Sentences with phrase «league performances since»
Or put another way, produced their second - worst league performance since 1991.
https://www.independent.co.uk/ Not exact matches
The Spanish giants are banned from any transfer activity until January 2016, but could still look to encourage the Germany international to a later switch to the Champions League finalists — having been impressed by his performances since returning from a serious spinal injury that left him on the sidelines for 14 months.
The new coach is looking forward to another good performance from his team and he would love to go all the way in the Carabao Cup, as he told the official West Ham website: «It is less than a week since we held Arsenal to a goalless draw in the Premier League at London Stadium and now we go to the Emirates in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night to take them on again.
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.
Since the Texans are salivating over Watson's performance, it got me thinking about preseason star Chase Daniel, is he better than any week 1 starting QB in the league?
Chilean forward Eduardo Vargas has taken his time to adapt to Premier League football since joining on loan from Napoli this summer, but impressive cameo performances against the likes of Liverpool have given Rangers fans real hope that he can be a difference maker for them.
Since Bonds broke that record, 25 major league hitters (and scores and scores of minor league hitters) have been suspended for performance - enhancing drugs.
When the league was en route to its flawless out - of - conference performance, some numbskull was using the Simple Rating System to ask whether the division was the best since conferences started splitting in half.
Fitzgerald is one of the Top 5 receivers in the league, but nobody knows about it because ever since Kurt Warner retired, the constant carousel of quarterbacks in Arizona has ruined his performance.
True, but we could also say the same thing about our premier league performances over the last decade or so, yet no one is saying what's the point in playing in this league since we keep on bottling it every time we are in with a shout.?
But ever since he took the gloves for the Gunners after Szczesny compunded a poor performance in Southampton by being caught enjoying a crafty ciggy in the showers, the Colombian has done everything asked of him and more, highlighted by his stats being better than all the best Premier League keepers like De Gea, Courtois, Lloris and Cech's from last season.
He's since become one of the Lions» most highly regarded players and a move away looks inevitable after his impressive performances have belied their league position.
It is 10 years since another famous Ronaldo, the great Brazilian striker, came to Old Trafford with Real Madrid and produced a performance that condemned United to elimination from the Champions League.
Knicks fans were less than thrilled with the performance — much like Lakers fans last week — since it leaves New York with just a half game advantage over the Timberwolves (who play later Saturday night) in the race for the worst record in the league.
The summer signing from Bayer Leverkusen will hope that this performance will persuade Pochettino to hand him a first Premier League start since November against Crystal Palace this weekend.
The Colombian international, who has not featured for the Gunners since a disastrous performance against Olympiakos in the Champions League, is understood to be very unsettled at the Emirates and a move appears likely, with Greek side Besiktas and several French sides interested in signing the keeper from Arsenal.
Considering runs have been down since the league cracked down on performance enhancing drugs, and dominant hurlers Justin Verlander (9 - 5, 2.58 ERA) and Matt Cain (9 - 3, 2.62 ERA) will be taking the mound for their respective teams, it's easy to find value on the under.
Being deployed on the wing instead of his more preferred position up front, Theo has put in some excellent performances for Arsenal, with the North London club having won all four games since his return, including crucial victories over Manchester City and Olympiakos in the Champions League.
Since making his debut about a month ago in the Premier League win over Southampton though, Mustafi has been an ever present and has nailed his place down with some fine performances and a growing understanding with our French international centre back Laurent Koscielny.
An impressive performance on Saturday saw City condemn Spurs to a first Premier League loss since the teams last met, at the Etihad back in December.
Antonio hasn't scored since netting five times in our opening four league games, which is surprising considering our improved performances of late.
The same night, Chelsea notched up back - to - back league victories for the first time since December thanks to a system change, some resurgent performances, and Victor Moses» winner.
Unbeaten in the league since New Year's Day, they've won nine and drawn two of their last 11 and despite producing one of their more forgettable performances at Bramall Lane on Monday still managed to fight back in injury time to snatch a 1 - 1 draw.
Friend's performance led to him being dropped from the Premier League for a month but, astonishingly, Taylor was allowed to continue and he's since refereed four more Premier League games, one FA Cup tie and a Europa League game.
In front of him, Jordan Henderson has featured less frequently in the league since Christmas due to injury and rotation, and less playing time for the club captain in the defensive - midfield role has correlated with the uptick in defensive performance.
The only other player that West Ham has had in the past decade that could even hold a candle to the performance that Payet had last season was Carlos Tevez and his magical goal scoring run at the end of the 2006 - 07 season to keep West Ham in the Premier League, but Payet's goal scoring, free kicks, and passing led the Hammers to amazing heights that haven't been reached since the 1980s or the FA Cup win in 1980.
