Sentences with phrase «up against a team like»

And there are players worse than him like Ramsey, but these players do nt straight up give up against teams like Bayern, Chelsea etc..
«When you are up against a team like Arsenal, you must stay focused.
Going up against a team like Spain doesn't lend itself to plans that are supposed to work every time a side strolls forward.
next year where it'd be hard for them to match up against a team like Bishop O'Dowd and 6 - foot - 10 Ivan Rabb, who will undoubtedly be a McDonald's All - American.
it was a huge mistake on the part of wenger for allowing three players who are just coming back from a long spell of injury to dominate the attacking line up against a team like sunderland who almost stole three points from Old trafford.
If we have to come up against a team like Napoli or Atletico Madrid, we'll lose.

Not exact matches

The team is in a race against time to hook people, so Stolen ends up more like Candy Crush Saga than Yo.
An issue like the Potash decision, Murphy says, «is where the two halves of Tony — the guy who believes in Conservative ideals and the Tony who loves politics and understands the team game — may be bumping up against one another.»
This Act prohibited price discrimination by retailers among producers and by producers among retailers.63 Its aim was to prevent conglomerates and large companies from using their buyer power to extract crippling discounts from smaller entities, and to keep large manufacturers and retailers from teaming up against rivals.64 Like laws banning predatory pricing, the prohibition against price discrimination effectively curbed the power of size.
PG — I'm not sure we have a starting PG on the roster, would really like to see DJ run the second unit and match up with the Quinns of the NBA rather than the Curry's and Pauls SG — Green has moved into that unfortunate professional athlete phase of «living off past laurels» and should not be resigned SF — Not gonna even speculate PF — LMA is good to go C — Unfortunately stuck with Gasol who is unplayable against the top tier playoff teams
We do nt mix it up when it comes to the tactical side of the game, a good example is we hardly if ever take shots from outside the box, so the opposition know that we like to «pass it in the net» teams do nt find it as difficult to defend against us anymore.
When they come up against a dysfunctional team like Arsenal who play as individuals, no tactics and don't have a team effort then they might mash us again..
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
Matt Rhule's Bears played like a real football team for the first time all year and threw a scare into Oklahoma, but they were being propped up by positive preseason numbers, so phasing them out offset anything good they did against the Sooners.
We can beat any1 of those teams on our day, we have trouble like teams against dortmund who press us high up the pitch, those 3 you just mentioned don't play a pressing game and i truly believe we are capable of beating them.
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.
They both love arsenal, they up the tempo when we are losing and they have the nerves to score against any team unlike ozil Since we lost fabregas, no one plays the ball over the top for us frequently, then we lost rosicky that drives through the middle, then we lost super Wilshere that drives through the middle and plays the ball over the top to injury and ref mismanagement, since then we've been playing the safe pass to the wing to cross like other EPL teams.
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
Like I said in a recent post, Ozil loves the big talk before the big games, but doesn't turn up himself, yet here he is asking his team mates to step up against Utd..?
Just like Team Lerman, Team Schwartz also picked up their first win of the season in a closely contested battle against Team Kaplan.
They picked up their first W as a unit in All Sports Series against Team Diamond and it looks like they are really ready to turn the corner.
Like we said in Week 1, they are a really good Hoops Team — just went up against an even tougher one in ATO during Week 1.
Whilst we like to beat up on OG his goals / game ratio in PL over the last 3 years is pretty similar to Benzeman — who plays in a team that creates far more chances against arguably weaker opposition week in week out.
I want to feel like, ok, we are close, we need to improve this area and this area and we got a better shot next year or we need to figure out how to change schemes against Team X so they aren't such a bad match up for us.
And the same goes for teams like Swansea and Watford who all of a sudden play well when they are up against the Gunners.
Although the semi-final Carabao Cup win against Chelsea suggested a change in the team's character and game - management, there are still massive question marks about whether their defence can hold up in the big games against the likes of Manchester City and Manchester United.
You could not be more wrong about comparing paulinho to gambau, he is a brazil national team starter FFS and against roma he wad surely missed with his pace and physicality but i think he is not a barca kind of player and he is not the best option for a big team like barcelona but still he is a good team player and we can use him as back up for rotation
We just give up too much speed when they're together, particularly against a spritely team like the avs
I'll be the first to admit counter attacking football and Arsenal should go together like cookies and cream but ever since the invicibles teams have refused adamantly to play high defensive lines against us and counters do not work if the opposition has a defensive 5 or 6 set up near the edge of their box when you finally get the ball up there.
Big in your list I can agree that all these players would improve us, but let's look at our CB At the moment Kos, top player but is struggling with a inj which may or may not heal, at the moment he isn't match fit so not up to his own high standard, so needs help or a defender of his quality so he can go and recover properly So then we have Mert, too slow and no longer good enough, I'm not sure if he's even good enough for 3 rd choice CB, too slow, poor on the air for his size and not brave enough, he's lasted this long due to Kos he needs a Top class CB just to allow him to play against average teams Ok now Reid not top class we can all agree so we couldn't really play him with MERT as he isn't Kos quality so can't cover merits deficiencys He could be ok with Kos but Kos is struggling So is Reid what we need???? And finally Wenger if he has all 3 fit will still play Kos / Mert first choice Oh and God forbid we play MERT / Reid against the top teams like Chels / city / utd / Southampton Chuckle chuckle
