Sentences with phrase «against league giants»

The 21 year old broke into the starting line up for the game against Sporting Braga after distinguishing himself in his first game against League giants Sporting Lisbon, where he was introduced as a substitute in the 31st minute.

Not exact matches

A seventh - placed finish in Serie A coupled with defeat in the Coppa Italia final against Juventus on May 21 would see the Italian giants miss out on a place in the Europa League next season.

The England Under - 21 international joined the west London giants» academy aged 7 and earned his first competitive debut in a Champions League clash against MSK Zilina in 2010 — with high expectations placed on his shoulders.

Real Madrid's Champions League triumph against Paris Saint - Germain last night may prove something of a headache for Premier League giants Manchester United and Chelsea.

However, the Premier League giants turned this round against Watford, and this Chelsea man now reckons there will no stopping his team.

The great thing about football is there are so many leagues and teams and quality available, if your team is in the crapper at the moment (as Arsenal seems to be) you can still take joy in watching the sheer artistry of say Real vs. Barca even as a neutral or supporting a team in another league or rooting for your league teams against the European giants.

The England international, who joined Manchester City for a fee believed to be in the region of # 49million earlier in the summer, has scored just once since his move and spurned a number of golden opportunities against Serie A giants Juventus in their Champions League opener on Tuesday night.

The Red Sox will look for more success against the National League in a two - game set in San Francisco against the Giants starting Tuesday.

The Spanish right - back has enjoyed somewhat of a whirlwind year with the Gunners as he struggled on his UEFA Champions League debut against Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund 12 months ago and it appeared he wasn't quite ready to make the step up to first - team football at the time.

Juan Cuadrado's brilliant goal ended up winning all three points for 10 - man Juventus against French giants Lyon in the Champions League.

Both clubs made early exits from the Capital One Cup — Arsenal losing to Southampton, after United were thrashed by MK Dons — while the North London giants face the ominous task of trying to overturn a 3 - 1 deficit against AS Monaco in the Champions League second round clash.

The Premier League giants played against Real Madrid in Michigan on Saturday, with Chelsea ultimately going on to fall to a 3 - 2 defeat.

But according to our other big German star, Shkodran Mustafi, there is no reason why we should be overawed at facing the Bundesliga giants — as we are used to playing against massive sides in the Premier League on a regular basis.

In addition to Wolfsburg being arguably the toughest Pot 4 team in the Champions League, the prospect of Man United starlet Anthony Martial going up against the Bundesliga giants must be exciting to folks at Old Trafford.

The Italian international has been quoted as saying he would like to bow out at Juve with a win in the Champions League final, with his side edging Real Madrid 2 - 1 in the first leg of their semi-final against the Spanish giants.

As reported by Arsenal.com this week the manager has suggested that he may still not be ready to face the National League side Lincoln City as they look to continue their amazing FA cup dream with the biggest giant killing yet against the Arsenal.

Real Madrid took a giant step to the quarter - finals of the Champions League after taking a 2 - 0 away lead in their last - 16 tie against Schalke.

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Chelsea drew with Spanish giants Atletico Madrid as the Blues finished second in their Champions League behind Italian side Roma following their win against FK Qarabag.

The current Premier League leaders went into the clash against the Hammers on the back of suffering a 2 - 1 loss at the hands of Serie A giants Juventus in the Champions League opener in midweek, although they had made a perfect start to the domestic campaign.

Messi's goal was his first against Chelsea in nine meetings with the Blues, ending a barren run of 730 minutes without one against the Premier League giants.

The Spanish giants similarly won their domestic league and reached the Champions League final against all the odds, but have managed to bring in top quality replacements for their departed league and reached the Champions League final against all the odds, but have managed to bring in top quality replacements for their departed League final against all the odds, but have managed to bring in top quality replacements for their departed stars.

Behind only Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in La Liga's scoring charts this year, the 27 - year - old has shown his ability to perform on the biggest stage, performing in high profile games such as the Super Cup win over Chelsea, where he netted a superb hat trick, and scoring against giants Real Madrid and Barcelona in league games.

And our giant centre back seemed to be at it again this weekend and his failure to deal with a cross was even more costly this time as it allowed Martin Skrtel a free header to deny Arsenal a rare and valuable away win against a big Premier League rival.

The Gunners crashed out of the Champions League with a 10 - 2 aggregate scoreline against the German giants, heaping more pressure on Wenger with some supporters protesting against him prior to kick - off.

