Sentences with phrase «team kept clean sheets»

What that suggests to me is that the manager is more concerned about his team keeping a clean sheet tomorrow than scoring lots of goals.

The overs intrigues me as I do not see this Toffees team keeping a clean sheet on the road and an early goal will throw this game wide open.

Not exact matches

In fine form for Manchester City to keep yet another clean sheet, Joe Hart was an important part of the team's 1 - 0 win in a tight contest at Crystal Palace.

Mr Wenger is consistent in that he invariably speaks nonsense particularly when it comes to the art of defending where «his» team have been deficient for the past decade.Had we kept a clean sheet against Man Utd and Southampton we would have picked up 6 points.Simple logic is something AW is now incapable of putting into practise and along with his poor recent record in the transfer market eg Xhaka and Mustafi the Board of Arsenal Football club should be making him accountable for the teams continued lack of success.Will this happen?

The likes of Ozil and Ramsay are regularly slated by fans and the media when the real problem lies further back.Wenger has failed to address this weakness during the past 5/6 years and as a consequence Arsenal have become a laughing stock, a team which rarely keeps a clean sheet against even against mediocre teams with respect to Watford, Stoke etc..

The player has only made three first team appearances for the Reds so far, with the 24 - year - old also yet to keep a clean sheet for the Merseyside club.

Our last two goals allowed were due to sloppiness on defense and we can't afford to do that against a team whose known for keeping clean sheets themselves.

When I used to play we used to call games like this one a «light your cigar» game as you knew that the other team had no attack and you did not have to try that hard to keep a clean sheet.

«If I can give the team a good balance — because we've got quite a few players going forward — hopefully we can get back to keeping more clean sheets soon.

Ideally, yes a few extra weeks with the team may have been beneficial, but it was our attacking woes against Leicester that let us down and we did keep a clean sheet.

Inasmuch as alot of us fans love Shezza, I think he's his own problem.Aside his chronic cockiness, him and his dad seem to have this belief that he's irreplaceable in the Arsenal team but I think he knows better now cos he'd sit on the bench as long as Ospina keeps clean sheets and wins us 3points.

Beat a top team and we are lucky, beat a lower team and we should be beating them anyway, lose when playing a too risky brand of football and we are inept, win a tight game playing ugly it is not acceptable nor the Arsenal way, win by 3 goals and it should have been 5, keep playing the same predictable way every game and we should vary it more, vary our pattern of play and we should go back to doing what we used to, win 2 - 0 and keep a clean sheet and we should have been more adventurous to improve goal difference, win 2 - 1 and concede in the last minute and we were naive not to shut up shop, win 12 out of the last 15 games and it should have been 15 wins......... blah, blah.

Charlie Austin nearly scored in the 39th minute, but Scott Carson came up with a brilliant stop to keep his team's clean sheet intact.

«As a goalkeeper you try to help the team by giving them confidence from the back and keeping a clean sheet».

Toure gets into the team at centre - half for two reasons, one being that he played there in the 2009 Champions League final against the Red Devils and kept a clean sheet.

we did not only beat this team, we frustrated em, we dominated em, we shut rm down, we screwed em, we kept a clean sheet, this is vintage arsenal!

The defense they labelled the worst managed to keep a clean sheet and the team won.

I don't particularly want Chambers to be better at attacking, I would rather he concentrated on defending, we need to keep more clean sheets, especially against the weaker teams.

Just imagine that they kept a clean sheet against team who having Messi, Eto, Xavi, Iniesta..

Now we are trying to keep a few clean sheets with a world - class keeper in Petr Cech, and we are winning games but not in the sexy Wengerball Arsenal way and fans are bashing the team.

I wouldn't want to talk of Silva and Dzeko's goals, which saw City win that game 2 - 0; but there was this under - fire midfielder in Javi Garcia, who filled in for his skipper at the heart of Man City's defence, and played a significant part in his team securing all 3 points, in addition to keeping a clean sheet.

The Czech international has kept three clean sheets in a row for the Gunners, while Chelsea are suffering while conceding 12 goals so far — more than any other team in the Premier League.

Serbian international Neven Subotic has now returned to the starting line - up after a spell on the sidelines with a cruciate ligament injury but has now started the last seven games, helping Jurgen Klopp's team to climb back up to mid table, conceding just six goals and keeping three clean sheets from those seven games.

I know others may say but those teams concede a lot too and I agree, their is no system that is perfect but with our current GK and defence if the entire team turned up for 90 minutes we would keep more clean sheets and close out games.

Not only that, but AW stated that Cech keeps telling the team daily that he expects clean sheets.

He kept clean sheets vs both teams.

No team wins the league without a 20 + league goals striker and a strong defence that keeps clean sheets, we can't afford anymore accidents as Wenger would put it if we want to really challenge for the title

The article rightly points out Lec deficiencies in keeping clean sheets as well as us not being able to get one against a team that scores allot when at home.

Also, keeping clean sheets is a big deal whether you're a defensive team or an attacking one.

Cech is currently tying with David James on 169 each, but he could become the sole holder of the clean sheet record if he keeps his old team - mates out next Saturday lunchtime.

Blind started 35 Premier League games for United and was a major factor in helping them keep 18 clean sheets — more than any other team.

For now I don't think there's any missing link our team is playing well, our forwards scoring, our defense keeping clean sheets (even though not in all the matches we have played) and our midfield organised.

It's already widely reported that he keeps drilling into the team that he wants clean sheets every game they play lol i mean come on now.

Still, it was not until a 3 - 0 win over Sunderland in October that they managed to keep their first clean sheet of the season, something that was a concern for City fans after their team had looked so hard to break down the previous year.

He kept 21 clean sheets last season and was voted in as the keeper for the Professional Footballers» Association Team of the Year (Championship).

Did anyone notice how he slyly got Scszesny back into the team after Martinez kept 3 clean sheets out of 4 games.

The team is clearly playing very well at the moment, winning six of our last seven matches in all competitions, keeping five clean sheets in the process, but what is more interesting is that the current starting XI is possibly missing some of its better players.

I can't remember when gabriel was wreckless he played a very good game and and we've kept 3 clean sheets on the trot with him in the team.

Mour tries to win by the odd goal when against the big teams and he sets his team up to keep clean sheets as a priority.

The Belgian goalkeeper has struggled at key points this season despite keeping 11 clean sheets for the team.

He was also part of the team that kept two clean sheets in the last two games.

Kept a clean - sheet against Leicester and were lacking a lot of our first - team options in attack, including Mesut who's an undoubted starter and glues our midfield and front three like no other...

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His work with Real Madrid has shown he's capable of pulling together a defensive group and keeping clean sheets even when it seems everyone else on the team is only interested in going forward.

«[As a goalkeeper] you try to help the team by giving them confidence from the back and keeping a clean sheet.

Leicester, keeping a clean sheet today, I felt that the whole team worked really hard.

Unlike a few team - mates, Davies got better as the season went on: against Man City in March he made 21 clearances, including 17 with his head, while in April's Swansea game he made 16 clearances, seven interceptions and two tackles as the Tigers kept a clean sheet.

The Bantams» defensive record is the worst among the top ten teams and they have not kept a clean sheet on their travels in ten attempts since a 1 - 0 success at Shrewsbury last November.

But we were also playing a Huddersfield team that have started the season well and sat above us on goal difference, a Huddersfield team whose main plan is to keep clean sheets as often as possible and they arrived at the Turf having kept three in their first five games which is some achievement.

The home team built their success last season on a strong backline but they've only kept three clean sheets all season.