Sentences with phrase «league game of the weekend»

Arsenal will be hoping to get back to winning ways against bottom - placed Sunderland at the Stadium of Light in the first Premier League game of the weekend.

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That evidently wasn't an appealing option for the Red Devils, especially as the 22 - year - old is now earning the trust of Jose Mourinho on a regular basis, having started four consecutive Premier League games before being left on the bench at Burnley this weekend.

A Man Utd predicted line up as the Red Devils take on PSV in their opening game of the Champions League, with Anthony Martial tipped to start after his superb debut goal against Liverpool at the weekend...

The Championship returns to your screens this weekend with eleven games taking place on Saturday and you are all - but guaranteed entertainment in one of the most frantic and competitive leagues of them all.

Apart from the final week of the Premier League, Arsenal have no more midweek games to play and that means the players can give their all one weekend and be well rested for the next game.

The ban means that he will not only miss this weekend's FA CUP FINAL match against Chelsea, but the first two games of the Premier League 2017/18 season.

But confidence will be high in the Chelsea camp as well after 10 league games without defeat, and last weekend's 5 - 1 FA Cup rout of Manchester City.

Arsenal are set to face arguably their biggest game of the season at the Etihad this weekend, and it is not just for us to finish above Man City and clinch the usual Champions League quaklification, but also to stave off Tottenham finishing above us for the first time in Arsene Wenger's reign at the Emirates.

Every team in the league plays over the weekend and while many teams will receive their day off on Monday, there is consistently an ample slate of games.

Speaking ahead of this weekend's Premier League game against West Ham United, Pellegrini discussed the make or break nature of the fixture.

Major League Baseball in conjunction with the Miami Marlins agreed that it is in the best interest of our community to relocate this weekend's Marlins games against the Milwaukee Brewers to Milwaukee.

The Hammers have won just two of their last ten Premier League games and will still be looking their wounds after being annihilated 5 - 1 by Arsenal last weekend.

Ahead of tonight's final pre-Christmas game — Arsenal vs Manchester City — we pick our Premier League team of the weekend for matchweek 17.

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Chelsea lost their seventh Premier League game of the season this weekend and are now hovering just above the relegation zone, putting Mourinho's future in serious doubt.

After this weekend's games, Chelsea sit down in 15th, having accumulated exactly half the amount of points of league leaders Manchester United.

Manchester City take on West Ham United this weekend in their third game of the 2016 - 17 Premier League season.

Manchester United defender Chris Smalling is expected to be given the nod to start the club's opening Premier League game of the 2015 - 16 season against Tottenham at the weekend, Guardian Sport reports.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has made an astonishing claim ahead of this weekend's Premier League game with Manchester United.

Arsene Wenger is unhappy with the timing of Arsenal's FA Cup semi-final schedule on Saturday evening, which clashes with this weekend's big Premier League game between Chelsea and Manchester United at Stamford Bridge.

And because the win over Hull means we now face a cup quarter - final with Watford this weekend instead of the Premier League clash with West Brom, as well as there being an international break around the corner, Wenger only has one Premier League game to get through before Cazorla can come back into the centre of midfield.

I would love to see all of the four senior Gunners play a part in the final Premier League game this weekend, and I reckon that Coquelin, Cazorla and Campbell should start.

He will be well aware of the Everton clash in the Premier League this weekend, and ideally, you wouldn't want your best players playing 3 games within a week.

With the current league leaders Manchester United heading to the Emirates next weekend, this game has come in the nick of time and if Arsenal continue to play at the high level we saw today, we might even see the Gunners on top of the table.

The game between Arsenal and Chelsea is the main talking point from the Premier League weekend, unsurprisingly, or more specifically the controversy surrounding Diego Costa, Koscielny, Gabriel and the myopic referee Mike Dean and his assistants that just happened to be making a cup of tea or something when it all kicked off.

That brings me onto the good news, because with Arsenal losing away to Liverpool and missing this weekend's round of Premier League games because of our involvement in the FA cup we could have found ourselves cut adrift when our next EPL game comes around.

Szczesny does have more Champions League experience and will be desperate to impress, while missing a cup game and coming back at the weekend would not harm the confidence of Ospina.

Arsenal fans may not like the look of the Premier League table at the moment and we can only hope that is starts to look better rather than worse after the next round of EPL games set to be played this weekend.

Burnley manager Sean Dyche has hailed Chelsea striker Diego Costa as the ultimate hit man of the modern game as the two sides prepare to meet in the Premier League this weekend, according to the The Sun.