The Italian giants were reportedly travelling by train for their away fixture against Champions League qualification rivals Fiorentina.

The Portuguese giants go into the Europa League clash with a 1 - 0 advantage against the Eredivise side and Markovic is expected to be named in the starting line up.

With Diego Costa and Loic Remy currently unavailable due to injury, Drogba has become the first choice striker for Jose Mourinho and proved he still has the knack for scoring in the big games by grabbing the all - important equaliser on Wednesday night in the 3 - 1 win against Leicester City as the Blues took a giant step towards lifting the Premier League title for the first time since 2010.

With Real Madrid striker Gareth Bale set to lead the La Liga giants against Man City in the Champions League this coming week — with or without Cristiano Ronaldo — he could easily end the impressive run by the Citizens in its tracks in Spain this week.

After a rather unsatisfactory draw against Spurs in the North London derby, Arsenal welcome Turkish giants Galatasaray to the Emirates for the next round of the Champions League group stages.

Man of the match — Callum Robinson: Scoring against Premier League giants Arsenal is one hell of a feat, and Robinson was unlucky that his goal didn't prove decisive.

Two losses were to league rival Terra Linda (a team the Giants also beat) while two notable wins were against top teams from Oregon and Washington.

After Roma's recent historic comeback from down 4 - 1 in the Champions League against the Catalan giants, this game will be highly anticipated.

A giant of a man, he appeared to fill the goal when at full stretch and his gigantic frame and enormous physical presence belied a subtle agility which enabled him to produce some remarkable saves, not least against Rapid Vienna in 1996 when he somehow clawed Rene Wagner's header away from the goal - line during a Champions League tie.

One of the English giant Chelsea will play the 7th round of league at this 1st October 2016 against new promoted team Hull City.

With Vilanova's side having not lost in the league since March 2 it would be a very brave person to bet against the Spanish giants.

Chelsea will begin their tournament on July 28 with a clash against La Liga giants Sevilla who knocked Manchester United out in the Champions League this season in the last 16.

Draxler was in superb form against the Premier League giants at Stamford Bridge and was a key reason why the Royal Blues could earn a 1 - 1 draw.

The 27 - year - old has been on Real's radar since he scored four goals against the Spanish giants in the 2013 Champions League semi-final for his previous club Borussia Dortmund.

Atletico Madrid stood strong and held their own against the Catalan giants in the first leg of their Champions League quarter - final tie and even took the lead through Diego, whose sensational drive from 30 yards left Jose Pinto with no chance of a save whatsoever.

Also start the season's first Champions League match with a victory against English giant side Arsenal by 2 - 1 goals at home.

Barcelona all but sealed their place in the quarter finals of the Champions League following an extremely impressive 2 - 0 victory away from home against Arsenal and the Catalan giants are now very well placed to claim an unprecedented consecutive treble this season.

Meanwhile, Martial, who plies his trade for Premier League giants Manchester United, is expected to return for his club's fixture against Huddersfield on Saturday.

Messi, who made his senior debut as a 16 - year - old in a friendly against Porto, has eight LaLiga titles, four Champions League wins and five Copa del Rey successes among his list of honours with the Catalan giants.

Shohei Ohtani went 2 - 4 against the Giants on Friday where he picked up his first hits against a National League team.

The four former stars kicked off the «LFC World Presented by Standard Chartered» at High Street Phoenix here where they reminisced about the greatest night in Liverpool history, that miraculous comeback from 0 - 3 down against Italian giants AC Milan in the Champions League final in 2005 in Istanbul.

Joining the Italian giants from Athletic Bilbao in 2013, Fernando won two Serie A titles during his tenure and also lifted the Coppa Italia in 2015 before appearing in the Champions League final against Barcelona that same year, in what would be one of his last games for the club.

After that heroic fight back against Everton, the rejuvenated Bournemouth team won their next three fixtures in the league and defeated Premier League giants like Chelsea and Manchester United in back to back league and defeated Premier League giants like Chelsea and Manchester United in back to back League giants like Chelsea and Manchester United in back to back games.

After taking a point at the Old Trafford against Manchester United, Hull City with 2 - 0 celebrated against another Premier league giant, Liverpool, and thus moved up from the league bottom, while in the process, extended Reds» misery.

Manchester United host domestic rivals Manchester City at Old Trafford in the first game of the weekend after the conclusion of the international break, as the two English giants go head to head against each other in order to claim a top spot in the Premier League points table.