Sentences with phrase «stoke city either side»

Harry Kane also had a good weekend, netting a hat - trick against a dismal Stoke City side today, leaving himself one behind the leading duo's tally of 17, and he joined Chelsea's Diego Costa, who also scored his 16th league goal of the current campaign.

On Tuesday Portsmouth had their best result of the season when their depleted side beat a second - string Stoke City side 4 - 0 to reach the quarter - finals of the League Cup.

There is now just one more tie to play on FA Cup fourth round weekend, with Mark Hughes taking his Stoke City side to Spotland on Monday evening to face a Rochdale side who are having an impressive season in League One.

I am sure that Arsene Wenger wanted his players to be sharp yesterday, but they and we are all aware that the Europa League game this week is far more important than a Premier League clash with a Stoke City side that is mired in the relegation zone and playing pretty poorly.

The former Arsenal and England forward Alan Smith was clearly not as disappointed as some Gooners with the away point against a difficult and in form Stoke City side at the weekend, especially as the Gunners were without two of our best attacking players in Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil.

Arsenal three front line attackers of Sanchez, Walcott and Oxlade - Chamberlain was magnificent in the game pulling the strings against a Stoke City side led by Charlie Adam.

The Chilean superstar will be key to stretching the Potter's defence as the Stoke City side are known for their strong defensive formation with plenty of men behind the ball.

With United away to Liverpool most people see this as the most likely to see one of the top two dragged back, but I just have a sneaky feeling that Mark Hughes and his Stoke City side could cause an upset away to Man City.

Spurs are riding a wave of optimism at the moment, high in spirits after their 4 - 0 demolition of a hapless Stoke City side at home.

Predicted Arsenal Lineup To Face Stoke City In The Premier League Arsenal will host a struggling Stoke City side at the Emirates Stadium this Sunday a...

On Monday Night, Jose Mourinho's Manchester United will host a struggling and manager-less Stoke City side at Old Trafford - with 3 points on the line.

Manchester United were up against an out of form Stoke City side at Old Trafford and still failed to earn all three points.

Shawcross has been the constant in a ever - changing Stoke City side in recent seasons.

As time goes on and he settles to English football, the expectation will grow and it will be interesting to see how he deals with being relied upon in the Stoke City side.

Summer signing Eric Maxim Choupo - Moting has also hit the back of the net four times from midfield this season and has been an important part of the Stoke City side.

Mark Hughes is now into his fourth season in charge of a Stoke City side that have successfully maintained their Premier League status ever since securing their promotion to England's top division on the last day of the 2007/08 season.

Christian Eriksen scored twice as we held off a spirited Stoke City side to strengthen our grip on fourth place in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon.

Not exact matches

Bolton Wanderers striker Ivan Klasnic credits a prayer as the reason for his side beating Stoke City 5 - 0 last weekend.

but its a bit sad to see that i as i know more about arsenal fans than other fans, to say from the bottom of my heart, that the fans on here are as worse as the worst if not the worst fans out there... arsenal being on a run, with özil scoring one of the best goals i have ever seen on tuesday, draws against the best defensive side in the league and no they arent stoke city or something they are SPURS equally title challenger as any of arsenal man city, man united, chelsea, liverpool, a team that sent man city home when they (city) looked unbeatable..

Everton centre - back Ashley Williams will probably captain the side, while Stoke City playmaker Joe Allen will be tasked with passing Serbia to death.

Stoke City boss Pulis is keen to bring in a natural left - sided full - back with the more naturally right - sided Andy Wilkinson having played a lot of football in the unfamiliar role this season.

The former Spurs boss was dejected following Rangers» 2 - 0 defeat at home to Stoke City, and has all but given up on keeping his side from dropping down into the Championship next season.

Spurs are ten points ahead of their rivals now as they won at Stoke City, and Cahill feels they're too good a side to let such a convincing lead slip.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is confident his side will soon find their goalscoring touch ahead of the home game against Stoke City on Saturday afternoon.

Chelsea have had a relatively quiet summer transfer window thus far, with the West London side bringing in Colombian Radamel Falcao in on loan whilst signing Stoke City keeper Asmir Begovic and Brazilian youngster Nathan.

Newly promoted Premier League side Newcastle are interested in signing Manchester City midfielder Fabian Delph, with the Magpies set to go head - to - head with Stoke City in the race to sign the England international, reports the Daily Mail.

As reported by the Daily Mail, fellow Premier League side Stoke City are also interested in a move for Delph, and are willing to take him either on loan or on a permanent deal.

