Sentences with phrase «weakened teams»

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.

Clive We've played weakened teams but hopefully a numbe4 of lads get some exposure on Thursday and even Sunday!

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

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

The League Cup competition is one of the most unpredictable competitions around because clubs play weakened teams and don't necessarily take it too seriously but that accusation couldn't be thrown at Mauricio Pochettino last night.

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.

Did we have weakened teams against them..?

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

Once again, our rivals dropped points and once again we failed to beat 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.

Especially since it weakens the team is going to?

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

There's intrigue, and the Celtics aren't giving up, but this weakened team is a facsimile of what they could be one day soon.

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

and which manager would let such a quality player leave and weaken the team without a proper replacement?

We played with a weakened team so it was always 50 - 50 on the result.

I'd far rather we field a weakened team and lose to Dinamo Zagreb than lose more players to injury and then lose to a relegation contender in the EPL.

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.

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)

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But they'll weaken the team by selling their best players and then buy few good players (usually of lesser quality than the ones they sold) who kinda strengthen the weakened team....

As such, Arsenal will never get to anything meaning (as per winning the title) as long as they keep weakening the team before they strengthen.

I agree with everything you stated; if the plan were to severely weaken team spirit, strength and respect, then the AFC have certainly reached their goal.

Against a Weakened team???

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.

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

Luckily we are only playing a Championship side so we could still win with a weakened team, but he admits that he is desperate to win the trophy again and he feels the extra pressure of being holders.

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.

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 Guardila style of management; Buy the oppositions best players to weaken their teams and then try and win the league.

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.

Wenger has weakened the team to the extent we no longer known just who or what the problem is!

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

He will defensively weaken any team within it.

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.

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

«You know, you can not weaken the club and weaken the team.

The inept dinosaur through years of negligence, mismanagement and stubborn insistence on playing favourites has weakened the team to a point where we are unable to not only compete with any of our rivals, but also to pick up any simple away points.

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 *

It really weakened the team's attacking potential.