Sentences with phrase «league against the minnows»

Inter are back in action tomorrow evening in the Europa League against the minnows from Azerbaijan Qarabağ, Walter Mazzarri will be hoping...

Not exact matches

The Europa League draw has been made and Arsenal will come up against Swedish minnows Ostersunds — a side founded after Arsene Wenger took over as Gunners manager.

After losing the North London derby this weekend, Arsenal are very unlikely to finish the season in the Champions League places so it looks like the Gunners only hope of qualifying for the elite competition will be from winning the Europa League, which recommences this coming Thursday with Arsenal playing against the Swedish minnows Ostersund.

Although we also have the Europa League games to come, our next round against the minnows from Sweden, Ostersund, it is hardly likely to be as stressful as playing teams like Barcelona, Juventus or Sevilla and I am sure Wenger will still be rotating players for these games.

Although the Scot has not yet publicly commented on this turn of events, Old Trafford legend Paddy Crerand has probably said what Fergie is thinking, blasting the Premier League and the bods that work there for having the audacity not to allow the Red Devils to have home matches against West Brom, Stoke and Hull after a tough trip having to beat some Danish minnows.

The group stage of the 2014/15 Champions League kicks off on Tuesday evening, with two English teams in action — Liverpool return to the competition with a home game against Bulgarian minnows Ludogorets Razgrad, whilst Arsenal face a tough trip to Borussia Dortmund.

theos amazing 19 goals was actually 10 in the premier league and 5 in the fa cup against minnows 3 against teams like ludogrets and 1 just one against bayern

Real want 50 million for Benzema and he only scored a few more goals than Giroud in La Liga, where the big teams like Real wrack up big scores against the league minnows.

We all know our two weakest areas, but in coquelin, arteta and flamini, we have 1 outstanding dm and to OK ones good enough to cope with the dead rubbers and games against minnows in the league and domestic cups.

Balotelli only arrived at Anfield in the summer from Lazio's Serie A rivals AC Milan, but despite his impressive goalscoring record at the San Siro, Balotelli has been unable to translate his performances back into the English game, with only one Liverpool goal to his name so far — in the Champions League against Bulgarian minnows Ludogorets Razgrad.

After getting a serious dressing down on live TV by former Arsenal midfielder Paul Merson last night, as the Gunners toiled against Champions League minnows Anderlecht in Belgium, Arsene Wenger and his players have come in for more criticism today.

I think that statistic is telling of just how much this team is capable of losing concentration this season, particularly against the league «minnows.»

There are many people who think that Arsenal are not going to finish in the top two places in our Champions League Group, with two defeats to the minnows plus a double header against Bayern Munich coming up very soon.

And most of us have been trying to pick the performance apart to see just how the Gunners managed to throw away a three goal lead against one of the minnows of the Champions League.

Arsene Wenger is guaranteed to make wholesale changes to the Arsenal team that will face Norwich tomorrow evening at the Emirates, but with the Canaries in top form it may be more of a risk than doing it against foreign minnows in the Europa League.

Mkhitaryan made his European debut for Arsenal against Europa League minnows Ostersund on 15 February.

Back to back victories against minnows Shamrock Rovers and Strum Gruz have ensured a safe passage to Europa League group stages.

The French footballer impressed during his stint at Vicarage Road, where he managed two goals and two assists in 16 appearances, but he opted against a permanent deal as he could not settle with Premier League minnows.

Let's not forget that Chelsea is still a great team, this is not against some minnow in the league.

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Sigurdsson is expected to retain his place in the Spurs starting XI for Thursday night's Europa League home game against Norwegian minnows Tromso.

The only chance we really have is that the big boys focus on their league seasons and crash out against minnows and we have a run that looks something like Ostersund - > Celtic - > RB Salzburg - > Nice - > Sporting.

By looking at his tactical versatility, his record against the Premier League's minnows, the fact that he was performing better than his immediate predecessors and that he logged some impressive sequences across the season, I came to the conclusion that he deserved to stay on.

However, poor performances against minnows in the qualifying rounds of the Europa League have intimated that there remains much work for Bilic to do — not least in instilling discipline in a side that is competing in Europe thanks to the Fair Play Award and yet has somewhat ironically had three players sent off in five games.