With a key game against Spartak Moscow next week to seal qualification for the knockout stage of the Champions League, followed by a busy lead - up to the festive period which includes the Merseyside derby next weekend, the last thing Klopp wants is to see Matip out for an extended period of time.

No matter what happened in the other Premier League games set to be played this weekend, there was always going to be a lot of pressure on Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players after our side had fallen out of the top four and into the worst position at this point of a season for over 10 years.

I will probably write off our chances of Champions League football if we fail to win on Saturday, or if both Liverpool and City win this weekend, but nothing is guaranteed in our beautiful game.

Following victories for Arsenal and Manchester United over the weekend, the reigning Premier League champions dropped down to fourth in the table ahead of their game against Crystal Palace on Monday night.

If they stay in Europe and the FA cup United could have 25 more games before the end of the season, at an average of one every four days starting with the second leg of their Europa League tie tomorrow and then the EFL cup final this weekend.

That seems to have been the ideal chance for the young defender and he has grabbed it to such an extent that he is now in front of Calum Chambers in the pecking order, having been chosen to partner Laurent Koscielny when the France international returned to face Leicester City in our second Premier League game of the season last weekend.

But, we do have arguably the toughest Premier League fixture of the season, away to Chelsea, on the weekend after our first UCL group game.

This would put us behind in the league table, of course, and if we get to face Watford it would mean our game against West Brom scheduled for that weekend would be moved as well.

The race to the finishing tape for the Premier League title is really heating up now and although there is a long way to go for Arsenal, it is really important that we keep our noses in front after the round of games this weekend.

I do expect the Chilean to sit out of the Champions League game on Tuesday and hopefully Arsenal will have a couple more players back off the injury list next weekend and then Wenger might feel able to rest Alexis.

Results can start to change at the top of the Premier League table to the favour of Arsenal begining with these weekend games.

Stoke City at home before our first European game is not bad at all but travelling to Chelsea that weekend is about as bad as we could have wished, so obviously we could do with the Champions League throwing up one of our easier opponents for that matchday.

We will have to wait and see how things pan out in East London at the weekend, and Arsenal wwill need to play well to come back with all three points from our Premier League clash away to West Ham United, but I do have a feeling that, for a change, things are going our way ahead of this crucial game.

If Arsenal do as we expect them to this weekend and run out as winners of the home game against a struggling Southampton side getting used to their new manager Claude Puel, while he gets used to the English Premier League for the first time, then we will be heading into the next round of matches a bit closer to at least one of our big spending Premier League rivals.

In the press conference ahead of the Arsenal home game against Premier League strugglers Middlesborough this weekend, reported on the Arsenal website, Arsene Wenger revealed that there is still a little doubt over whether Santi Cazorla will be available after the Spaniard picked up a knock in the Champions League win over Ludogorets Razgrad on Wednesday.

Even though Arsenal piled the pressure on our Premier League rivals by taking all three points off Sunderland in the first game of the EPL weekend at the Stadium of Light, we are still locked on points with both Liverpool and Man City at the top of the table after they both managed wins of their own.

After the shock of Arsenal losing to West Ham in the first Premier League game, the Gunners did well to bounce back with an away win over a determined and well drilled Crystal Palace side at the weekend.

The other big reason for Arsenal to ensure that we perform well in the remaining league games is the confidence and form that comes with a good run and how that could improve the chances of us winning the Europa League, so while he may want to rest the best players for the Thursday night games I think that Wenger should give almost as much focus to the league games, starting with the Saints this weleague games is the confidence and form that comes with a good run and how that could improve the chances of us winning the Europa League, so while he may want to rest the best players for the Thursday night games I think that Wenger should give almost as much focus to the league games, starting with the Saints this weLeague, so while he may want to rest the best players for the Thursday night games I think that Wenger should give almost as much focus to the league games, starting with the Saints this weleague games, starting with the Saints this weekend.

We can complain too much about the clinical side of the game from Arsenal this weekend, as the equalising goal headed in by Olivier Giroud just before injury time came from our one and only shot on target from the Premier League away game against Manchester United.

One thing to note outside of the Football League this coming weekend is the game between AFC Wimbledon and Luton Town in Blue Square Conference Premier.

Arsenal have already got through to the next round of the FA cup without the Spaniard at right back, although it was a much harder game against Preston North End than we would have liked, and there is good reason to expect us to do the same away to Swansea City in the Premier League this weekend.