United had won their previous three Premier
League home games by a 1 - 0 scoreline but always looked capable of finding further breakthroughs and it came on 56 minutes.
Prior to this evening, Spurs hadn't lost a Premier
League home game by a margin of two or more goals since August 2014 (0 - 3 v Liverpool).
That's back - to - back clean sheets for a defence which will be handed the sternest of examinations on Monday, while they did also win their last Premier
League home game by the scoreline, although read into that what you will, as it was against lowly Wolves.
Not exact matches
Every baseball player is a unique snowflake, a thumbprint, a story that takes them from their first tee - ball
game through their teen years, into their first professional experience, hundreds or thousands of miles from
home, surrounded
by peers who would all garrote each other to make the big
leagues.
Arsenal have a massive week ahead starting with today's FA Cup match at
home to Watford, followed
by our trip to Barcelona in midweek, and then a massive
game away at Everton in the
League next weekend.
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.
Covered the 2014 Copa del Rey Final and the 2014 Champions
League Final from the press box, as well as most
home games played
by Real Madrid.
Regarding the Premier
league, Chelsea aren't all that, City are always on and off, Spurs have Wembley as their
home ground, so will be exhausted
by November with their fast paced counter attack
game, United have the bitter Mourinho in charge so will sour at some point.
Arsenal won the Premier
League by a seven - point margin, were unbeaten away from home and managed the unique feat of scoring in every league
League by a seven - point margin, were unbeaten away from
home and managed the unique feat of scoring in every
leagueleague game.
After giving up a
game at
home and apparent momentum in their second - round series with Golden State, the Spurs went into the most hostile environment in the
league at Oracle Arena and quieted the madness
by beating the Warriors to regain control.
Two Premier
League away
games, at West Brom tomorrow and then Norwich City next Sunday, are punctuated
by a must - win
home clash with Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb and with a stretched squad that is a tough eight days of football.
That
home run put the Rangers up 30 - 3, an American
League record, a score that was topped only
by a Colts / Colonels
game from 1897, when baseballs were made out of leather swatches wrapped around shrunken raccoon skulls.
For quite a long time of this Premier
League away
game, Arsenal and all our talented and creative players were held at bay and matched
by the hard working, determined and well drilled
home side.
Judging his decision to join a 131 year old club
by two
games and preferring another club who has subsequently gone on to loose 5 nill to City, Drew 2 - 2 at
home to Sevilla in the champions
league, drew 1 - 1 at
home to burnley in the champions
league, lost 2 nill to Leicester and drew 1 - 1 to Spartak Moscow in the Champions
league.
Arsenal tie on a Champions
league game away from
home on a red card and the the fans with the slightest push from the media are taken into frenzy questioning every decision made
by the club.
Luckily the next two
league games will be played at
home and this is where we need to rest our key players, especially the West Brom
game as they will most likely be safe from the relegation battle
by then.
Friends say that Moore was haunted
by memories of the two - strike, two - out, ninth - inning
home run he gave up to Dave Henderson of the Boston Red Sox while pitching for the Angels in
Game 5 of the 1986 American
League Championship Series.
The
home clash with the German club comes on the Wednesday after our
league game with Man United who will probably be flying
by then.
Los Blancos currently trail
league leaders Barcelona
by six points after 13
games, with their 4 - 0
home defeat to their rivals on November 21 setting them back and seemingly signalling the end of the road for Benitez.
After losing the opening
game of the Premier
league season at
home, Arsenal fans can expect Arsene Wenger to make some changes to the starting line - up and probably not just to fill the gaps left
by Aaron Ramsey and Alex Iwobi picking up injury problems in the loss to Liverpool.
The north London based club are without a win in their last six
games and were defeated at
home by Bayer Leverkusen in the UEFA Champions
League on Tuesday.
As reported
by The Mirror today, Sherwood has played down the fact that his team were beaten at
home by Burnley in their final Premier
League game and suggested that he will instruct his players to go out with an open and attacking frame of mind in the FA cup final at Wembley on Saturday.
Our next match is at
home to Middlesbrough, who should be more cannon fodder as they are winless in their last 5
League games, and swiftly followed
by our
League Cup
game at
home to Reading.
Despite his great qualities like speed, strength and aggression his inexperience has shown itself in crucial
games, remember the Chelsea
game, he put himself in a position to get a red card
by falling for Costa's Antics (Arsenal would have won that
game if we remained 11 or if Mertesacker was playing especially considering we were playing deep), he played Lewandowski on - side for Bayern's first goal in the champions
league, the shaky first half in the
home game against Liverpool.
Those comments from Wenger will surely be welcomed
by Xhaka but I think the boss needs to go further and boost his spirits
by starting the Swiss midfielder in our next
game, which is at
home to Ludogorets Razgrad in the Champions
League on Wednesday.
Hull played out a goalless draw with Aston Villa, but will find this a very hard
game to get anything from.Everton have not lost at
home for 12
home league games nows dating back to December 2012 when they last got beat at
home 1 - 2
by Chelsea.
