Sentences with phrase «against one's former team»

Players tend to play best against their former teams.

Plus, the striker celebrated against his former team.

For the hosts goalkeeper Stephen Henderson will miss the opportunity to play against his former team due to a shoulder injury and Nick Pope will fill in between the sticks.

Bendtner shared a picture on Instagram of himself dabbing — perhaps he is practicing his goal celebration if he scores against his former team Arsenal in the mid-week League Cup clash.

Canadiens center Jonathan Drouin was held off the scoresheet in his first game against former team.

Manning has faced the Colts twice since leaving, splitting them with a home win more recently back in September 7 after going for 655 yards with six touchdowns against his former team in those two appearances.

Houston's leading man, James Harden, finished his season against his former team with 26 points and seven assists.

«It's always nice to show yourself at the Emirates against your former team, you always try to — this is only my first game coming back — but you try to be positive in the game and stay focused to help the team.

Randy Moss caught a touchdown against his former team (of course) and the Niners lead the Patriots in Foxboro.

Beyond them manager Antonio Conte has a fully - fit squad from which to choose, and must decide whether or not to retain Cesc Fabregas against his former team after his two goals at Leicester.

Since joining, Brown has made over 50 appearances for the various Chelsea youth teams and has made one first team appearance, playing 11 minutes against former team West Brom in a 3 - 0 loss in the Premier League.

Matt Kemp helped make sure Bartolo Colon's start against his former team, the Mets, wasn't wasted with this go - ahead two - run double in the 12th inning that put Atlanta up 3 - 1.

Carlos Tevez is always motivated coming up against his former team United.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is seeking a federal Department of Justice investigation into the U.S. Olympic Committee's handling of sexual abuse allegations against a former team doctor.

When Kyle Petri transferred to Cardinal Gibbons from Pompano Beach, coach Jason Hamilton promised him the ball when the Chiefs faced off against his former team at home.

Adams, an EWU transfer who beat out Jeff Lockie for the starting QB job despite missing part of fall camp, looked awesome against his former team.

He had several uncharacteristically subpar games to end the year, including a mediocre showing in the postseason against his former team, the Indianapolis Colts.

His first NHL game this season came against his former team and friends, and he chatted with MacKinnon throughout the game.

Cold blooded shot and performance against his former team.

The power - play goal was Stastny's third against his former team.

Nieto sealed the win with a goal against his former team with 3:14 remaining.

Anthony, who was traded from the Knicks to the Thunder right before training camp began, had 22 points against his former team.

Harden has been solid against his former team, averaging 55.8 DraftKings points in 16 games since 2014.

... Ian Mahinmi finished with 12 points and seven rebounds against his former team.

Isaac Hayden is out with an ankle injury and Wenger is not ready to give a Premier League start to Stefan O'Connor, so Debuchy is set to start in the middle against his former team.

Xabi Alonso and Toni Kroos have also switched the clubs and will be interesting to be seen what will they do against their former teams.

Christian Benteke missed the first of two fine chances against his former team when a header from Milivojevic sent him one - on - one with Karius before his composure deserted him and he hooked harmlessly wide.

But seeing Higuain be decisive against his former team — again — and Juventus defend and play textbook catenaccio even with some of its defensive stalwarts not playing might have been the biggest thing to come out of this.

If Huddersfield's misery had been increased by the first - half injuries suffered by Quaner and Pritchard, the latter against his former team, another picked up by referee Mike Jones during the warm - up had earlier led to fourth official Kevin Friend instead taking charge.

There hasn't been much to celebrate recently, so it was just a great moment to see Danny Welbeck thump a header in off the bar against his former team.

Cech made a save just a minute later against his former team.

Borja Valero nearly found the net against his former team, but his header midway through the second half sailed over the crossbar.

However Stephen Ireland could make an appearance against his former team after completing his loan move from Villa to Stoke.

Arsenal star Lukas Podolski knows all about Bayern and will be looking to impress against his former team.

Dan Osvaldo's 75th - minute substitution was greeted by a ton of jeers and boos as he stepped onto the field for the first time against his former team.

Tevez had recently transferred from United and managed to score in the match against his former team.

A finger injury sustained on international duty disrupted Howard's start to the 2007/08 season with the goalkeeper missing four games including one against his former team Manchester United.

Valverde always made things tough for Barça whenever the Blaugrana traveled to the San Mamés, so it will be interesting to see if Valverde's knowledge of the Lions will help him get a victory against his former team.

«We're finally getting people to listen,» explains the gymnast, who delivered a powerful testimony against former Team USA doctor #LarryNassar last week.

However, the court granted Plaintiff's motion against his former team members.

Stephan Litchsteiner scored against his former team to give Juventus their pass to the semifinals.

Whether it was innate motivation to play well against his former team or the manager had a plan for him, Nemanja Matic was brilliant on the day.

Anthony is averaging 24.9 points and 6.2 rebounds over 12 games against his former team, but has yet to win in Denver since being traded (0 - 5).

«It's always nice to show yourself at the Emirates against your former team, you always try to - this is only my first game coming back - but you try to be positive in the game and stay focused to help the team.

Injury watch: Thomas will sit out against his former team in the second leg of a back - to - back as he works his way back from a hip injury.

Win or lose against manure, i wouldnt even care so much about that but hope The Welbz scores 2 against his former team and we can now lose the match after 80 mins to go but its Funny how the AKBs want to judge Klopp on just his last 10 weeks results but are prepared to go back 10 years to judge Wenger!!

In his return to the United Center Monday night playing against his former team, Nate Robinson put on a show as he often did for the Bulls fans.

In his return to Texas Tuesday, Ian Kinsler hit a solo - shot on his first at - bat playing against his former team.

He thought that Eric Rowe would step up and play better than Butler since he was playing against his former team