Sentences with phrase «europa league run»

Southampton's Maarten Stekelenburg is relishing the prospect of a Europa League run after securing a place in the play - off round draw.

Hugo Mallo's driven cross called Romero into action 24 seconds into the second half as Celta continued to threaten an away goal, but Henrikh Mkhitaryan - so key in this Europa League run - would have netted United's second was it not for Alvarez's reactions.

That's basically because Juventus continue their Europa League run Thursday night when they face Lyon in the quarterfinals.

Prior to the 16/17 season the board bought up players on the hopes of making a Europa League run.

Mkhitaryan started the season — arguably the brightest, picking up from where he had left off in the season before scoring vital away goals in the Europa League run, culminating in a night to remember at Stockholm where he scored the second — to all but seal the tie ensuring safe delivery of Manchester United's 42nd major honour.

Özil praised the Black Eagles for their Europa League run last season — Beşiktaş knocked Liverpool out of the competition and reached the quarter - finals — but a transfer to the Istanbul giants is highly unlikely.

In turn, that's put added importance on their Europa League run, with Arsenal preparing to face Italian giants Milan this month.

Not exact matches

Arsenal and Arsene Wenger set the Europa League quarter - finals off to an explosive start as they ran riot over Russian side CSKA Moscow in the opening 45 minutes of the first - leg.

Konoplyanka has been key in his side's run to the Europa League final and the clash against Seville in Warsaw may act as a suitable send off ahead of a possible summer move.

I say Lets focus on the young gun Reiss Nelson... scored a cracker for under - 23's tonight... get him in the 1st team squad and let him run riot in last 15 minutes if we are already winning plus europa league and League culeague and League cuLeague cup.....

Get them all together and let's have a proper crack at this title maybe even a nice run in Europa League.

Arsenal are playing on Thursday tonight as a trial run for when we are a Europa League team because that's where we are headed with Wenger still our manager!

Arsenal have very few Cup games left to rotate in except the Europa League, and our tie against Ostersunds will probably see the end of that run, so it would appear that Arsenal has little need of most of our second team for the rest of this season.

Man United had a reasonably easy run to win the Europa League last season, beating teams like St - Étienne, Rostov, Anderlecht and Celta Vigo before beating Ajax in the Final, but Arsene wenger believes that this is the toughest group of teams he has seen in the last 16 of this years version.

Since moving to the Spanish capital in August 2011 Turan has played a key role in the club's rich run of successes which have seen the club win Europa League, Copa del Rey and La Liga titles.

However, while the focus between now and the end of the season remains the Premier League run - in and Europa League glory, it looks as though the Spaniard could be set to return to his homeland after leaving former Atletico Madrid in 2011.

With long runs in both domestic competitions and progress to the last 32 of the Europa League possibly catching up on Spurs, yesterday's 1 - 0 home surrender to Aston Villa suggests the remaining few weeks of the campaign could be a slog.

Hull City's push to bring in new additions could well have been aided by the fact that the KC Stadium side will be competing in the Europa League in 2014/15 following their run to the FA Cup final last term.

4 Not running for the hills the moment you realized that the Europa league is not seen by anyone other than a crazy bunch of online supporters and a few people who bargain hunt when choosing holiday destination.

The club are run by another of Vlaar's compatriots, Ronald Koeman, and could offer the defender a return to European football, having qualified for next year's Europa League.

Yes agree plus more youth get a chance which seems to be our best place to find a world class act for peanuts like wenger likes and its not like europa cup gets tough till march so its an extra League cup for the youth to get a run pout and if we get knocked out sure no worry.

Jack Wilshere and Alexandre Lacazette are expected to make the bench, and I would expect Wenger to give the latter a short run - out in hope it will help him to make the team for Thursday night's Europa League team.

we need squad quantity and depth with europa cup and keep star squad fit and able to concentrate on league and give bench sitters run outs in cup games.

A world class player who is running the show in the Europa league.

And also extend their knockout run in the Europa League Cup by knocking out CSK Moscow to reach the semis.

The other big reason for Arsenal to ensure that we perform well in the remaining league games is the confidence and form that comes with a good run and how that could improve the chances of us winning the Europa League, so while he may want to rest the best players for the Thursday night games I think that Wenger should give almost as much focus to the league games, starting with the Saints this weleague games is the confidence and form that comes with a good run and how that could improve the chances of us winning the Europa League, so while he may want to rest the best players for the Thursday night games I think that Wenger should give almost as much focus to the league games, starting with the Saints this weLeague, so while he may want to rest the best players for the Thursday night games I think that Wenger should give almost as much focus to the league games, starting with the Saints this weleague games, starting with the Saints this weekend.

Arsenal succumbed to life in the Europa League for next season after an extended run of undesirable form this year, and some people have gotten off lightly.

Perez and ospina seem to be on the way out which is a shame now that we are in the europa league they might have gotten more of a run out.

Arsenal defender Calum Chambers is aiming for an extended run in the Europa League this term, and admits that last night's win has done wonders to appease his tough season thus far.

The teenage forward has been on an incredible run in his first eight games, scoring three Premier League goals and adding another two in the Europa League.

We have a little run of games that should see us into the top four and in touch with the top, and also perhaps into the next round of the Europa League and the Carabao Cup before the trip to Man City at the start of next month.

