Sentences with phrase «following an opening game»

Following an opening game victory over Jacksonville State, the Razorbacks had a surefire win scheduled — a home game against Louisiana - Monroe of the Sun Belt conference.

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Following the soft opening on September 29th at the Depeche Mode concert, Ludo Bird will celebrate their grand opening Monday, October 7th for the Kings first home game of the season.

Both sides played out 1 - 1 draws in the opening group game, leaving Arsenal top on away goals, followed by their alphabetical advantage.

Following narrow wins over SEC and Big 12 teams to open the season, Toledo has rattled off five straight wins by an average of nearly four touchdowns per game.

One of eight NFL players to have undergone ElectroThermal Arthroscopy, Jones missed only five games — a far cry from the four months he spent out of action following open surgery on a separation of the same shoulder in college.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho launched a stunning attack on the club's physio Eva Carneiro following the disappointing 2 - 2 draw with Swansea City in their opening game of the new Premier League season on Saturday evening.

Following a convincing win over Clemson, Alabama opened as 4.5 - point favorites for Monday's College Football Playoff National Championship game against Georgia.

He followed up a strong opening game (94 yards, TD) with three games totaling 97 yards on 41 carries (2.4 average).

This game contained, in brute list form: a remarkable opening goal from David Beckham (that has been almost completely forgotten by history, which says a lot about what was to follow); a spawny equaliser; Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira; a (correctly) disallowed Nicolas Anelka goal that was (wonderfully) celebrated for fully a minute and a half; Jaap Stam and Tony Adams; a (deserved) red card that involved the referee actively pursuing Keane, the better to take (onanistic) pleasure in the act of dismissal; extra-time; Arsenal pressure; a (hopelessly abject) foul from Phil Neville to concede a penalty; a surprisingly tepid missed penalty from Dennis Bergkamp; Peter Schmeichel saving; Peter Schmeichel barking; an unusually sleepy pass from Vieira; and then, that run, that finish, that goal, that winner, that completely stupid slalom through a stupified defence.

Following the game, Jones opted to throw his teammates under the bus, saying, «they were doubling down on me, and my teammates were unable to hit open shots.

He opened the ball game with spins, double and triple passes until he had the lay spectators dizzy; not one in a thousand could follow the ball.»

It was not a flawless performance by the 28 year - old, as Edinson Cavani was able to get the better of him in the opening minute of the game, but he was not solely at fault for the goal, and he certainly made up for it in what followed.

Laudrup's side have begun the season in impressive fashion, thumping QPR, the summer's most active recruiters in the transfer market, 5 - 0 in the opening game and they followed up that result with another big win, 3 - 0, against West Ham before the 2 - 2 draw with Sunderland.

To follow that up, it was over to Lukaku to waste no time in giving Belgium the lead over Saudi Arabia, as it took Roberto Martinez's men just 12 minutes to find the opening goal of the game.

Of course we won on their ground in the opening game of the 2015 - 16 season when Reece Oxford famously kept Ozil in his pocket, but that followed ten consecutive defeats at the hands of the Gunners.

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Looking ahead to Monday's game at Miami, New England opened as 12 - point favorites and have ticked down to -11 following the Gronk suspension news.

In 1910 he became the first president to throw out the opening pitch at a major league game, and some believe he invented the seventh - inning stretch when he stood up (no word on whether he was looking for a hot dog vendor) and the crowd followed suit.

The freshmen team opens their season at 4:30 p.m., followed by the junior varsity game at 5:30 p.m..

With Arsenal facing a difficult opening to the new Premier League campaign with Liverpool followed by the champions Leicester City in our first two games, along with the probable absence of key players like Mesut Ozil, Koscielny and Giroud, Arsene Wenger knows that his pre-season preparations are hugely important.

Following on from concluding a shakey but progressive group stage campaign at the current European championships, Ozil has been a bit hit and miss in the opening games.

Following the announcement that Big Ben would likely miss Sunday's game, most offshore sportsbooks opened the Steelers as 7 - point home underdogs.

«Following two years of the expanded Open Division Football Regional Bowl Championships, the votes by both the football coaches» advisory committee and the 10 section commissioners indicated the strong desire to return the Open Division Football Bowl Game to its original format,» CIF Executive Director Roger L. Blake said in the press release.

