Not exact matches
We can not even take heart from the fact that Bayern only came second in the group because that
was due to a slow start and they have put that right in style with six
straight wins and only one
goal conceded before their long winter break.
Just a week ago, Arsenal looked to
be hitting form with the demolition of Stoke giving them a third clean sheet in a row, but that has all gone
straight down the pan with our embarrassing defeat in Zagreb, and our even more annoying defeat by a Chelsea team that has
conceded 12
goals and
were already six points behind us before the game started.
I said we'd
concede within 5 minutes of Wilshere's
goal, which we did, and then I joked there
was still 2 minutes left to get the winner after Bellerin's wonder strike, and they
were somehow clean through
straight from kickoff!!
[We
were] absolutely guilty to
concede the
goal straight away, we have no rational explanation for the way we gave away the
goal straight away.
Almost
straight after the restart a third
goal from a deflected Bellerin shot sealed the points and Arsenal rarely looked like
conceding although there
were a few hairy moments in the last 25 minutes.
Ranocchia
is yet to start a Serie A fixture this season, with his involvement in Roberto Mancini's first - team set - up
being restricted to substitute roles, and given that Inter Milan have started the season with five
straight victories and have
conceded just one
goal in that period, one imagines the former Genoa man may struggle to force his way back into the starting eleven any time soon.
It will
be interesting to see how well Dembele does against a rejuvenated Bayern side who
are on the back of five
straight wins, in which they
conceded only the one
goal, but the Celts
are famed for their performances in front of their home crowd, and you wouldn't like to write the Scottish side of at Parkhead.
With United fans going into a social media meltdown at the start of the season due to the lack of an experience central defender coming in, most would have
been calling for a
straight - jacket if you have suggested that with Romero in
goal and Smalling and Blind at CB, the only one
goal conceded in three games would
be from a Michael Carrick O.G.
Clinching their third
straight Bundesliga crown this weekend courtesy of a 1 - 0 home victory over a surprisingly resilient Hertha Berlin and second - placed Wolfsburg's identical scoreline defeat at Gladbach, Bayern Munich now have no fewer than 25 domestic championships in the strong room and looking at the season's tale of the tape — just two defeats, 24 wins out of 30, 77
goals scored and only 13
conceded — the competitive deficit in today's top - flight
is there for all to see.
Sunderland
are not very good but prior to their win last time out Hull had lost six
straight games and in the process scored three and
conceded twenty
goals.
Six points stashed, five
goals scored and just one
conceded from the opening two matches
is a solid start but only three times since the back - to - back title season of 2005/06 have Chelsea opened a season with three
straight league wins: 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2012/13.
Leeds United didn't look as good as they did against Burton Albion, as Birmingham City played well for large stretches of the match, but they did just enough to claim another victory and
are undefeated in all competitions, have kept six
straight clean sheets in the Championship and have yet to
concede a
goal at Elland Road.
Hernan Crespo, who had
been brought back from a loan spell in Milan, scored a late winner at Wigan Athletic on the opening day, the first of six
straight wins in which we didn't
concede a
goal.
It
was a familiar tale on our visit to the South Coast as we recorded a fourth
straight league win without
conceding a
goal since the change in team shape...