Sentences with phrase «won the starting position»

After Stoudamire missed seven games because of tendinitis in his right knee early in the season, he was forced to win his starting position back from Pippen.

A big question for the team was whether and Santos and whichever wide player won the starting position opposite from him could replace the production of Meram and Finlay.

Not exact matches

To put your team in a position to achieve your grand visions, you must start by creating a culture of winning.

So the pre-election Republican position, backed by allies such as the Chamber of Commerce, to extend all of the tax cuts and postpone all of the spending cuts until the leaders work out a deal is not likely to win over many Democrats, who seem more inclined to let the tax cuts expire and start from scratch next year, presumably making it harder for Republicans to resist.

I feel insecure about some of my political positions, so I only start debates I know I can win.

Walmart's scale and presence as the world's largest retailer not only starts to level the playing field with the world's top e-commerce player, Amazon, but it also puts the company in a better position to win against competing budget - friendly retailers like Costco, Target and Kroger.

«Overall, when you look at our continuity, 2015 was a positive year because we won the FA Cup, improved our results in the Premier League at the start of the year, continued with that and today we are in a strong position.

lets play the starting 11 in their NATURAL positions and start winning some matches.

His father made 306 F1 starts, winning 91 races, scoring 155 podiums, 68 pole positions and seven world titles in total.

Or maybe he believes that we are nailed on to beat Atletico and go on and win the Europa League, but it certainly looks like he has given up on any sort of League position with his choices for Sunday's starting XI....

Even if we win Wenger shows the traits as he did in the start of the season, playing the guys out of their respective position in order to force the favourites in the team.

The foundation is set with culture and cohesion, now it's a non-linear mix of five keys: increasing collective execution through impact players (Garoppolo, maybe Foster, # 9 pick) adding playmakers that win situational mismatches (McKinnon, edge, red zone WR / TE) accelerating development through position group leader / mentors (Sherman, Richburg, need more) taking weaknesses off the field (Hyde in the passing game, Kilgore, current starting G, roster deadwood) converting young talent into consistent reliable producers (most of the defensive starters and Garnett)

His other win on the year came from the 18th starting position at Bristol Motor Speedway in August.

Arsene Wenger started the Swansea game with his fifth unchanged starting XI in a row, but the team surely needs some fresh legs for this crucial match, which could seal our position in the Top Three if we win or at least draw this weekend.

we know CONSISTENCY IS THE KEY TO BE TOP TEAM and we lack of it but also we know THAT A DM IS NEEDED and ST to be able to win the EPL.So let's start and hoping we get these two KEY POSITIONS COVERED IN JANUARY.any suggestions WHO?

I don't really blame any of those players at all, first mistake from Wenger was his team selection and secondly wrong players in a wrong position,, its quite sad with all their mouths and boasting of starting the season strongly and aiming for the league just a waste of energy and wishful thinking, am putting the whole blame on Wenger, where is Belerin, why Ozil, Cazorla played out of positions, you should know their weaknesses and strength as a coach, why must we pass and pass to score a goal, many opportunities came from shooting distance but the players will always be looking for the next person to pass the ball to, its quite unfortunate that a big club like arsenal is relying on a scrappy Giroud to lead an attack of a team aiming to win the league.

The problem is when you have an average defensive midfielder then your backline can never be at rest.Coquelin should have started this match.Some people think he's average but I feel he's been played out of position and being tasked with doing too much like a box to box player.How can someone who bases his game on tackling and interception lose that ability all of a sudden and you tell me nothing's wrong but bdcause he's average.Are we fans going to ignore what is plain to us?Let's just pretend things are alright.Then after we win the cracks will be papered only for them to be exposed another day.

Our season starts from now and to be honest, all arguing aside, we are in a nice position with the next three games — all must - wins (9points) if we are to challenge, especially with the Xmas season fixtures coming soon!

The reason why Chamberlain choosing Liverpool over Chelsea is odd, is because they offered him less money, have NOT offered him a starting CM position, as he said they had, Klopp confirmed that, have not won any trophies for over a decade, unlike Chelsea, or indeed Arsenal, are valued at around 50 % of Arsenal and 60 % of Chelsea.

Hpoefully our players will start to click into gear and up the pace or find themselves in their new positions (Sanchez) we'll just have to wait and see who Wenger selects for the job and if they can carry it out to win the points.

He keeps us in good starting positions, he adds aerial presence and he is willing to take a risk on winning a good interception.

Harvick won from the 24th position at the Tennessee track in August 2016; three times Kyle Busch has gone to victory lane despite starting 18th or worse.

watching my team against Ireland yesterday even tough we won i wasn, t impressedit, we only start playing with purpose when we go behind and when we, re in front we slow down our play, i thought koscielny had a decent game with a couple of good clearance and his job was made more difficult by adil rami who is a burden on the team and always one mistake away, giroud can, t be blamed for his first half performance the guy was starved of any service and it, s only when griezman was moved to his favourite position that giroud started making the difference what a great assist, by the way shane long dived for the penalty but that, s ok we are square now with the irish we had henry, s handball & they had the penalty!!

