Sentences with phrase «up against a great team»

Sometimes you just go up against another great Team and someone has to bow out..

«We know we're going to be up against a great team but they have their weaknesses and we're more than capable of beating them if we get our gameplan right and perform on the day.

If you come up against a great team in the group, sooner or later you have to beat them to qualify.

As for our attack, well, if I was being kind I'd say that we were up against a great team who didn't give us many chances.

Not exact matches

We've dropped a few points, but this is a great chance to go and win against a big team and get our season up and running.»

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

i so totally agree with you bigval, i think giroud is a great man against smaller teams, but put him up against class and he looks like a farmer throdding in a wet field.

as with last time klopp will be like the 12 man on the pitch and major inspiration (great man motivator and tactician to boot) to bvb so we will have to be on our guard against them as they will be pumped up to meet us but we could inflict an early psychological blow if we secure the services of one mr marco reus, we should roll the over two teams over with a bit of effort COYG

They'll finish the season with head to head match - ups against the top Teams in the League which is a great preview for their Playoff run!

It was great to see Arsenal stage a spirited comeback from three goals down at Bournemouth, and although Arsene Wenger was pleased that his team didn't give up, he thinks it was very unfair that his team had to play again after just two days after our win against Crystal Palace, while the Cherries had an extra day to recover from their win over Swansea.

It's great to see the team really turn it up against Man City.

Yes we have games against «inferior» teams coming up (of which we thought at home to Hull was the first) but to see us go on a massive winning run would be great, but I really can't see Chelsea or Man City slipping up enough for Arsenal to do anything but get into the usual dogfight for fourth place.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

Sherwood's side put in a great display to cause an upset in their semi-final win over Liverpool this Sunday, and the 46 - year - old says his team will be underdogs again when they line up against Arsenal in just over a month's time.

So as long as the weight of history does not hang around the players shoulders later, Arsenal have a great chance of adding the scalp of Chelsea to those of Man United, Liverpool and Man City picked up with our new tactics which make the Gunners fearless against any team.

Walcott though limited would be very confident against Man united Cech (No word he has shocked me, Wow this guy is too great for a team with wenger as coach) Bellerin (He really has to improve his attacking side nd try to take on defenders) Chambers (Hez really good against de big guns & always gud in de middle of de park) Kos (Hez been a bit de-moltivated due to wengers lack of ambition hope Man u will do) Mon (link - up with walcott on the left would be breath of fresh air) Coq (great tackler, stamina & power) Ramsey (great passer of de ball, professional & great stamina) Sanchez (on the right, so he won't always play predictably) Walcott (thats where he was effective the last time against man u) Welbeck (Pace, goals & trickery) Giroud (Power, bully, link - up & goals) 4 -4-2 formation

First, by using the term greatest, this is not a ranking of teams that if they lined up against each other, we think No. 1 would beat No. 2, etc..

«Whenever we are going up against one of the greatest teams ever assembled, that's motivation enough,» McIlroy cheekily said.

They had a great Game on Wednesday Night against Team Gphi / Sammy's 18s but came up just a touch short as they fell by 3 points in Football.

When we saw the Arsenal team sheet for the Capital One Cup game against Southampton last week, we knew that the Gunners would be up against it with the Saints having a great start to the season and able to pick more of their first choice players.

What a terrifying vision of the future of football we've been served up this week.AC Milan, once the pride of a powerful and thriving seria A now reduced to shadow boxing against a really not that great United.All because they deserted their natural (and rather beautiful) defensive style of football to join the circus, brought in foreign players (especially brazilians) who think jogging back to defend is beneath them and generally put two fingers up to Italy's historic football traditions.Much good as it done them, and what a boring game?I concede that a lot of football fans nowadays do nt remember anything before the cheque book league but even they must have been struck by the sheer mind numbing pointlessness of it.Even the stewards were asleep by half time.As for the porto match well all that can be said is that they made the gooners look like an half decent well balanced football team, no mean achievement when you think about it.At least we, ve had the pleasure of listening to all those gooners and Mancs waffling on about how great they are which is always hilarious.Especially the stuff about Rooney, just wait till the World Cup when some Italian or South American defender takes him under his wing for half an hour and then see how great he is.If he can survive the WC without being sent off it will be a miracle.All the recent hype has done him no favours at all.Not that the World Cup really inspires these days, its glory days are long over and it's become a competition decided by referees rather than great play.Bear that in mind if Roons has to take the walk of shame, it's not his fault, someone told him he was a truly great player like Bobby Charlton or George Best.The problem is he looks like he believes them.

If one were in uncharitable mood, one might say that prominence as a Northern Ireland international has helped Capaldi (like his erstwhile team mate Feeney) attract greater notice than others of equal ability but here he was largely untroubled against Argyle's Paris Cowan - Hall, a summer recruit from Woking and a man who needs to build up his confidence.

Michael Carrick is a great player, but as he showed against Spain, he just isn't up to the pace of top international teams.

«We were racing against all the country's best teams and we're Great Britain's second best team so to qualify and be up there in the top eight I think is really good for us.»

Sunday also saw Great Britain's men's team get their World Hockey League Semi Finals up and running in Antwerp against hosts Belgium.

With the team about to embark on a run of games against teams in the bottom half of the table, January represents a great opportunity to pick up more points and apply pressure to the leaders.

Some people may term his time at the Santiago Bernabeu a failure but he was up against one the greatest club teams ever in Pep's Barcelona.

The third is that while we are still in the Champions League — I invite you at this junction to pause, face the general direction of Manchester and laugh — and as great as it is to play against Europe's best (and second and third best) teams, the reality is this squad doesn't look up to the task of winning it.

«While there is little doubt that we will be up against some stiff competition, our team is committed to submitting a sophisticated, robust proposal that shines a positive light on the Greater Buffalo Rochester Metro Corridor, no matter the outcome,» concluded Kucharski and Hurlbutt.

2:00 am (24th)-- TCM — Key Largo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall team up for the final time on this great noirish melodrama of a group of people, including a wheelchair - bound hotel owner, his recently widowed daughter - in - law (Bacall), a war veteran (Bogart), and a ruthless gangster and his girl, forced to take refuge against a fierce hurricane.

6:15 pm — TCM — Key Largo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall team up for the final time on this great noirish melodrama of a group of people, including a wheelchair - bound hotel owner, his recently widowed daughter - in - law (Bacall), a war veteran (Bogart), and a ruthless gangster and his girl, forced to take refuge against a fierce hurricane.

10:15 am — TCM — Key Largo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall team up for the final time on this great noirish melodrama of a group of people, including a wheelchair - bound hotel owner, his recently widowed daughter - in - law (Bacall), a war veteran (Bogart), and a ruthless gangster and his girl, forced to take refuge against a fierce hurricane.

In the film, the single mom teams up with others to turn the failing school into a charter school and the teachers union fights against reforms, such as greater teacher accountability and more school choice.

The C6.R was a great car that year and I teamed up with Jan Magnussen and Olivier Beretta for the extremely intense race - long battle against the Astons.

Team battle is great; players choose up to 8 characters to put up against a friend or the CPU, and winners regain a small amount of health in order to keep on fighting.

All the conversation about the greatest team of all time made us wonder about matching up the greatest players of all time, even taking that wonderfully fun My Player mode (which, as you can see from my stats, I can't get enough of) and facing off against the likes of our NBA 2K12 cover athletes Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird along with current greats like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Kevin Durant, and more.

You can, for example, mix up contemporary greats like Stephen Curry and LeBron James on the same team and put them up against whatever other Frankensteinian combination you desire.