Sentences with phrase «after the last game against»

After the last game against Watford when the striker looked like his old self and the Arsenal goal drought was certainly put to bed, has that injury fear now gone?

The Mirror also revealed that former England captain has hired the pitch for a final farewell game at the club on Monday, which will come after their last game against Leicester.

Not exact matches

Arsenal had won their last 9 games against Watford at home up until last season when the Hornets arrived for an FA Cup match (a competition that we hadn't lost a game in for 3 seasons) but we let our North London neighbours bully our stars off the ball and surprisingly lost the game 2 - 1 after going 2 - 0 down.

I expect Giroud to get a rest and Welbeck to replace him at centre forward, as the Frenchman could do with a rest and the England striker could do with the game time, especially after doing so well against his former club in the last round.

So even though the Gunners will head to Wales and the Liberty Stadium as big favourites against the struggling Swans, the boss knows that we must be well prepared and approach the game in the right way and after the last two starts against Bournemouth and Preston that means doing it from the first whistle.

After a very poor start against Liverpool, followed up by a draw against the Premier League Champions, the last thing Arsenal needed was another break for international games.

Thornton, 37, played the last four games of the Sharks» first - round playoff series against Edmonton after missing the first two.

After being sacked 31 times in their first seven games, Wilson's only been sacked seven times in the last six, including zero Sunday against the Ravens.

In the build - up to the game, manager Roy Hodgson had confirmed that the Tottenham striker would make his first start for the side, after the 21 - year - old scored within eighty seconds of his debut from the substitute's bench against Lithuania last week.

«I said after the last meeting it was not acceptable and it is about showing intent to win the game, which they can do more and more as the game goes on against Liverpool.»

After an extremely close first game of the season last week, our Cheshire - based women's basketball team make their way to Salford for a late (8 pm) tip off against our other neighbours.

For now, though, we can only look ahead to the match and after a couple of Gunners picked up injuries while on international duty after the Gunners were held to a draw in our last game against Tottenham there seems to be quite a lot of negativity around Arsenal at the minute.

The Arsenal defender Calum Chambers was watched by Roy Hodgson in a few games recently, including at right - back against Chelsea, and it seems that the England boss has decided to pull the 19 year - old out of the U21 squad for the important European Championship play - off against Croatia to give him his first taste of senior football at Wembley, after coming on as a sub in the last friendly in Norway.

He marked the occasion with a goal that earned his club all three points against Southampton, and following his excellent form last season we have decided to take a look at where he ranks alongside the rest of the club's top five goal scorers after 50 games.

After a shock 2 - 0 loss to Poland in their last qualifying game Germany will be hoping to bounce back against the Republic of Ireland tonight.

Yess they all had a good game im happy for our boyz but im not going to rate anyone yet because for me thats a relegation tm & they're doing so poor right now, after the manure fa cup clash then ill rate the boyz, we always perform well against the small teams now is time to grow some serious balls & beat the hell out of manure when last we had a victory against them #COYG!!!

Michigan's Jourdan Lewis left last weekend's game against Oregon State in the second quarter after suffering a concussion.

Every little bit counts for each of those teams, and with the committee referencing the concept of «controlling the game» last Tuesday, a 20 - 14 deficit against a bad Hoosiers team with 18 minutes to go will not help the Buckeyes much (TCU fell from No. 4 to 5 after a similar performance against Kansas).

The 28 - year - old has only managed three goals so far for the Red Devils, and has been linked with the likes of Juventus and AS Roma after being dropped by van Gaal for last weekend's game against Southampton.

He said: «Well after the shambles of Arsenal's last home game in this competition, when they nearly blew it against Ostersund, Arsene Wenger will play a strong line - up with a free weekend to follow.

The 52 year old took over at the City Ground last July but his side sits in mid-table in the Championship after a run of just one win in their last eleven games in all competitions, albeit that coming in a last gasp win against near neighbours Derby County.

Seven points clear in their domestic league with four games to go and through to the last four of the Portuguese Cup, Benfica are also into the last four in the Europa League after Spanish striker Rodrigo bagged a brace at the Estadio da Luz to clinch a comfortable aggregate win against AZ..

After scoring 39 points in LSU's last game against Marquette, Tremont Waters effectively set up his teammates Wednesday.

It was his first game back after sitting out against No. 22 Auburn last Tuesday after a bout with the flu.

After playing in only two games last season because of a torn triceps, Orakpo has quietly bounced back to notch 8.5 sacks this year, two of which came in a losing effort Sunday against the Giants.

