Sentences with phrase «league appearance before»

He featured in four more games under Rodgers, including the two Europa League draws with Bordeaux and FC Sion but failed to make another Premier League appearance before Klopp arrived at Anfield.

Gianluigi Buffon, on perhaps his final Champions League appearance before retirement, was sent off for his protests but Ronaldo stayed calm and slammed the spot - kick past substitute goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny into the top corner.

Wenger opted to usher Campbell into the Arsenal first team after his superb showing at the 2014 World Cup finals but offered him just four Premier League appearances before he was sent out to Villarreal for yet another loan spell.

He made his Tykes debut at the age of 17 and made 24 league appearances before moving to Everton in January 2013 for a fee thought to be about # 3m.

Made just six league appearances before returning to England with Wigan Athletic.

Hateley junior made his name with Motherwell, making 148 league appearances before briefly joining Tranmere Rovers and then Śląsk Wrocław in the Polish Ekstraklasa, where he's been a virtual ever - present over the past couple of campaigns.

Matić originally joined Chelsea in 2009 from Slovakian side VSS Košice but only made two Premier League appearances before he was sold to Benfica in 2011.

A graduate of Chelsea's youth academy, whom he joined after being spotted while playing in a local tournament by manager John Hollins, the Jèrriais footballer made 90 league appearances before joining Blackburn Rovers in 1993.

There he clocked up another 80 league appearances before signing off his football career with non-league Chorley and then taking up the role of a factory quality controller in Warrington until his retirement.

Not exact matches

With 19 goals in 42 appearances in all competitions, 16 of which have come in the Premier League, the England international is starting to enjoy high praise and comparisons to top midfielders before him.

Ex-Djurgardens powerhouse Amartey made 15 league appearances for the Danish champions before leaving the club.

Mason came through the ranks at White Hart Lane, joining the club's youth set - up in 1999, and went on to make 53 Premier League appearances for the club before joining Hull last summer.

The 24 - year - old scored five times in his first 13 Premier League appearances, before suffering an injury that ruled him out for the remainder of the season.

He ultimately made just 13 appearances for the Pensioners in the Premier League, scoring twice, before moving permanently to the Giallorossi earlier this season.

The season Before, he finished the season with 17 league goals in 34 appearances, 5 CL goals in 11 matches, along with 9 league assists and 5 CL assists, thats a massive 36 goals he either scored or created that year.

The City youngster's father previously played for Arsenal also, having come through their youth ranks in the late 80s, before going onto make 166 league appearances for the side, scoring 46 goals.

The Arsenal injury curse strikes again and what we were initially told was a fairly minor ankle problem ended up needing an operation to fix it, and now we have the usual setback to his recovery and the upshot of it all is that our Spanish midfield maestro Santi Cazorla will not be adding, during the current season at least, to the eight Premier League appearances he made before being subbed off during the Champions League hammering of Ludogorets Razgrad.

Year before Higuain had 17 goals in 32 league appearances, 5 of them penalties.

Samba was meant to be the man to keep QPR in the Premier League in 2013, but that plan spectacularly backfired as the Congo international made ten forgettable appearances before being sold back to former club Anzhi.

Despite knee surgery in the summer and a slow, steady return to his full potential, Vidal has already managed three goals in just nine Serie A appearances and it shouldn't be long before his total of eight Champions League goals is once again on the rise provided Juventus make it through to the last 16.

His last two seasons have been spent out on disappointing loans — managing just six substitute appearances in the Bundesliga for Dortmund, before failing to score in 25 Premier League matches for relegated Sunderland.

He featured 15 times in his debut campaign, before spending time with Sevilla and Fiorentina, for whom he failed to make a league appearance.

Paul Merson, 1992 to 1997 — 160 games, 28 goals (Before the advent of the Premier League, Paul Merson scored 50 times in 130 appearances) Nicholas Anelka, 1996 to 1999 — 65 games, 23 goals Davor Suker, 1999 to 2000 — 39 games, 11 goals Francis Jeffers, 2001 to 2003 — 39 games, 8 goals Jose Antonio Reyes, 2004 to 2006 — 110 games, 23 goals Julio Baptista, 2006 to 2007 — 35 games, 10 goals Eduardo da Silva, 2007 to 2010 — 67 games, 21 goals Park Chu - young, 2011 to 2012 — 7 games, 1 goal Lukas Podolski, 2012 to 2015 — 82 games, 31 goals Lucas Perez, 2016 to 2017 — 21 games, 7 goals Alexandre Lacazette, 2017 to 2018 — 25 games, 9 goals (On going).

