Apart from that Barcelona will have
usual starting line up with Neymar, Suarez and Lionel Messi starting upfront and Rakitic, Iniesta and Busquest playing in midfield.
Giggs named a strong team for the opening game of the China Cup with only Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey missing from
the usual starting line - up, as the new boss gave Everton defender Williams the skipper's armband.
To enhance the capacity of his starting line - up to achieve that 0 - 3 incredibly away win score - line at the Karakiskais Stadium on the night, the Boss SHOULD do
the usual starting line - up to confuse d Olympiacos game and make a mismeat of them.
Not exact matches
The bottom
line, according to Sutton, is that Murnighan convincingly argues that «the
usual managerial approach of
starting out relationships by mistrusting people and then slowly letting trust develop is not usually as beneficial as
starting by assuming that others can be fully trusted until they prove otherwise.»
Our
usual way of thinking, Bergson observes,
starts from static concepts (points, instants,
lines, etc.) «in order to grasp by their means the flowing reality» (CM 224).
We are off to a great
start in maple sugaring season here in Vermont, so I am temporarily straying from my
usual vegetable side dish and weeknight meal
line - up for a brief moment to bring you this moist and fragrant Maple Parsnip Morning Glory Coffee Cake.
And with the injury situation at the club as good as it has been for many a year, the boss is perhaps under less pressure than
usual when it comes to selecting his
starting line up to face Aston Villa at Wembley.
While the circumstances that had put Arsenal and Arsene Wenger under serious pressure meant that the manager felt he could not select his
usual team full of young Gunners for our first Capital One Cup game of the season, Wenger still made many changes to the Arsenal
starting line up.
My worry is if Wenger will bring back Ramsey into the
starting line - up as
usual?
He has been playing deeper than
usual and has been given more defensive responsibilities and is pressing more in the second
line than the back
line to win the ball back and
start attacks.
The
usual injuries are
starting to kick in so we can expect to see some changes to our
line - up, but with the stats heavily in Arsenal's favour we can be reasonably confident today.
Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the
starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the
usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly
start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the
line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...
A draw would be a perfectly good result for Madrid and I think we can see that with the
starting line up Zidane has picked for today, with Kovacevic alongside Modric in the centre of midfield to add plenty of strength and make it difficult for Barca to play their
usual fluent style of football.
The Chelsea
starting line - up sprang no surprises, with the
usual striking force, the hard - working midfield men and the rock - solid defense absolutely charged up in front of their lively home fans.
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