Sentences with phrase «swansea city were in»

Blackburn completed their last season for 8th place at the premier league and Swansea City was in the 12th position.

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Jose Mourinho was visibly furious with Chelsea first - team doctor Eva Carneiro in the final minutes of their 2 - 2 draw against Swansea City, as she ran onto the pitch to see to Eden Hazard following a foul in injury time.

The Gunners are not on the best run of form at the moment after a shock 3 - 1 defeat away to Swansea City, and could do with being more solid at the back after leaking goals in a worrying manner at the Liberty Stadium.

The North London side were in fine fettle on Saturday as they dispatched Swansea City 3 - 0 away, with the likes of Mesut Ozil and Laurent Koscielny in excellent form.

Arsenal could be set to spring a big surprise in the January transfer window with a move to sign Swansea City striker Bafetimbi Gomis, according to the Daily Mail.

Mourinho's men start off by welcoming Swansea City to Stamford Bridge, and the west London outfit are favourites already to seal three points in their first game.

Arsenal could not have picked a worse time to face Antonio Conte's side, who easily beat Swansea 5 - 0 two days ago while resting Eden Hazard, and who have only conceded one goal in their last 5 League games as they moved up to be Man City's closest challengers, albeit 14 points behind Pep Guardiola's side.

The centre - back is a little on the old side in reality, but he has been improving year - on - year for Swansea City, and I believe he could play on for another four years easily.

Chelsea's title - defence got off to a terribly disappointing start, as they drew 2 - 2 with Swansea City at Stamford Bridge, with Thibaut Courtois being shown a red card early in the second - half.

Jarvis becomes West Ham's club - record signing after agreeing a contract until 2017 — with an option for a further year — and could be in line to make his first appearance in claret and blue in Saturday's game at Swansea City.

What is certain now though is that he will need a positive reaction from his players as after plotting a way to navigate past Swansea City in the League Cup in midweek, Man Utd host an in - form Tottenham side this weekend who will ruthlessly expose their issues if the visitors aren't in their best form.

Stoke City Bournemouth Brighton Watford Swansea Nottingham Forest If we had performed away from home in these games like we did tonight then we would be 3rd in the Premiership just 2points behind Manure and most likely in the FA Cup Quarter Finals.

The Gunners take on Swansea City in their next game, and Wenger seems to be planning his team selection around including the Borussia Dortmund striker, according to Bild, as translated by the Metro.

We all know how Hull City will set up their game plan which will be to sit deep like Chelsea, Swansea usually do against us but Wenger will go into the game with his usual lame tactics when in fact he should devising a better plan to get the 3 points with ease

The German international returned to action against Swansea City on Saturday having been sidelined since New Years Day with an illness, and played a key role in the 4 - 0 demolition in Wales.

The Gunners were thoroughly impressive this weekend in putting Everton to the sword in their 5 - 1 victory, but only last week lost 3 - 1 to relegation - threatened Swansea City, and the contrast in performances is worrying.

And no, you don't only see Arsenal jersey in Addis, you see Man Utd in equal amount, next is Chelsea, Real, Barca, Liverpool take the share.And I can say that you would not see any supporter of City and Spurs, a lot of football lovers appecrciate clubs like Spurs, Everton, Southampton, Dourtmund, Swansea (Laudrup's Swansea).

Back at the top of the table, rounding out the top five in action this weekend are Liverpool -LRB--205) on the road against Crystal Palace (+550 to win, +340 to draw) and Manchester United -LRB--475) hosting Swansea City (+1300 to win, +500 to draw).

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Swansea City and Everton are also interested in Campbell, who impressed for Greek side Olympiakos is last season's Champions League, which saw him face Manchester United in the first knockout round.

Makelele is certainly a Premier League legend in his own right and is currently mentoring Abraham at Swansea City where the 20 - year - old striker is spending a season on loan from Stamford Bridge.

It may only have been against the EPL's bottom club Swansea City but it will have given our opponents a nice boost as it keeps them in the top half of the league and was their third win in six games and a rare three points on the road.

Abraham has already registered two Premier League goals for Swansea in this season's campaign and is proving his worth in top flight football after a year on loan in the Championship with Bristol City.

The replacement for Graham is expected to be Stoke City's Kenwyne Jones, who is set to be given permission to open talks with Swansea City despite being a first - team regular at the Britannia Stadium in recent weeks.

And just in case this is not quite enough firepower for Man City in the second half of the season, it looks like Manuel Pellegrini has pulled off the transfer of Wilfried Bony from Swansea City.

As well as Swansea, Sky Sports report that a bid had already been rejected for the midfielder from rivals Leicester City, which was reportedly more valuable than the # 40M that the Toffees had bid for the Icelandic international, who managed nine goals and 13 assists in 38 league games last season as Swansea managed to avoid relegation.

They are in a «crisis» now after playing Swansea and Man City (two teams that Arsenal EASILY beats every season).

Hooper has been one of Norwich City manager Chris Hughton's key targets in the January transfer window as he looks to bring in more firepower to assist Grant Holt in attack, with Swansea City forward Danny Graham also the subject of interest.

Sunderland are one of number of clubs interested in signing 27 - year - old Graham, with north - east rivals Newcastle United, Reading, Queens Park Rangers and Norwich City also thought to be keen on doing a # 4.5 million deal with Swansea.

