It's the Champions
League draw on today and I'm excited to find out who we will be taking on in the quarter finals!
The Europa
League draw on the 13th of Friday for those who are superstitious gave Arsenal a ghastly baddest draw against Atletico Madrid.
Manchester United have churned out some frustrating results for their fans recently with three
league draws on the bounce.
Not exact matches
Leicester City, whose mascot is the Foxes, became the champions of England's Premier
League following a
draw between Tottenham and Chelsea
on Monday.
The event
drew stars like Tampa Bay Lightning forward Steven Stamkos and Montreal Canadiens sharpshooter Mike Cammalleri, who, alongside a group of the
league's most promising prospects, all paid for the opportunity to press iron, grunt through excruciating exercises and run skating drills
on the storied ice surface at Toronto's St. Michael's College School Arena.
Drawing on data compiled for the 2018 Preqin Global Hedge Fund Report, Preqin has created
league tables of the most consistent performing hedge funds.
Intriguingly, Allardyce then went
on to
draw parallels with the Liverpool team of the 2013 - 14 season, which burned so brightly — with Luis Suarez, Raheem Sterling and Daniel Sturridge starring — but fell short of the Premier
League title after losing their way in the final weeks of the season.
There are also a few shocks
on final positioning in this year's group stages so the Gunners could once again be
drawn against a potential champions
league winner early
on in the competition.
Southampton held Israeli outfit Hapoel Be'er to a goalless
draw on the road in the Europa
League on Thursday.
They sit in eighth place in the Serie A table after 11 games, 12 points adrift of the top four, while they've been held to back - to - back goalless
draws by AEK Athens in the Europa
League over the last fortnight to really ramp up the pressure
on Montella.
Brighton
drew 1 - 1 at home to Spurs
on Tuesday night, which could be enough to see the Seagulls to safety in their inaugural season in the Premier
League.
The Champions
League semi-final
draw will take place
on 13 April at midday, with the first legs being played
on 24 and 25 April and the second legs
on 1 and 2 May.
It is the time of the season at which it is good to
draw conclusions
on what has transpired in the Premier
League season so far, conclusions that can also be
drawn out through the statistics, as this team of the season so far from statistical gurus WhoScored shows:
At the 65 ′ mark he knocked the header in to help the Red Devils walk away with a 1 - 1
draw and a point
on the Champions
League table.
Both players are banned after picking up their fifth yellow cards of the domestic season when United and West Ham
drew 1 - 1 win the Premier
League on Sunday.
Despite failing to seal a victory in the second leg, as Wolfsburg came from 2 - 0 behind to level the score
on the night, Napoli have proved why they are the team that Fiorentina, Sevilla, and Dnipro will want to avoid in the semi-final
draw of the Europa
League.
Chelsea
drew 2 - 2 with PSG
on Wednesday night, knocking them out of the Champions
League on away goal over the two legs.
The
league is already lost, we have zero chance of catching Chelsea with
draws as both they and City have the firepower we lack, time for us all to get over Wenger and move
on as soon as possible, he has returned to his old ways, light squad and zero tactical nous.
but its a bit sad to see that i as i know more about arsenal fans than other fans, to say from the bottom of my heart, that the fans
on here are as worse as the worst if not the worst fans out there... arsenal being
on a run, with özil scoring one of the best goals i have ever seen
on tuesday,
draws against the best defensive side in the
league and no they arent stoke city or something they are SPURS equally title challenger as any of arsenal man city, man united, chelsea, liverpool, a team that sent man city home when they (city) looked unbeatable..
The miss proved pivotal in Arsenal's season, as the
draw helped them
on their way to going the entire Premier
League campaign unbeaten, and going down in history as the Invincibles.
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.
The new coach is looking forward to another good performance from his team and he would love to go all the way in the Carabao Cup, as he told the official West Ham website: «It is less than a week since we held Arsenal to a goalless
draw in the Premier
League at London Stadium and now we go to the Emirates in the Carabao Cup
on Tuesday night to take them
on again.
They may have beaten Chelsea
on new years day and scraped past
League One Sheffield United to reach the cup final, but they also got knocked out of the FA cup at home and have drawn with Burnley and lost to Crystal Palace in the l
League One Sheffield United to reach the cup final, but they also got knocked out of the FA cup at home and have
drawn with Burnley and lost to Crystal Palace in the
leagueleague.
Instead of putting its best product
on the field, MLS allowed a star to sit while one of the
league's top -
drawing teams foundered in last place.
The
draw ends United's run of three consecutive wins in all competitions, as they now wait until after the international break to face Liverpool at Anfield
on October 17 with the point
on Sunday moving them up to sixth place in the Premier
League table with 13 points from their opening seven games.
