Sentences with phrase «tight games not»

Not exact matches

Considering Arsenal's tight schedule, the duo are not going to play every game and with a few more performances like the one against Hull, Mohammed Elneny may well rise above the pecking order in central midfield before the start of next season.

However, our biggest issue seems to be the same old one we've had over the past years... Defending slender leads in tight games or winning with small margins when we are not at our best or when we need points the most!

jesus the whole 4th place mindset of fans is sad... zero attacking threat not an assist as that was iwobi who has 2 actually... appalling passing across the 70 minutes check out his first touch where tight control is required defending seriously!!!!... rerun the game and watch it without your rose tinted glasses

«Every game is important at the moment, it is so tight so we don't want to drop any points.

To think Wenger wanted to be tight and stingy for not wanting a CB before Liverpool game 1st day of the season.

I'm glad he's back his physical presence gives defenders a lot to think about, we often forget his defensive qualities and in the last game I was happy to see him closing down foster, shame he couldn't show a little more composure and use his right foot to put it in the net from a tight angle.

This can be a little worrying as against che we would be fearing the counter attack and keeping the game tight, but should we not be doing that against all top sides.

But do not expect a goal fest, Gooners, and do not be surprised if these games are very tight and close run affairs.

They were able to parade a cast of long defenders through the Game and they didn't allow Team Goldin to transition from Defense to Offense well, as is so often the case... This Game stayed tight throughout and it was actually tied with under 15 seconds to go..

When the Game got underway both Teams seemed a little tight, which is not out of the ordinary for the Championship Games.

From what I have seen with Lacazette he is good in tight spaces, has a decent first touch and the passing / creative part of his game is not too bad so could be the ideal foil for someone like Auba.

The Patriots tight end suffered a high ankle sprain in the AFC Championship game and, while he's expected to play against the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI, he probably won't be 100 percent.

The title race is tighter than a gnat's chuff and with Leicester City and Tottenham already above us, even though the spuds are only in second place due to their better goal difference, we really can not afford to give any ground in the next round of games.

The reason most 4 - 3 teams don't major in under fronts is because it leaves them vulnerable to strongside runs, because most 4 - 3 defensive ends — Jared Allen being the prototype here — wouldn't do so well taking the pounding of playing a five - technique to the tight end side all game.

5 years of wenger imposed failure and u still have your rose tinted glasses on tight and you bag of football cliches to sniff when feeling down... But actually there are plenty of positives bellerin... Coquellin (but limits exposed here) wilshere (idiot fans font like him I know but this is the game where we miss him) Alexis ozil cech (I was wrong there)... Just not enough to put us where we should be in the european elite... save your football wisdom for mark Hughes he needs it

Not coincidentally, Eifert had three key drops in last week's game and I'm guessing Dalton's line would've looked a lot better if the normally sure - handed tight end would've come down with those passes, and the Bengals might've even won (you never know how it changed things).

Normally, the guy Newton looks for the most in the passing game is tight end Greg Olsen, but Phillips didn't let him breathe all game by giving him different looks from play to play.

For Joe Paterno, the defining moment of the 1982 championship season came not in the last seven seconds of the pivotal Nebraska game, when quarterback Todd Blackledge completed a winning touchdown pass to second - string tight end Kirk Bowman, who happened to be a former offensive guard nicknamed Stonehands.

Ramsey is a safer option but has been useless when we've been in tight games... If Alexis stays in form then I don't think this will matter as much.

The top six teams at the moment aren't dropping many points, so it's going to be tight and we'll have to stay focused to be ready for every game.

Beat a top team and we are lucky, beat a lower team and we should be beating them anyway, lose when playing a too risky brand of football and we are inept, win a tight game playing ugly it is not acceptable nor the Arsenal way, win by 3 goals and it should have been 5, keep playing the same predictable way every game and we should vary it more, vary our pattern of play and we should go back to doing what we used to, win 2 - 0 and keep a clean sheet and we should have been more adventurous to improve goal difference, win 2 - 1 and concede in the last minute and we were naive not to shut up shop, win 12 out of the last 15 games and it should have been 15 wins......... blah, blah.

look, this was a tight game featuring two very good teams that did not give the other breathing room.

I didn't think their game last night was as good, where they weren't as tight as dialed in as they have been all the way through.

I don't see any special pattern in our game, other than the players want to pass the ball through a tight defense and pretty much walk the ball into the net.

We are NOT the mighty Arsenal who deserve to win every game, we are in a tight league.

With the German World Cup winning trio of Ozil, Podolski and Mertesacker still unavailable and with Gibbs and Sanogo staying in London because of injury problems, the boss has a depleted squad to work with, especially at the back, so I would not be surprised to see Wenger take the game to our Turkish opponents, rather than trying to keep it tight.

Just stay tight and disciplined at back and don't allow them even half chances, they will bury it and play a counter attacking game against them just like the reverse game at emirates.....

In the past (I'm talking back during Jose's first stint with Chelsea) there were a lot of controversial refereeing decisions, and even then the game's were very tight — back then we had quality youngsters in the form of Fabregas, and experienced leaders in the form of Thierry and still couldn't break them down.

The problems in this game were the offensive line collapsed in pass protection too frequently, the other Giants receivers besides Beckham were not consistent enough, the Giants tight ends were lousy and Manning was far too flawed.

