Sentences with phrase «league home fixtures»

Enrique is gearing his players up for a Catalan derby versus Espanyol Sunday evening and a huge Champions League home fixture against Paris Saint Germain to decide the top spot in Group F.

The Russian champions were ordered to close part of the Khimki Arena for their next Champions League home fixture with Bayern Munich, after being reprimanded for racist chants towards Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure.

Not exact matches

Arsenal have a really tough month of fixtures ahead of us, with the next two vital games followed by three Premier League games in a week, away to Aston Villa and at home to Southampton and Tottenham.

«There are some tough fixtures coming up in the league too — Leicester at home next Sunday and trips to Manchester United and Tottenham — but they are games to look forward to, not fear.

Burnley at home is Tottenham's third fixture of the season, but the date is likely to change slightly due to a fixture clash with the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final at Wembley.

At home this time and off the back of a fantastic performance against Burnley, the Gunners should be far more confident heading into their midweek Champions League fixture.

We appear to be prioritising our Premier League fixtures over the away matches in the Europa, and while winning all our home matches should put us comfortably through to the next stage, our fringe players will not be going out tonight without the intention of three points.

Arsenal were the favourites to win this season's Premier League before Sunday's 1 - 0 home defeat to Chelsea, which left Manchester City as the bookies» top tip, despite Leicester City leading the way with 15 rounds of fixtures left to play.

Last weekend's 2 - 2 draw at the Emirates against Hull City can not be an ideal preparation, going into a crucial Champions League fixture as Arsenal do when they take on Anderlecht at the home of the Belgium champions.

Arsenal face off against Swiss side Basel on Match Day Two, in a fixture that'll see Champions League football return to the home of Arsenal for yet another consecutive season.

In a way this question is like when some Arsenal fans complain about the way the Premier League fixtures fall and others point out that every team has to play every other one home and away at some point.

Arsenal have League games against Sunderland, Aston Villa, Manchester City, Southampton and Bournemouth before Xmas and the New Year fixture at home to lowly Newcastle.

Whilst we seem to be in a cycle where both teams generally dominate in their respective home league games in these fixtures, it's not that long since Arsenal won at The Lane.

I think its quite telling that each year when Arsenal predictably capitulates in there home Champions league fixture that the manager and then captain make statements about the naivety, or lapses of concentration by the team in key moments.

If we can win these games before CITY at home we could be well placed in the League and finish 2nd in the CL group, not all bad, though I'm sure in the last 16 it will be another mega fixture... Barca or Madrid probably.

In addition to the aforementioned home fixture against Man City, Arsenal face a fixture pileup that sees them play 7 games during a 3 - week period, which includes an away tie against Dortmund in the Champions League; with Man City, Spurs and Chelsea to take care of, in the Premier League.

Man United have lost eight of their 24 Premier League fixtures and crashed out of the FA Cup at the first hurdle, suffering a home defeat at the hands of Swansea City in round three.

They may have a horrendous fixture list including a double header Europa League semi-final with Spanish La Liga side Celta Vigo, but a look at the EPL table combined with their recent form shows, in my opinion, that they are the team most likely to take advantage of the weekend's slip up from Liverpool who lost at home to Crystal Palace.

As if the challenge to get back into the top - four places or even win the title was not already daunting enough, the Premier League fixtures, which were revealed on Wednesday, has only added to the Frenchman's woes with five of their six matches directly after Europa League group stage fixtures away from home.

They have won all four of their home league games, against Leicester, Bournemouth, West Brom and Brighton, as well cup fixtures against Cologne, Doncaster and Norwich.

As other managers have already intimated, there is obviously a reliance on Premier League rivals to stop City's march and, so far, that hasn't happened since the draw with Everton in their opening home fixture.

Klopp may blame the hectic Premier League schedule over Christmas or the amount of fixtures in the English game for his growing injury list, but he might want to look closer to home for the real cause.

Of course Arsene Wenger was happy that his Arsenal team took all three points from the Premier League home clash with Brighton and Hove Albion, because it sends him, the players and especially the Arsenal fans, into the two week break for the latest international fixtures in a good frame of mind.

Championship winners, Newcastle United also have a tricky first home fixture as they play host to last season's Premier League runners - up, Tottenham Hotspur.

