Sentences with phrase «champions cup campaign»

Inter Milan opened their International Champions Cup campaign with a 1 - 0 victory over Lyon and then on Thursday rolled out a 2 - 0 victory over Bayern Munich thanks to a brace from Eder in the first half.

Ben Arfa was one of three high - profile players left out of PSG's squad for their recent International Champions Cup campaign in the United States, along with Serge Aurier and Grzegorz Krychowiak.

The Algerian midfielder has not been included in the Spurs squad to tour Australia for their pre-season International Champions Cup campaign.

Not exact matches

The Dutchman has come under intense scrutiny throughout the campaign, but can still secure Champions League football as well as the FA Cup in the coming weeks.

The reigning World Cup champions begin their qualification campaign against Poland on Saturday and then the Republic of Ireland on Tuesday.

There are several reasons to doubt why a January move would happen in truth, from Barcelona not being able to play Coutinho in the Champions League as he's cup - tied to Liverpool simply not wanting to sell one of their best players midway through the campaign.

Throw in another FA Cup and this can be deemed a good campaign, although questions continue to be asked about the Champions League surrender to Monaco.

Using their own formation, we managed to dominate the champions in the FA Cup final, and are looking to continue our upturn following the switch by continuing into the new campaign with the same ideas, and a ball - playing defender can be a huge asset to the system.

All eyes will be on the FA Cup and Champions League in terms of their hopes of landing silverware this year, but without January reinforcements, question marks will surely be raised over their ability to finish the campaign strongly unless their top players rediscover their best form.

He moved on after one campaign, joining Fenerbahce, where he has won a Super Lig title to go along with the FA Cup and Champions League he won at Chelsea, as well as four Portuguese titles.

United still have a good chance of winning the FA Cup before the campaign is done, and are near - certainties to get back into the Champions League next season.

Despite winning the league at a canter again last season, they had disappointing campaigns in the German cup and the Champions League and that is the sort of thing he joined them for in the first place.

All that is left for Arsenal if we are to salvage any sort of happiness, dignity or some measure of success after the disappointing results in the Premier League and Champions League campaigns, is to win the FA cup trophy at Wembley in May.

Jones had an impressive season with United last campaign as he played 26 times for the Manchester outfit as they went on to win the League Cup and the Europa League and thus securing Champions League qualification.

Having fallen short in the Premier League title race, League Cup and Champions League, the Portuguese tactician will be desperate to end the campaign on a high note with a trophy and a second - place finish in the league.

The Gunners endured their worst league campaign of Arsene Wenger's reign, and will now be forced to miss out on Champions League football for next season, but did manage to finish the season with an FA Cup trophy.

As reported by The Mirror, the German who refused to celebrate after his late penalty save saw Arsenal reach the Champions League final because just getting there was not enough, has already been questioning the current players about why the form that saw us beat Chelsea to win the FA cup was not on show at the crucial stage of the league campaign.

They will give you silverware every year may be like FA cup, Capital One Cup, Community Shield but are they gonna be that consistent and serious like Alexis is for the whole campaign and give you the EPL title or Champions leagcup, Capital One Cup, Community Shield but are they gonna be that consistent and serious like Alexis is for the whole campaign and give you the EPL title or Champions leagCup, Community Shield but are they gonna be that consistent and serious like Alexis is for the whole campaign and give you the EPL title or Champions league?

Winning the European competition should take priority at this stage in the campaign, with two more wins in the tournament granting them entry to next season's Champions League competition, as well as the European Super Cup.

After scoring the winner for Germany in the World Cup final against Argentina last summer, many expected Gotze to push on and become a key player at club level during the 2014 - 15 campaign, but he was left out of some hugely important games including both legs of the Champions League semi-final against Barcelona.

Rooney was used both in attack and in midfield, and ended the campaign with just eight goals and six assists as the Red Devils won the FA Cup but failed to secure a return to the Champions League after missing out on the top four.

Further, Coutinho is now cup - tied in the Champions League having featured for Liverpool in the competition, and so he'll be of no use to them in Europe for the remainder of the campaign.

The end of the campaign, champions league qualification and FA CUP success will all be pivotal in deciding Alexis Sanchez's future and personally I reckon if the Gunners do not achieve one or the other, perhaps even both, then we can wave goodbye to the superstar that has made us tick this season...

It's been a disappointing campaign for the Red Devils on the whole, as although they're still in the hunt for the FA Cup, they've fallen short in the Premier League title race and were dumped out of the Champions League earlier than most expected against Sevilla.

The Red Devils are still in the hunt for the FA Cup to ensure that they don't end the campaign empty - handed, while they'll be desperate to secure a top - four finish in the Premier League and book their place in the Champions League next season.

