Sentences with phrase «team than their opposition»

Genoa are winless since the 15th of December, but they are still a better team than their opposition here and look value at 6/5 to win.

Not exact matches

Giroud misses more than he hits, Walcott has NEVER delivered his expected talent, Welbeck will NEVER be the striker to score 20 goals a season Coqellin will NOT go a whole season injury or suspension free, Sanchez and Ozil WILL have down period during the season, all teams have these problems to a greater or lesser degree but most of the top teams will address these problems and players either inprove or are sold and replaced with better or at least more consistant players, NOT Wenger he keeps doing the same thing over and over with the same players and he expects a different result but gets the same outvome time and time again, yet its ALWAYS someone else's fault be it the Ref or the linesman or the opposition or bad luck or whatever and whoever and its NEVER the fact that HE has done nothing to change the situation and LOOKS LIKELY to not change it next time around.

The most frustrating but also the best thing is so far we drop points because of bad official decision (Everton, Hull,...) or individual mistakes (Swansea, Man Utd, Hull,...) rather than our opposition push us (only happen at Dortmund away)-- that means we have our fates in our hands, and we still have time to turn things around — especially when we have our 1st team player back from injury.

For years, we have watched our team bring the ball up to the opposition box and continue to pass rather than shoot.

I get your point mate.But in truth Ramsey is the CM and Xhaka is the DM according to our formation anf tactic.It's even debatable if Xhaka is capable of playing DM.I think Ramsey's tactical awareness is poor but he has every right to take risks and move into the opposition box.He's a box to box player.The only problem is Ramsey overdoes it.If we had a proper CDM the team would be more balanced.Now it's like we have two CM's playing in midfield and due to their poor tactical awareness we're always left exposed.I conclude by reminding people that Wilshere is better footballer and is more intelligent than Xhaka.It'll be better playing Wilshere and pairing him with a CDM than having Xhaka play there.He just gets to play over him becausr we signed him for # 35.

If Arsenal allow opposition teams a good foothold in the game as they seems to always do nowadays and continue to play with less than 50 % possession, they will have to score at least 3 goals or more per game to win matches.

He knows that he can run about all day long, harrying opposition and giving them hell whilst at the same time providing some sublime football coupled with even more sublime and necessary goals but, for all his efforts and his honesty towards the team and the club he see's as nothing more than the nearly men.

If people think Chelsea just settle for a point all the time they should check and see how many matches Chelsea and the previous Milan team win with far less chances and possession than the opposition

we have lost the ability to applaud an opposition team if they play better than us or an opposition player for a moment of magic... its so tribal and we see that even within our own club!

This will co-exist with Wengers plan to get a front of consistant goal scorers over a single CF goal scorer, Wenger doesn't care who scores the goals as long as the team does score more than the opposition.

Leeds on the other hand have proven their a hard team to beat, no matter the opposition, boasting the 3rd best defensive record in the league with just 36 goals conceded all season, just 3 more than that of Brighton and 4 more than Newcastle.

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.

If you have the better team, you should be confident to hand out a beating to the opposition rather than admiring them.

The type of footballer who everyone wants on their team and no striker wants to come up against, Skrtel will take the ball and the man, rather than just the ball just to make a point to the opposition.

You could throw in to this theory that we are an offensive team which seeks to entertain and accordingly plays with the philosophy that the best form of defence is attack and we will score more than the opposition.

Constantly beating the same dead horse when the team is doing very good (I am not saying brilliant because that's Citeh, Chavs territory usually these days) is not making you any better than an opposition fan.

For the second rule to work at team has to defend better than its opposition and score more goals than its opposition, in each game.

It is not very common to see more than 1 defender getting bullied by a single opposition player - summary «No Spine» in the team!

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.

The team knowing it has to fight for 90 + minutes and bring discipline and shape for that period or the team that tries to «out - play» and «out think» their opponent and as a result appear to play two gears slower than the opposition and gets over-run.