As mentioned, Mourinho's men come into the contest on the back of Thursday's crucial 1 - 0 win over Celta Vigo, a result which takes the Reds a step closer to the Europa League final, while extending our unbeaten run to 12 games in all competitions.

Everton have struggled to cope with the added demands of playing in the Europa League on top of their normal domestic fixture - list, with a poor run of results since the turn of the year leaving them in a disappointing thirteenth place in the top flight table.

Ultimately, Montella will need quality and depth given his side will be aiming for a long run in the Europa League too, and so the club will have to carefully evaluate what deals are worth accepting.

I don't even see why Draxler would accept the swap... from champions league challenging and league winners to top 4 also runs and europa league challengers...

Know that we have already faced them twice, I can't believe to say this but I hope Chelsea will go in for hell of a run for Europa League spot so they something to fight for...

He reckons we have more than enough for a good run in the Europa League as well as a strong League campaign and a good chance of a top four spot, so should more Arsenal fans be as positive as Robbie Fowler and start getting behind our Arsenal?

Liverpool may have won the battle against Stoke City, but they may have lost the war for Champions League qualification — or even a lengthy run in the Europa League — after the latest Philippe Coutinho injury.

A very realistic assessment of the Arsenal weaknesses which will continue to plague us with AW at the helm.After we are knocked out of the Europa League will he then give our young centre backs and AMN an extended run in the team?

They are winners for winning a cup no one takes seriously and having the easiest run ever in Europa League, but I guarantee no one thinks we have a winning mentality despite winning 3/4 FA cups.

I've seen a bit of Reiss Nelson and I see him as a No10 in a free role.He will find it very tough to claim that spot for a few seasons but this boy does have tremendous ability and potential.We need to get him as much game time in the League as just being in the team will help his learning curve.Next season in the Europa and Carabao Cup is when we can give him a run out centrally as an attacking midfielder.This is a serious talent who will be a tremendous footballer.Lets hope we can bring him on like we used to in the past with our young players coming up through the youth ranks.It seems too long since we have done this.

The Red Devils will surely be looking at defending their unbeaten run, which is currently a club record 25 league games, but Mourinho claims his eyes are on the prize of Europa League glory, which would assure Champions League football for next seasonleague games, but Mourinho claims his eyes are on the prize of Europa League glory, which would assure Champions League football for next seasonLeague glory, which would assure Champions League football for next seasonLeague football for next season also.

Maybe a run of games in the early stages of the Europa league or league cup to mount a challange for an chance in the fa cup of league matches.

Arsenal have registered a massive 45 players from the First team, the reserves and the Academy, for our six Europa League games against BATE, Koln & Red Star Belgrade, which would seem to indicate that he is going to give a lot of our youngsters a run - out in the competition while our senior players attempt to get back into contention for the Premier League.

Lets see whos ready for the season opener, the league is the target with a good run in Europa League with fringe players to get game time league is the target with a good run in Europa League with fringe players to get game time League with fringe players to get game time in....

Against Sevilla in the UEFA Europa League semi-finals, the Brazilian made the astonishing decision to try to predict the direction of Aleix Vidal as he ran clear on goal.

The Europa League represents arguably Valencia's best hopes of securing a berth in next year's Champions League as, following their miserable league run, the fallen giants of the Spanish game currently find themselves down in 12th in the top flight, and are a whopping 20 points behind fourth - place VillaLeague represents arguably Valencia's best hopes of securing a berth in next year's Champions League as, following their miserable league run, the fallen giants of the Spanish game currently find themselves down in 12th in the top flight, and are a whopping 20 points behind fourth - place VillaLeague as, following their miserable league run, the fallen giants of the Spanish game currently find themselves down in 12th in the top flight, and are a whopping 20 points behind fourth - place Villaleague run, the fallen giants of the Spanish game currently find themselves down in 12th in the top flight, and are a whopping 20 points behind fourth - place Villarreal.

It's a system that Roy Hodgson has perfected over his many years of management, but particularly in his run to the Europa League final with un-fancied Fulham, and his tenure at West Bromwich Albion, two teams that arguably over-achieved during Hodgson's reign.

As it stands, this squad is fairly well positioned to compete for the Wenger Cup and make a deep run in the Europa, if and only if we play first stringers in Europe and use the bench for the League and FA Cups... that being said, and based on the fragility of the manager and the team in recent campaigns, it's more likely that Wenger will focus on a top 4 finish and the FA Cup... while the reasons for such an approach may appear logical, it would confirm a rather disturbing trend and appear counter intuitive for any team which claims to have higher aspirations... I feel that Wenger simply can't afford to put all his eggs in the Europa basket because if he fails the potential backlash could cripple any top 4 chances due to the aforementioned fragile psyche that tends to rear it's ugly head like our own personal groundhog day each and every February... furthermore, can you even imagine Wenger bringing in the necessary recruits to adequately supply top quality lineups in a Thursday / Sunday dominated schedule; based on everything I've seen in recent years, I can't see that happening... in fact, mark my words, it's more likely that we see Lacazette playing out wide in Alexis's position with Giroud at striker, than we see Wenger make the necessary moves to right this ship... god, I hope I'm wrong but is it really that far - fetched considering what we've witnessed for past several years

I wouldn't be too upset at going out of the CL though.We can give our fringe players a run out in the Europa League while our first team focuses on the BPL.