For starters one big miss will be Zlatan Ibrahimovic who happily picked up his fifth yellow card of the season in the Swansea City game and made sure he wouldn't be able to torment the man that wanted him to do a trial at Arsenal..

Man United's desire to bring in further signings may well be fueled by two poor displays, Sunday's draw at Sunderland marginally more impressive than their opening day defeat at home to Swansea City, and top of the pile could well be a «Marquee» deal that would break the British transfer record by some distance.

Swansea City are considering sacking Bob Bradley in the next 48 hours after a string of disappointing results, according to the Daily Mail.

In - form Swansea City striker Danny Graham is to hold showdown talks with manager Michael Laudrup in a bid to secure a return to the north - east with Sunderland, according to The SuIn - form Swansea City striker Danny Graham is to hold showdown talks with manager Michael Laudrup in a bid to secure a return to the north - east with Sunderland, according to The Suin a bid to secure a return to the north - east with Sunderland, according to The Sun.

Undoubtedly the bargain buy of the summer the Swansea City man has more than paid back the # 1.6 m investment made in him by his South Wales employers.

In midfield, Marouane Fellaini is facing a race against time to recover from a calf injury, which he picked up during United's 3 - 1 win over Swansea City last time out.

City are unbeaten in 11 meetings in the Premier League against Swansea and ran out convincing 4 - 0 winners when these teams met at the Liberty Stadium earlier in the season.

Gylfi Sigurdsson joined from Hoffenheim after catching the eye in the Premier League on loan with Swansea, Jan Vertonghen joined from Ajax, Moussa Dembele arrived for # 15million from Fulham, joined by the exciting Clint Dempsey for what looked like a bargain at # 6million, Emmanuel Adebayor's loan deal from Manchester City was made permanent, and Lyon goalkeeper Hugo Lloris joined for # 12million.

The Reds were impressed with the 20 - year - old during his temporary spell at Swansea City last season and wanted to give him a chance in the Premier League.

United meanwhile have been beaten by Swansea City for the second time this season and now have Liverpool breathing down their necks in the race for fourth.

The Gunners are up to third and now sit just two points off the leaders Man City and just one behind our north London rivals Tottenham, so with a very winnable looking game at home to struggling Swansea City next up in the Premier League, there is plenty for us to be happy and optimistic about.

The big forward has been making a name for himself as a handful in Russia and has such been attracting interest from the likes of Borussia Dortmund and Swansea City.

Spurs struggled with that last season as Vincent Janssen was unable to effectively step in for the England international while he was out injured, but their latest recruit will surely handle the pressure much better having netted 15 Premier League goals for Swansea City last season and is a seasoned international with experience in Europe's major leagues and the Champions League.

Jose Mourinho furiously reacted when Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro ran onto the pitch after Eden Hazard was fouled in injury time against Swansea City.

As seen below, Lamela won't be a fan of it after seeing his goal chalked off, but from a Tottenham perspective, it was a successful night at a snowy Wembley as they now face Swansea City in the next round and remain in the hunt for silverware, with or without VAR getting involved.

We've spent 14 days of the transfer window trying to negotiate peanuts for a player that MAY but equally MAY NOT be the next midfield beast we need meanwhile Man City have brought in Bony who is a player that we could have done with and probably could have got before he upped his value with Swansea, I hear people on here talking about Wanyama and we could have got him prior to his move to Southampton, there's talk of Dybala who will undoubtedly go to either Man united or cheski in the summer, we are missing a trick with virtually every player that is strengthening our opposition and we sit and quibble about # half a million for some unknown child from Warsaw.

Louis van Gaal and Man United, meanwhile, were in turmoil, but after a terrible run of results saw them lose four games on the spin they managed to bounce back with a win over Swansea City last weekend.

Ofcorse it is, the injuries are to be blamed for all Arsenal problems.This year it is the injuries, last year it is the injuries and the year before that it is the injuries.It is really shame for a club like arsenal to give excuses for their problem on injuries season after season after season.According to the manager, the players and the majority of the fans, the problems has nothing to do with the fact that the club did not strengthened the most problematic area in the team, DM and CBs; it has nothing to do with the fact that players were played out of position; and it has nothing to do with the fact that Wenger's tactical inability (for games like Liverpool 5 - 1, Chelsea 6 - 0, City 6 - 3, Everton 3 - 0, Andrelechet 3 - 3, Swansea 2 - 1).

Arsene Wenger's side are currently languishing in 6th in the Premier League after last night's defeat to relegation battlers Swansea City, but Aubameyang could be just what's needed to spark an improvement.

1 A DEFEAT WILL END ARSENAL»S TITLE HOPE!Arsenal travel to White Hart Lane knowing that a defeat would virtually end their title chances, a conclusion many have already reached following embarrassing performances in back - to - back defeats by Manchester United and Swansea.2 IT WILL END WENGER»S EXCUSES IF SPURS WINS THE GAME AND THE TITLEWenger's excuse for failing to win the title for the last 12 years has mainly revolved around the greater resources of the likes of Manchester City and Chelsea.What could the reason be this time if Tottenham or Leicester wins it?