Sentences with phrase «teams had played champions»

Not exact matches

It will help tremendously that we will have Petr Cech in goal, and if we play our strongest team then there is no reason why we can't shock the German champions just as we shocked Man United a couple of weeks ago.

Not much you can do when the referee is so shockingly bad and the opposing team would rather slap people in faces and be diving and acting champions instead of playing football.

I guess the title is now gone and I guess that is how it should be — because our team does not have the ba *** to play like champions.

What has changed is just because we want to play against the top teams and we want to be in the Champions League.

If you move to a team that had just won the Champions league back to back, as a youngster, you are expected to be patient with playing time.

We've played the champions like 5 times since the summer and we've not lost one, yet this is the worst Arsenal team of all time!

Okay, instead of «the bad» today we're going to have to find more room for Liverpool brilliance, because right now they're playing like a team who could well be European champions in the making.

# 2 Team Harlander will make their 2017 - 18 postseason debut on Sunday night against defending champions # 7 Team Lalez without having played a game in three full weeks.

The Dutch champions have already said that the talents of Nouri means he will be playing for one of the best teams in Europe not too far into the future.

I know, I know, Wenger trophy and all, but if we want to keep Ozil and Sanchez, especially, we definitely need champions league football next season, and the way that the top 5 (maybe 6) teams have been playing, there will be more competition than we have faced previously.

As all the teams above them have been more consistent and it could be a disaster for Arsenal if they don't make it and not play In the Champions League next season as it will have a massive impact on Transfers come the summer as we have all seen how those top players looking to move teams will only go to another team playing Champions League football.

To the best of my knowledge psg are not french champions... That was the team mbappe played for... To be honest worried this is another Suarez moment... Would prefer we just piggied up for lemar fiound a quality b2b with strong defensive abilities..

If its his wish to leave arsenal let him go after all he made whatever name he thought he has at the emirates.why are these teams not rushing to buy him 5 years ago.arsenal has been before him and arsenal will remain ever great even after him.pls let him go and let us rest and get a wonderful one with that money.he said he want to play in champions league, havnt he play champions league before after all pogba didn't play champions league last season and he help man u to win Europa league and qualified for champion league same goes to ibrahimovic.

It is a fact that we all know Arsenal have little hope of winning the biggest trophy, and with two games a week Wenger made a concious decision to play his reserves in the midweek games (i.e. Champions League and League Cup) and save his A team for the Premier League.

As if no other team has ever won the title while playing in the Champions League / Europa League

I really like Coquelin, But i get to know he he started to fear when the team lost to Bayer in the champions league, but i will be happy if we loan him to other clubs before since Thomas lemar who be arriving and we have a lots of midfielders is best he does» t not stay and not getting playing time

Say we stumbled our way to the Champions League final and were lined up against Madrid, Barca or Bayern; Cech, Sanchez, Xhaka, Ozil, Bellerin and Koscielny on our team sheet would give me full confidence as they could easily be playing for any one of the three, Lukaku and Higuain will be decent too but not for 75 million pounds though.

As for the likes of Sissoko and Mings, they would never reject the chance to play for a team in Champions League so not alot of persuading required.

Big teams that play in champions league regularly should have a deep squad.

Since joining Zinedine Zidane's side from Porto in 2015, Casemiro has found himself to be on of the first names on the team sheet at the Bernabeu, with the Brazilian playing a pivotal part in his side's Champions League wins both last season and the season before that.

Let's be honest, our team did not have enough quality to win the Champions League this year, atleast given the way the coach ran the players to the ground playing them match after meaningless match.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

Everyone started panicking when Arsenal drew Bayern Munich in the first knockout round of the Champions League, and the pessimism was only increased when the Gunners lost to Everton this week, but the fact is that we are still a great team, in fact much stronger than anyother time we have played Bayern Munich.

saw Robbie on arsenal fan tv talking we should buy kante and mahrez in the summer.First of all Leicester has just won the league, why would their top players want to leave for other team when they could play champions league with leicester.

They're a great team, they play well together and they have experience of the Champions League.

Our side has been on the look - out for an experienced defender to add to the ranks, and Luiz would certainly fit into that category, having won numerous trophies with Paris Saint - Germain and Chelsea, as well as having played a key role in helping the Blues to win the Champions League, and would be a huge boost to our team as we look to secure a spot in the top four, whilst also being available for the Europa League.

The fact is Wenger has made Arsenal a «second» rate team and we have to world champions playing in an average team under the «guidance» of a less than average manager.

If Arsenal struggle in the league with the team we have and our more balanced match schedule how much harder will it be when we lose players like Sachez who will want to play champions league football and have to play Thursday and the weekend?

Absolutely yes, the champions league is not a competition to mess around with team selection especially given the fact we now have a chance to finish top of the group if we can win our other games before we play PSG.

