Sentences with phrase «win big games away»

«But it was a very satisfactory performance because we were questioned about our ability to win big games away from home, especially after last year's experiences.

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The cup win away at utd and the city away where two big games with all eyes on us and we succeeded in dealing with pressures.
We also need to start winning these big games that keep slipping away.
Last season when we began to rid ourselves of the unwanted rep of crumbling in big games, Coquelin was a massive part of our away win at the Etihad and we really need Flamini to do ma similar sort of job on Monday.
Well, Arsenal are a «big club» in top form with 10 wins in our last 12 games, and an extremely good draw away at Chelsea, so there is no reason for the Arsenal fans to expect a poor showing at the Etihad.
Houston State came away with a big 49 - 13 win in that game.
I can remember ao bad we re @ d begining of 2008 2009 season... but we picked up eventually... but we've been bd all season nd nofin has been done... a bigger contributing factor is welbeck who can neither top strike nor can he play as a winger nd he has been doing both all games... am not so sure but had it being we met dis monaco team last season we wud ve won home and away... this team lacks balance and leader... we miss arteta and it makes d purchase of an intelligent passer and strong anchor man necessary....
That would not normally worry me, but right now it would seem that Arsenal are having big problems winning any games away from the Emirates, in fact in our last six away League games we have lost four of them, with the one solitary win at lowly Swansea to our name.
Another game where i realized it would be difficult to win something big with giroud as our striker is the bayern away game.
Is it a coincidence that unlike last season, this season - in which we have had two CFs with different styles - we are winning the big away games, with the two strikers capitalizing on their unique qualities (Giroud powerful header against city, Welbz pacy counter goal against United) to score in both games?
The Gunners got themselves together and bounced back though, winning every game except the draw away to Chelsea and that was a big plus point for us as well, so we were all set to come back from the second break in fine fettle and raring to go then?
I wanted to know we could challenge the best to win, and I just don't think there is as much appeal in a victory against this liverpool team as there was last year, just feel like I'm waiting for that game where we turn up away from home against a big club and show them we can play and win
While a point from any away game against a big EPL rival is a decent result, a win would do our top four challenge the power of good and with Jurgen Klopp under pressure after his faltering Reds lost away to relegation threatened Leicester City on Monday, Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal side might just be looking to pile the pressure on.
He also knows — after having so much of his early career lampooned with the notion that he could not «win the big one» — that walking away a champion in his last game leaves a permanent marker of doing exactly that.
But now we got a big win here and now hopefully we've turned the corner in terms of the away games and we need to carry on with our home form and if we can get as many away points as well then we will climb up the table.»
I understand what you're saying bounty hunter, but I feel like the week prior to big games should be enough time to at least tweak our formation slightly or employ a certain tactic, whether it's counter attack with less possession or playing with two strikers up top instead of the lone striker, I would hope that players at the level required for arsenal would be able to adjust to this as it seems I tend to hear other teams coming away from big wins uttering phrases like «we worked on the manager's ideas this week and executed them well», I cant remember our players saying this for a while.
«But now we got a big win at Burnley and hopefully we've turned the corner in terms of the away games and we need to carry on with our home form and if we can get as many away points as well then we will climb up the table.
Having won away at Man City and Man United this season and with no heavy beatings, Arsenal have already moved on from the horrors of last season, when we almost might as well not have bothered to turn up in the big away games.
In the games v the other big 3, away draws and home wins must be absolute minimum.
Mentality and attitude to win big games are very poor, Away games stats clearly tells about it.
Why the media got it for Arsenal, we bottle some games we are expected to win, proving some pundits that hates the club right time after time, games are not comfortably won, last season we had a better away record than home, We have an overall poor result against the big teams for the past 5 years, we haven't won the league for 12 years now, we haven't made a proper challenge in Europe for 10 years and on top of it we have an Owner who doesn't care about football, just the money he makes, so many reasons.
«Everton was a very important game for us on that front,» Wenger continued, «because after the Bayern game, to be straight away capable of winning a big game, shows that the team is focused, resolute and has the capability of keeping the concentration at a high level.
We've consistently won the FA Cup now and always come through against good opposition in big games (Man Utd away this year, Liverpool just 2 weeks after losing 5 - 1 to them last year!).
Spurs have only played 3 big games (Chelsea and Liverpool home and Manchester United away) lost 2 one of which was a home game and won 1.
We hardly ever win more than 3 or 4 PL games in a row, lose to big teams more often than we beat them, yes we beat a struggling Spurs but we were easily put away by Pep and Mourinho.
And for another, we had been on a good run of form recently and had put the big game away day blues behind us with the win over Man City, so we all expected a lot more from Arsenal at White Hart Lane.
