Sentence examples for choice team from inspiring English sources

One of the enduring criticisms of Rafa Benitez's management is that while his first choice team is capable enough, his squad is too thin – hence the fear that without Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres, the team has little chance.

Individual players shine in individual games only to be paired with new partners in the next one; mass substitutions fatally weaken the team in balanced games; there is no coherent sense of a first choice team; and the pattern of poor results begins to build.

After last weekend's trip to Toronto with a group of reservists and young players that coach Ben Olsen acknowledged he had "set up" to "fail" (they did), D.C. sent out a first choice team for the Open Cup, including Bill Hamid coming in for Joe Willis (the keeper who'd got the side there), and produced a disciplined performance to take the trophy.

This was his first choice team, packed with British Lions and gifted the perfect early platform from which to go on to dominate.

"When we have our first choice team out it's brilliant but you can't have that every week - it's vital that we build our squad and I think playing away to Toulon next month is going to emphasise that even more".

"We haven't got much choice," team captain Trevor Linden said.

One wonders if it's more frustrating or less for Sturridge that he is not in Klopp's first-choice team, but really due to no fault of his own.

O'Neill has always insisted that his first-choice team have promise – and this was the hurdle that genuinely positions qualification within sight.

His job was already tough but has been made intensely so by the injuries that have ripped out the spine from his first-choice team.

He worked his way back into Wenger's first-choice team in December and there have been games in which he has shown his best form.

His chief reason for wanting to continue in the competition was that it provided an arena for his fringe players to flex muscles that are mostly inactive while the first-choice team challenges for the Premier League.