Really would have preferred to have Welbz upfront and put Campbell on the left, for me that would feel like a team who would work harder to close down the opposition straight away... rather than that lumbering fool Giroud who only puts effort in when he wants to, not when we need him to.

«If I had a team that was worth # 200m playing against a team that was worth less than # 20m and we never won that game, I'd be doing my best to divert it away from the fact that I had 10 times more value on the pitch than my opposition number had and couldn't win the game.

he also gives the team width and stretches opposition defence rather than choke the midfield as Ramsey does.

Sad when ex-players from opposition teams and current managers of other teams are more positive about the Arsenal team than their own fans — whom instead of supporting the team and rallying around the club do their utmost to undermine it.

I am a ozil hater and think the team can do far better without oxil, I would like to add ozil and Ramsey must not play together, both have good attributes, Ramsey normally gets into the box from a far deeper role than ozil, but lack the defensive discipline needed In this high tempo game, ozil can provide opportunities to score, but hides from the work load in getting into, defensive cover when the midfield goes beyond him and pressing the opposition.

Mbappe is kinda more strikerish than Robbin tbf, I'd expect more goals than he did but look I agree it's an exaggeration to say we were world class at every position but I think we def had a better team then than we do now and similarly it's accurate to say the opposition now are better than they were then

Our team today, as it stands is weaker than our opposition, who are spending money to strengthen even more.

We are a better team than last year, but we are not in our own bubble, Chelsea is better, City is better, Manu is better, so if we are not progressing compared to our opposition....

Perez had a game to forget, I think he made better passes to the opposition than he made to any of our team mates, I want to like the guy but I am finding it hard.

Which means these three play well in less than 12.5 % of the teams games and half of those games were against weak opposition.

The aim of the game for each team is to get the ball into the elevated baskets at either end of the court more times than the opposition, while preventing the opposition from scoring at the same time.

Walcott is a good finisher and has good movement, but other than that he's no more than a decent option as a ST. Against quality opposition playing Theo as the ST won't cut it, he's clinical vs decent teams but he's not standing up against the likes of Aguero / Costa / Benz / Lewandowski as leading ST's in Europe.

This team looks a bit more physical and a bit more ready, more advanced physically than the opposition we had the other night.»

But starting in 1967, when merged exhibitions first took place, the Dolphins had larger crowds for preseason games against NFL teams than for regular - season games against AFL opposition.

Mr never scored 20 I'm a season, slower than Lukaku and no where near as clinical or menacing to opposition teams!

The rest of the team then defend with man - orientations, looking to cover each other but mainly sticking close to their opposite number, with Everton's wingers often ending up deeper than the rest of their midfield as the opposition full - backs push up.

Spain striker Alvaro Morata believes his side that is in great form and is making opposition teams appear weaker than than they actually are.

He said that it is not enough to be a good team, but you need to work harder than the opposition.

Perhaps it need not be a single player that makes up for Suarez, but a few: Daniel Sturridge can directly replace the goals that Suarez provided, and also has his individual flair about him, but that magical quality that Suarez had, whilst unique to him, is remarkably alike to a young Brazilian no. 10 with more than a touch of flair playing for Liverpool, a player very similar to Suarez in some ways — his quiet nature off the field, and dazzling on the ball skills when on the pitch — yet also different, a creative player rather than a destroyer of opposition teams.

European teams will then set fixtures among themselves to earn points, rather than taking on African, Asian or South American opposition.

For most sides, a trip to the City of Manchester to face the province's newest playboy's would be a daunting prospect, but the Trotters have been a reslient sort away from home this season, albeit against weaker opposition than that of a City team which cost somewhere around # 300 to assemble.

Listen, I'm not one of the «get rid of Osborne» brigade, but mostly because I think the opposition would use it against us and because I think the «team» is more important than the individual members.

Using him is a more tactically rewarding method than, say, using your flight team to bomb the infiltration site to thin out the opposition.