Sentences with phrase «against a league of»

As I stood at Dalymount Park that night, the only connection I was able to provide was that our goalkeeper Colin McDonald suffered his career ending broken leg in 1959 whilst playing for the Football League against the League of Ireland at that very ground.
The story finds Aaron Taylor - Johnson's Kick - Ass and Chloe Grace Moretz's Hit Girl inspiring a new wave of masked superheroes to join in the fight against a league of villains led by the Motherfucker (Christopher Mintz - Plasse).

Not exact matches

In the AFC title game, against the Jaguars» league - best passing defense, Brady took control of the game, carving up Jacksonville to erase a 10 - point fourth - quarter deficit in minutes.
The 45 - year - old is, of course, referring to the jaw - dropping volley he scored against Bayer Leverkusen in the 2002 Champions League final at Hampden Park in Scotland.
Even though he'll be 40 by the time the 2017 season starts, Brady is still the most terrifying matchup in the league, capable of leading his offense to insurmountable leads in the first quarter and coming back against any odds with ruthless precision and an uncanny ability to compel his receivers into miracle catches.
Just 25 years old, Salah still has plenty of room to grow, but has been nothing short of astounding for Liverpool this year, and entered the first leg of the Champions League semifinal against Roma in the best form of his career.
In the daily games, participants pay to compete for cash prizes against others in online leagues based on imaginary teams assembled from rosters of real players, which accumulate points based on how those players perform in actual games.
Solo's team, the Seattle Reign FC of the National Women's Soccer League, announced that the goalie had been «granted a personal leave» before the team faced off against the Portland Thorns on Saturday night.
The Time Warner deal, which would give AT&T access to content like HBO's «Game of Thrones» and Warner Bros» «Justice League,» reflects AT&T's effort to compete for advertising dollars against Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and Facebook (FB.O).
Arsene Wenger wants a happy ending to his Arsenal love story and admits their Europa League semi-final against Atletico Madrid on Thursday will affect the future of the club.
Believing he has been blackballed for his controversial on - the - field protests against police violence and systemic racism, Kaepernick's legal team has filed a grievance against the NFL, accusing league owners of colluding to prevent him from working in football anymore.
When the Anti-Defamation League - a leading Jewish group devoted to fighting anti-Semitism and «all forms of bigotry» - came out against the construction of an Islamic center and mosque near New York's ground zero last year, some critics alleged that the organization had lost its way.
Our selfish isolationism, our refusal to participate in the effort to build a world order of peace and justice through the League of Nations, our aloofness from the World court, our scuttling of the London Economic Conference, our interference with the free flow of goods by high tariffs, our Oriental Exclusion Act, our arming of Japan for her war upon China, are a few of the counts in the indictment which the God and Father of all mankind must bring against us.
All three of these Premier League reformers — and many others in the lower divisions — had a propensity to banish anyone who spoke out against them.
She is threatening to take legal action against her condo association and has gained the support of the Anti-Defamation League.
They warned Americans against the temptation to punish the German people and warned Wilson against politicizing the League of Nations.
The Anti-Defamation League lashed out Friday against what it called «deeply offensive and hateful caricatures of Israelis and Jews» drawn by cartoonists across the Muslim world in the wake of the Gaza flotilla incident that left nine dead.
But in the last two weeks, this league of six church softball teams shrank to five when the pastors of three Baptist churches told one of the participating churches that their teams would no longer take the field against that church's team.
Their group - created strategy included these actions: establishing cooperative links with other churches and groups committed to ecology; developing a Center of Ecology Information and a paperback book table at the church; devising methods to reach decision - makers in the community; exploring the development of a coordinating council of all ecology groups active in that community — Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Zero Population Growth, League of Conservation Voters, Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, World Population, GASP (Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, etc..
In my opinion it would be silly not to play our strongest side against the strongest of European opponents and that of course means the Champions League winner Petr Cech in goal ahead of David Ospina.
They were knocked out of the Champions League quarter - finals to Liverpool on Tuesday night and failed to win the Premier League title against rivals Manchester Utd last weekend — after surrendering a two goal lead.
There has to be some kind of league rule against that nonsense.
A Man Utd predicted line up as the Red Devils take on PSV in their opening game of the Champions League, with Anthony Martial tipped to start after his superb debut goal against Liverpool at the weekend...
