Sentences with phrase «league performance with»

After capping a fantastic Champions League performance with his first ever Arsenal hat - trick against Olympiacos and following that up with the opening goal in our Premier League trip to Aston Villa, Olivier Giroud will already have been feeling pretty pleased with himself.

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Despite playing every minute of every league game last season, Terry is now 34 and may no longer be able to play at that high level every week, with Stones showing with his performances at Goodison Park that he could be ready to make that step up and fill his compatriot's boots at Stamford Bridge.
After putting in another match winning performance for Arsenal, depending on whether or not you agree with the player ratings from Just Arsenal earlier that is, Mesut Ozil continues to confound his critics and help to keep the Gunners in strong contention for the Premier League trophy.
In fact many people would say it is even more gruelling in the Championship, with everyone fighting hard to win a place in the Premier League, and Bruce certainly seems suited to the job, although he has also pulled out some brilliant performances from his teams in the top tier as well.
The Nigerian, who is the Belgian first division's top scorer this season with 23 League goals this season, has turned a lot of heads with his performances this season and the report from Sky Sports claims that the under - fire Arsenal boss is willing to meet the player's # 6.8 million release clause.
Indeed, Championship club Nottingham Forest have also been rumoured to have been close to signing Bale before his performances exploded under Harry Redknapp, with a virtuoso display against Inter Milan in a Champions League tie at the San Siro being an obvious highlight of his time at the club.
Ronald Koeman will be delighted with his team after a stellar performance, while Guardiola will undoubtedly be left furious as City capitulated and showed their vulnerabilities again as they fall behind their Premier League title rivals.
The veteran left - back spent eight years at Old Trafford, winning five Premier League titles and the Champions League in his time with the club, and becoming something of a fans» favourite with his committed performances.
The Champions League group stage is now over, and with the competition taking a pause for the next two months we can see who has been putting in the best performances so far.
His performance in Europa League games has been particularly impressive, starring in famous confrontations with Arsenal's Premier League rivals: Chelsea, Liverpool, and Tottenham.
Willian undoubtedly stood out for his performance with the two key goals, while there was an historic landmark reached for Cesc Fabregas as he registered the 100th Premier League assist of his career as he continues to impress when given an opportunity by Conte.
It was lazy of Wenger to emphasize a family atmosphere especially in recent seasons, it almost, if not created a culture where everyone patted each other on the back fostering mediocrity, in the real world of the premier league and elsewhere, it is important to be fired up by competition even among the players, and with a manager of Wenger's stature, I'm sure he has enough in his locker to make sure said competition don't get nasty and counterproductive to overall team performance.
There will certainly be Premier League attention on his performance with the likes of Man United, Liverpool and Arsenal linked with the forward in recent weeks (via Daily Mail).
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Armstrong is slightly older than Gauld, but has far more senior experience in the Scottish top flight than his former teammate did when making the big move, with his performances for the Terras in the SPL having attracted the attention of Ronny Deila's league leaders Celtic, who are also believed to be interested in signing Armstrong.
Stats don't tell the whole story of a draft prospect's future performance — since a few of these QBs with rough final college seasons had pro success — and I'm by no means saying Allen isn't worthy of being a successful quarterback in the league.
Man City beat Bristol City 3 - 2 to advance into the League Cup final tonight, with fans praising key midfielder Kevin De Bruyne following the Belgian's performance in the win.
Indeed, the Burnley midfielder showered the centre - back with some glowing praise following his performance against Chelsea in the Champions League on Tuesday evening.
They defeated two very good squads on the League's final Night and did so with several impressive performances.
Unlike North Coast Section, where any team with a.500 record overall, in the league, or in its own division, can apply for postseason «'' and most will get in «'' Sac - Joaquin goes by league performance.
And Chin also feels that his client's impressive performances in the Champions League with Celtic will stand him in good stead: «Celtic were outplayed by Barcelona, but Virgil was the only player who was OK.
In a statement, the league says it has no evidence that Green Bay Packers linebackers Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers, along with Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison, used performance - enhancing drugs.
We lauded Embiid's performance in his 31 games last year, and we still might be underselling him: He was right with Rudy Gobert as the best rim defender in the league while scoring 20 points on 58 percent True Shooting Percentage.
But his heart is not at Chelsea anymore... personally, I don't really mind his «personality» and the interviews, I just really mind his performances... This is different from the bad performances that are being put in by some of our other players... Moses was just never good enough, Bakayoko is still young and adjusting to a new league, Cesc is being horribly misused... But Courtois, well, his mind is just not here, let him leave... get Donarumma, ease him in with Big Willy getting more minutes, and hire this Frans Hoek guy FFS!!
For a few third - quarter minutes in her third league all - star game, in February, Bolin (it's her married name and rhymes with rollin») put on one of her typical showstopping performances, hitting seven straight long - range jumpers.
