as significant points in the Premier League that still have the reigning BPL champions toiling at 12th on the table.

Typically these periods in past few seasons has seen us chasing the top table team with average of 10 points, then comes our end of season charge which has seen us gaining more points than any other EPL team in the final two months of the season, over the past few years at least.

Arsenal face the long haul up to Newcastle to face a team without a League win so far this season, but the Gunners are still under pressure to come away with all three points to try and keep in touch at the top end of the table.

But team performance in 2017 was also notably better — 9 - 7 and competing for a playoff spot most of the year, vs 7 - 9 and competing for the first overall pick at the halfway point of the season.

Funnily enough, the last team to beat or even take a single point away from Chelsea this season was Arsenal, in our 3 - 0 win at the Emirates Stadium back in September, but that hasn't stopped Eden Hazard from dismissing us.

But Johnsonis quick to point out that his system has already been ACC - tested: In his lastfour seasons at Annapolis, he went 4 — 3 against teams in the conferencIn his lastfour seasons at Annapolis, he went 4 — 3 against teams in the conferencin the conference.

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.

Away at a newly promoted team early in the season, it's inexcusable to be dropping points, and to be honest despite our higher number of attempts, they came closest to scoring a winner, not us.

I really think if Diaby is back at any point in the season this team and formation could beat any EPL team... even Chelsea.

bcos he wasn't good enough in the 1st place.Arteta is kind of irrelevant to this debate.The point is Wiltshere feels that he is entitled to a place in the team for some reason, which is strange to me seeoing that Wiltshere has been injured for most of the season, the likes of Coquelin an Cazorla have driven the team on, Wiltshere can't just expect to get back in the team when these 2 have proved more efective.Wiltshere has a future at Arsenal but he must stay fit an fight for his place, he can't expect to just walk back into the team