Sentences with phrase «league humiliation»

Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil insists the Gunners can learn from their Champions League humiliation at the hands of Bayern Munich and come back stronger.

And when the Portuguese coach needed a result after Champions League humiliation against Sevilla on Tuesday night, it was his two favourites who...

A long - term injury to his most creative player, Iker Muniain, is a mitigating circumstance, but the jury on Ziganda has been firmly in since Europa League humiliation at the hands of Marseille.

It's terrible that people so easily forgot the Champions league humiliation, five away defeats in a row and the overall disappointment of the season.

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Vidal continues to say that Munich is the best team in the world, and he can certainly point to Arsenal's humiliation against Bayern in the Champions League to emphasise the gap in quality between the two sides, but he believes that Alexis will make the Germans into an even better side.

It's important to ignore the media and the humiliation stuff written, because we could end up first in the league going into a much needed international break and that's something.

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has admitted that the side's hopes of qualifying for the Champions League are in serious doubt after their Old Trafford derby humiliation against Manchester United.

(Arsenal, meanwhile, are in the Europa League, which saves the Premier League from at least one certain humiliation.)

Here, then, are five more — well, technically at least seven more — triples, quadruples and quintuples from the long and proud European Cup / Champions League tradition of abject humiliation multiple goalscoring.

Walker, who fell flat in his ballyhooed pro debut back in March and then exploded in an amazing streak of five games, during which he averaged 152.4 yards and took the league's rushing lead, suffered even greater humiliation by gaining a scant 28 yards in 11 carries against the Stallions.

The Red Devils have suffered defeats to Swansea City in the league and a 4 - 0 humiliation to League One outfit MK Dons in the Capital One Cup, as well as an away draw with Sundeleague and a 4 - 0 humiliation to League One outfit MK Dons in the Capital One Cup, as well as an away draw with SundeLeague One outfit MK Dons in the Capital One Cup, as well as an away draw with Sunderland.

All it means is: more profit for Kreonke, the board and Wenger, more humiliation, Wenger extending his record of most defeats in the competition, more chance of injuries, and more chance of the extra games and travelling having a negative effect on our chances in the league.

So for me, not making 80 points, in how many years now, including the 7 years failing to make it past the round of 16 in the Champions league, plus completely missing the champions league this year, plus the 10 - 2 humiliation at Bayern, plus the way we sleepwalked through 5 away defeats, throwing away games that were in our complete control like Everton away for example, and so and so on, is nothing short of failure.

Moving on though he said «nothing is good enough anymore» and I have to say it's not that nothing is good anymore, it's just that the usual RO16 exit in the champions league and the constant humiliation against the big sides isn't very good either.

Even if I am very much mistaken and the Arsenal board and manager do make a real effort on this transfer, which they won't, imagine what an ambitious, up and coming player with the potential to be one of the best in the world would say to joining an Arsenal team that is struggling to even tread water and has to suffer annual humiliation in both the Premier League and Champions League competitions.

That resulted in an 8 - 2 humiliation which hit the panic buy button and we ended up with Andre Santos, Per, Arteta, and that Korean guy if you remember his one league cup goal!

But St. Totteringham's day is, in spirit, a ritual humiliation, celebrated by Arsenal fans whenever their club are mathematically certain to finish above Tottenham Hotspur in the league.

The way we played the UCL for the past five + years was shambolic, so I'm actually glad we're out of a competition that serves as a humiliation tool and costs us points in the league, due to morals being shattered by bad results against top sides.

The previous 31 league games, including European humiliation, suggest we won't be winning ALL of our remaining games.

As Joe Hart gathered the ball from out of his own net for a fourth time during West Ham «s humiliation at Old Trafford on Sunday, he did so with the look that his return to the Premier League could also spell an end to his reign as England's first - choice goalkeeper.

Another victory for City this weekend against their local rivals would confirm this season's Premier League title in the sweetest of circumstances, with Jose Mourinho's United forced to endure the humiliation of placing the crown on the heads of their neighbours.

In a repeat of the 2012 Europa League final, Bilbao gave Atletico a real lesson and a slice of revenge for the humiliation in Bucharest last season, winning 3 - 0.

One look at the premier league table, despite all the humiliation, Spurs are still ahead of Manchester United, 5 points behind top 4 places.

Drafted in initially in the Champions League qualifier against Udinese, he then had to endure the shock and humiliation of playing against Manchester United.

The nightmarish spectre of Antonio Conte's hauntingly terrifying face leering into the camera for an interview where He visibly battles with his urge to discuss the upcoming Champions League match with Barcelona rather than the humiliation of a Hull side without endangering any of his important players, was enough to prompt Mark to gaze heavenward, longing for the rumoured «Planet X» to finally roam into our orbit and take out earth in an apocalyptic planetary collision which the FA Cup would likely somehow survive.

After weeks of humiliation for English clubs in Europe, this red - letter fixture between the nation's two greatest trophy - winning institutions laid bare the essence of Premier League football — the frenzied tempo, unfettered passion, mindless violence and terrace hatred.

«For United it was humiliation, a top side losing out on the title to a rival, but we really deserved to win the league, we were a very strong group.»

The first half was pleasing on the eye as both teams looked to keep the ball on the floor and build nice attacking moves, but it was quite cagey as Arsenal looked to still be getting the League Cup humiliation out of their system.

Inter, in keeping with their arduous season so far, made heavy weather of Lille at San Siro, in a game that threatened to expose Diego Milito to the kind of humiliation that barely seemed possible as his goals won the Champions League in 2010.