We had already been deprived of Olivier Giroud, Sead Kolasinac, Aaron Ramsey, Nacho Monreal, Laurent Koscielny and, of course, Santi Cazorla before the Premier
League draw against Chelsea
on Tuesday, and then Granit Xhaka was also added to the list after that game after suffering groin strain.
To win the Europa
league we need a kind
draw and a ton of luck because we all know
on skill alone we won't win it.
The Champions
League semi-final
draw has been made, and Liverpool will take
on Roma while Bayern Munich and Real Madrid clash in the other tie hoping to take another step closer to the trophy.
Not only have Pep Guardiola's team yet to lose in the
league, with just one
draw and nine EPL wins so far this season, they are scoring
on average more than three goals a game, so we know it is going to be a tough task for the Gunners at the weekend.
We played Cambridge 2s in a BUCS
league match in the second week of term and lost 6 - 0, we then
drew them in the second round of the BUCS cup and lost 3 - 1, holding them at 1 - 1 for much of the game before conceding two late goals — I think the contrast between these two results (and the performances) is a testament to our hard work
on and off the pitch and gives us a lot to be optimistic about looking forward to next term.
Tottenham Hotspur kicked off their 2014/15 Europa
League group stage campaign this evening with a largely uneventful 0 - 0
draw against Partizan Belgrade
on an awful pitch in the Serbian capital.
The focus is
on how Spurs are unbeaten against us in 3 years in the
league going into this game ignoring the fact all 3 home games for us have been
draws in that time and 1 away was
draw too.
United have a commanding 12 - point lead at the top of the Premier
League and a solid 1 - 1
draw at Real Madrid
on Wednesday has given them a slight edge after the first leg of their Champions
League last 16 tie.
The Premier
League's two top - scoring teams played out a subdued stalemate as Leicester City
drew 0 - 0 with Manchester City at the King Power Stadium
on Tuesday night.
The Belgian international was in the thick of the action again
on Thursday night, with United crashing out of the Europa
League after a 1 - 1
draw at Old Trafford against Liverpool.
Despite going into their Champions
League Last - 16 clash with Shakhtar Donetsk as clear favourites Bayern Munich could only manage a 0 - 0
draw as Xabi Alonso was sent off
on his 100th appearance in the competition.
Though Hughes saw his defence hold up manfully during their goalless
draw with local rivals Chelsea, QPR have
on the whole looked suspect at the back, conceding 19 goals in ten Premier
League matches this term.
However, the Potters did beat the Royals
on penalties in the
League Cup in September 2008 following a 2 - 2
draw at the Britannia Stadium.
After Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa's display in his country's 0 - 0
draw with hosts Brazil at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the news that his contract at AC Ajaccio had expired and he was available
on a free transfer got Premier
League fans very excited.
With most of the work done in Germany a week ago, Napoli cruised into the final four of the Europa
League after they defeated Wolfsburg 6 - 3
on aggregate, following a 2 - 2
draw in Italy.
Spurs have started the new Premier
League season in solid fashion as they followed up their
draw away at Everton with a win over Crystal Palace
on Saturday, although they do arguably still need more clinical play up front and will look to continue to try and put options around Harry Kane for the rest of the season.
It's fair to say that Didi Hamann was far from impressed with what he saw from Man Utd in their goalless
draw against Sevilla in the Champions
League on Tuesday night.
Liverpool exited the Champions
League in shambolic fashion
on Tuesday night, stuttering to a disappointing
draw against FC Basle, who went through at the Reds» expense.
The Reds host Jurgen Klopp's former club at Anfield
on Thursday, having earned a valuable 1 - 1
draw in last week's Europa
League quarter - final first leg in Germany.
The
draw for the play - off round will be made
on August 7th with the first - leg tie set to take place
on either August 18 / 19th, meaning United will have played two
league games before turning their attentions to Europe.
While it doesn't seem to be at that stage just yet, Ferdinand was speaking after the goalless
draw with Sevilla in the Champions
League on Wednesday night, and believes that Pogba's biggest problem is that he hasn't got strong voices around him to help guide him.
Chelsea haven't kept a clean sheet in their last 11
league games, so a high - scoring
draw at Goodison could be
on the cards.
It has come down to this, the easiest way to qualify for the champions
league group stages is to
draw both matches of the next 3 ties 1 - 1 away and 0 - 0 at home, then win the final
on penalties.
Things haven't started that well for the new boss at Old Trafford, as following a home defeat and away
draw to Swansea City and Sunderland in the Premier
League, United lost 4 - 0 to
League One outfit MK Dons in the Capital One Cup
on Tuesday.
When the
draw for the knockout stages of the Champions
League takes place
on Monday, England will have an unprecedented five sides in the
draw for the last 16.