Sentences with phrase «weakened teams in»

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.

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

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

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?

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 *

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.

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

How is it a major trophy when most clubs including Arsenal play weakens teams in the competition Would the do the same in the CL knock out stages

Mourinho has given up on United's hopes of securing Champions League qualification via the league and fielded a weakened team in last Sunday's 2 - 0 defeat at Arsenal.

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.

In previous seasons this would have been accepted because Arsenal historically fielded a weakened team in this competition.

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.

Not exact matches

Specifically, it afforded Playboy the cash to recruit what Flanders calls a «world - class management team,» kill off 70 brand - weakening licensing deals and relocate from its original headquarters in Hefner's native Chicago to a glitzy refurbished Beverly Hills office and photo studio (swanky full bar included, of course).

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.

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.

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.

Where could Arsenal be if only the deluded on strengthened the weakened positions in the team?

Of course there is always the creative genius of Mesut Ozil and top quality throughout the German team to consider but having been weakened in those two key areas of defence and attack I reckon that France and their Arsenal duo have the edge.

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.

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.

The big teams will be tired from European football, but Arsenal have been playing a weakened side in the UCL.

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.

The Villa manager made a big deal of his team going down with a virus in the run up to the game, which may have left them weakened (who would have said that after the first 15 minutes?)

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)

In my view he would weaken their present team.

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.

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!

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.

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 hope we can hold on to Bellerin, because it will be a major weakening of the team to have Jenkinson playing in stead.

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.

...... 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??

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.

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.

However, he said he is keen not to to go down the route of selling players because it would weaken the team and could therefore devalue the Premier League run - in.

What if Wenger is waiting to see which, if any, positions in our team are weakened with an injury or two.

If a team like Swansea can come to the Emirates at the pointy end of the season and pick up such a cheap 3 points with a weakened team then we really are bang in trouble.

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.

But in the statement reported by Arsenal.com it sounded to me like the manager was really preparing the Arsenal fans to see him field a much changed and weakened Arsenal team in the following game, our trip to Monaco to attempt to put right that horrendous defeat in the Champions League first leg.

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.

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!»

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

But what seemed plain enough from that Monaco game where Chelsea were simply torn apart by Falcao, Atletico Madrid's Colombia centre forward, was that the summer transfer policy has gravely weakened the team defensively, while the decision to allow the dreadnought centre forward Didier Drogba to depart, on a free transfer to Shanghai Shenhua, has much diminished the forward line in which Fernando Torres, his form so unpredictable, imposes a radically different and less effective pattern on the attack.

There has been much made already about teams fielding weakened sides in last night's first crop of EFL Round Two matches.