Sentences with phrase «weaker team»

Too many times we have stumbled against what are perceived as the weaker team and it wouldn't be the first time Aston Villa have shown us the door.

on Jose Mourinho possibly fielding a weaker team... We focus on our performance.

That would still be technically time - wasting, as it still gives an advantage to the weaker team, and affects the other, fitter team's flow.

Arsene Wenger faces a difficult choice ahead of Tuesday night: Either play a full team and risk injury to attempt the impossible, or bow out quietly with a weaker team, accepting that fourth place is a more important goal than Champion's League progress.

Even though it came against a much weaker team, it felt like Arsenal hadn't drawn on the horrible experiences against Monaco last season when the Gunners piled too many men forward and got killed on the counter-attack, and in a competition where away goals, rightly or wrongly, are incredibly important, that is plain daft.

If a strong team is playing its starters for the whole first half against a weaker team that's only using starters for one drive, there's an obvious play.

In theory, the better team will have twice the opportunity to demonstrate that they're better, where in a one - off game the weaker team may be able to pull a rabbit out of the hat.

We won a lot of games by being outplayed and creating very little chance against weaker team, but were able to come through because of Ramsey, Carzola or Wilshere.

When Sir No Go and Miyaichi came on the last game, we could all see the difference in confidence and class and this resulted in a significantly weaker team.

Giroud is good againt weaker team and cant score against quality teams.

In 48 hours time Arsenal will be getting ready to run out at the RheinEnergieStadion to face Koln, but as the Gunners have already qualified for the next rounds I can seriously see Arsene Wenger picking an even weaker team than usual, although he will be keen to keep most of the unbeaten second string side together as long as possible, and of course a win will guarantee us top spot in the Group although the chances of anyone catching us is rather slim anyway...

My hunch says weaker team's Ox, stronger teams Ramsey, or if Theo finds his scoring boots it could be neither.

I don't think Wenger will rotate until Tuesday as League points are at a premium right now, whereas a weaker team should still dispose of Anderlecht in midweek.

We should not put out a weaker team.

«A European team without Faldo is a weaker team,» says Colin Montgomerie.

Giroud has a much better scoring record, and for a weaker team, in a tougher league.

You called Montpellier a «weaker team», yet they were the champions that season.

I also think that we need to get the job done this week and all three points will guarantee progression in Europe and thereby allow Wenger to field a weaker team in the final two games.

Actually even against Villa we would have a lot of trouble with a weaker team like we did with Reading, United and Brighton.

We had a weaker team due to injuries back then as well.

If they can learn lessons from this — particularly in defence, where they were too often scrambling and disorganised — then this will likely have been of more value than any 3 - 0 stroll against a weaker team.

So surely Arsenal can field a much weaker team than even played last week.

Some times it happens when its a much weaker team the edge is missing.

The back line looked better, but we were playing a weaker team.

Thats football — reading your opponent well and executing a plan that might work, even if you have a weaker team on paper.

If we were playing them at home or playing a weaker team i would agree no excuses as we should play better but at goodison its always going to be tight.

Put Costa on a weaker team and he will suddenly be sh # t and fans like you would wonder cluelessly what happened to him.

You can not underestimate any team in this league, we have seen weaker team beat «stronger» teams on a continual basis.

When stronger teams like Barca, Madrid, Bayern, chelshit etc are improving their squads, I see no reason why a much weaker team like Arsenal should not improve.some deluded fans always tell You that Arsenal and wenger have changed over the last couple of years because we landed some world class talent.

Even if we have a weaker team, you expect us to do the job as we still have too much attacking quality for these weaker teams.

If you don't like it, please advise who would you change and remember is against a weaker team so give chance to the academy guys.

Whether draxler or not arsenal is still a weaker team, is it something bad if we have both draxler and Sanchez in the same team fighting for places, just imagine van persie, Sanchez, ozil, carzola are in the same team, with likes of inform konsieny, mustafi, and konlansinic, and good holding midfider,... our problem with this 343 information or 3421 information apart from Wenger playing players out of position we don't have a strong holdmidfider that retrieve the ball back when we lost possession... Kant's is perfect example of that, look at the job he does at Chelsea is amazing...... without a good holding midfielder our defenders are vulnerable

It's obvious with these odds that Arsenal is seen as the weaker team.

A Premier League clash with Arsenal lies in between two Europa League semi-final legs against Celta Vigo and with that in mind, the Portuguese coach suggested that he may even field a weaker team against the Gunners.

Rather qualify directly than pray for a lucky draw with a weaker team...

Scoring at the meet (5,3,2,1) helps the weaker team, since the entrant finishing fourth and last is automatically credited with a possibly undeserved point.

Can't blame the squad for that, it was Hodgson for fielding a weaker team.

With him, even with much weaker team as the ones we have today, we reached with the 3rd place with ease.

Very true.Wenger can not out manage other managers in EPL.He demonstrated that in the FA cup by fielding a weaker team as compared to other managers and ended up being thrown out.

He made a conscious decision to pick a weaker team, than needed to be.

The line up will have a pretty comical defence but you still expect us to do well considering it's a weaker team at home we're playing against.

Can you really be so sure that Zidane could do what he has done with Madrid if he was managing a weaker team like Livepool?

Perez, playing for a much weaker team had 25 goals and assists.

I really miss those days when we scored 4 or 5 goals to a weaker team... At present we are fighting against all teams, no Ceativity at al... I used to remember when we used to boss in the Midfield area... My belogved ARSENAL, we are so far behind.....

Man utd was the weaker team.

ramsey and ozil should not start v manc (they can do their starts in FA cup or against weaker team).

ALL my original point was is that on paper we still have a slightly weaker team so we shouldn't take this single win in a friendly (even if it was played competitively) to now mean we are going to be able to outplay Chelsea any day of the week.

Wolcott playing in the box not playing from out wide that will work only against weaker team

Weaker team would lose 4 - 2.

Play Ox on the left and bench Kolasinac and we are a weaker team.