It promises to be an open and exciting game between these two sides given the attacking quality that they both possess, and it could be even more exciting now that Kompany is not in the equation to keep things tight at the back for the hosts.

You've got a problem, Seattle, when your opponent features a tight end many fans do not know (Tyler Eifert) and he leads the game in targets (12) receptions (eight) and touchdown catches (two).

I hope Ramsey does play well but the truth is, he can not spread passes the way Cazorla does, he can not hold the ball well in tight spaces, time and time he has been given chances to do that but the result has been the same, remember the West ham game earlier this season, we were without bite and toothless, I do hope he proves me wrong this time.

The keeper has been terrible and the strikers haven't adapted well.based on performances they should be 13 but they keep loosing tight games

I paid attention at what elneny play he is very calm and his pass rate was successful mind you side ways but he lobed in few balls I think he was to scared to leave a gap well done for me cause we controlled the game nicely wellbeck did well too i thought if any one could score it would be him was a bit disappointed with Campbell he spieled a few pass but did well with the free kick Barcelona is different i do nt know how Mr wenger will approach it but we need a tight midfield to eliminate the three we need to score our chances looking forward for it

So until we got our noses in front it was quite a tight game and we were not exactly carving them apart.

have welbeck and sanchez on the bench... this game can be won in the last 20 - 30 minutes... use the fresher guys to run them around like crazy... don't concede / keep it tight... bring in the 3 big quick guns at 60 minutes or so if need be — Ox, Welbeck, Sanchez... game over.

Interestingly enough we scored in each of our group stage games and won all our games where we didn't concede, so if we deploy Cech on goal and make it tight at the back, we'll be up for it against any side!

Elneny is a reserve player... Lateral lateral lateral... May as well put Ramsey on... Iwobi needs a year in the championship to progress... Gibbs still doesn't convince... Game should be over instead a tight second period

It's got so sad I'm thinking Jonny Evans be good signing because I'm thinking he's better than wat we have sad but true mustafi is a lerk one min good next min tackles fresh air, BFG is a wheelchair it's embarrassing kos is injury away from retirement oh but we have Monreal great player but not center back it's joke wenger loves football so that's why going forward we look good but defending not he's game bring back George graham just as defensive coach jez even Sam allardyce has Everton a lot tighter it's fact we can't defend for years I'm sick saying wenger is and will always be arsenal great always in my eyes but he has go for good of everyone we need young fresh manager and not someone mr wenger hand picks and he goes upstairs won't work can't work we need let new coaches do there job and let new manager do he's and please give him money spend and laugh if ye want but the man for new job has be allergi has be if can't get den Luis Enrique if not him get Henry with vieria wat a buzz it be with them 2 my point.

«We'd rather our tight end not fumble around and fall down and do six push - ups and then get up and try to catch it,» Meyer said, via the Associated Press after the game.

They say great attacks win you games and great defences win you titles, and that's certainly true of United at their peak, who were able to grind out narrow wins even when not at their best due to having the likes of Jaap Stam, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic keeping things tight at the back for all those years.

Comparing Kondogbia to Sterling is laughable, Kondogbia won the u20 world cup, played at Sevilla in La Liga then went onto Monaco, for one so young he's done more than you know and it's not just against Arsenal, the Juventus game he held his own that was a tight 2 legged affair he wasn't overwhelmed by facing a midfield trio of Vidal, Pirlo and Pogba

I'm not suggesting we should be looking to sub Coquelin off at 75 mins when we're 1 - 0 up away in a tight game.

They played them to a tremendously tight first half but in the final stretch of the Game they couldn't match the top squad shot for shot.

This game was tight the whole way through as Team Wilneff could just not put them away.

We need to be scoring more than 1 goal per game and keep our defense as tight as possible not to concede silly goals.

New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez suffered a right ankle injury against the Arizona Cardinals early in the game and did not return.

Honestly, in tight games against a stubborn defence, I used to wonder if Alexis would purposely hit the odd miss pass, to a defender that does not want that ball at his feet with players closing in.

Middlesbrough have just 1 win in 16 away matches this season, but only a -10 goal differential, meaning they're usually in tight games and they don't get blown out on the road.

This is a decent article, yet the negatives from fans are still there, I would love to see arsenal like I did at the end of the 90's and at the beggining of the 2nd millennium but it doesn't mean in order to do so I would buy all the best players in world, I would get a rich owner to put his filthy money in, change the manager every 2 years to do so, there's so much wrong in football nowadays that yes it's still a sport but there's more focus on the filthy amounts of money being spent on clubs and players that I think attracts more attention than the game itself, now that is wrong and it's very wrong, even our owner though not like the arabs or Russians, yet the yank is clueless about the tradition of our game, it's just sad, so the fact that Wenger has remained for this long through all these changes that have occurred whilst the money game has elvolved, it makes me happy that arsenal do not spend stupid amounts of money on players, we don't try and buy the league, hell we even tight with wages and transfer fees, I'm glad it's like that, though our season ticket is a rip off I still don't mind it because at least we are not like the other supreme teams, there's a bit of tradition left at our club, yet you go to man shitty or Chelski, there is no tradition, it's all about buying ur way all the way to the top, on the other hand spuds don't know what to make of them besides how the heck have they finished above us?