Sentences with phrase «cup knockout tie»

Not exact matches

In addition to this, Wenger needs to target players that will not be cup - tied in Europe, as the club need to make an impact in the knockout rounds of the Champions Leagues.

On the other hand, the problem is that these three German internationals will be cup tied anyways and their arrival will not strengthen Gunners squad for CL knockout stages, plus why will they want to leave if their teams are still in CL.

However, they have been triumphant in each of their two previous knockout ties, defeating Rapid Wien in the third round of the 1997/98 UEFA Cup (3 - 0 aggregate) and Sturm Graz at the same stage of the same competition five years later (3 - 2 agg).

Brendan Rodgers» side go in as heavy favourites, but Lustig is aware that knockout cup ties can be unpredictable.

Thanks to dumb and arbitrary rules that are only now being changed because they are dumb and arbitrary, Aubameyang is unfortunately cup tied to Dortmund who, like CSKA Moscow, were bounced from the group stage of the Champion's League and were given a berth in the Europa League knockout stages as a consolation prize.

Their only previous two - legged knockout tie with Russian opposition ended in an 8 - 4 aggregate defeat by Spartak Moskva in the first round of the 1982/83 UEFA Cup (2 - 3 away, 2 - 5 home).

• Arsenal have won the first leg at home in 17 UEFA competition ties and have made further progress on 15 of those occasions, including in all four knockout rounds en route to the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup final (against Nantes, Deportivo La Coruña, Bremen and Lens).