Sentences with phrase «against a stoke side»

It hasn't always been convincing though, particularly in midweek in the Europa League against Zorya Luhansk, but against a Stoke side currently sitting in 19th place in the Premier League table, they'll be confident of getting all three points.

There should be three points on offer at home for them here to further their cause, against a Stoke side who are on a four - match losing streak.

Antonio Rudiger headed the opener inside three minutes before Danny Drinkwater struck his first Chelsea goal with an outstanding half - volley, and when Pedro added a third halfway through the first half, three points against a Stoke side who have not won at Stamford Bridge since winning promotion to the Premier League in 2008 were secure.

And they could well get it against a Stoke side who haven't tasted victory in 10 games.

Not exact matches

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..

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.

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.

Arsenal have to secure the attack and get Alexis ready for the match against Barca and the remaining fixtures against top premier league sides.The team has to win against Barca and then beat them at Nou - Camp causes it really is irritating to see Wenger playing bad players in the big matches in the past, Arsenal have allowed themselves to be weak where Wenger is after the league means these Southhampton, Stoke, Chelsea get the luck against this side.

Mata is now concreted his place in the United side, and he will likely be rested for tonight's game against Zorya Luhansk in preparation for Sunday's game at struggling Stoke.

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.

plus most teams they played were bottom sides and they lost 2 pts against stoke, we lost 3 so we are really 1 pts behind them.

Jake Livermore, Tom Huddlestone and Michael Dawson will be fired up against former club Spurs, who have already come unstuck against hard - working sides like Stoke and West Brom this season.

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.

France international Anthony Martial, who has bagged 27 goals in 95 games during his United career, has also been handed a start by Jose Mourinho for their match tonight, with the winger having reclaimed his place in the side after starting on the substitutes bench for their fixture against Stoke on Saturday.

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.

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.

I also think that Theo plays a lot on confidence, once he starts scoring, he just looks like a beast, hopefully his 2 goals today (although against an awful side) will give him a boost, I hope to see him net one against Switzerland, and then give him a start on the right against Stoke, who I feel may come at us.

Since then Arsenal have played well and been ruthless enough to win by large margins against the likes of West Ham, Bournemouth, Stoke and Basel and I am sure that is exactly what Arsene Wenger is looking for in this evening's trip to face Ronald Koeman's struggling Everton side.

Going into the game against Stoke on Sunday, the Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger will have a much tougher job in selecting the starting eleven as the Frenchman welcomes as many as four players back into the side.

It show our fighting spirit, as we won 4 - 3 and does send a signal to our premiership rivals, but we need consistancy so let go to stoke and pick up three points as those sides we do struggle against

If your playing against a physical Stoke side pack the team with fighters not fairies.

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.

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.

Our boys will also be thriving on their weekend's 4 - 1 victory, in which we ran Stoke absolutely ragged, and the prospect of continuing that goalscoring prowess against a downbeat Sunderland side is very possible.

Unnecessary to risk Sanchez against a physical side like Stoke, keep him on he bench and play Campbell who's been getting better with each game and successfully kept us challenging in the absence of our no17.

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.

This is the stuff we saw when Arsenal were up against a good quality champions league side or a determined Stoke or Watford that were able to nullify and frustrate us, causing us to panic and lose our heads and ideas.

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 Stoke City manager Mark Hughes has slowly been improving his side over the years and this summer he has managed to persuade the PSG star Jese Rodriguez to join the club on a year's loan and has also brought in defender Bruno Martins Indi from Porto, and he is hoping to see the team improve on last years home performances against the big sides, starting with Arsenal tomorrow.

Arsenal were absolutely amazing in todays game against Stoke and it looked like a practise game against an U21 side, except for the brilliant performance of the Stoke goalkeeper Jack Butland.

But once again this weekend Stoke were a shadow of that side as they meekly allowed Man City to win and score four goals without reply, just as they did against another of our main rivals Tottenham on Monday.

So far this season, all games for both sides have been very tight, with Stoke drawing twice and losing by one goal twice, whereas Arsenal have drawn one, won two games by one goal and famously lost their opening game against West Ham.

Both our strikers in Giroud and Walcott scored against a terrible Stoke side.

He sets out his side, lines them up against the normally physical and industrious Stoke side.

Leicester's only clean sheet in eight games came against Sky Bet Championship outfit Sheffield United in the previous round of this competition and even struggling sides such as Swansea, Stoke and West Brom have notched past Kasper Schmeichel since the start of February.

The Reds looked like a team that had lost its identity in the latter stages of Brendan Rodgers» reign but now, following their recent 4 - 1 win against Stoke City, Liverpool look like a side with confidence flowing through their veins.

Lost 5 - 1 to Liverpool, lost 6 - 0 to Chelsea, blown a 3 - 0 lead against Anderlecht, been 3 - 0 down at half time to Stoke, blown a seven point lead at the top of the table and lost 2 - 1 at home to the worst Manchester United side in over 20 years.

Stoke are just lacking the attacking threat to really make a go of this against a top - six side who are by and large, pretty good on home soil.

14 — Stoke City have lost more games versus Chelsea in the Premier League than they have against any other side.

42 — Stoke City have conceded more goals versus Chelsea in the Premier League than they have against any other side.

It's unlikely that all too much credit will go in Mustafi's direction but keeping clean sheets against sides who need points as much as Stoke do says a lot about his chances of leadership in future years.

Arsenal produced a mature performance worthy of Premier League title challengers as they overcome a tricky test presented by Stoke City at the Emirates to come through 3 - 1 victors against Mark Hughes» side.

Stoke ended up with only 3 points from a possible 36 against the top six sides.

Liverpool boss Jürgen Klopp has made 3 changes to the side that lost 2 - 0 at West Ham for this evening's League Cup semi-final first leg tie against Stoke City at...

After last week's draw against Manchester United, Stoke were brought back down to earth with a loss at home to an impressive Swansea side.

Mark Hughes rested some key players in the EFL Cup game in midweek which means they will put a strong side against Stoke on Saturday.

KEY FACT: Stoke have won seven of their last nine home Premier League matches against newly promoted sides MATCH ODDS: Stoke 6/5 Draw 9/4 Brighton 11/4 bet365 Pick: Half time score 0 - 0 @ 6/4 ANDY SAYS: Stoke win for me here, think Paul Lambert will get the win... 2 - 0 GRAEME SAYS: Stoke have improved and they should just about claim the three points... 2 - 1 SILKY SAYS: I can see a home win, think Stoke will take the victory... 2 - 0 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: At # 0.69, Jack Butland has to be a good buy

Burnley are a better home side than they are away from home, but the Cherries took a recent victory on the road at Stoke which suggests that they can go to Turf Moor and collect all three points against the low - scoring Burnley.