Since arriving at the club, Jurgen Klopp has placed great importance on the competition, due in part to a disappointing Premier League performance this year.
Ever since Santi Cazorla lived up to his name and came to town, he's been setting the Premier League on fire with numerous world - class performances.
Even though the North Londoners may have come away from the North East with three points in the end, it wasn't as convincing a performance as it should have been against a truly woeful side well on their way to putting together to worst Premier League campaign since Derby County's 11 point finish in 2008.
Pogba has been one of the most influential players in Mourinho's squad since his arrival last season and the Frenchman has put in really good performances this season to help United to the top of the table in the Premier League.
In seven seasons under four different managers, Mourinho pointed out that United's best performance in the Champions League has been one quarter - final appearance, and the club's highest finish in the Premier League since legendary former manager Alex Ferguson retired was fourth.
Another poor performance from Arsenal saw them go down 2 - 0 at home to Schalke in Group B of the Champions League, their first European defeat at the Emirates Stadium since 2009 and first to non-English opposition since Internazionale won at Highbury in 2003.
Since then, Rovers have thrown away two priceless opportunities to enhance their stance in the top - flight further, losing away to Bolton 2 - 1, despite boasting a numerical advantage for most of the second half, as well as throwing two invaluable points away last weekend when drawing 1 - 1 with bottom of the league West Ham, Kean's very first game in charge and it was a game where Blackburn produced one of their poorest performances of the season, certainly at home, where Rovers were previously a force to be reckoned with under» Big Sam».
Athletic Bilbao keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga was strongly linked to the 12 time Champions League winners but Zidane didn't want to make a move since he was happy with the performances of Casila and Navas.
While Tottenham have delivered splendid performances and will come into this game after eight consecutive Premier League victories, Arsenal have been struggling ever since the season started.
Playing for OGC Nice since 2014/15, and offering the second very good seasonal performance in a row, French striker Alassane Pléa (25), according to L'Equipe, has been targeted by two Premier League clubs (Bournemouth and Leicester City), as well as by Valencia, from Spanish Liga.
It's been eight years, eight long years, since York City were a Football League club, but after a tremendous performance in the play - off final against Luton Town, they're back.
These fluctuations in performances, combined with fluctuating policies at the top, have ensured that since the start of the Premier League era, Newcastle...
I think it has been an improvement since last season and that arsenal can improve performance against Manchester United home and Barcelona in the Champions League.
Considering Wolves haven't won a league fixture since the opening day, losing five of their last six, you would like to think so but Wolves put in a spirited performance at Chelsea last time out and more of the same from Mick McCarthy's side would make them difficult to beat, even for mega-rich City.
If they are to mount a comeback, and it would be some uturn considering how depressing the last two months has been in west London — Chelsea have won just twice in the league since the beginning of November, then their renaissance surely has to burst into life immediately, as the margin for error is fine to say the least following yet another underwhelming performance at the weekend.
Slade has become the target of displeasure from some sections of the City Stadium support this season for what many see as under par performances despite having to cut the club's wage bill significantly since taking the job, and more recently working under a transfer embargo imposed by the Football League.
Real Madrid is yet to convince since they beat Sevilla by 2 - 0 a few weeks ago on August 12 and last night's performance sure didn't help much in terms of allowing the fans to be more optimistic about the Merengues's chances of still winning all 4 competitions they'll be playing for this season: La Liga, Copa del Rey, UEFA Champions League and the FIFA Club World Cup.
Such has been the quality of his performances that Tottenham have hardly missed Toby Alderweireld, who made his first league start since October at Brighton on Tuesday.
The midfielder has not played for the Potters since the 5 - 0 defeat by Chelsea on December 30 and Lambert has not been happy with his performances in training as Stoke fight for their Premier League lives.
After arguably the best performance since Sir Alex Ferguson paced up and down the touch - line at Old Trafford, United still find themselves sitting in fifth, battling to finish in the top four and secure a spot in next season's Champions League.
The same game that resulted in the most dominant Champions League final performance since 2011.
The two sides met at Stamford Bridge just over four weeks ago and the Blues ran out 3 - 0 winners, but Spurs took away a lot of encouragement from that performance if not the result and the Lilywhites are unbeaten in the Premier League since that defeat.
With a Squawka Performance Score of 490, Firmino ranks as the Reds» joint - best player alongside Coutinho in the Premier League this term and, despite a rocky start, few could argue that he's since seamlessly adjusted to the pace of the English game.
In the event, they responded to last week's disappointments with a positive performance and earned a first league win since beating Leicester 2 - 1 on 14 February.