Whilst yesterday sparked the return of many Arsenal first
team regulars back in training, there were also a few unfamiliar faces pictured at London Colney.
Not exact matches
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After yet another move, this time to Ipswich Town who spent # 4.5 m on bringing him to Portman Road, his new
team reached an unprecedented fifth in the table and Hermann was a
regular starter in their
back four.
With just over a month of baseball to go in the
regular season, maybe the Mets can still make it to the postseason, but they were already lagging behind three other
teams in the NL Wild Card race, with another just a game
back of them.
There is a strong feeling that the England international midfield star Jack Wilshere is going to rescue his Arsenal career and come
back to be a first
team regular again, as long as this season on loan at AFC Bournemouth sees him play the
regular football that all of his injury problems have denied him at his boyhood club, the mighty Arsenal.
I could come
back by saying that — at least since the Wade / Bosh / Haslem Miami
team — he has never had a
team where he didn't have to play 37 - 40 high - leverage minutes for 80 games in the
regular season, either.
Wisdom spent the entire 2014 - 15 campaign at West Brom and was a
regular in the
team under Alan Irvine, but lost his place in the starting XI shortly after Tony Pulis took over and his last start in the league came in the 3 - 0 defeat by Tottenham at the Hawthorns
back in January.
The only
team that Arsenal ever sat
back against on if not on
regular basis is Man city, expect wenger to employ Welbek up front, use long balls, attack from minute one, score one or two, then sit to start using counter.
As for Lehmann, The Mirror says the German veteran was offered the chance to be Victor Valdes»
back - up at Barcelona but turned it down because he is seeking
regular first -
team action — presumably to cement his spot as Germany's number one in June's Euro 2008 tournament.
The goal of the
team sessions is to increase the exposure of the treatment and its benefits, and to hopefully bring
back one or two athletes as
regular members.
that being said, I think their slow
regular season start might have played to their advantage as they were able to stay a little under the radar while other
teams got targets on their
backs.
The 25 year - old has been forced to endure five different loan spells since joining Arsenal
back in 2011, but was given a chance to earn a
regular role in our side in the 2015 - 16 season, and while the fans enjoyed his impact in the
team, Arsene Wenger was seemingly unconvinced.
Dropping a
Regular Season Game to the 2x Defending Champs in December is certainly not a big deal for
Team James - Hagari, but it's a nice checkpoint for them to look
back upon in future months to see where they've improved when they get looks at other top
Teams.
Back in their only match - up during the
regular season, # 6
Team Hampton blew out # 5
Team Reisner by a final score of 93 - 65.
They've outlasted each and every one of the other 19
Teams in the Hoops League to add another bullet - point to All Sports Series» largest resume... Getting to 9 - 0 and being the final Undefeated
Team in the League is an extraordinary accomplishment but to really make history (
Regular Season history of course) they'll need to win 4 more Games when we get
back in 2016..
Dating
back to 2005, there have been 181
regular season games between two top - 10
teams.
These Two
Teams met all the way
back in Week 1 on the Hoops court and
Team DKE SR1 got a W and it helped launch their fantastic
Regular Seasons..
Team Mazurek might look
back on this night as the week that sprung them into a fantastic
regular season..
All the way
back in Week 3,
Team Harris got a decisive 10 - 2 W... However,
Regular Season Ws can not erase post-season memories..
In Game 2,
Team Holzman was able to strike fast and the
Team we saw during the
Regular Season was
back!
They will have a tough stretch in the
back half of the
Regular Season but their athleticism is going to give strong
Teams fits..
There are just two more weeks left in the
Regular Season and the Volleyball Tourney is where a few
teams will really separate itself from the pack or a few
teams can really get right
back in the swing of things..
Team Bruksch got off to an early lead in this one and much like the
Regular Season they never really looked
back.
They are going to improve as a
Team more than most
Teams in the
back half of the
Regular Season as again, they are just getting to know one another..
These two
teams met just once in the
Regular Season and that was all the way
back in Week 1 on Oct. 13,2013..
When we get
back on Feb. 21, they have 5 Games left in the
Regular Season and not one of them will be against a
Team with a winning record.
Back in their only match - up during the
regular season in Week 6,
Team Dean dropped a lopsided game to
Team Harlander, losing 86 - 51.
Heung - Min is into his third season in the Hamburg first
team having moved to the Imtech Arena side
back in 2008 and last term the adaptable forward, who can play out on the flank or in an orthodox striking role, became a
regular in Thorsten Fink's starting eleven.
Having suffered an ankle injury in pre-season which kept him out for the first few months of the campaign, the former Spurs play - maker became a
regular in the
team at both centre
back and holding midfield.
And my memory is fine — all the way
back to cheering Leeds as a neutral in the 1970 cup final, seeing the Ken Bates era unfold, seeing them yo - yo between 1st and 2nd division on a
regular basis, through standing in the Shed end (with my Chelski fan university mate) and watching John Hollin's and Bobby Campbell
teams getting ripped by the likes of Newcastle in the mid / late 80s and on to being fascinated by the managerial revolving door seeing at Chelski ever since.
