Sentences with phrase «cup campaign just»

Not exact matches

Pellegrini has spent an incredible # 172m on just eleven players since taking over at the Etihad Stadium, and although he won the Premier League and Capital One Cup double in his first campaign with the club, he looks set to finish trophyless this term and possibly even out of the top four after a surprisingly poor recent run of form.

After all, he had just masterminded the double by leading his side to Premier League and Capital One Cup glory in the previous campaign.

Injury troubles have been a major issue this season as they've limited Zlatan Ibrahimovic to just seven appearances, and that followed on from 28 goals in 46 appearances last year as he picked up the Europa League, League Cup and Community Shield in his first campaign in England.

Luiz ended last season with Chelsea having fallen back in the pecking order under Jose Mourinho and was sold to PSG for # 50m just before he embarked on a World Cup campaign on home soil where his shortcomings were painfully exposed.

Schurrle has started just five Premier League games this season, scoring three times, and this coming after a successful World Cup campaign will surely leave the versatile attacker considering his options.

Spain were just coming off of a World Cup victory in November 2010, while Portugal had just recently named a new manager after an average World Cup and a poor start to their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign.

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.

I want to support them and try and forget the training ground incident that clearly destroyed the campaign just gone and remember the fa cup performance I've just witnessed.

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.

Ahead of the all - important FA Cup semi-final against Manchester City on Sunday, Arsenal have received a massive injury boost as striker Danny Welbeck has returned to training just in time for the showdown at Wembley, with the FA Cup now the only trophy that the Gunners can chase this campaign.

Swansea now find themselves in a bit of a slump in comparison to the loftily high standards they set for themselves earlier in the campaign, having won just two of their last five league matches, this degree of inconsistency within their league form has however come at the time when the added pressure of fixture congestion that comes with a long cup run can really effect a squads fitness and consequently their performances.

Dynamo began the Cup Winners Cup campaign with a stutter, losing the away leg in Utrecht 2 - 1 and trailing 1 - 0 with just eight minutes gone in Kyiv.

Two different head - coaches, just two wins from seventeen league matches, the elimination from the Russian Cup and a long and never ending list of injured players since the first day of the season have undoubtedly jeopardized whatever the club's strategy was for the current campaign.

Just two games short of a maiden World Cup finals participation, the left - footed wide forward — equally effective on either flank — has proved decisive for his country throughout the campaign.

Wales have not played a competitive game since their 1 - 0 defeat to Ireland in the final stages of the World Cup qualifying campaign but did not show any sign of rustiness as Bale ran through and scored after just two minutes, before doubling his and Wales» tally 19 minutes later.

One year and one day after their infamous 5 - 1 defeat to the Netherlands at the World Cup in Brazil, this was a potential banana skin of a fixture for the Spanish with the home - based players in the Belarus squad in the middle of their domestic season.Del Bosque's players could be forgiven for feeling the effects of a long campaign as their summer holidays beckoned but they got the job done thanks to Silva's goal just before the break.

Dixon would preside over just three games this campaign — an opening day defeat at Shrewsbury, an 8 - 0 League Cup pummelling from Nottingham Forest, and a 5 - 0 home loss to Peterborough — before moving on, unhappy that his team selection was being «influenced» (i.e dictated) by the chairman.

Hope because, although top spot is out of the question, Switzerland are a far from terrifying prospect, Bulgaria are not the side they once were and Montenegro — despite boasting the mouth - watering pairing of Mirko Vučinić and Stevan Jovetić in attack — picked up just a single victory (over Georgia) in their World Cup qualifying campaign.

However, he may have just been hit by the worst period for City in terms of trophies, as the League Cup in the 2015 - 16 campaign is the only success achieved by Otamendi.

Aduana Stars defender, Paul Aidoo is confident of his side's progress in Caf Confederation Cup The Fire Club centre - back remains upbeat about their quarterfinal chances despite picking just a point from two matches thus farAduana Stars defender Paul Aidoo is not letting go their hopes of reaching the Caf Confederation Cup quarterfinals despite their poor start to the group campaign.