Not exact matches
Those are the games we should be expected to lose
points.15
points to play for against the top 6
teams, at least
get 9
points from 15 and beat all the other «small»
teams.
The good news is that this
team can only
get better and better... it's a slow start to the season (
from a
points and performance perspective) but they are building.
Either way: Surely we can agree that the Sixers were able to engage in a strategy of
team - building that no other
team was willing to embrace to nearly a similar extent, and that while they eventually
got pressure
from the league to reform, by that
point they had successfully pulled off the Process and set themselves up marvelously for the future.
This game is so huge now because a title chasing
team would expect to
get at least three or four
points from two difficult away fixtures like these, if we win well you'd have to say not too shabby.
With Man United's win over Norwich ensuring that Arsenal still need
points from our final two games to secure a Champions League place for next season, the manager must
get his
team selection and tactics right and with more options than usual he has a tough job on his hands, but one of those choices for me has to be Santi Cazorla in the box to box role.
This season is very specific and is not like previous we have five or six
teams that can steal literally
points from anyone on one hand and we've
got teams that will try their best to not be relegated.
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
And I can't understand the reaction
from some of the fan's on here after the PSG game, You would think that we just
got hammered and to be honest if there was any justice we should have of
got completely smashed and for that reason I'm happy with the
point we gained away to the best
team in France.
Lets move on as a
team and hopefully this all will be forgotten after
getting 3
points from Palace and us signing top striker and DM who could lift up the whole club.
Although they fell just a few
points short of the win,
Team Bartlett is the not the type to
get down
from one L..
They've
gotten more
points from VBall than any other
Team in Chicago Men's Leagues past... A big part of those
Teams is now gone however and they won't have much time to
get used to playing without the big man..
Team Lalez at this
point just expects to win and that heir of self - confidence goes a long way in re-assuring yourselves «we
got this» even after an onslaught
from the other
Team.
Team Deutsch
got 27
points from Jeff Shukis and 17
points from Ross Chuckerman but just couldn't
get enough stops on D to keep it close.
With so much on the line,
Team Saltzberg managed to
get it done behind a great effort
from Armon «do not leave him open behind the arc» Shahpar who had 17
points.
Not only did they maximum 15
points on Monday night but they prevented their opponent
Team Graham (Loree's Closet)
from getting a win.
What a year it's been for Luke Maye, who went
from the former walk - on that hit a buzzer - beater against Kentucky to
get UNC into the Final Four a season ago to the
team's most consistent source of
points and rebounds this season as a junior.
Team Schwartz often
gets their
points from different sources — a hot night
from Jason Vismantas, Austin Brown or Max Kaplan may just be the difference.
Daniel Ostrower was ON FIRE
from deep and went for 44
points on the night for
Team Sammy to help them
get to 2 - 0.
From the perspective of S&P + averages, the SEC barely held onto the top spot (which is why this countdown is previewing ACC
teams right now and not SEC
teams yet), but if you
get points for winning the national title, the Heisman, and of course the Piesman, the ACC
gets the nod.
This article I read on bleacherreport sums up what a fan who wants the club success would like to see
from than onwards: - Beat Bayern and progress above our mental block - Make top four and possibly as good as last season finishing # 2 likely
getting positive result in our 5 most difficult fixtures (Spurs, Man U, Man City, Everton, Liverpool) & taking back some lost
points - Ensuring we finish above any
team in London except Chelsea of course - Win FA Cup best chance of silverware - Win UCL long reach but beating Bayern could spur the
team and maybe make them believe coupled with playing any
team except Barca, Real & Atletico in the round after and could we do a Chelsea 2012.
«We don't sign him, we're not a WR away
from the Super Bowl,» then the
team gets to the
point that it's a WR away
from the Super Bowl and the new line is, «we're just a player away
from the Super Bowl we don't need him.»
But Tech is on 70 of 76 ballots, and WVU is on 74 of 76; even if Texas Tech had
gotten four No. 18 votes
from those six remaining ballots, instead of none (yes, the No. 18
team got zero 18th - place votes), it would only have shaved about half a
point off WVU's edge.
We
got a
point away
from home in Europe against a very good
team which gives us a great chance to win the group imo.
I am sure Claude Puel will
get his
team playing his way soon, but their one
point from the opening three games shows that they have not quite cottoned on to his formation and tactics just yet, or perhaps what worked in Ligue 1 simply won't work over here?
6
points... We have to play both UTD and City twice, that is 6
points from both of them if we can
get the winS, it is still in our own hands and I feel we should encourage the
team to push forward and go for the EPL.
-LRB--2
points) Vs a really poor and out of form swansea
team we can easily take whole 3
points but
got carried away -LRB--3
points) Vs West brom one man cost us the whole 3
points from a winning position and he was our captain -LRB--3
points).
Catching Chelsea would mean, an abundance of luck, no more injuries (When Chelsea will
get crucial ones, Fabregas, Costa, Courtois and defenders as examples), a tactical enlightenment
from Wenger (that would call for a miracle), beat Man United, Man City, Chelsea at Home and not waist
points against Liverpool and win all the odds games against the lower
teams (as well as being kicked out of the CL and not go far in the Uefa Cup as we don't have the squad to do either anyway).
Some observations
from today: — Cazorla has
got his groove back — Giroud's finishing has improved — Bellerin is FAST — Debuchy was a great buy — Alexis is one of the hardest workers I've ever seen in our
team Points for improvement: — Mertesacker isn't playing well in my view.
