Sentences with phrase «weakened team»

He needs some strong ball winners around him to not weaken a team in trouble.

Did we have weakened teams against them..?

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.

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'll weaken a teams position if they say otherwise.

How he thinks we can «do something special» if he doesn't play Ozil and Alexis is beyond me, but then again I have been saying for some time that Wenger has made the League title his goal for this year, and has always played weakened teams in midweek games.

Wenger has already taken a big risk by not signing any senior outfield players, as well as fielding weakened teams in the first two champions league games and on top of that causing the injury to Walcott by rushing him on in a game that supposedly didn't have any meaning.

This view was given credence when we saw Arsene Wenger pick severely weakened teams for the first two Group matches and keeping our First XI fit for the weekend League games.

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.

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.

But perhaps there is a way of rotating the squad without weakening the team too much and I think the key to that is in midfield.

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

First of all the Gunners are likely to field a very weakened team in the next round.

And no rookie receiver is going to be as good as Dez, which weakens the team when it has Super Bowl aspirations.

But in that ideal world Wenger would be able to bring in a replacement player that would not weaken the team too much and therein lies the problem because we have no one to bring in other than untested youngsters like Alex Iwobi or Jeff Reine - Adelaide.

As well as Monreal replacing Gibbs, Arsene Wenger showed the strength of his squad by making two changes in midfield without really weakening the team.

If you have crisis at CB why would you further weaken the team by moving the left wingback to CB compounding our problems by also weakening another area on the pitch.

You don't weaken a team like Chelsea or City when you pay more than them on a player.

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)

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Moreover, Manu weakened team borrowing His word can win Arsenal strong team.

A choice has to be made for one of these 3 players to be put on the bench, Ozil the Brilliant passer, but does not drive at the opposition or takes shots outside the 18yds box, Cazorla the the deep lying Assist master, but lacks the power or pace to drive at the opposition from deep and Ramsay box to box midfielder, hard worker but weakens the team balance when he drifts to the middle and stays there.

Problem is, we all know Wenger loves to weaken the team pre match by picking players in awful form, and putting players in the wrong positions.

In previous campaigns Arsenal have been in top spot in the group going into the final group stage match and Wenger has therefore decided to field a slightly weakened team in order to focus on our domestic league campaign.

...... 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??

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

So WHY does he think it's big or clever to make no money from players and arguably weaken the team through the divisions that a want away players ALWAYS creates?????

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.

He opted to use weakened teams against Arsenal, Spurs and Southampton and ended up earning just one point.

After his performance in midweek, I also believe that Bilic may want to bring Arnautavic into the starting team to give us much - needed creativity, although many would argue that it is difficult to do this without weakening the team from a defensive viewpoint.

However, he concedes that the Samoan tremor may not have been big enough to produce the same kind of fault weakening his team observed.

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?

Wenger has largely fielded weakened teams in this competition so far this season, though even that has not yet seen Debuchy handed a return to the first - team fold.

We should not weaken our team for Southampton because we are already behind on points and the PL is also a priority.

Arsenal fans are so wrapped up with our massive game against Barcelona on Tuesday that we are worried that we will be playing a much weakened team against Hull City in the FA Cup this weekend.

Liverpool are already out and there will be more Premier League sides going out this week and perhaps even some big ones as the likes of Man United, Tottenham, Chelsea and Man City have the Champions League to worry about and may play very weakened teams.

It really weakened the team's attacking potential.

It is surprising to me as to how many of them fielded weakened teams in the FA Cup competition this season.

But you can get the new Patriots WR, and you should be able to do so without weakening your team.

But blame should b put on the manager who fields players out of position and there by weaken the team n» get far less from the team.Carzola / Ozill, Wilshere / Ramsey all play the same roles respectively and should b used interchangably then give the left winger slot to Joel Campbell

That being said, I think he'll pick a weakened team Thursday night, given we're at home, our opponent is very poor, and we have a massive game at the weekend.