As another old enemy, Michael Owen, said about the match in his Premier League betting preview: «Tony Pulis has lost only one of his last six Premier League home games with Arsenal and I expect to see his side bounce back after a couple of disappointing performances in recent weeks,»
Menez looks a less risky option at the Express» reported fee of # 10.5 m, however, with the 28 - year - old more of a proven talent with consistent performances for club and country throughout his career, showing good goalscoring form in both the French and Italian leagues, with spells at AS Roma and AS Monaco as well as PSG and Milan.
«The NFL found no credible evidence that Pittsburgh's James Harrison and Green Bay's Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers were provided with or used substances prohibited under the NFL - NFLPA Policy on Performance - Enhancing Substances following a comprehensive investigation into allegations made in a documentary by Al - Jazeera America, it was announced today,» the league's statement read.
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It should be remembered that we beat Chelsea 3 - 0 at home back in September, but the contrast in fortunes following that game has been remarkable; the defeat ultimately galvanised Antonio Conte's side who went on to win thirteen league games in a row and ultimately run away with the title, while the Gunners let old habits bite them in the backside yet again as a very promising start to the campaign disintegrated after a number of poor performances and results.
The point was enough to allow Arsenal to progress through to the knockout stages of the Europa League with two games to spare but the performance from the Gunners was less than impressive.
Karius has been in fine form so far in 2018, with the German's performances going a long way to helping Klopp's side reach the latter stages of the Champions League and all but secure a top four finish in the Premier League.
The Liverpool man did start to put in some decent performances towards the tail end of the league campaign and is seemingly a certain starter for the group games, 50/1 with some bookmakers.
It doesn't matter what players play on the pitch,,, the performances have and always will be the same,,,, therefore blame lies with Wenger and his staff,,,,,,,, one of the main reasons why we won the league under wenger is because the level of opposition those days wasn't like the level these days..
He earned Man of the Match honours for his performance in Real Madrid's 0 - 0 draw with Man City in the Champions League semi-finals this past Wednesday.
Luiz's performance were very key last season, as the defender's partnership with Cesar Azpilicueta and Gary Cahill at the back for the Blues saw his side win their fifth Premier League title.
Manchester City and Paris Saint - Germain are set to finish their Champions League quarterfinal grudge match in England, with the aggregate score at 2 - 2 after Manchester's surprising performance in Paris a week ago.
He followed that up with a brace against Southampton on his full league debut before an impressive performance leading the line against Sunderland.
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Sticking with stars of the Premier League now and a Chelsea attacking midfielder who is being touted as a future Ballon d'Or winner for his slick performances for club and country.
Still, with with the leadership on this team, such a poor final performance was particularly disappointing, because while the Rockets remain perhaps the most purely talented team in the league, the two - deep will change drastically.
The club have won their last five home league games against Nottingham Forest keeping clean sheets in the last three but will be disappointed with their performance during a 1 - 0 loss at home to Sheffield Wednesday last time out.
The 19 - year - old broke into the first team this season and has been impressing with some fine performances in the Premier League for the Magpies.
Man City winger Leroy Sane was showered with praise following his performance in his side's 3 - 1 win over Newcastle in the Premier League this evening
With the questionable performances of Gunners centre - backs Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny, Wenger knows his defence must drastically improve if they are to become a serious threat to the Premier League and Champions League trophy.
With Jose Mourinho under fire and facing plenty of criticism for his handling of the squad and performances as well as the result against Sevilla in the Champions League, tensions are seemingly high and things are getting progressively worse with pundits and supporters launching attaWith Jose Mourinho under fire and facing plenty of criticism for his handling of the squad and performances as well as the result against Sevilla in the Champions League, tensions are seemingly high and things are getting progressively worse with pundits and supporters launching attawith pundits and supporters launching attacks.
Nervous start — usual criticism at the beginning of the season, with the lack of spending Ramsey's first blood — Arsenal shocked the league, we played brilliant football, scoring beautiful goals, all seemed like a decent season for us Coq red card — injury crisis struck, the lack of bench depth put pressure on the team, the downfall of performance caused crucial points Alexis» goal when down to ten men - it all seemed like arsenal would lose out in the title race again but arsenal somehow surprised the league again, saying aye we got the quality but we just ai nt gonna show in week in week out Draw in NLD with 10 men — can't really complain about it but you ain't happy.
The league leaders stretch the gap at the top to 10 points with Manchester United failing in their attempts to make the title race a little more interesting following Chelsea's resolute defensive performance.
After impressive performances, Varane was fast - tracked to train with the senior squad and made his debut after an injury to a first team defender, going on to make 23 first team league appearances.
In the first nine years of Arsene as Arsenal manager, performance in the CL was dismal compared to performance in the league, with only 2 quarter finals finish as the club's best record.
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