Ozyakup left Arsenal for Besiktas
back in 2012, and has now notched up 13 goals and 28 assists in 108 appearances, as well as becoming a
regular for the Turkish national
team.
With the
regular season over, it's time to go
back and revisit my preseason predictions on breakout players for each
team.
In the midfield, (including RWB & LWB) we have a whole bunch of tweeners... none offer the full package, none make sense in our manager's current favourite formation, except for Sead on the left and Ox on the right, and all of them have never shown any consistency for more than a heartbeat... Sead, who I'm including in this category because of our present formation, looks like a positive addition, minus his occasional brain farts, but I would rather see what he could do in a
back 4 before making my mind up... Ox, who has never played better, which isn't saying much considering his largely underwhelming play in previous seasons, seems to have found a home in this new formation; unfortunately, can we really expect this oft - injured player to handle the taxing duties that come with said position over the long haul, not to mention, it looks like he has no intention of staying... Ramsey has relied on the empathy that stems from his gruesome injury years ago and the excitement that was generated a few years
back when he finally seemed to put in altogether, but on the whole he has been a big disappointment (neither he nor the Ox have scored enough to warrant a
regular spot)... Wiltshire should be put on a weekly contract then played until he suffers his first injury, if and when that occurs he should be shipped - out and no one should very be allowed to say his name on club grounds ever again... Elnehy & Coq are average players who couldn't make any of the top 7
teams currently in the EPL... both have showed some great energy on the pitch, but neither are top quality and no good
team can afford to have that many average players on their bench playing the same position, especially with Coq's injury history / discipline concerns and Elheny's headless chicken tendencies... as for Xhaka, his tenure here so far has been incredibly underwhelming... we know he has some skills to provide the long ball but his defensive work is piss poor and he gives the ball away too cheaply and far too often... finally, the enigma himself, Ozil, so much skill with his left foot but his presence has been more frustrating than uplifting... in many respects his failure has been directly related to the failure of this club to provide him with the necessary players up front, minus Sanchez of course, and unless something drastic happens very soon his legacy will be largely a negative one (much like Wenger's)
Given that the England full
back, or should that be former England full
back, had represented the west London club and only left when he had no chance of getting
regular first
team football and had appeared to have represented Chelsea pretty damn well when he was picked, one would have expected that he would've gotten a better reception from everyone at Stamford Bridge, but he was consistently booed, albeit a minority, by some of the home fans.
Gibbs was formerly a first
team regular for the years after Gael Clichy and kept Nacho Monreal out of the starting eleven after the Spaniard signed for the Gunners
back in 2013.
The 27 - year - old full -
back, who has failed to command a
regular first -
team place, is also wanted by Bayern Munich and Juventus.
Whilst some will argue he was forced out, many believe that Wilshere recognised that if he is to try and get his club career
back on track, he needs to go to a
team that can offer him
regular first
team football where he can attempt to build on his fitness.
Acquired from Dundee this left -
back has taken the move in his stride and Robertson is now a
regular in the Scotland national
team as well.
While the Arsenal and England international star will be over the moon just to be fit again and has already come off the subs bench to register his first playing minutes of the season, Danny Welbeck will be well aware that he faces a tough task in getting
back into the first
team on a
regular basis.
The question of whether Carl Jenkinson will get
back into the Arsenal
team as a
regular starter is one that has already been hotly debated this season.
The final goal was scored by his old
team - mate Benik Afobe, who also left Arsenal to get
regular playing time, and the striker thinks that Jack would not be happy going
back to sitting on the bench.
Wisely, Alderweireld believes a move to Spurs would offer a better guarantee of
regular first
team action and the former Ajax man is keen to line - up alongside fellow countryman Jan Vertonghen in Mauricio Pochettino's
back - line.
We agreed a deal to sign young left -
back Cohen Bramall from the Northern Premier League in January, who has been likened to England international and Arsenal invincible Ashley Cole, but he is so far playing with our Under - 23 side, and we have since signed Sead Kolasinac from Schalke on a free transfer, who is likely to be a first -
team regular.
«They're saying Durant could be
back before the end of the
regular season, but you can't always believe information disseminated at the
team level,» according to Scott Cooley, a spokesman from Bookmaker.eu.
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
Wenger just does his rotation, from
regular starter to
team B. Bellerin is living after this season, wenger and his experimenting got everyone fed up... Boy is a left
back, he plays him upper to do is
back 5 new trick to don't lose instead to look for win... OX was left
back and Bellerin playing above him at some point..
Francis Coquelin had never really broken into Arsenal's first
team squad on a
regular basis and it looked like he was finished at the Emirates when Wenger sent him off to Charlton on loan, but he played well at the Valley and when Aaron Ramsey got injured Wenger did the sensible thing and recalled Coquelin
back to the fold.
We do know that our
team does usually bounce
back with wins after embarrassing defeats, the only problem is that we have had to respond to disappointments on a
regular basis this season...
Now however five years down the line, it is the right
back who has gone on to become an Arsenal
regular, with Toral still yet to get a piece of first
team action.