Stoke City goalkeeper Jack Butland has joined struggling Championship side Barnsley on loan until the end of 2013, the Telegraph reports.

The reference to Stoke shows that Pellegrini is still smarting from his side's home defeat to Mark Hughes» Stoke City a couple of weeks ago, with the Potters also having managed to frustrate his side before striking on the break through pacy striker Mame Biram Diouf.

With games coming up against an in form Stoke team, a dangerous Everton side and a wounded Manchester City, big tests are on the horizon over Christmas for Arsene Wenger's men.

The Italian tactician makes four changes to the side that beat Stoke City last time out, with Andreas Christensen in for Antonio Rudiger, while Cesc Fabregas and Tiemoue Bakayoko replace Danny Drinkwater and Pedro as Hazard comes in for Willian.

Stoke, who have already beaten Chelsea and Manchester City at the Britannia Stadium this season, were much the better side in the early stages of the match and they thoroughly deserved their lead, which was doubled less than 10 minutes later by a powerful effort from outside the penalty area from Marko Arnautovic.

On the red (with white stripes) side of things, we've got Stoke, who have been occasionally brilliant but wildly inconsistent, equally capable of taking Manchester City to pieces and getting turned over by Watford.

Arsene Wenger's Arsenal side were the 3 - 0 victors in today's tie over Paul Lambert's relegation - threatened Stoke City who did little to trouble David Ospina's Arsenal goal.

Lucky to draw at Everton (Defense), 2 pts lost Tied away to newly promoted Leicester (Defense), 2 pts lost Should have beaten City @ Home (Defense), 2 pts lost Tied at home to an even sh *** er Spurs (Defense), 2 pts lost Why even show up at Stamford Bridge as we can't beat a Mourinho Chelsea team (Defense), 3 pts lost Tied @ home to Hull SERIOUSLY (Defense), 2 pts lost Allowed Swansea to comback when we're leading (Defense), 3 pts lost Man Utd's worst side ever beat us @ HOME (Defense), 3 pts lost and BIGGEST JOKE SO FAR We all know what happened at Stoke... (Defense) and most recently tied away to weaker Liverpool team when we had the lead and conceded in injury time with more than half our team being defensive players at the time, (Defense)

It was our 3rd string DM chamberlain had to be a 5th string CM, we were missing sanchez, cazorla, coquelin, ozil against a very good stoke side where we haven't won in 5 games and who have beaten city and United at home.

Mesut Ozil and Aaron Ramsey both started the last match against Stoke City, in which we lost 1 - 0, and the former has come under criticism for a lack of fight, and that could well be down to having an uncertain future, which raises a question as to his inclusion in the side.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

While Man City may well have opened up a sizeable gap that is unlikely to be made up between now and the end of the season by any of the chasing pack, Chelsea still have to play for second place, and their supporters will be in good spirits for the New Year after such a commanding display, albeit against a struggling Stoke side.

If this does come to pass then three sides are lining up to offer Fletcher a new home in the shape of Aston Villa, Hull City and Stoke City, all of whom would be interested in Fletcher's services should he became available according to the Mirror's report.

During the Premier League win over Stoke City on Saturday, Walcott came up with more ammunition for both sides of the argument.

Anthony Martial sent a message to Alexis Sanchez over his place at Manchester United with a sublime finish to put this side 2 - 0 up against Stoke City tonight.

So far for Stoke, Butland has impressed since securing a move from Championship side Birmingham City in the summer of 2013.

The latter made an immediate impact, finding the bottom corner of the Stoke City net to draw his side level.

The 31 - year - old, who started his career at Arsenal, is a free agent this summer after being released by Premier League side Stoke City, and is known for being held back throughout his career by various off - the - pitch difficulties and disciplinary problems.

Arsene Wenger's side have won six of their seven matches since adopting a new 3 -4-2-1 formation, scoring 13 goals in the process, including wins over supposed «bogey» sides Stoke City and Southampton away from home.

Stoke City and Austria winger Marko Arnautovic have passed a medical with fellow Premier League side West Ham ahead of his # 25M move to the Hammers, as per Sky Sports.

City currently occupy the fourth and final Champions League spot, and with third - place Arsenal winning against Everton on Saturday to move four points clear of Manuel Pellegrini's side, it is increasingly looking like a plethora of sides — including City, United, West Ham and Stoke City — are all battling for one UCL qualifying spot.

Just like our game against Hull City in the FA cup, we ran a strong Stoke side ragged in what was arguably our best performance of the season.

The young England goalkeeper really caught the eye at last summer's Olympic Games for Team GB, and was snapped up by Premier League side Stoke City in the January transfer window.