Sentences with phrase «with injuries to key players»

Don't want to start the season with injuries to our key players.

Both teams come into this game with injuries to key players.

With injuries to key players impeding Arsenal during the first round of Premier League fixtures, what would be a good haul of points come the 28th of December, when Arsenal play their 19th Premier League fixture at Boleyn Ground against West Ham United?

Its arsenal dude, you know we're always knackered with injuries to key players.

We are already limping into the season with injuries to key players.

If all of the teams that finished 4th - 10th didn't deal with injuries to key players it's very possible that that Portland wouldn't have made the playoffs at all.

Not exact matches

Our current fitness coach and his assistant have stayed the same since 2001, and a slight shake - up could well be needed, especially with our title credentials having been dented year - in year - out due to injuries to key players.

The Gunners have been plagued by injuries to a number of key players already this season and with Chamberlain continuing to struggle to fully establish himself in the side this will come as another setback in his short career.

It's been eight years and 20 matches since Arsenal and Tottenham ended goalless and with a number of injury doubts concerning key defensive players such as Shkodran Mustafi (Thigh), Hugo Lloris (Groin) and Toby Alderweireld (Hamstring), Arsene Wenger and Mauricio Pochettino may have to reshuffle their back - lines presenting a potentially open North London derby.

With 23 points in 22 games, the Panthers weren't doing that bad — especially considering the injuries to some key players.

Okay it will be a shock if either wins it but they have both been blessed with hardly any injury problems and things have just gone their way at crucial times, while Wenger has had to cope with dodgy referee decisions as well as big injuries to key players like Cazorla, Alexis, Coquelin, Welbeck, Wilshere and more.

And, with both sides plagued by injuries to key players, Wenger and Pellegrini will have their thinking caps on, when it comes to picking their strongest possible starting lineups.

Typically these periods in past few seasons has seen us chasing the top table team with average of 10 points, then comes our end of season charge which has seen us having more points than any other epl team in the final two months of the season over the past few years as well.This is mostly due to injuries plaguing key members our team around this period every year, apparently we've gone through our rough mid season patch again or might still be going through seeing as we have list some key players like carzola, bellerin to injuries again.

But Roberto Martinez must do so without several key players as he is forced to deal with an injury crisis at DW Stadium.

That has now gone of course, and there will be plenty of debate as to where the blame for this lies, with Arsene Wenger a prime candidate but a lot of injury problems, bad luck and poor form from certain key players along the way.

With three of the Suns» key players — Barkley, Johnson (chicken pox) and Danny Ainge (sprained left ankle)-- out with injuries and another, last season's rookie find, forward Richard Dumas, undergoing drug rehab, Ceballos has done more than his share to compensWith three of the Suns» key players — Barkley, Johnson (chicken pox) and Danny Ainge (sprained left ankle)-- out with injuries and another, last season's rookie find, forward Richard Dumas, undergoing drug rehab, Ceballos has done more than his share to compenswith injuries and another, last season's rookie find, forward Richard Dumas, undergoing drug rehab, Ceballos has done more than his share to compensate.

With a below average line, and injuries to key players, some can fairly be blamed on those factors.

They play the Oakland Raiders in Philly and not only are the Raiders traveling across the country they are also dealing with injuries to key offensive players.

Please just mention one manager that you know, who will be competing on all three fronts, with these amount of injuries to key players, as we are having?

The team is missing a lot of key players to injury and suspension and we are going to be tired after the game against QPR with 10 men.

But for sure underinvestment doesn't deliver especially if u want to compete on two big fronts... Bellerin is the first of our young players to come through in quite some time lots of expectation in last 6 years but can't think of a real quality player from the academy... Wilshere might if injuries hadn't prevented... Spurs now looking better on that front Attitude is key I agree totally... love the way Leicester hunt down ball in packs and break with 3 or even 4 players moving at speed...

