Sentences with phrase «teams have played less»

Minor league teams have played less than 10 games.

Not exact matches

When he took the job after being told that there was no chance the team would ever play.500 ball, he accepted the challenge of molding a better - than -.500 ball club — which we feel he has done in less than four years.

Another manager would not give a thought about playing Wilshere or making him first team... it would not just happen... Under Wenger so many overvalued and less than average players have grasses and worn the Arsenal shirt... It is disturbing!

Fans seem to picture these younger players who play week in / week out for a lesser team maintaining that form despite only having a squad role?

This would have made it harder for the team to play well and made Wengers remaining games of the season even less comfortable than they have been.

The Spain international is said to be unsettled at the Bernabeu after playing less of a key role in the team this season, and Don Balon claim City have become aware of his situation.

These two teams will be more or less be getting one half to play in the MLS match, its not a perfect solution, but its practice, so there is mo need to become hysterical, any manager would have done the same given the situation.

Yes we have players that can play Ozil's role but they will be much less effective than Ozil and the team as a whole will be severely weakened IMO.

As Thirdman implies, Ozil might have a purple patch when playing teams of lesser quality teams or if he happens to come against opponents with even less zest than he has.

we gave mediocre players stupid contracts, such good ones infact they would rather be a bench player and earn crazy coin, then play first team elsewhere for less money

when play the lesser teams can drop elney and play ramsey deeper so we have an extra goal threat from deep.

The Indiana Pacers and San Antonio Spurs have a combined five losses this year — less than half of any team in the Atlantic Division — and they play Saturday night in San Antonio in what should be one of the best games of the early season.

Mesut Ozil is another who has only 12 months remaining on his contract, but seems much less likely to force a move away from the club, and is currently playing in the first - team squad unlike the above.

As having played basketball for many many many years I view basketball as a team game and really could care less about individual stats.

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.

That the Tigers — last year's biggest surprise with a 12 — 2 record and a No. 4 finish in the AP poll — were anything less than elated after a win over a Top 25 team that played in a BCS bowl last January shows how expectations have dramatically changed at a school that hasn't won a conference title since 1969.

Recently he have excelled playing for teams which does not dominate the ball or less possession who plays counter attacking style football.

Arsenal players haven been overly played this season because of the Europa league where we have been playing mainly our B team and Ozil and MK haven't had too many games before Christmas so i think our first 16 players are not heavily over worked and will have less to do in the coming weeks, we should be more worried about match fitness then fatigue,

The team has already made amazing progress under her leadership in less than a term and thanks to her we have a whole new set of fresh faces eager to play.

The Canes had played with fire against lesser teams all year long, putting up four one - score wins and needing a comeback against Virginia, so this one was a long time coming.

This group is going to be a little under the radar for a bit as they have played less Games than the majority of the Teams and, thus, their Win total will likely not match the top squads for some time..

i just wish our players were less scared, i just do nt get it, you play whole life, and against teams where you can show you quality you crack, ozil dedication is less than low, Bielik would crush him and he is 17 ffs, child mentality, Sanchez atleast fight always!!!

If you want to protest, you have to be willing to salvage your reputation, Madrid fans are the perfect example, they love their club too much they won't accept a manager that makes their team play below standards for even less than half a season and they don't care if it makes them look spoilt.

Giroud — too slow, too inconsistent, no good enough to link - up play and he's symptomatic of when the Wenger plan truly fell off the rails... he obviously has some great skills but they would make far more sense on a team that was fighting for much lesser objectives because we have never used a formation that works to his strengths (2 up top like France) and as such he should be sold to the highest bidder regardless of who it is

Yes, we will have far lesser chances to compete for the title without him around because there is no other player in the team with similar quality and STYLE of play close enough to his level to step in.

We have numbers but less quality, we play less than average against big teams and the small teams can chew on us whenever they have a good plan.

A second unfair item with the Chargers Thursday game is that they have to play both games on the road, which means that they have one less prep day than the home teams.

The two teams opened conference play and the Volunteers took home the victory 67 - 56, just three games after the Gators had fallen to Rutgers in overtime (guard Mike Rosario's old team, no less), and it seemed like Florida was on the way down.

The point of having seeds is that the No. 1s are supposed to get to play lesser teams on the opening weekend.

No, I'm disgusted because if guys would ever play the defense the way it's supposed to be played — which isn't all that hard, by the way — this Bucs team has enough talent to be dominant, even with the lesser - talented guys pressed into playing time because of injuries.

Very few warrant demanding a first team place so I couldn't care less what someone demands, play better than the other guy / s competing for it and you'll have the spot.

I am also of the view that Giroud is considering his France place in the world cup, which will be less guarantee if he plays on the bench at arsenal, it would be unfortunate to lose his skills, teams most be able to mix there attacking threats against different defensive styles of varying oppositions.

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

GK, GK, GK we don't need one we have 2 maybe 3 decent options, on the other hand on the striker OG can play wonders at times (usually against lesser teams) but today he hardly touched the ball against ALBANIA yes ALBANIA....

Last season we had a lot of chances to get ahead of our closest rivals, and playing against lesser teams than tottenham.

So we have to settle for less, hence the optimism that we have signed someone with 25 goals and assists compared to griezmann's 27 in la liga and perez plays for a lesser team.

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.

This is exactly what chelsea did to man city last season that everybody was screaming, the truth is wenger just needs to be less stubborn and play like this away to top teams because we have the pace on the counter.

Fans wouldn't get attached to their favorite players, and they would become disinterested in following the team, leading to a vicious cycle of even less money to play with.

If Alexis is going to sulk then throw him into the reserves, ban him from being around the 1st team, refuse to give him game time and make him realise teams will be less likely to pay mega wages for someone who hasn't played for 12 months...

Ozil is a luxury that Arsenal really can't afford.The only time he tends to shine is when the whole team is playing to the best of their ability... which is... as we know... not often enough.This being the case it would benefit the team to sell him to Barcelona for the reported # 50million and bring someone else in instead.Such a player would undoubtedly have less talent but in all liklihood would be able to perform on a more consistent basis.

We haven't played with such a strong team in a while now so I'm expecting nothing less than a win»

I'd prefer if in preseason we played against teams who don't know how to be less committed.

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..

Theo has been invisible all season meanwhile Joel has been getting better with each game on the RW, he has the vision and the skill to be an Arsenal player, he's already gotten assists and goals for the team in less than half a season playing for us and he's still only 23.

Did we lose the title race to Leicester because we were the inferior team or was it because we were more handicapped in the race by: long term injuries, mental and physical fatigue, had to play more games, got no rest or respite, and received less favours from the refs?

A forensic assessment of the filmed recordings by father and son team (Hypothetical Premier League) of every match played in the Premiership and the critical decisions made by referees shows that Arsenal would have finished top of the League (2 points more than they got) and Leicester should have been 2nd (9 points less than they got)-- if the use of video evidence had been used to review important decisions.

People who are praising fabregas now forgot that ozil has more assist and key passes than him when they both played in two best teams in spain (although fabregas got less chances but still ozil has highest assists in europe).

Benzema is not Real Madrid standard and the last season of Sanchez in La Liga, Benzema as a striker had less goals than Sanchez who played as a winger in a team with Messi.

If you contrast his performance in the games where Arsenal had less possession, where he had to do the job of a true defensive midfielder, that is, chase the ball, close down the opposition, help his team play confidently from the back by coming out with the ball and taking on the one on one chase back toward his goal.