Sentences with phrase «european game of the season»

Sonny struck early to give us the lead in our first European game of the season and after Andriy Yarmolenko levelled for the German side, Harry Kane followed up with his second brace of the week to get us well and truly up and running in Group H.

Coming into the first European game of the season, spirits were pretty contrasting in both the camps.

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Benzema has shone in his time with Real, and scored 22 goals in all competitions last season to establish himself as one of the most dangerous goal predators in the European game.

Despite that he has enjoyed a good season on loan with Porto — scoring four times in 41 games and attracting the attention of several top European clubs.

He declared quite emphatically before the start of the season that he would be focusing on the Premier League, thereby getting us ready for a much weakened Arsenal team being picked for the European games.

Do nt we need to finish at least 6th for Europa league entry, with 5 games left, 3 away from home and we haven't picked up a single point this year on our travels, add to that, that Burnley are 1 of the teams we play at home, if we don't win the Europa this year, we could miss out on any European football next season.

A treble in his first season at Barcelona and another Champions League in just his first three seasons in management was a remarkable achievement, no question, and if anything his struggles at Bayern show that one can not simply inherit a good set of players and let them do the rest, but while he revolutionised the game in 2009, he is now being found out and it is something of a surprise that he has no other European Cup to his name since 2011 given the quality of teams he's had at his disposal since then.

The veteran midfielder hopes the deal can be announced in the next day or two to put an end to a saga that could distract from the remaining games of Liverpool's season and threaten toaffect their European ambitions, something Gerrard is keen to avoid.

Since the beginning of the season we have been pilling average performances (the Galatasaray game was just easy, since Galatasaray is not really of European standard anymore) with a manager still figuring what is his best 11 and best tactics (if he has any).

Despite a poor start to the season that had left them in real danger of missing out on European football altogether next season, Monaco were doing their best to recover and had won ten and drawn one of their 11 games since their last defeat in November.

Everyone was annoyed that Wenger sold TV5 to Barcelona last summer without getting a replacement, but Le Prof's decision was vindicated by the fact that Vermaelen didn't actually get a game for the European Champions until the final month of the season.

«but Le Prof's decision was vindicated by the fact that Vermaelen didn't actually get a game for the European Champions until the final month of the season.»

Juventus, though they'd been pipped to the Serie A title the previous season by Hellas Verona, were in the competition as the holders of the European Cup, having beaten Liverpool 1 - 0 in 1985 amid the chaos and tragedy of Heysel — in a game that nobody cared about and shouldn't have taken place.

Apart from all that, at least there is a good chance to get past the round of 16 in a European competition for the first time in ages and there could be a few more meaningful games this season, before the time for tough decision inevitably comes!

Distin has missed just three Premier League games in the past three seasons and could therefore be of good use to any team expecting to play loads of games, hence Aston Villa «s interest given their European hopes this term.

The England international's injury overshadowed the result as it was revealed by manager Louis van Gaal after the game that he has suffered a double fracture of the leg and is likely to miss a huge chunk of the season, placing his participation at next summer's European Championships in serious doubt.

While Leicester managed to win the title last season thanks in large part to Claudio Ranieri being able to name the same starting XI week in and week out, Chelsea are having the same fortune this season and neither of them have had European games to add pressure to their squad either.

It's a difficult thing to solve — even Barcelona experienced a mental car crash this season after their dramatic defeat by their arch enemies Real Madrid — having gone 39 games undefeated — they lost 3 league games on the trot and went out of the European Cup!

Let's be honest Gooners, the chances of us going to France and scoring three goals without reply against a side that has only conceded 22 in 34 European and league games all season are about the same as Di Maria or Falcao winnning Player of the Sseason are about the same as Di Maria or Falcao winnning Player of the SeasonSeason.

However, Koeman, who was speaking ahead of the match - up, believes his side will deal better with the additional games next season, should his side qualify for European competition.

Arsenal are now 15 games into the Premier League season, and despite the fact that our First XI don't have the distraction of playing any European football, we have lost 5 of those games, which has left us 15 points behind the leaders Man City already.

The European red card also means that Rambo can really go for it against Everton on Saturday and that game could be just as important, if not more, come the end of the season.

A few thousand euros and an order to play the rest of the european games for the season behind closed doors.

There is no doubt that the remainnder of this season's European games are the more important for Arsenal, so the last thing we need is to be losing two of the possible starting XI for the first leg of our quarter - final with CSKA Moscow.

«Last year we went into the season with some players having a deficit in minutes played because there were only two or three players with the number of games after the European Championship.