Southampton — TBA — LOSE They're starting to show some good form of late, and were brilliant in defeat against Man Utd in the League Cup final.
Hopefully we have recovered from our game against Besiktas and can focus on the Premier League, because that's one of the important targets of the season.»
The former Porto boss has been less than impressed by some decisions against his team, even going so far as calling referees» chief Mike Riley to complain about the performance of the officials in Chelsea's Barclays Premier League defeat at Manchester United.
One of the Premier League players who has really improved his game this season is Spurs winger Nacer Chadli, who has been in amongst the goals and one of his side's most dangerous attacking players — he thoroughly deserved his goal against Chelsea at White Hart Lane.
Arsenal centre - back Gabriel Paulista has revealed the Gunners» intentions ahead of their Champions League match against Bayern Munich in midweek.
The Blues have suffered defeats against both Liverpool and Arsenal so far this season and will be hoping to avoid a hat - trick of loses against the leagues «big boys.»
We also managed 4 out of 6 points against them in the league.
MOURINHO»S EXCELLENT RECORD Here's a fact to impress your mates with... Jose Mourinho has not lost any of his 13 league and cup matches against Arsene Wenger so far, securing seven wins and six draws.
It was also because we had the Champions League qualifier and that cost us a lot of energy against Besiktas.
Of course we might not be exactly buzzing with self - belief ourselves but at least we are coming up against a team that is also yet to win this season, with a draw against Southampton and a loss to Chelsea before this league cup exit.
The 30 year - old was rightly chosen for the Man of the Match award for his outstanding performance against the Premier League champions.
We have a strong squad for playing in the Europa League, Premier League and the final of Capital One Cup against Chelsea.
Did you see his performance against Man City, he hardly got a sniff of the ball, how would he get on in the most competitive league in the world.
If you wasn't tryin your best to be a knobhead «Buddie» which round my part of NW London [buddie] means your dick... You'd know that Jack Wilshire was in the champion league final against barcelona and at that time he was round 18 yrs old and ran their much acclaimed mid-field ragged and it was a catalyst for him as from then on he was counted among the most promising mid-fielders arsenal and england had ever produced.
Forster has shot to prominence with his displays for Celtic over the last couple of years, but has now moved on from the Glasgow club despite their Champions League reprieve and upcoming play - off tie against Slovenian champions Maribor.
Arsenal fans will have been a bit worried to say the least when the news came in on Saturday that our opponents for the first game of the Premier League season had just put the mighty Barcelona to the sword, with a 4 - 0 win against a strong side including their former striker Luis Suarez, Messi, Iniesta and all.
United currently have an astounding 13 players on the sidelines ahead of Thursday night's Europa League clash with Danish side FC Midtylland and will likely have to field a number of players that featured against Shrewsbury on Monday.
He only started 16 Serie A games & finished with 7 goals & 7 assists in a tight Serie A. He's a big game player - scored in the Champions League final against Barcelona in 2014/15 & both legs of the semis against Real, & the recent Italian Cup final this season with his first touch.
Arsenal could do with the goal threat of Lacazette in such a big game against a defensively solid Spurs side riding high in the Premier League.
The Blues sit top of the Premier League table by a huge seven points at present, with Liverpool able to close that gap to only six points should they win this evening against Stoke City.
this is a man who played yaya sanogo against bayern munich in the knock out stage of the champions league rather than buy reinforcements
Wish we can pull off the kind of performance and result against Everton on the 15th of August 2009 for a dream start to the league
Watching yesterday's game against fucking West Brom, the absolute dross of the premier league, I really have no clue how United are second in the table.
I bet he watched videos of Mourinho's masterclass against Chelsea in the league over and over again before the FA cup final.
Wengers method of bluffing the board & fans to keep him for a further season... > We loose enough games to take us completely off winning the league, then say it wasn't in our control, we then fight till the end and win last few games so we look good and like we worked hard to earn the 4th place trophy.He then links us with awesome transfers (which we all know wont happen), and finally while Man U / City and Chelsea organise pre-season friendlies against top clubs, we play the weak ones, win and look all good to go next season without any additions... AND THEN REALITY STRIKES..
Arsene Wenger was never going to come out and say that Arsenal are out of the Champions League, as we still have the second leg against Barcelona at the Nou Camp to play in a couple of weeks.
Last season Arsenal came close to becoming the best defense in the entire league with good defensive stats, but this good news was smashed by the conceding 22 horrible goals against the teams in the top five, 20 of those on away games to those same top teams (Chelsea, City, Liverpool, and Everton).
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