The trend remains the same, we are incapable of putting more than 3 or 4 wins in a row in the PL and when we play a big team at the end of such a mini winning streak we become arrogant and confident, forget the past and start actually publicllay talking about the PL title depite have been double digits away from first place with in barely having played 10 PL games this season.
They did dominate almost completely and on another night would have won but Jose Mourinho brought his big red bus and went away with a point which puts them four ahead of us with one more game played.
How things have changed, because it wasn't that long ago that Tottenham Hotspur season would be based on how well they did home and away against arsenal, now the table's have turned, because two things for sure arsenal won't win the league and that Tottenham has a better chance than arsenal, so now the biggest game for arsenal is Tottenham home and away, so win lose or draw it makes no difference, because the parasite is still in charge.
If there was one thing I was hoping against hope that Wenger would change this season it was to not try so hard to win the big away games with overtly attacking formations and a gung - ho attacking creed.
Today he is aiming to score his third goal in three games for the Tigers in the big away game at Wolves, but he will have to get past the Gunners third - choice keeper Emi Martinez, who featured in the midweek League Cup win.
Following comprehensive wins against Newcastle United and away at Galatasaray in the Champions League, Arsenal will go into the big game against Liverpool full of confidence.
The Gunners have already broken our big away game run this season, with a win at Man City and a draw with Liverpool at Anfield.
A couple of years ago there was a stack of evidence that Arsenal struggled in big away games but we have proved since then, including away to Man City last season, that we can win these games.
We must certainly beat Swansea in midweek or we can definitely all give up, but the big one next week is away at Tottenham, and currently we have won just two of our last EIGHT away games, whereas Spurs have lost just one of their last 11 games, with nine victorys.
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Retsub, Yes my friend its quite true that the posts are quadrupled after a poor performance but its partly because we are geared around weekend games and thats when most of the posters will come on here, I think aswel though that you may have a point in that alot of our fans habe become a little fickle but I have to say the last 8/9 seasons I have, as Im sure all our fans have, eagerly anticipated these big head to head games and I can only recall a couple of Spurs victories and an away win at Stamford Bridge among the success stories.
Roma won 3 - 0 to overturn a three - goal deficit and advance on away goals, having entered the game in Rome as massive underdogs after losing the first leg of their quarterfinal 4 - 1 against a Lionel Messi - led team that was one of the big favorites to win the competition.
Defo pen, Booking for Mikel, non of this matters when we played dump, chelski crowded the mid so we had to play down wings and we and beat a man or cross or both or cutback for late runner (Rambo) and we just did not get round the back, we did not have a plan B (NO SUBS), we did not play a left and right mid (or Theo was absent), really poor tactics against a largely toothless chelski, game was there to be won with a little balls and some real wisdom, I could have told you Jose will try to kill the game off and rely on stealing it on the break or a set piece, fook sake that's all he ever does in away big games BORING mug.
Yes, it was always going to be a big ask going away to Sunderland after the break and, as AW said, they may well have won had the game been at home — but it wasn't and they didn't.
The last meeting between these two sides ended in Liverpool winning the game 7 - 0 in Slovenia — their biggest away victory in Europe till date.
Chelsea will win this game but trusting them to cover a big line in a midweek game away from home is one for the brave.
They did land a big win at Huddersfield in their last away games though and overall it has left them with a W6 D1 L2 record away from Stamford Bridge this season.
Lamela could potentially make his first Premier League start for Spurs, Sandro could fit back in defensive midfield for his first start, as Chelsea's midfield will offer more in attack; which will mean more defensive work for Mousa Dembele, but in such a big profile game, Villas - Boas may keep the same 11 that have won at Cardiff away and Norwich at home.
Despite the presence of big names like Sam Allardyce, John Carew and Robert Green, the Hammers have merely chugged along unremarkably — winning enough games to stay second in the table for the majority of the campaign so far but not pulling away from the pack...
On the win... «It was a big game for momentum so to win was fantastic and we can go away happy into the international break.
Big Game Bottlers — Manchester United have won just 1 of their last 10 away games against the «Big Six» sides, drawing 6 and losing 3.
«Everton was a very important game for us on that front,» noted Wenger, «because after the Bayern game, to be straight away capable of winning a big game, shows that the team is focused, resolute and has the capability of keeping the concentration at a high level.
They are going along in a bit of away form at the moment though having won seven of their last dozen European away games and they posted big away wins over Celtic and Anderlecht in the group stage before losing at Bayern 3 - 1 which also stopped PSG from winning all six of their group stage games.
The Belgian international also remains modest about his importance in the side, despite Spurs winning just two matches without him being on the team this season, and told Skysports, «I missed a couple of big games, Liverpool and City away, so it's not fair to say with me it would have been different.»
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