Scored on his debut in the League Cup against Bolton but questions were raised over his quality and fitness which led to a lack of game time, making only six further appearances for Arsenal before leaving... # 4million to sit on the bench, goodness me.

Alan Smith, 1992 to 1995 — 75 games, 8 goals (Before the advent of the Premier League, Alan Smith scored 98 times for Arsenal in 234 appearances.)

The Danish goalkeeper has made just 19 Premier League appearances for Manchester United, and it is a mystery why he hasn't moved on before now.

Huddlestone came through the academy at Derby, making 88 appearances during his time at Pride Park before the midfielder left for Premier League Spurs in 2005.

He was part of the academy at the Red Devils before leaving the Premier League giants in 2012 having made only seven appearances in the first team.

The 24 - year - old has impressed since moving to the Premier League in 2015, scoring eight goals and providing two assists in 35 Premier League appearances last season to improve on the campaign before.

He mustered two league starts in August, and two more appearances off the bench before succumbing to an ankle injury.

Marking his 300th Premier League appearance, the Spaniard netted for the 46th time in the English top flight when he collected a pass from Pedro before poking home from inside the penalty area.

Having been a virtual ever present in his first four seasons at the west London club, making 195 appearances before the current camapain got under way, Ramires has started just two of Chelsea's first seven Premier League fixtures with Serbian battler Nemanja Matic getting the nod for a central midfield berth.

Scored 26 goals in over 100 league appearances for Barcelona before disappointing spells with Roma, AC Milan and Ajax.

The number 1 starter, Ken Howell (12 - 12, 3.44), had only four major league starts before last year; the number 2 starter, Pat Combs, has six major league appearances; and the number 3 starter.

Schools are offered the opportunity to provide guest PA announcers, students or guests to sing the National Anthem before the games, and even some fun minor league on - field antics, including between - inning activities and an occasional appearance by RiverCats» mascot, Dinger.

Towards the end of his time at Anfield, the league and FA Cup winner spent a short spell on loan at Crystal Palace, playing six games and scoring once before making his last Liverpool appearance against Olympiakos in the 2000 - 01 UEFA Cup.

West Brom, on the night midfielder Gareth Barry broke the Premier League appearance record, felt they should have been awarded a penalty before the opener when Shkodran Mustafi brought down Jay Rodriguez with a sliding challenge.

He had also scored seven times in 15 Premier League appearances during a loan spell at Swansea four seasons ago before being snapped up by Spurs.

The Spaniard has scored 12 goals in 41 league appearances for Real Valladolid between 2015 and 2017, before joining Barcelona B during the summer transfer window.

Thus, if persistent knee ligament issues had not limited him to a total of eleven league appearances during the 2014-15/2015 -16 seasons, he may have been yet another addition to the list of promising players who were sold on before their talents could help propel Roma to a trophy.

After Heung - Min Son had given us a first - half lead, the prolific England striker netted our second of the game to draw level with Teddy Sheringham on 97 goals in the competition, before breaking the record 11 minutes later in only his 135th Premier League appearance in our colours.

Twente made their only appearance in the UEFA Champions League group stage in 2010/11 after winning their first Dutch title the season before.

After leaving Roma in 2005, Vincent Candela moved to the Premier League and made 12 appearances for Bolton Wanderers before moving back to Italy.

Bony scored 26 league goals in 54 Premier League appearances for the Swans before he went to Manleague goals in 54 Premier League appearances for the Swans before he went to ManLeague appearances for the Swans before he went to Man City.

Before Brendan Rodgers was named Liverpool manager, he made an appearance on Match of the Day and was asked to name his all time Premier League XI.

Vassell spent eight seasons with Aston Villa, before earning a move to Manchester City where he made 27 league appearances during the 2007/08 season.

In addition, the striker has made just seven Premier League appearances for the north Londoners before being sent out on loan to the Italians, Inter Milan last season, where he only scored once in the Serie A top flight, despite this — Turkish giants Galatasaray are reportedly interested in securing Podolski's signature, as confirmed by Tanman.

He made just 25 league appearances for the Blues, scoring one goal, before being sold to Valencia for a small loss.

Although he is now approaching the latter stages of his career, Ronaldinho's flair and ability to unlock defences still remains reasonably intact, as shown by the fact that he created eight chances for Fluminense over seven league appearances in the 2015 season before mutually agreeing to terminate his contract on 28 September.

23 appearances for his national side hint at why the Special One signed him but he was another who failed to fulfil his potential and 14 Premier League outings over one season before leaving for a large loss earn him a place on our list.