It is specifically due to this reason that if he continues to play like he has done for Arsenal so far the Gunners are in business for mounting a serious challenge in the Premier League, while progressing a good distance in their Champions League and FA Cup campaigns.

Wenger managed to pick the team up with a consistent run to the end of the campaign, and although we won the FA Cup we failed to reach the Champions League for the first time under Arsene.

Having won the Champions League at Anfield and the Uefa Cup with Valencia, he won the Coppa Italia in his first season at Napoli, but things soured in his second and final campaign.

Courtois has played 40 times this season for the reigning Premier League champions, but his only chance of picking up a medal now during this campaign is in the FA Cup.

The 24 - year - old, who played every minute of Germany's triumphant World Cup campaign in Brazil last month, will wear the number 8 shirt after joining the European Champions.

With the Red Devils, he won the Premier League title six times, the FA Cup twice and the Champions League in 1999 during a memorable treble - winning campaign.

The Blues played two matches last week, the Champions Cup final against Real Madrid and a club friendly against Roma, which ended their pre-season campaign in the USA.

Marco Reus who missed Germany's successful 2014 World Cup campaign through injury will come as a blow to Premier League title rival Manchester United, German champions Bayern Munich as well as Spanish champions Atletico Madrid who have been linked with the German international if the feelers we are getting that he is interested in Arsenal is true.

A tie away to the Premier League champions makes this cup campaign even more interesting.

So far this campaign, he has overseen 14 games, including two Champions League fixtures and a World Cup qualifier in Sweden, issuing 47 yellow cards and no reds.

Meite helped Zulte Waregem lift the Belgian Cup at the end of the campaign and is looking forward to the prospect of playing for the defending French champions.

After the final of the Champions Cup, the Blues will end off their pre-season campaign against AS Roma, in Washington on Saturday.

While the 2014/15 campaign may only be a few weeks old, there will be little time for respite in the weeks ahead, with both the Capital One Cup and Champions League getting underway.

The Real Madrid forward, a four - time Champions League winner, scored 15 goals for Portugal during their World Cup qualification campaign.

Realising their error, after four years, they re-signed Matthaus for the tiny price of # 1.5 m and he went on to spend another seven years in Germany, winning seven domestic titles, over both campaigns, overall but surprisingly never winning the Champions League despite a UEFA Cup victory in 1996.

Arsenal had endured a frustrating season, after being knocked out of the FA Cup at the hands of United, losing the Carling Cup Final, unfairly losing to Barcelona in the Champions League and a stuttering league campaign, which saw them 9 points behind United coming into this game.

They have watched their fierce rivals Real Madrid win two Champions League titles and one La Liga title over the two seasons and were beaten heavily over the two legs of the Spanish Cup earlier at the start of this campaign.

Milan, seventh and 11 points off the Champions League places, travel to Verona on Sunday looking to build on two wins in a row in league and cup after a torrid first half to their campaign.

The 2016/17 campaign could see them become the first club in Champions League history to be champions for two successive years — the last team to be crowned winners of Europe's top continental competition twice in a row was AC Milan, who successfully defended the European Cup, as it was then called, back in the 1989/9Champions League history to be champions for two successive years — the last team to be crowned winners of Europe's top continental competition twice in a row was AC Milan, who successfully defended the European Cup, as it was then called, back in the 1989/9champions for two successive years — the last team to be crowned winners of Europe's top continental competition twice in a row was AC Milan, who successfully defended the European Cup, as it was then called, back in the 1989/90 season.

PEAK MOMENT He was bought by Real Madrid to win «la decima,» their long - cherished 10th European Cup, and his extra-time penalty against Atletico Madrid in 2014 sealed the deal at the end of a Champions League campaign in which he scored a record 17 goals.

«Moving the fixture calendar forward deeply affects pre-season and I believe it is the wrong decision of the Premier League to start on August 8,» said Wenger, whose side ended the Premier League campaign in third place and so avoided a Champions League play - off next season, but will take on Aston Villa in next weekend's FA Cup final at Wembley.

Atletico Madrid will face Arsenal, Paris Saint - Germain and Inter Milan in the International Champions Cup this summer and believe it will be the «perfect test» ahead of their 2018 - 19 campaign.

The Gunners ended the 2014 - 15 campaign with a successful defence of the FA Cup at Wembley, having secured third place in the table and with it automatic qualification for the Champions League.

It is the second longest European campaign in OM's history — after the 17 - match odyssey that transported them from the UEFA Champions League qualifying phase to the UEFA Cup final in 2003/04.

Last time these two meet was back in 2001 when Liverpool defeated Bayern in UEFA Super Cup and since Liverpool are back in the Champions League this season these game will show how prepared they are going into the big European campaign.