A good home draw against Derby on the opening day was followed up with a great win on Sunday and on both occasions they have looked very impressive for parts of the game.

Following a game against between the Fever and Liberty in July, the team's «blacked out the media,» only opening up the locker room to talk about issues in society.

As mentioned above, there's a real boost of momentum for the Teams who can win their Opening Round Games and continue on with a Game immediately following against a top ranked opponent.

Ahead of Michigan State's opening NCAA tournament game against Bucknell in Detroit, Tom Izzo issued the following on the Spartans «tough» regular season:

Following a comeback victory on Wednesday night, the Warriors opened as 5.5 - point road favorites for Game 4 at the market - setting Bookmaker.eu.

Even if we lose people could say, it's not a major problem as it's only the opening game and Arsenal can pick those points up in the following games or stages of their campaign.

The Panthers advanced to the semifinals of the NorCal Open Division after Carondelet - Concord forfeited its game due to a violation of team rules at a postgame party that followed Carondelet's North Coast Section championship win.

Alabama DB Tony Brown got beat on that play, but opened the game for Alabama by absolutely bullying Javon Wims out of the ball on a strip following a long completion from Georgia QB Jake Fromm.

Following on from their opening weekend win over Arsenal, they've now shipped five goals in just two Premier League games, a trend that they can't afford to allow to continue.

Anthony Martial's first taste of English football has begun with a bang at Manchester United after scoring three goals in his opening three games in the Premier League following his # 36 million move from AS Monaco.

It was a meeting of the world No. 1 and world No. 2 and Nicol David retained her U.S. Open title with a thrilling five - game victory over Laura Massaro — eighty - four minutes of captivating play that could have been choreographed to say to to the men's finalists «follow that if you can!»

Benin's Under - 20 goalkeeper Yessouffo «Campos» Samiou died from neck and arm injuries after being attacked by disgruntled fans following his side's 3 - 0 defeat at the hands of Nigeria in their opening game at the African Youth Championship in January 2005.

Following a season opening 3 - 2 win over Minnesota United, however, San Jose dropped its next two games, and head coach Mikael Stahre promised that there would be some changes ahead of the fourth game of the year: an away game against the Philadelphia Union.

Oblak would follow suit at the other end as the game really opened up and both managers went for the win.

What followed was a masterful performance from Gregory Gaultier as the French top seed added to his U.S. Open title of 2006 with a straight games win over Nick Matthew, the third seed and 2007 champion.

However, in a game like this all form goes out the window, and Liverpool will have confidence in getting a result at the Emirates following West Ham's opening day victory.

And it quickly paid dividends after just three minutes following the game's opening goal.

Our development squad head into the international break unbeaten from their opening three games in the inaugural Premier League 2 following a 1 - 1 draw away at Manchester United, the league champions in each of the past two seasons.

First up came Dean Moxey, who had an absolute howler of a debut in the 3 - 0 opening day defeat at Watford, didn't improve in the run of games that followed and has barely featured under Neil Lennon - apart from against Liverpool, bizarrely.

The loss of Paul Pogba to a hamstring injury will undoubtedly be a blow for Mourinho as he seeks to maintain his side's position as Premier League leaders following three wins and a draw from the opening four rounds of games, with the Frenchman reported to be out for at least six weeks after pulling up against the Swiss champions early in the game.

The Premier League television requirements were not particularly kind to us with our opening league game last Monday evening at Chelsea, followed by this game on Thursday evening, and then we face Bournemouth in our opening home league game next Sunday.

After winning the opening game of the season, 4 - 2 over Southport, with two goals by Peter Morris, a disastrous run followed with only one more win from the next 17 games, and by mid-December, Stags were rooted to the foot of the table.

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Following a euphoric summer, AC Milan were hit with a dose of realism as their 2017 - 18 Serie A campaign hit choppy water, recording six wins, six defeats and two draws from their opening 14 games.

We are in the top half but have now gone three league games without a win to follow the two opening victories.

Having beaten Bristol University 10 - 7 in their opening game they followed that up with an even more impressive 46 - 0 triumph over the University of Gloucester.

Gary Cahill is also set to return after serving his three - game suspension in the Premier League following his opening - day red card at home to Burnley.