We have already had the bonus of seeing Alexis Sanchez overcome the knock to his Arsenal and play for Chile and now the news that our creator in chief Ozil is going to be okay to line up against Pep Guardiola's team is a major boost to our hopes of getting back on track and finishing in the top four spots to ensure another Champions League place.

If we could have hand picked a team to play today it might well have been the injury and suspension hit out of form Magpies but we said that about Monaco in the Champions League as well so hopefully the players will have learned a valuable lesson and will not mess this one up.

It's not as if we have any chance of progressing in the champions league and it's not as if we were playing away to some mid table team today.

Arsenal were playing poorly for most of this season and the five or six games we played like champions were mostly against lesser teams, yet the wisdom was that we were drawing games we used to lose, that we have more depth in the squad than ever etc..

Sanchez to city is going to happen no matter what Wenger says he don't want to play for a club who has no chance of winning champions league or premiership only the fa cup now and again and has too many mediocre players in the team that are just happy to collect big wages every week

«[The team I will join] will have to be in the Champions League and play good football,» «Passing the ball, not just hitting it from box to box.

He was quoted as saying: «[The team I will join] will have to be in the Champions League and play good football,»

We have the team that outplayed the champions the only problem with Arsenal is the negative atmosphere created by disgraceful fans every time we play badly..

Then You have jack who was terrific at the start of the season when the team was poor him and sanchez desire and fight carried us through and we could not even beat the likes of besiktash but jack took the fight to them and we even played Champions league this season greatly because of him and sanchez.

Glory Road, 2006 When he was cast as a member of the 1966 Texas Western basketball team that wasthe first national champion with an all - African - American starting lineup, Nichols, never big into team sports, hadn't played roundball since he was aguard in junior high.

At the present time, we can get any manager who applies the expected norms and principles to organising and managing a football team could walk into Arsenal right now, with all the players that we've got now at his disposal and get them playing like true champions.

There was an article the other day from one of the fans who protested at AFC when bayern visited our ground because of their disgust at having to pay stupid money to watch their team play us in champions league game.

Team i want for next season... System — 3.3.1.3 --- Alexis ---- Mbappe --- Lacazette / Morata ---------- Ozil / Ramsey / Isco ----------------- Kolasinac -------- Xhaka -------- Ox - Chaberlain ------ Holding — Konsienly --- Mustafi --------- ------------------ Cech -------------------- This would have team in the EPL and Champions league appealing to FIFA and UEFA to avoid playing us... We would top 100 goals a season... In January we go shopping for Kosienly and Cech replacemeTeam i want for next season... System — 3.3.1.3 --- Alexis ---- Mbappe --- Lacazette / Morata ---------- Ozil / Ramsey / Isco ----------------- Kolasinac -------- Xhaka -------- Ox - Chaberlain ------ Holding — Konsienly --- Mustafi --------- ------------------ Cech -------------------- This would have team in the EPL and Champions league appealing to FIFA and UEFA to avoid playing us... We would top 100 goals a season... In January we go shopping for Kosienly and Cech replacemeteam in the EPL and Champions league appealing to FIFA and UEFA to avoid playing us... We would top 100 goals a season... In January we go shopping for Kosienly and Cech replacements.

Let us not forget that we did face a good team and we shown desire to win it even though we was playing bad, do champions not somehow manage to find the win when they had a bad game?????

«We want to play in the Champions League next season we have a tough job with six, seven teams fighting for the places.

Kelly King, who coached Vea at Milpitas, on a play from his junior season: «We were down ready to score on the goal line against another team and the sprint champion from the other team [Delshawn Mitchell of Wilcox High School], we had fumbled the ball and he picked it up and was running down the sideline.

We only started playing any of our first team players in the semi-final of the League Cup, and hardly any of them have played in the Europa League yet, so we have very little reason for tiredness, compared to City who have played in the League Cup, the FA Cup and the Champions League in between League games, but still beat Chelsea today.

«We want to play in the Champions League next season we have a tough job with six, seven teams fighting for the places» now isn't this a clue that next season I'll still be around this club ruining everyone's life?

I suspect Wenger isn't prioritising the Europa league because he knows full well he's not good enough to win it so he'll eventually start putting a weakened team out in the latter rounds providing we even get past Ostersunds which is probably 50/50 so when we fail in the competition he has an excuse «We didn't play our first team, we don't believe qualifying for the champions league through this competition» the man is unbelievable!

We struggle to beat any sort of big team now imagine trying to do so with our 2nd string team and yes, Wenger will play our 2nd string team as he has relentlessly insisted time and again europa league is not a priority for him and he actually disapproves of champions league qualification through the «backdoor» that europa league winning provides.

Although sissokho is more of a box to box but he has athleticism and physical presence to affect the game and often plays well against big teams when ever I watch him e.g Chelsea this season and last two seasons against Man united last season at old traffold etc he can play DM role for us and will be a good signing and very useful in champions league... COYG!!