Sentences with phrase «weaken our team for»

Mauricio Pochettino effectively sacrificed a chance at Europa League glory by fielding a weakened team for Thursday's 3 - 0 thrashing by brilliant Borussia Dortmund.

With the recent trend of top sides putting out weakened teams for their domestic cup competition, an act claimed to be devaluing the prize and taking away that cup magic.

Following their feeble display in the Fifth Round of the FA Cup in midweek, Villa fans feel they deserve an explanation from manager Gerard Houllier as to why he felt it was necessary to ring the changes at Eastlands, all but forfeiting the competition altogether in naming a weakened team for a tie which was already formidable.

Not exact matches

Yes on paper we should beat them without to much trouble, even with our weakened defence we should be to strong for them with the (Wenger's fave word) quality... we have in our squad or team.

He declared quite emphatically before the start of the season that he would be focusing on the Premier League, thereby getting us ready for a much weakened Arsenal team being picked for the European games.

Wolves have been handed a # 25,000 suspended fine for fielding a weakened team in their Premier League clash at Manchester United.

The FA are quick to blame foreign players for weakening the England team, but I think they need to look at the attitude of the young English players and the coaching over here to rectify the problem.

Ferguson will do whatever it takes to weaken us, while waiting for his team to gain their strength and get back to winning ways, while we are stuck with the same man who views failure as success.

Wenger will have to get his rotation down to a tee so that the team isn't weakened in any way, but that the side is also fresh and fit for each game.

This is not an argument for managers of weaker teams to throw games, or a suggestion that they should weaken their teams as a matter of course.

Another interesting statistic in defence of Ozil, would be that football is a team sport, and that it's sometimes hard for certain individuals to perform at their normal level when you're playing in a weakened team due to injuries or because your team is a generally poor side.

Bcos I'm sure Wenger for no reason will throw out a weakened team.

So I don't think we will be weakening the team by playing Jack rather than Aaron in the middle and then Ramsey will definitely be fit and fresh for the Champions League clash with Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday.

Almost Belicheckian to weaken your team so much in preperaton for your next job.

It's not like he thought he'd play a weakened team as he'd rather go for the league as surprise surprise we've screwed that up as well.

Possible rotations which wouldn't weaken the team significantly... Gab for Per Debuchy for Hector (if Debuchy is alright) Gibbs for Monreal Theo for Rambo (Theo can play as a true RW with Debuchy being restraint in his forward runs) Jack for Santi (Jack to do the Deep Lying role) Welbz for Sanchez (stick to the right... will support Gibbs on his forward runs) Rosicky for Ozil (TR7 is still an effective creator and adds bite to the midfield)

If Arsenal win this FA Cup match against Lincoln today, the win will not ease any pain the Gooners were allegedly have went through when Arsenal lost to Bayern Munich last Tuesday night at the Ems because there wasn't any pain the Gooners have suffered in the first place when Arsenal lost the match by a 1 - 5 away win for Bayern Munich which in my own observation was a rigged result for Bayern Munich by the match referee, his linesman and the other referee official who was behind the goal post, a match referee who earlier has denied Arsenal a penalty of their own but later connived against them to award a penalty to Bayern Munich and in the process sent off Koscielny to deliberately weaken Arsenal team strength to frustrate them in the game.

If Arsenal win this FA Cup match against Lincoln today, the win will not ease any pain the Gooners were allegedly had went through when Arsenal lost to Bayern Munich last Tuesday night at the Ems because there wasn't any pain the Gooners have suffered in the first place when Arsenal lost the match by a 1 - 5 away win to Bayern Munich which in my own observation was a rigged result for Bayern Munich by the match referee, his linesman and the other referee official who was behind the goal post, a match referee who earlier had denied Arsenal a penalty of their own but later connived against them to award a penalty to Bayern Munich and in the process sent off Koscielny to deliberately weaken Arsenal team strength to frustrate them in the game.

For, the Arsenal team he has and will play against Forest in this 3rd round tie at the City Ground is not a weaken team as thought by Gary Birtles but a very strong team that will put Forest to the sword in the game.

The so - called «weakened team» for Man United did not really materialise even though Jose Mourinho did make 8 changes from Thursday's Europa League semi-final, and also included one very promising youth player.

I suspect Wenger isn't prioritising the Europa league because he knows full well he's not good enough to win it so he'll eventually start putting a weakened team out in the latter rounds providing we even get past Ostersunds which is probably 50/50 so when we fail in the competition he has an excuse «We didn't play our first team, we don't believe qualifying for the champions league through this competition» the man is unbelievable!

The good news for us Gooners is that David Moyes has a weakened squad to choose from as well and after an intense run of games is likely to rest a few key players also, so with Arsenal having a deeper and strobnger squad there is a good chance that our weakened team will be good enough to get through.

As for Giroud playing as part of a 442 - 1 CM would need to go which would weaken the team.

Even with no manager and a weakened team we should win, responsibility is solely on players for this game.

