Sentences with phrase «weaken their teams as»

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.
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.
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.
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.

Not exact matches

Yes we have players that can play Ozil's role but they will be much less effective than Ozil and the team as a whole will be severely weakened IMO.
Arsenal will be lucky to finish top four, as Everton are also buying a very good team and are trying to weaken us at the same time.
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.
Play the strongest team available do not underestimate any team in the premier league especially as every teams squad has been improved.There is absolutely no point in destroying Man U and then losing to Watford due to playing a weaken team.Get the game won and then make the changes in the last 20 minutes or so.
Pires had been talking about his belief that Arsenal could win the EPL title this season as long as the injury problems do not hurt us too much, so is he actually revealing the thoughts of the Prof and does this mean that Arsenal will field another weakened team in the Champions League?
And no rookie receiver is going to be as good as Dez, which weakens the team when it has Super Bowl aspirations.
And that Bayern will pay extra attention to him as well swa and every other team now that our attack has been weakened.
Well if he is taking the mickey mouse cup as a priority then why pick another weakened team?
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)
As such, Arsenal will never get to anything meaning (as per winning the title) as long as they keep weakening the team before they strengtheAs such, Arsenal will never get to anything meaning (as per winning the title) as long as they keep weakening the team before they strengtheas per winning the title) as long as they keep weakening the team before they strengtheas long as they keep weakening the team before they strengtheas they keep weakening the team before they strengthen.
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 teaAs for Giroud playing as part of a 442 - 1 CM would need to go which would weaken the teaas part of a 442 - 1 CM would need to go which would weaken the team.
...... and as I say, so late in the window that we have almost no chance of responding if any of the four go, which would probably further weaken the team??
I mean we are going to see that with Sanchez that instead of building up the strength and potency of the team, as always, it is being weakened.
The teams relationship with Honda has weakened this year as the performance, reliability and efficiency of the power units barely seems to have improved at all after almost three seasons.
So it amazes me when Mr wenger suggest's that the lost to a weakened Utd team was some what exaggerated By the fan's «As if we were in a relegation battle!»
He would have seen playing a weakened team voluntarily as the difference between being champions or not, especially if he knew that fellow rivals had slipped up (which they had).
I don't want to be misconstrued here; I will wholeheartedly welcome a new striker who will give us another 6 - 12 PL goals, and our overall chances of winning the league will undoubtedly increase (assuming of course, all things being equal, there are no adverse effects to the team overall with a new face scoring more goals — weakening us defensively, not linking as well with others, dressing room morale etc).
As well as Monreal replacing Gibbs, Arsene Wenger showed the strength of his squad by making two changes in midfield without really weakening the teaAs well as Monreal replacing Gibbs, Arsene Wenger showed the strength of his squad by making two changes in midfield without really weakening the teaas Monreal replacing Gibbs, Arsene Wenger showed the strength of his squad by making two changes in midfield without really weakening the team.
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.
It is surprising to me as to how many of them fielded weakened teams in the FA Cup competition this season.
Managers of top teams began to treat it very much as a secondary priority behind the cash - raking goal of Champion's League qualification and began to field «weakened» teams made up of squad or younger players.
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.
The only thing more disappointing than not beating a weakened Liverpool team was Everton spending most of the first 75 minutes not even trying to beat them as a drab Merseyside derby ended 0 - 0 on Saturday.
The latter point is exactly why Sunday's game will be controversial as should Blackpool beat a» weakened» United team and end up staying up because of it, those relegated will feel a sense of injustice.
Fraga surrounded himself with a younger team and focused his speeches on the risks of socialism, such as the creation of dependent societies, which, through their support of welfare and subsidies, weakened values such as work, responsibility and merit; in turn, societies would become less competitive and free.
But all 54 climate models the team examined predicted that this wind will weaken as the world warms.
Given that the field intensity in the region is also declining today — though less rapidly, as measured by satellites — the research team believes that the process causing the weakening field may be a recurring feature of the magnetic field.
Now an international team of researchers led by the lung researcher Marianne Geiser from the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Bern and the aerosol researcher Josef Dommen from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has shown that secondary particles from gasoline combustion in Euro 5 engines directly damage lung tissue as well as weaken its defense functions.
In the current study, subjects who had the most negative emotional responses, as determined by high activity in the right prefrontal lobe, had fewer antibodies — a sign of a weakened immune response, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The team suggest that «malfunctions» in the production of the tight junctions may be a contributing factor that explains why some people have conditions such as eczema, where the skin barrier is weakened, which leads to bacterial infiltration, inflammation, scratching and further infection.
Meanwhile, the game's magic system does away with the concepts of mana pools or the old - school spell tiers, instead existing as a finite resource whose relationship to the party's combat stats introduces a risk - reward question to every battle: Do you cast magic and risk weakening your team, or tough it out?
Gigantic is a free - to - play third person action multiplayer hero - based brawler / shooter, or as many would like to call it a third person MOBA, with a focus on team - play and supremacy as each team tried to take down / weaken each other's guardian.
I played as the Scout class while my team was playing as the COG forces, and this class allowed me to spot enemies and weaken them for my other teammates to finish off.
It is like being thrown into an unfamiliar battleground, where the unrepresented defendant is unequally armed and trained vis à vis the prosecution, and where even the otherwise best criminal defense lawyer is weakened unless s / he prepares his or her defendant client well for court and works well as a team with the defendant.
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