Sentences with phrase «world cup match against»

Tim Howard had a record 16 saves in the World Cup match against Belgium.

Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has publicly apologised for biting Giorgio Chiellini during Uruguay's World Cup match against Italy last week.

However, the striker is expected to be a key figure for Argentina, who play their opening World Cup match against Iceland on June 16.

Tough blow for the United States during the 21st minute of their opening World Cup match against Ghana as striker Jozy...

Chile striker, Mauricio Pinilla, nearly became the hero after coming in as a sub with the score tied at 1 - 1 tie during Saturday's World Cup match against Brazil.

India hold the mental edge heading into their fifth World Cup match against their sub-continent neighbours, having won all four previous clashes.

Villa, who was the top scorer at Euro 2008 and joint top scorer at the 2010 World Cup, broke his tibia playing for Barcelona in a Club World Cup match against Qatari side Al - Sadd way back in December 2011.

Bayern Munich striker Mario Mandžukić will be suspended for the first World Cup match against hosts Brazil, but could still be given the friendly nod.

After Team USA goalie Tim Howard's divine performance in Tuesday's World Cup match against Belgium, some folks - ok, a lot of folks - were comparing the devout Christian's saving power to Jesus.

However, without doubt his finest hour was the lifting of the Asian Cup which was the perfect present for the members of the 1965 Australian team who played the first World Cup matches against North Korea.

Not exact matches

The athletic wear brand experienced a small public relations snafu this week when FIFA banned Luis Suarez, the star of Uruguay World Cup team, from the rest of the World Cup for biting a rival player in a match against Italy.

The France midfielder had been one of the stars of the Gunners» solid start to the season, and backed that up with a match - winning performance in his country's opening World Cup qualifier against Finland.

Italy striker Mario Balotelli has been strongly linked with Arsenal this summer, but his performances at the World Cup for the Azzuri were disappointing after the opening match against England.

It means that he will definitely miss Saturday's match against Leicester City but also then the game against Watford as well as Wales's first World Cup qualifier against Moldova on Sept 5.

The match on Sunday pits Sanchez's Chile against Brazil in a rematch of the South American side's World Cup last - 16 clash in the summer which Brazil won on penalties.

Apparently Thomas Müller, who has netted five - goals so far for Germany in the World Cup, and has a chance to beat out Colombia's James Rodriguez for the Golden Boot if he scores twice in the World Cup Final against Argentina, prepares for his matches by putting on his dancing shoes.

Hodgson is clearly keen to build on the momentum of the great comeback win over the World Cup holders and so he suggested that there may not be nearly as many changes as people expected for the match against Russia at Wembley tonight.

Colombia broke the record for the oldest World Cup player of all time in their third match against Japan.

Who winds up being part of their World Cup qualifying squad for Argentina's match on Sept. 1 against Uruguay will be very telling for that — don't be surprised if several of the players currently believed to be leaving the team are playing that day.

Outstanding Casillas moments include his two penalty saves in the Euro 2008 quarter - final shootout against Italy, a match widely considered to have been the making of the current Spain team, and his one - on - one save with his foot from Arjen Robben in the World Cup final against Netherlands.

The manager of the Chile national team, Jorge Sampaoli, has already given the Gunners a fright this week by admitting that he played our star striker for the full 90 minutes against Brazil in a World Cup qualifying match, despite knowing that he was not fully fit and so was at risk of aggravating the injury Alexis picked up during the Premier League win over Manchester United.

The playmaker featured for La Roja in their 1 - 1 draw against Colombia on Thursday, but complained of calf pain after the match and was expected to be ruled out of his nation's World Cup qualifier against Uruguay on Tuesday.

The US men's national team will play a pivotal World Cup qualifying match against Panama Friday night in Orlando, Florida, and fans are rightfully nervous.

we faced them twice without loosing against them beating them in d process, world class matic was in chelsea team we dominated and annihilated @ fa cup finals, with matic making zero successful tackles and was a liability all tru d duration of d match, was ran over by our midfielders like ever, lukaku was in Everton team we beat 3; 0 even with 10 men, even with Mert @ our back he couldn't even smell a goal, the way we ridicule our players is terrible, to some dudes here all we have is bunch of idiots, parading as players, what a pathetic bunch of ingrates, between Sanchez and walcot last season we have 49 goals and numerous assists, how many goals has Rashford and Martial scored since last season that makes they super stars?

The Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey may have only played a couple of half games for the Gunners since returning from his hamstring injury sustained in our opening match against Liverpool, but he is certain to start tonight for Wales against Serbia in the crucial World Cup Qualifying game.

The world cup game in Brazil could be a perfect example to illustrate my point, here: In the match between Spain and Netherlands, Van Gaal had setup his Dutch side in the 3 -4-1-2 system, and relied solely on counter-attacking against a Spain side known to favor tiki - taka, over any other Footballing philosophy.

Giroud played high intensity games at the world cup, played 45 minutes at the emirates cup and against Palace, he also played 90 minutes in Turkey and I'm sorry but he looked listless in all the games, if match fitness was a legitimate excuse there should have been a gradual improvement from game to game, but there haven't been any improvement.

Brazil will expect nothing less than a comfortable win against Croatia in the opening match of the 2014 World Cup, which they should be capable of getting.

If you look at youtube and the world cup game against Argentina, Ospina was awesome and definately affected the outcome of the match, argentina were unable to beat him.

Mexico found a way to get a draw against the hometown Brazil during the teams second match of the World Cup's...

If you saw how Spain played against Albania and Italy in the World Cup qualification matches, you would see Silva, Isco and Thiago chased, pressurized and tackled their opponents.

Wayne Rooney finally tallied his first World Cup goal for England on Thursday against Uruguay, tying the match up at 1 - 1...

They had similar highly talented players like Mbappe, Dembele and Pogba in the World Cup 2002, but they struggled against Senegal in the opening match, because of the way they play.

Arsenal fans and Arsene Wenger will be hoping that the prognosis on the injury suffered by the Arsenal and Germany international defender Shkodran Mustafi last night in the final World Cup qualifying match against Azerbaijan will not prove to be too bad.

The former Nacional star bit Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini during Uruguay's World Cup game against Italy and was subsequently suspended for nine international matches.

The first goalkeeper to be sent - off was Gianluca Pagliuca of Italy in a match against Norway during the opening round of the 1994 World Cup.

if you look some old videos of pele was amazing, his dribbling, ball control and shoot was much better than maradona, who forgot the match against uruguay 1970 world cup pele performed the best skill ever.yes maradona win the biggest poll of fifa, but was voted by young fans who do nt see pele play, in the other hand pele wins win the poll by lengendery players who wins golden balls, if you do nt believe watch here http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/best-x-players-of-y.html.

That run has left their World Cup qualification hopes in the balance and, ahead of Ramsey's return tonight for a pivotal match against Serbia, manager Chris Coleman has bracketed the Arsenal midfielder up with Bale among the world's eWorld Cup qualification hopes in the balance and, ahead of Ramsey's return tonight for a pivotal match against Serbia, manager Chris Coleman has bracketed the Arsenal midfielder up with Bale among the world's eworld's elite.

Romania's Rǎducanu Necula had the honour of being the first goalkeeper to be used as a sub in a World Cup game, coming on for his compatriot Stere Adamache during a group match against Brazil in 1970.

The striker suffered a hamstring injury in the United States opening match against Ghana in the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, ruining his competition.

The winner of this match will qualify for the Club World Cup final which will be played at the same venue against Brazilian side Grêmio who qualify for the final after beating Pachuca, mexican side.

Amber Hill has secured a bronze medal in the skeet competition of the ISSF Shotgun World Cup in San Marino Hill held her nerve in a shoot off in the bronze medal match against Ning Wei.

Robertson got her World Cup off to a storming start with a player of the match performance against South Africa.

After this weekend, the Wanderers have another three A-League matches (two at home against Sydney FC and Brisbane Roar, one away against Adelaide) before travelling to Morocco for the Club World Cup where they play their first game on December 13th in Rabat.

The Colombian journalist Vicky Davila announced via her Twitter profile that Uruguay football team are considering boycotting match of the eighth finals of the World Cup against Colombia.

Prior to the start of the World Cup, Russia will be up against Korea, Iran, and Argentina in three friendly matches.

In last FIFA World Cup, they faced an unfortunate defeat against Germany but he was announced as the player of the match.

David Vaughan after missing Wales» World Cup Qualifier against Scotland through injury also faces a battle to be fit for tomorrows match.

The winner of this match will qualify for the Club World Cup final which will be played at the same venue against Brazilian side -LSB-...]

Pogba has been an important player for France at the ongoing 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil and was one of their best against Nigeria in the last 16 — a match which Didier Deschamps» side won 2 - 0.