We came second to Leicester mainly because of the much greater demands on the squad from our competing intensely on 3 fronts, playing 2 tough games every week without any respite — whilst Leicester had only the League to focus on, with only one game a week and crucially were given 2 weeks off to rest and recover their energy levels — over a period in which we were handicapped by many injuries, loss of form and confidence to key players whilst Leicester had no such handicaps.

With Alexis being a key player for Arsenal, we can not risk him picking up an injury so Wenger will have to be very careful as he prepares the team to face Everton.

If there have to be injuries, everyone with a head on their shoulders would want it to be to a player who is not a key player.

«You look at the A's [with all the injuries they've had to key players] and it's amazing that they're right in the race,» says Toronto manager Cito Gaston.

Big Sam has changed the formation to three at the back and he intends to stick with it, but he also has injuries to key players in his side.

One is that Arsene Wenger has had to cope with a number of players, and key players at that, being ruled out with injury.

Any team in the PL with our number of injuries to key players would suffer a drop in performance.

These injury alerts will only include breaking news related to key players, so you won't be flooded with e-mails or texts.

Maybe Ramsey could do a job with Flamini and Arteta behind him or maybe Wenger could use Alexis Sanchez behind the central striker but we are still waiting for those players to be fit, so are Arsenal at great risk of losing another key Gunner to injury?

They have a few key injuries to contend with and Pellegrini and the players know how much it would hurt the City fans to be knocked out of the top four by their main local rivals.

Well, we have even started to have a bit of luck and it is our rivals rather than us being hit with injury problems to key players.

However, Arsenal have a deeper and stronger squad than the visitors to the Emirates tonight to start with, and in two o0f their absentees through injury they are without two of their key players.

In an interview with BBC Sport, as seen in the tweet below, Pogba suggested that he hoped some key Man City players picked up injuries to give United a better chance of catching them in the Premier League title race, although you can tell he was hesitant in admitting it.

Let's be realistic Gooners, a point away to Chelsea is always a decent result and with them in great form while we have not hit top form yet, combined with the fact that we are missing some key players through injury, a point tomorrow would be an even better result than usual.

So on the eve of the first leg against Bayern in Germany, Arsenal were handed the boost, reported by Metro, that the Bundesliga side had been hit with an injury to one of their key players Xabi Alonso.

Our battle with City (can't be bothered to think of Leicester or Spuds as realistic competitors at this stage) will probably be down to who sustains the least injuries to key players — would say that it is a coin toss looking at each team's injury record / history.

All that is bad enough, with the manager having to wonder if any or how many of his key players are going to pick up an injury and put our chances of success at risk.

None of this is difficult to figure - out, but somehow we always seem to have key players out with predicable long - term injuries (Like Cazorla at the moment) and then hear the team's failures blamed on injuries.

Portland's recent rise of success has been somewhat of a mirage as several games have been against teams with key players out due to injury.

The French football pundit feels that they have not been able to cope with the loss of key players to injury in the same way that Arsenal have.

9 injuries to key players - no squad can really deal with that.

In all honesty, long - term injuries to key players have had a lot to do with Arsenal's mediocre first half of the campaign.

I appreciate all 4 players, but to win games we need goals (obviously) and that's the key role of the ST. With our injury woes, I'd rather be safe than sorry and buy another one.

I don't need to remind you that key players like ozil, arteta, ramsey, walcott, diaby, kos, debuchy, giroud are struggling with injuries, so basically Wenger is out of options yet he still manages to keep the team afloat.

And with City picking up injury problems to key players like Aguero, Silva and Sterling, we can hope that their 100 percent record in the league will soon disappear.

We could be hit with more bad luck in the form of poor decisions by referees and injury problems to key players.

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With the current injuries, meaning being without some key players for a while longer, AW needs to rethink what he is doing with this sqWith the current injuries, meaning being without some key players for a while longer, AW needs to rethink what he is doing with this sqwith this squad.

While most sports won't see the spread move more than a couple of points (with the exception of an injury to a key player), WNBA games routinely see massive fluctuations.