A lot of Arsenal fans did not expect us to get anything from today's away
game against the Premier
League leaders Man City, and that is how it turned out with De Bruyne, Aguero and Gabriel Jesus scoring to make it a comfortable 3 - 1 scoreline in the end, but that did not tell the whole story
by any means and Arsene Wenger will surely point to a couple of key decisions that went the
home side's way at crucial points of the
game.
Jose Mourinho and Man United have Europa
League games to worry about and their first group
game is followed
by a
home game against Southampton who are also in the second European competition.
As usual Jon you make some good points but with all respect to Leeds, Villa and Forest, no way would Spurs spend the amount of time in the lower
leagues [just one year] that those three have spent recently and I'm sure you remember that great Spurs side in their double year dropping their first point after 14
games to Man City and suffering their first defeat to Sheffield Wednesday
by the odd goal in three on Boxing day and almost beating our 66 point record [2 points a win in those days] which stood from the glorious thirties thanks to a shock
home defeat on the last day of the season
by West Brom with their frightening forward line of Jones, White, Smith, Allen, and Dyson and to make things worse the following year the signing of Jimmy Greaves, and don't let anybody tell different without doubt the greatest striker the English
game as ever seen.
Arsene Wenger was in now way suggesting that Arsenal should take it easy in our Champions
League group
game at
home to PSG tonight, as he has called on his players to finish the job they have started
by already securing a place in the next round
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Three of our Champions
League game will be followed
by domestic away
games but as they are against two of the promoted clubs in Burnley and Hull City, with the other being Bournemouth, I don't think we can complain, although the fact that EPL champions Leicester City have all of their following
games at
home is a bit suspicious in my opinion.
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Wenger has won all 11 of his
home games against teams managed
by Pulis, 10 in the Premier
League and one FA Cup
game at Highbury in 2005.
The Premier
League have confirmed that Sunday's
game at Stoke will be refereed
by Mike Dean whose last Burnley
game was the
home defeat against Manchester United in January...
But the Blues will go into this
game — with a bit of concern after their momentum was brought to a crushing halt
by a heavy defeat in the Champions
League Quarter - final first leg away from
home against Liverpool.
Derry's next
league game is at
home to Shamrock Rovers on Friday 27 April, followed
by an away trip to Limerick three days later.
Faced with the prospect of watching City seal the
league title
by beating them, United's approach on Saturday will be measured and cautious knowing Mourinho's must - not - lose mentality in big
games away from
home, let alone one that could damage the morale, should it go awfully bad.
An impressive debut against Arsenal over a year ago followed
by a more difficult
game at
home to Leicester and he has only started one Premier
League game since.
Atletico, winners of the Europa
League in 2010 and 2012, have now won their last six
home games in all competitions without conceding a single goal after easing to another comfortable victory, secured
by Koke sweeping
home Juanfran's cutback.
Since joining the Piedmontese outfit in January Puscas has scored 5 goals in 5
games, including a hat - trick against Cittadella in Domenico Di Carlo's first
game in charge as head coach (see the video below), and generally given them the penalty box presence that they were so desperately lacking during the first half of the season (Novara don't have the
league's worst
home record
by chance).
A
home league game against Chelsea on the Saturday would be followed
by a European...
The Premier
League television requirements were not particularly kind to us with our opening league game last Monday evening at Chelsea, followed by this game on Thursday evening, and then we face Bournemouth in our opening home league game next S
League television requirements were not particularly kind to us with our opening
league game last Monday evening at Chelsea, followed by this game on Thursday evening, and then we face Bournemouth in our opening home league game next S
league game last Monday evening at Chelsea, followed
by this
game on Thursday evening, and then we face Bournemouth in our opening
home league game next S
league game next Sunday.
Southampton are trying to secure a top half of the table finish this season and they were comprehensively beaten 30 - at
home by Manchester City in their last
league game.
Stat Attack: Liverpool have scored just four
home goals this term Liverpool have won 15 and lost none of the last 17 EPL
games against Newcastle at Anfield Newcastle have won one of their last five away
games in the
league Newcastle have scored just once on the last six visits to Anfield (and that was an own goal
by Daniel Agger)
After some coupon - busting midweek Premier
League games, fair play to anyone who backed Watford to win at the Emirates
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This is the new Wigan Athletic
home kit 11/12, to be worn
by Wigan Athletic in their
home games during the 2011/2012 Premier
League season.
Chelsea have actually been drawing at half time in five of their seven
league home games this season and are only averaging 1.4 goals per
home game, which isn't particularly potent
by them.
That won't bother them, but their last two
home games now in the
league have both been settled
by a 1 - 0 scoreline.
The pitch here has been graced
by some of footballs true greats and, aside from United's
home games, FA Cup semi-finals and England international fixtures, it has seen action during the 1966 World Cup, Euro 96 and 2003 Champions
League final.
This new Spurs
home strip 2011/12 will be worn
by Spurs and their star players like Luka Modric, Rafael Van der Vaart and Gareth Bale in their Premier
League home games in the forthcoming 2011/2012 season.