You might feel Chelsea / Mourinho
get too much praise for big games but by comparison Chelsea
got by comparison 20
points from 30 vs
teams 1 through 11.
Away
from home vs
teams in the top 11 we
got 9
points from 30.
Every criticism of players
gets interpreted as hate by the AKBs... Ridiculous... Here is the basic truth Iwobi has some good
points as you identify but he is a long way
from being the finished article and it is absurd that he is a regular in a
team trying for top 4 let alone winning big titles..
I tell you
from a footballing
point of view scoring 8 goals you
got have players that know where the goal posts are it takes energy and creativity to score 8 yes I agree vikings changed their players because their league is starting i think tomorrow so yes they were not a big
team team but to say that Arsenal were not strong thats a bit to much and I say it again you need energy and creativity to score 8 I was very happy they did that Arsenal are well known for creating chances yesterday they converted them chances into Goals this should be the norm and I hope this will give them a lesson on how to win a game as they did nt dwell about with the ball it was goal after goal and that tells me that they went for the goals directly and I hope and wish the young guns all the best and to do well in the next season
The mix of fixtures in the second half of the season is not bad for us in my view, as long as we
get maximum
points from smaller
teams.
And the other 2 small
teams see Arsenal as an good option to
get points from, so they are not going to have an actuall show down amonst each other for the 3 place.
this season was supposed to be about the epl not fourth place.just seeing how empty the Emirates was yesterday I expect it to be even worse in the upcoming games.wenger blew it in the transfer market, I think that in itself shows how we lacked ambition and we settled for a top four
from the beginning and if by a chance we managed to win epl then thats it.lossing some games, crucial
points and the feedback we
got back was just covering the real goals of the club top four.soton home (a
team challenging has to win this game), Crystal palace, swansea, just add those
points and see where we could and should hve been.everyone here is a die hard arsenal fan whether an akb or aob but fact remains we love the club, we want the club to move forward, we want the club to be a superhouse, its
got nothing to do with wengers last year or his last chance of epl.this sort of thinking is running our beloved club to the ground.whether u like it or not a change is needed and a serious one.at the moment we hve so many bogey
teams do u think arsene will beat them nxt season!!!
There are various theories about why the Gunners keep falling short in the race for the Premier League title and our various and numerous injury problems certainly do not help, but it is the way that the
team fails to turn up at times in crucial games, such as the EPL defeat by Wartford recently or the Champions League hammering at the hands of Bayern Munich that many will
point to as evidence that the boss is not
getting the best
from his squad anymore.
Also we
got a
point from this tough test without a large number of first
team regulars in key positions, with Ozil, Cazorla, Coquelin and Alexis Sanchez all out of action.
The resolution for our problems is so simple but Wenger won't address them n although I think over the course of the season we'll gain enough
points to
get into top 4, the balance if this
team is so far
from where it needs to be for a title winning
team that it brings a tear to my eye...
Wenger must make bold decisions, with the
team he selected, i did not feel the urgency of
getting three
points from the
team or see the fight expected and this has been a criticism of the arsenal
team
the smaller
teams are who we usually
get sure
points from.
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
now we are putting all our eggs in the miki basket by signing auba hoping to recreate the dortmund connnection, Auba a player better than laca but so similar it makes no sense spending that amount of money especially with all the cracks in the
team, but hey lets do that and
get rid of giroud our only option B upfront to accomodate miki a player who is 29 and at the lowest
point of his career, building a
team around him shows me that sad state we our in, we take what we are given and try to make the best of the situation and that's all of us
from the board to the manager to the players all the way down to the fans.
I doubt that a manager is going to be succesfull knowing that he has to build the
team from scratch, do nt
get me wrong, it will be better with a new manager but the financial backing must be up to the
point where we will be forced to spend a lot due of us losing the privilege of being a big club and i cant see this happening, it will take at least 5 years to rebuild as we have no fondation whatsoever in the
team
Following a strong start
from our opposition, our
team had to work hard to
get points on the board and at the end of the first half, we found ourselves 5 - 2 down.
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..
From an optimistic
point of view, the
team will have to focus only domestically once we
get knocked out of the Champions League, an advantage that title rivals Leicester have had all season long.
I may
get caught in the «maybe we can feeling» that will most likely be revived in me at some
point, as it is the essence of a supporting and loving a
team (hope) but right now, i do nt feel this club deserves it
from me.
well i know the guys in england belittle the spurs the whole time (the fans outside of england do nt really feel the hate, because in switzerland for example is the hate on chelsea muuuuuch stronger ^ ^) you
got ta be real and accept that spurs are a top 6
team, and drawing against them isn't such the worst result and the «pundits» and a lot of guys here always bash arsenal that they don't have the title mentality to
get a
point from a win and a win
from a draw, so i think in the years before, we would have well lost the game, so i am happy with the
point, and the fight of the guys
Senior DeMoriaye Hart - Spikes led Fairfield in the semifinal with a
team - high 21
points, but
getting the monkey off of their backs will depend on the help he
gets from a supporting cast that includes seniors Javon Adams, Sean Gray, and John Jones, and junior Anthony Bryant.
We became overconfident and cocky for nothing.And Arsenal was the most shambolic
team on the openining day of the season than anyother
team.And we are facing Westahm (no disrespect), not Tottneham or Swansea.As I remeber las season we only
got one
point from these two
teams.