Sentences with phrase «team during his first season»

Moses moved to Chelsea last summer but struggled to break into the Blues first team during his first season at Stamford Bridge and could be set to move away from the club, with places in the Chelsea first team likely to be very hard to come by.

Not exact matches

Both Tecco's analysis and mine show that 49 percent of teams received at least a handshake deal during the first five seasons.

It was the first Fall Classic since 1970 between two teams with at least 100 wins during the regular season, as Los Angeles won 104 games and Houston won 101.

The young Swede has not managed to break into the first - team during his time at the Etihad Stadium, and has been loaned out to the Scottish Premiership champions this season.

This is especially true when looking at Graham's first three seasons in Tempe, during which his teams went a combined 28 - 12, with back - to - back 10 - win seasons in 2013 and 2014.

During the past five seasons, Skinner's run - and - shoot teams have never been lower than fourth in the SEC, and three seasons ago Vandy finished on top for the first time.

I think teams will try and work this a little more next season as he is not unknown anymore, Gibbs was targeted in a similar way during first years especially facing Bolton Newc and other hackensack teams.

In fact Yedlin's displays saw the full - back named US Soccer Young Male Athlete of the Year and the American also made the MLS All - Star Team during his first full season in 2013.

After finding first team opportunities limited at Bayern Munich during the first half of last season, Shaqiri joined Inter in the winter but failed to make much of an impact at the San Siro.

Arsene Wenger has challenged his new Arsenal team to prove in the remaining weeks of the season that they are better than his old team — that hardly showered themselves in glory during the first six months.

During the final week of the Regular Season these Two squads battled into what was the first OT Game of the Season which Team Holzman took..

Team Hernandez is a «Free Agent» squad that was put together before the season with many of the guys just meeting for the first time during Week 1.

if during their first year in the league, the golden knights won more stanley cups than the blues or any nhl hockey team from the state of minnesota were able to win in 95 total seasons of existence

Not counting the teenage Nigerian sensation Kelechi Nwakali and the young Japanese international forward Takuma Asano, because they will almost certainly not be featuring for the Arsenal first team next season, Arsene Wenger has signed just two new players so far during this summer transfer window.

Team Apuli started the season off strong and was routinely in the Top 5 of the Power Rankings during the League's first couple of months.

Again, they finished with the same amount of points as Team Kirshner during the Regular Season — the first time to Teams ever tied atop the Standings, let alone gaining the maximum amount of points..

The 2015 - 16 Champs got their first W of the Season during Week 2 by defeating the impressive Team Dean crew.

Traded by the Hawks to the Jazz during the offseason, he missed the team's first match - up this season due to injury.

The Merseyside giants signed the highly - rated Belgian international during the summer before loaning him back to current club Lille for the remainder of this season to gain more first - team experience in Ligue 1.

Fabregas rejoined Barcelona back in August 2011 having racked up 303 appearances during his eight seasons in the Arsenal first team set - up and the World Cup winner still retains strong linked with the club and is said to be open to a move back this summer.

It was easy to make obvious jokes about the Browns during that first half against the Steelers, but the team may now be on its way to a much better season than many expected in Mike Pettine's first season.

The teal pants are a first for the franchise, and the team tweeted that an all - teal jersey - pant combination could happen as many as three times during the 2018 season.

«Oriol had an injury during the season but he came back late on and was in time to play for the first team.

The 22 - year - old rose through the ranks of the Arsenal youth academy and began to break into the first team during the 2011/12 season, but loan spells with Wolverhampton Wanderers and Fulham were flanked by a second serious cruciate knee ligament injury in 2012.

Once again Arsene Wenger has been forced to defend his actions during the summer transfer window, which saw Arsenal sign just one new player to boost the first team squad and supposedly get the Gunners ready for a long hard season.

Mangold also was selected an AP first - team All - Pro during the 2009 and 2010 seasons.»

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

During the first half of the season, these teams have gone 77 - 87 ATS (47.0 %).

Kalas is best known amongst Chelsea fans for his performance in the 2 - 0 victory at Anfield during the closing stages of the 2013/14 season, that helped to deny Liverpool the title, but he has otherwise not been close to the first team picture at Stamford Bridge and has previously had a spell on loan at Vitesse Arnhem.

Its a shame really, just luk at teams around us and the number of players they hve purchased.furthermore, the players were purchased early and got time to intergrate with the team during preseason.i am so scared about this season just one first 11 player signed (xhaka).

In the envisaged revamping of the Arsenal first team squad during the in - coming summer transfer window for next season's campaign during which at least 2 world class players are expected to be signed by Arsenal in addition to keeping Ozil and Sanchez, and some underperforming Gunners for 3 consecutive seasons allowed to leave on the expiration of their contract deals this season or be sold if their deals are still active to recoup some funds used in signing the 2 world class players in addition to the signing of 3 other top quality new players making them 5 in numbers of: a LB, a DM, an AMD, a versatile world class Winger & a world class Striker whom Arsenal should sign during the summer imho.

After the first game, however, the Bucks, the NBA's best defensive team during the regular season, when they held opponents to 46 % shooting and only 101.5 points a game, slowed the Nets to a brisk jog.

Wilson scored twice on his Premier League debut back in May 2014 but has managed just eight minutes of first - team action this season, coming on as a sub during Man United's 3 - 0 defeat to Arsenal on the weekend.

During the 1997 MLB season, teams from the American League and National League competed in regular season competition for the first time in the long and illustrious history of Major League Baseball.

After making 10 straight All - Star teams and winning 10 straight Gold Gloves in his first 10 seasons, Ichiro was mostly an afterthought the last five years, hitting.268 /.304 /.342 during that span, including a reduced role in 2014 - 15.

After the promising first half of the season from Arsenal and France centre forward Olivier Giroud has turned into something of a nightmare for him and for the team's chances of winning a trophy this season, a top class striker is sure to be on the minds of most Arsenal fans during the summer and hopefully top of the transfer wish list of Arsene Wenger.

Alex Iwobi broke through the ranks to earn a place in the Arsenal first - team squad in during the 2015 - 16 season, but has not started a single match since the club's change in formation.

Per Mertesacker was still a first choice centre back for Arsenal last season, however this year after picking up an injury during pre-season, it seems like Mustafi's German compatriot may be set to lose his place in the team.

During his senior season he won six tournaments, including the Southern Conference championship, and was a first - team All - America.

The Peruvian had a fantastic strike - rate for Bayern Munich but he made very little impact during his first season for Chelsea and, at the age of 29, might consider a new challenge and lots of first - team football.

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

The youngster gained some significant attention during the early stages of the Champions League when he bagged a wonderful solo goal against Manchester United, though it remind to be seen whether he would figure in Arsenal's first team plans next season.

These two Teams did not play during the Regular Season — always fun to get a first - time match - up with Playoff lives on the line.

Another first time matchup here between two Teams that did not play during the Regular Season.

During the first few weeks of the season they were THE Team..

Team Unger gets their first loss of the season during an extremely close game against Team Schur.

They look to get into the Winner's Circle during Week 4 against Team Sammy, who is coming off of their first W of the season.

Like the Final4 match - ups, these two Teams didn't play head to head during the season so we'd get another first time pairing here..

Team Sammy picked up their first W of the Season during Week 3 and as a result hopped up into the Rankings at # 7.

However, Suarez has not enjoyed as much first team football as he would have liked during his time in Serie A so far, and could now look to make a quick getaway midway through the season (via Metro).