Imagine we lose to Hull (due to fielding a weakened team in preparation for Barca) And then Barca trashes us 6 - nil next week... * Shivers and quickly drinks a glass of water *

Both Victor Wanyama and Vincent Janssen had to be replaced too, and so although it was a successful weekend for Tottenham in the sense that they picked up a really good win away at Burnley and closed the gap on Premier League leaders Chelsea, they could be left severely weakened in the weeks ahead with several key first - team stars out with injuries.

I think we are in for some exiting times now the team knows that Sanchez can go in Jan and we will not be weakened by it.

Or we could use the strong squad and rotate, taking the risk that a slightly weakened Arsenal team will still be more than a match for our opponents.

We need to have players who come on not weaken the team as most of our poor results have bitten us in the bum for weak subs.

Okay so there is no doubt that Arsenal winning the Community Shield against the Premier League champions Chelsea was a good thing, and there are plenty of positive things for us Gooners to take from the game, not least the way a weakened Arsenal team performed against a Chelsea team with far fewer of the first team unavailable.

If you want to be the british core for arsenal, you have to earn it, these two playing together weakens the team, not to say they cant but they both need to know their roles in the team and apparently there is not any definition of their roles at arsenal and what they are suppose to do

From that POV, it probably wouldn't matter whether it was Thomas Dimitroff (the guy whose neglect of the defense led the team to have to do a complete rebuild in the first place) or some other guy with weakened GM powers, if you devote almost every high value pick for six years to one side of the ball, that side of the ball will probably get better.

Arsenal are absolutely certain to play a severely weakened team tomorrow night at Hillsborough after their efforts of the last two weeks, but Sheffield Wednesday will have a fresh first team squad for their biggest game of the season.

So if there was ever a chance for the Gunners to get at a weakened Man United team, surely this will be it.

It was in January and February that we suffered the most but Arsene Wenger has had to do without key players like Santi Cazorla, Francis Coquelin, Jack Wilshere, Danny Welbeck and Alexis Sanchez for long periods and that would surely weaken any team.

If your» weakens» teams had beaten Arsenal in those fixtures you would have called for the head of Giroud and Wenger — the easy targets.

Even if he were to play a dramatically weakened side, it would still be prudent to claim that it's a «strong team» as to keep the selected players» confidence high, and make clear that pressure is on the first choice players for places in the remaining fixtures of the season.

Wenger has the liberty to field a weakened team in the premier league but as this is the last game of the season at the Emirates, they will surely go for the win.

The EFL ruled Huddersfield had fielded a weakened team, having made 10 changes to their starting XI for the 2 - 0 defeat on April 29, but confirmed that the Yorkshire club will not face sanction due to their interpretation of the regulations.

They then lost at Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League in mid-week and although it was a nothing game for City and Guardiola selected a weakened team, it brought a record - breaking streak of 20 straight wins to an end.

They then lost at Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League in mid-week and although it was a nothing game for them and Guardiola selected a weakened team, it brought a record - breaking streak of 20 straight wins to an end.

Wenger could go and get a replacement for Cazorla, he could of got jack back if he'd known that loans can be for 6 mths, (well done Arsene) but he won't do that, he, l just *** this season up like he does every season, a weakened team in the FA cup and its season over, surely no Arsenal fan truly believes we can win the league, in fact there's a good chance that St Totteringhams day will be cancelled cos we look no different from past seasons.

Along the way, Warnock points the finger of blame at: Gareth Southgate, Rafa Benàtez and Alex Ferguson, for all playing weakened teams in their respective clubs» matches against United's relegation rivals; the officials who allowed West Ham to win at Blackburn with a «goal» that didn't cross the line; Times journalist Pete Lansley, for upsetting goalkeeper Paddy Kenny by asking about his troubled personal life in an interview; the FA («rank amateurs»), for not punishing West Ham for fielding two ineligible players, Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano; and finally David Unsworth, for contriving a costly penalty miss for United against Blackburn midway through the season but then scoring from the spot at Bramall Lane for Wigan in the game that sent the Blades down at the Latics» expense.

The Tangerine boss was later fined for fielding a» weakened team» to which Holloway later handed in his resignation, believing the FA had no right to get involved in matters which did not directly concern them, only for the club's chairman, Karl Oyston, to reject his letter of resignation.

«While Speaker Paul Ryan and Republicans take dead aim at weakening workers» rights, Randy and his team are already standing up for workers by walking the walk,» the fundraising pitch from the WFP said.

For their research, Pekosz and his team, using human nasal tract cells, studied the weakened strain of the flu virus that is used in the nasal spray vaccine and compared its behavior with that of the flu virus itself.

Sun's team then combined eight of these mutations into one HIS virus, the basis for an attenuated viral vaccine, one that has a weakened but live version of the virus.

«The weakening of Earth's magnetic field opens up floodgates for low - energy solar plasma to pour into the atmosphere,» says Gupta, whose team reports its findings this month in Physical Review Letters.

Another team led by William Livingston, also of the National Solar Observatory, has observed magnetic fields necessary to produce sunspots steadily weakening for the past 13 years.

Now, Paul Timpson and Marina Pajic at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia, and their team have shown that the stroke drug fasudil can weaken this stroma, making it easier for other drugs to get in.