Manchester City continue to cruise their way in the English Premier League as Pep Guardiola's men picked up another three points on their weekend fixture, defeating Bournemouth 4 - 0 at home.

Les Girondins are now back in front of their own fans where they have suffered just one defeat in their last six home league fixtures.

Fulham go into the game knowing that they need to make their home fixtures count with only a few games left to save their status in Premier League.

Manchester United return to Premier League action this weekend with a home fixture against Swansea City.

Heiko Herrlich's team will arrive at the Westfalenstadion with form very much on their side after having dismantled both RB Leipzig and Eintracht Frankfurt by a 4 - 1 scoreline in their previous two league fixtures, even though the 6 - 2 loss at home to Bayern Munich in the cup semifinal on Tuesday would suggest otherwise.

The Premier League meeting with the Cherries is Liverpool's closest home fixture to the anniversary of April 15, 1989, the events of which saw 96 supporters lose their lives.

A 6 - 0 reverse at home to Manchester City was an even heavier defeat than most other teams have suffered at the hands of the odds - on favourites for the Premier League title, and they will have been disappointed going down 1 - 0 to Stoke in their last home fixture.

It should have been away from home but the fixtures against the Owls have been reversed which sees the team directly below us in the league visit Gawthorpe.

The Red Devils do have a great track record running against the Clarets as they are unbeaten in their last 12 home league fixtures against them in a W8 D4 record in that sequence.

Premier League rules do not permit a change in home venue during a season but the PL could be approached when fixtures are being arranged for the 2018 - 2019 season to request the first two games be played away from home.

The Clarets won this corresponding fixture 1 - 0 last season and they are unbeaten in their three previous Premier League home games against Stoke (W1 D2).

West Brom showed the biggest discrepancy between their two home games being the only club in the Premier League to dip below 90 % of their stadium capacity on their weekend fixture against Crystal Palace with 3,319 seats unfilled.

Manager Jose Mourinho, who made it eight wins and three draws in his own unbeaten run against Russian clubs, had warned the players he would not tolerate the sort of «PlayStation football» which had seen his side ease up at 2 - 0 in their opening Champions League fixture at home to Basel.

Following that, Van Gaal's team will take on West Ham United in the final ever game at Upton Park, while they conclude their league campaign with a home fixture against Bournemouth.

Burnley won the Championship last season to move into the Premier League for a third time, and just under a week ago the 2016/17 fixtures revealed that we would kick off with a home game against Swansea City.

Most likely Wenger will use Nasri in home games against the lesser lights of the league, while Denilson will feature in the tougher fixtures.

It's Hull up first for the Clarets in the Professional Development League as we look for just our second win of the season against a home side who, having started poorly, have won their last two games against Cardiff and Coventry with the second, a home fixture, being played in the KCOM Stadium immediately after a home first team game.

So it is ten games without a win in the league for Burnley now (D5 L5) and they have only collected the one point from their last five home fixtures in the top flight now as well.

Despite the game sandwiched between our tame defeat at Chelsea and the opening home fixture with Bournemouth it is expected that the Hammers will field a strong side in order to secure Europa League group stage qualification.

Playing them on our home turf in our Barclays Premier League fixture on Wednesday was a different story.

They struggled at home against Middlesbrough in their last game in the Premier League without Cazorla, drawing 0 - 0 with Aitor Karanka's side, and despite dominating Sunderland for much of the game, their failure to kill off the fixture allowed the hosts to come back with a second half Jermain Defoe penalty.

They failed to hit the back of the net in each of those four away defeats and overall home and away they have failed to score in eight of their last eleven Premier League fixtures.

Sagna, capped 65 times by France, will be available to Roberto De Zerbi from next week, meaning that the former Arsenal right back's league debut for his new club could come at the Olimpico against Roma, rather than this weekend's fixture at home against Napoli

Tottenham will play the final season at their iconic White Hart Lane ground from August and the FA could raise around # 15 million from Wembley staging a Premier League club's home fixtures.

Ipswich have produced a W4 D2 record them this season in the league but suffered a 3 - 1 defeat against Bristol City in their most recent home fixture?

While Cavalieri is not expected to sign a contract in time to be considered for Sunday's Premier League fixture at home to Tottenham, discussions are regardless «well advanced.»