You want to try paying for 3 season tickets, travel to home, away and European games for 3 people, all the food and travel expenses, it totals 10s of thousands of pounds over the past 10 years alone.

But now, with just six League games to go, he has finally admitted that we are unlikely to make up the 13 point gap to fourth place and he will now go all out to win the minor European trophy as our only hope of getting back into the UCL next season.

This is the biggest game of the season so far for Arsenal, with the winner taking a place at the top table of European club football and the loser getting their midweeks off for the next few months.

Arsenal fans already know the pitfalls of playing your top players in both competitions and the danger of dropping points following big European games, so our dropping down to 5th last season could end up being a blessing in disguise as our rivals show signs of fatigue.

The following season again saw Bovington as a regular starter in his man - marker role but in March 1965 he suffered a bad kneecap injury which kept him out for the remainder of the season, including the concluding games of the European Cup Winners Cup campaign.

With one of the most difficult remaining schedules including games against Bayern Munich and Schalke, this game could be considered a must - win for Frankfurt if they're going to see some European competition next season.

A season of two halves as Newcastle United enjoyed one of their best ever starts to a Premier League campaign; sitting in 6th place after 17 games the Geordies were dreaming of European football but few could've expected their season to dissipate like it did.

Regarded as one of the most gifted young tacticians in the European game, Thomas Tuchel, who'd taken the reins at the club following Jürgen Klopp «s departure in 2015, seemed to be building a side capable of challenging domestically and in the Champions League, but the former Mainz coach's spiky character clashed with the powers that be, leading to his dismissal at the end of last season.

And with him back, United will hope to start playing that fluid attacking football that saw them win nine games in a row at the back - end of 2016 and kick - start the second half of their season as European football creeps onto the horizon.

We have our last Barclays Premier League game on Sunday and the biggest game of the season next Wednesday - The European Cup Final against Sevilla.

Twente have lost just one of their last eight European home games, a 3 - 1 reverse against Villarreal CF in last season's UEFA Europa League quarter - finals.

With 60 - 65 games per season (based on the hope that we are playing European football each year), LFC need a minimum of 2 players per position — a squad of 24.

There's been a humiliating European exit, a defeat at Anfield, reports of training ground disputes, a lack of clarity from anyone over what is happening next season and a few fans have staged protests before the last couple of games.

He had a superb game in one of our early European matches this season, and even in the first 15 minutes of the United game showed some great touches.

Chelsea's home record against Italian clubs is W5 D2 L2 and this is their return to Europe, of course, having not played any European games last season.

However, the festive run of games can make or break a side's season and there will be plenty of points up for grabs, and positions to target, in the weeks ahead as English clubs battle it out through Christmas and into the New Year as many of their European rivals enjoy their winter breaks.

The Reds are out of the running for any silverware while even the prospect of European football next season is becoming more and more of a long - shot, with fifth - placed Spurs five - points clear having played one game fewer while Man City are nine - points further up the table in fourth, with Roberto Mancini's men clinging onto that elusive Champions League berth for dear life.

This is the kind of news that you get as an Arsenal fan when everything else dries up because we haven't played for over a week and it occurs to me this morning that perhaps we are lucky, because with European Football and a team that — some exceptions like Forest aside — usually goes a little deeper into competitions, usually affords us around 50 to 55 games a season.

This was a full # 62m increase on the previous season's total revenue figure of # 302m - a season which saw the club play a lot more games at Anfield, participate in the Europa League and indeed reach the finals of two cup competitions (said European competition and the League Cup).

His form during the title - winning season put him in the shop window of a number of European sides and in 2013 he signed for Turkish giants Galatasaray where he scored a massive 11 goals in 107 games for the club.

Hapoel went into the game on the back of five straight wins, conceding just one goal in the process, but they had no answer to the all - round skill of Atletico, who have now won 14 consecutive matches in European competition since a 2 - 0 defeat at Udinese in last season's group stage.

Sheikh Abdullah N Al Thani, who has funded Malaga for the past couple of years, posted several farcical tweets to the social networking site blaming racism and UEFA for targeting the Spanish club from the beginning of the season, clearly irked by the substandard officiating during the game and Malaga's impending ban from European competition.

From the beginning of next season, disabled supporters will also be able to join a new scheme to receive tickets for all 19 Premier League away games and all European away games.

Amkar, in recent history, have been the perfect example of mid-table stability in the RFPL; never qualifying for European competition, never getting relegated and often reach the safety barrier of 35 points in the 30 - game Premier League before then ending the season in a poor run of form after having already secured survival.

Perhaps their lack of European games is a contributing factor to their record this season?