I agree about Mustafi and the Cazorla link helped him out and sometimes Granit does put the CBs under pressure because he can't find a forward pass or is too scared too, but facts are facts Mustafi made 1 start at the 2014 WC & 2 sub appearances making a total of 132 minutes only in the group before he got injured, I disagree he «helped» Germany win the WC as he simply didn't play enough and didn't play any knockout games so was only a squad player who played 1.5 games in total, he can play well but tends to panick and finds himself out of position ALL the time, he is a liability diving into tackles and trying to make interceptions he has no.

I agree with you that AW has done some astounding things for the club, but he has also made some reall balls ups and week in week out it seems he is not able to offer up a tactical plan B or utilise key players in key positions against the relevant sides we play, (not starting with Rosicky and Walcott on Saturday was one such instance) I realise that no team wins all their games and I know that we have been under the cosh for quiet a few years now, but what annoys me more than anything else is the lack of Visible ambition, we spent three weeks messing around with Beliek and only just managed to get Paulista who was an uncertainty due to a work visa.

If wenger is really serious about winning the league then he needs to stop f *** ing around and start playing players in their proper position, instead of trying to fit in his favorite players.

In the start of the season we were playing with everyone out of position, slow wilshair in the middle, slow Oz and Caz on the wing.Guess what were going nowhere.Wilshere got injured, ramsey too and Ozil and Wenger was forced to play people at their real position and we started to win.

Early on OU burned them with scripted plays, then the script ran out and the fact that Georgia was superior up front and could play man coverage outside started to hurt the Sooners, but Mayfield made enough plays to still put them in position to win.

Hamlin, who won the closest Daytona 500 in history one week ago, will start in 12th position Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

When it comes to Arsenals predicted performance for the season ahead, they started off with an estimated position of 5th with odds of 11 - 1 to win the league although as time is going on, it seems they could be in with a slightly higher chance of getting a better position.

Jon Rahm made a big move ahead of DJ, posting his own round of 66 that you'd think would have him in prime position to start the year with a win.

If — for example — Southampton had continued their great run at the start of the season to finish in such a lofty position beyond any of their pre-season expectations, then fair enough, but is that really something you want to be hearing from the manager of a club who have won the league a record - breaking 20 times in their history?

We might be out of the CL but we are on fire in the PL; 8 matches played and we have played the 3,4,5,6 positioned teams in the league plus Chelsea and Liverpool who are lower but will start winning eventually.

«In the semi-final and the final things went against us at the start and we had to get back into the game to win from a losing position.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

We have put ourselves in a position where we need to start winning every game and even if we win every match there is no guarantee of anything

This is how the next season will start, we get thinks he's being clever playing players out of position, we get in deep shit, then he starts playing the players where they should be played and drops the liabilities and we start winning!

Daytona 500 champ Kurt Busch starts in 13th position on Sunday, having won the event in 2002.

If this was the first time we have had a poor start or had lots of injuries or failed to sign players we need I would agree give Wenger time and a chance to correct but this is why so many of us are fed up is this is the 9th year now.wenger has no excuses he chose not to buy a DM and CB in the summer when he had the cash to do so, he fails to work on the defensive side of the game and we lose games we should win, he plays top players out of position arshsvin and now Ozil.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

The absolute master of winning from bad starting positions, John Watson's five victories came from all ends of the grid.

We have got to start making all positions, not just 1or2, filled by world class internationals.Weak links ie not up to scratch average players has been our problem since the invincibles.Teams with the best players nearly now always win the league, Manure, Shitty and Chelsky have proved that since those heady Arsenal times.The new manager, when he comes, will want to know what budget he'll have so The board will have to loosen their purse strings if they want success with the new manager or the old.

As it is we have to hope they lose a few games and we have to win every one to stand a chance... now when you look at their run ins it starts to give hope, but really, we should NOT be in this position.

here is the simple truth a team that has walcott giroud campbell merteshaker flamini and ramsey starting wont win trophies... not one is a top class player in their position... having two on the park on regular basis is not a problem and three can probably still ensure 4th place... if we want to go beyond that we need to bring in two top class players in to the midfield and attack (thats in addition to the quality returnees we do have) and to increase the work rate particulalry when we do nt have the ball by a good ammount... that was true 3 years ago 3 months ago and 3 days ago... wenger had the nerve recently to say not signing an outfielder in the summer had been vindicated... the man has been drinking his own kool aid

At the end of it the debate will boil down to DO WE HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN THE EPL OR THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE??? first let's start with what went wrong the other season nothing we finished 12 pts behind the league leaders chelsea and 5 pts behind city... mmmh injuries (no longer news and infact we're already in it), lack of a proper dm till the new year (le coq emergence who desperately needed a back up), lack of a lethal striker (giroud's 3mnth injury noted though obviously not good enough and the sole reason wenger himself was reportedly looking for an «exceptional striker») and finally the obvious lack of depth in key positions (DM, CBs and yes a CF).

The injury, they thought, might very well have come in the first few strides out of the starting gate, when Swaps tried and failed to win the rail position from Nashua.

Surely put them on from the start to try to get into a winning position, and then perhaps take them off if the poor tired things are really in such need of a rest.

28 — Bournemouth have now lost 28 points from winning positions in the Premier League since the start of last season — more than any other club.

This got him a starting position in the next round for the match against Everton which we won 3 - 1.

They have had an OK start to the campaign and sit in sixth position after ten games, with four wins, four draws and two defeats.