In fact he is not going to be able to play against the spuds in the north London derby next weekend either, so hopefully his team mates like Ozil and Walcott can step up and ensure that the Gunners do not miss the Ox too badly.
Do u think the likes of ozil and Sanchez signed up only to be benched for games like this.we want Wenger to sign the best but we don't want them to feature against the best teams because u think we stand no chance.
For as long as our philosophy remains the same against teams like this and referees don't do their jobs, we will always come up short against them.
There is no reason why he can not cut in and shoot like we have see him do before, but to make him a CF I think would handicap his abilities slightly, especially against certain teams where we need more physicality up front.
We Have Improved: Before, this Arsenal team did not put up a fight against teams like Chelsea, especially last season.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear all this talk about an» just arsenal protest» and if wenger stays he will run this club down to the ground this site is becoming comical were going threw a bad catch and you kids wan na organise a protest and think your going to change anything you lot haven't even seen your team ever finish were united did last season and all of a sudden that's it our whole club is doomed and it's the end of the world grow up u spoilt brats and lets get threw this together the whole world Is against us at the moment and you lot are with them our team need us now more then ever let's get them threw this bad patch and cheer them on and worry about wenger at the end of the season we support this club ffs start acting like it we love u arsenal COYG
I wanted to know we could challenge the best to win, and I just don't think there is as much appeal in a victory against this liverpool team as there was last year, just feel like I'm waiting for that game where we turn up away from home against a big club and show them we can play and win
You mite not like Giroud here but he scores against teams like this, he opens up some incredibly frustrating match, we can not win the league playing the same pattern against every team.
Yes that's true but it only seems to work against the bigger teams, when no one expects us to win, Which means Sunderland are still a potential banana skin (slip up)... waiting to happen, just like the other 3 clubs that hadn't beaten us for 10 years!
OLIVER is jus making up for the fa cup final Arsenal won, sometimes in that game it looked like too many small decision went against hull that shouldn't have n 75 % games not against big teams tho we won wt him in charge, the only big team that failed to win against us wt oliver is man city
Merson Wright Robson or anyone who has an axe to grind with Arsenal is at it I don't give a shit what they think I support th club and team in general if they play shit we have had more success then most teams Thy seem to Laud spuds but the fukers win nothing they won 2 trophies in 30 yeas but I don't see the media others pulling them up on it like we had when we didn't win anything for 10 years There is definitely an agenda in the media against Arsenal and its sadly spearheaded by ex Arsenal players So I say when they ubfairly attack the club and our existing players they are fair game for retribution from the real fans who lives be the club and will support it through thick and thin.
Real want 50 million for Benzema and he only scored a few more goals than Giroud in La Liga, where the big teams like Real wrack up big scores against the league minnows.
Stoke will be a walk in the park??? I like your confidence bruh, but with the kind of inconsistency we have we can not take any team for granted.I expect us to win but depends on whether the team that won against Newcastle turns up, or the team tht played at Southampton.
......... Giroud should get used to the fact that walcott offers something else like pace, GBD - tech (Get behind defenders) and he's still in his prime...... Ball protection, hold - up play and low pace (though useful sometimes) won't win u all the games against certain troublesome teams...... Then there's the Law of Succession...... today ur turn, Moro another's.....
Apart from the games against the top six teams, I'd like Wenger to go back to 4 -4-2 with Giroud and Laca up top.Now I'm not a big fan of Giroud, I'd rather have Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, but he's all we've got.
I suppose we usually think more of sports like Athletics, Cycling and American ones like Baseball when we think of doping, but a lot of people think the problem goes across the board and one of those is our prof.. But he may have taken his comments too far by hinting that there are teams that Arsenal have come up against who he is fairly sure have cheated.
you are such an ass hole to write or say a thing like this... is it not obvious to you that English referees are a joke wen it comes to all arsenal games... u hardly see them officiate arsenal or treat arsenal like a big club even wen d play a smaller team... and all the smaller teams knows this and that's why the down - look arsenal anytime the come up against them
A good manager should look at the opponents likeliest line up and must surely pick players who can get something from the game or a least stop the opposition from scoring in games against the top teams like Chelsea.
And now he is feeling like the only player in the team, forgetting that he and Ozil have never turned up against big games this seasons.
Arsenal's fans have been moody at times and they are really getting agitated by the manager and not against the admin, like for eg you are seeing your team 2 - 0 up and then suddenly a misplaced and the game is on where within minutes of comfort turns into irritation and people start posting comments directed towards the manager.
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