Just about everyone had cleared out of the Philadelphia Eagle locker room after a short practice last Saturday, leaving quarterback Randall Cunningham, who was being benched for Sunday's game against the Los Angeles Raiders, alone with his thoughts.

Prior to Ohio State's Sweet 16 game against Cincinnati last Thursday, there was a widely - circulated story about the handicap Matta now deals with after complications from a back surgery that took place right after OSU's last run to the Final Four.

if after the first game he says our players are not fit yet sack him because thats what he did last year against Liverpool, disgrace.wenger out

The Frenchman accepted that Giroud is now in a much better frame of mind and his form is good after scoring for France and bagging goals from the bench in the last two Arsenal games against Bayern Munich and Watford.

If anyone should be seriously worried about Sunday's game it is the City manager Pep Guardiola, who started the season so well but now find themselves slipping down the table after defeats to Chelsea and Leicester, before finally getting some points last night against Watford.

After ostensibly dropping two points against Liverpool last night, Arsenal could really do with getting back to winning ways against Stoke City on Sunday and banishing the frustration from last nights game.

His first game after recovering certainly did not help Wenger, as Lucas was virtually anonymous and Arsenal were awful as we lost the EFL cup match against Southampton, but last night's Champions League win at Basel was a totally different story.

And after an excellent game in the Asia Trophy final against Everton to back up the brilliant performances right at the end of last season, Walcott has done everything asked of him to prove his worth to Arsene Wenger.

After the way we started against Hull today it looked like we were going to blow Steve Bruce and his team away, just as we had in both of the Premier League games last season.

After the painful Old Trafford reverse against Manchester United made it just two wins from the last seven Premier League games and just three from 10 in all competitions it is vital for the Gunners to get back to winning ways at the Emirates tonight.

Vardy — arguably the Premier League's in - form player at the moment — has scored 12 goals in his last 12 games, becoming the only player to achieve such a feat in the EPL, but will not be present for Tuesday's friendly against France after being ruled out through injury.

Juventus star Vidal had the exact same operation on a meniscus injury in May, and Uruguay were worried to learn that Vidal's short cameo against Northern Ireland last weekend ended in disaster as his knee swelled after the game and he now looks increasingly likely to miss out on the whole tournament.

Many think we should ditch him for a «top goalie» like Manchester United's David De Gea, but if De Gea still looks good to most after shipping three goals against Everton and losing his last three games, their argument doesn't hold water.

The schedule isn't as friendly, though — after the Dolphins, their last three games are against the Carolina Panthers, Minnesota Vikings and Eagles, so a winning record doesn't look likely at this point.

This year the fixtures don't seem too difficult ALL AT ONCE like last February / march we had too many injuries coupled with horrendous fixtures against top teams game after game..

Let's not forget that he scored the only goal of the game against Chelsea in the Community Shield last year and look how his season went after that!

The Gunners currently sit fourth in the table, five points behind leaders Manchester City after beginning the campaign with a shock home defeat against West Ham United, however, they have recovered well since to win three of their last four games.

After winning and scoring the only goal last weekend in the game against Monterrey Chaco is now 1 goal away from the 100 goal landmark.

We are not as sexy as we used to be... in fact in my own opinion, we saw that only once last season against Chelsea and do I also remember the Napoli game at home in the CL... Benitez said after the game..»

Once again the Arsenal and Switzerland international midfield star Granit Xhaka showed the reckless side of his game by launching into a rash, clumsy and fangerous tackle after giving the ball away cheaply and he was punished with yet another red card to make this home game against Burnley a lot tougher than it should have been for the last half an hour.

The former striker was dismissed by Serie A side Cagliari last month after he failed to win a single game in three months, but was in attendance at Griffin Park for the Bees» 2 - 2 draw against Bolton Wanderers.

Going into the game, Colombia were in last place in Group C having surprisingly lost their opening game 1 - 0 against Venezuela — their first loss after seven straight wins — a sequence that went back to their 1 - 0 loss to Brazil in last summer's World Cup.

Had the Blue Raiders won just one of the three neutral - site games they played against teams currently in (Auburn, Miami, USC), they'd probably be okay even after last night's Conference USA quarterfinal loss to Southern Mississippi.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

After winning just 9 games in their last 4 years, with only 7 coming against FCS competition, Elon has incredibly started the season 7 - 1 and has vaulted into the FCS Top 10.